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Mapping Biliteracy Teaching in Indigenous Contexts: From Student Shyness to Student Voice
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Hornberger, Nancy H.; Kvietok Dueñas, Frances – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2019
Drawing on an ethnographic monitoring engagement with Kichwa intercultural bilingual educators in the Peruvian Amazon, we argue for ethnographic monitoring as a method and the continua of biliteracy as a heuristic for mapping biliteracy teaching in Indigenous contexts of bilingualism. Through our mapping, we uncover tensions in the teaching of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, American Indians, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries
An Exploration of Hybrid Spaces for Place-Based Geomorphology with Latino Bilingual Children
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Martínez-Álvarez, Patricia; Bannan, Brenda – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2014
Latino bilingual children hold rich understandings, which are underexplored and underutilized in the geoscience classroom. Oftentimes, young Latinos possess unique cultural land experiences shaping their place identities. We consider science as language and culture, and propose place-based geoscience hybrid space explorations that are culturally…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cultural Influences, Language Usage, Culturally Relevant Education
Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism. Contributions to the Sociology of Language.
Wei, Li, Ed.; Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Ed.; Housen, Alex, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers examines, from an international perspective, opportunities and challenges of societal bilingualism in the new millennium. The 18 papers include the following: "Introduction: Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism" (Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele, and Alex Housen); "'Holy Languages' in the Context of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Civil Liberties