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Callahan, Laura – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
This paper reports on an investigation of writing in Spanish in the lives of U.S. Latinos. Twenty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted with informants recruited from among students and former students of high school and college Spanish courses. The interviews were transcribed and coded for concepts and emergent themes (Rubin & Rubin,…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Hispanic Americans, Spanish, Writing (Composition)
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Callahan, Laura – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
Strategies for deciding which language to use when forms part of the sociolinguistic competence of speakers who can speak more than one language. Language choices are shaped by a number of factors, including linguistic proficiency of both speaker and interlocutor, the ingroup or outgroup status of each, and the setting in which an exchange takes…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes