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Understanding Translanguaging in US Literacy Classrooms: Reframing Bi-/Multilingualism as the Norm. A Policy Research Brief
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Seltzer, Kate; de los Ríos, Cati V. – National Council of Teachers of English, 2021
This brief aims to contextualize and promote translanguaging as an approach to educating bi-/ multilingual students in US literacy classrooms. Broadly, "translanguaging" has been defined as "the deployment of a speaker's full linguistic repertoire without regard for watchful adherence to the socially and politically defined…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Metalinguistics, Bilingualism, Multilingualism
Monolingual Ideologies and Multilingual Practices in Small Claims Court: The Case of Spanish-Speaking Arbitrators
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Angermeyer, Philipp Sebastian – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
This article explores the institutional policies and practices concerning multilingualism in small claims courts in New York City. Building on prior work that has investigated the language use of court interpreters and of the litigants for whom they translate, this study focuses on the analysis of institutional interactions in which all…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Language Usage, Translation, Language Attitudes
The Social Correlates of Lexical Borrowing in Spanish in New York City
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Varra, Rachel Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates lexical borrowing in Spanish in New York. English-origin lexical material was extracted from a stratified sample of 146 Spanish-speaking informants of different ages, national origins, classes, etc., living in New York City. ANOVAs and Pearson correlations determined whether lexical borrowing frequency and the type…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Language Research, Language Proficiency, Spanish