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Ramos, Diana Carolina; Sayer, Peter – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
The authors present three distinct cases of English-Spanish bilinguals on the U.S.-Mexico border to illustrate how legitimate and authentic language use functions as forms of symbolic capital (P. Bourdieu, 1991). Language practices in the occupational domain exemplify how varieties of English and Spanish come into contact, are negotiated, and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bilingualism, Professional Personnel, Geographic Location
Ormond, Allison Huffman – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Important to issues of writing instruction are the ways in which teachers, specifically those who teach in the discipline of language arts and English, understand and see themselves as writers. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how secondary English teachers positioned themselves and were positioned by others as writers through…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Collaborative Writing, Video Technology, Interviews