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Download full textCody, Karen – 2000
A study examined the use of the ethnic language as it relates to ethnic self-identification in three generations of a bilingual family of Mexican origin in San Antonio (Texas). Family members were speakers of Texas Spanish and English. Two questionnaires and follow-up discussions examined fluency in Spanish and English; language preferences;…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Ethnicity, Identification (Psychology)
Milk, Robert D. – 1984
This study analyzes how two bilingual classroom language distribution approaches affect classroom language use patterns. The two strategies, separate instruction in the two languages vs. the new concurrent language usage approach (NCA) allowing use of both languages with strict guidelines for language alternation, are observed on videotapes of a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Language Usage
Gomez, Ernesto; Cerda, Gilberto – 1976
Results of a study documenting the Mexican American's unique Spanish dialectal expressions used in the barrios of San Antonio, Texas, and its surrounding areas are presented. The expressions included are those which were not recorded in the "Diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola" (19th Edition) or which were recorded therein but with…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dialect Studies, Folk Culture, Glossaries
