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Direct linkRomán, Diego; Pastor, Alberto; Basaraba, Deni – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
This study examined the presence of internal linguistic discrimination--i.e., the negative reaction of Spanish speakers towards the varieties of Spanish spoken by heritage speakers--among bilingual teachers in a school district in Texas. To this end, we conducted a study that analyzed the responses of 84 bilingual teachers to audio utterances…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Spanish Speaking, Spanish, Language Variation
Showstack, Rachel E. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2017
Drawing on linguistic anthropological notions of language ideologies and sociolinguistic approaches to stance, this study examines the meaning-making resources through which Spanish heritage language (HL) learners orient toward ideological perspectives on language value and linguistic expertise in classroom interaction. Part of a larger…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Heritage Education
Showstack, Rachel E. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2015
This case study examined how one instructor navigated between two competing discourses in an intermediate Spanish heritage language (HL) classroom: on the one hand, teaching "Standard Spanish" to help students achieve professional success, and legitimizing home linguistic practices on the other. In addition to expressing both…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Spanish, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Cope, Lida – Language and Education, 2011
Texas Czech is a product of over a century and a half of contact between Moravian Czech and English in Texas. While Texans of this descent have largely maintained a sense of distinctive ethnic identity and have creatively re-authenticated their ancestors' traditions into a unique Texas Czech culture, their language is now on the verge of…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Participant Observation, Foreign Countries, Slavic Languages
Martinez, Glenn; Schwartz, Adam – Heritage Language Journal, 2012
Critical approaches to Spanish heritage language (SHL) pedagogy have called for more meaningful engagement with heritage language communities (Leeman, 2005). In a recent survey, furthermore, SHL students expressed a desire for more community-based activities in SHL curricula (Beaudrie, Ducar, & Relano-Pastor, 2009). This paper reports on the…
Descriptors: Public Health, Language Maintenance, Patients, Language Variation
Showstack, Rachel – Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) (NJ3), 2010
People who grow up speaking Spanish in Texas often learn a colloquial variety of Spanish at home or in their communities and have limited abilities to move between different registers in different social contexts. As heritage language (HL) learners' understanding of the value of different language varieties plays an important role in the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Speech Communication, Language Variation, Heritage Education
