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Carreira, Maria M. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2011
In their study of language ideology, Valdes, Gonzalez, Lopez Garcia, and Marquez (2003) found evidence of a pervasive monolingualist ideology or "discourse of monolingualism" in college-level Spanish departments. This discourse, which mirrors national language ideologies in the United States, is premised on notions of nationalism, linguistic…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Ideology, Monolingualism, Language Role
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Rabin, Lisa M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
In this article I describe the work of Leonard Covello, a New York City language educator and high school principal of the early 20th century who argued for Italian and Spanish heritage language (HL) preservation in schools. Although Covello promoted standard language Italian and Spanish in the HL classroom, he also encouraged HL students to use…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, High Schools, Italian, Spanish