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Johnsen, Ragni Vik – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
This article explores playfulness and creativity in translingual family interactions. In particular, it focuses on how and to what ends adolescents mobilize multilingual resources in family interactions. It investigates the cases of two multilingual families with adolescent children (13-18 years old). The families have different linguistic…
Descriptors: Creativity, Metalinguistics, Family Relationship, Spanish
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Garza, Raul; Eufracio, Gricelda; Jupp, James C. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Our essay sketches resistant, transnational, and translanguaging traditions of the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), Aztlán and conjugates them with our critical curricular-pedagogical praxis. After an introductory section, we frame our essay between transnational intellectual traditions and critical place-based pedagogies. Following our framings, we…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), Place Based Education
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Cárdenas Curiel, Lucía; Ponzio, Christina M. – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2021
This article proposes ways to authentically amplify writer's workshop for emergent bilinguals. Through the study of one bilingual teacher's mediation in teaching, we examined the affordances that translanguaging and transmodal practices have for emergent bilingual students' writing processes. In this case study, we focused on a writing sequence…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Multiple Literacies, Sociocultural Patterns, Literacy
Perez, Natasha – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study explores the interplay of bilingualism, identity, literacy and culture for CubanAmerican students in the Cuban diaspora. I contextualize their experiences within the social, historical, and political background of Cuban immigration, situating their stories within the conflicting narratives of Cuban-American imagination in the U.S., to…
Descriptors: Cubans, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Bahr, Ruth Huntley; Silliman, Elaine R.; Danzak, Robin L.; Wilkinson, Louise C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
This study examined the Spanish and English spelling patterns of bilingual adolescents, including the cross-linguistic effects of each language, by applying a fine-grained measure to the differences in spelling in naturalistic writing. Spelling errors were taken from narrative and expository writing samples provided by 20 Spanish-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spelling, Expository Writing, Spanish
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Hyltenstam, Kenneth; Bylund, Emanuel; Abrahamsson, Niclas; Park, Hyeon-Sook – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
This article challenges a recent proposal for the theoretical interpretation of L1 and L2 interaction that results from the abrupt change of language environment in internationally adopted children. According to this proposal (Pallier, Dehaene, Poline, LeBihan, Argenti, Depoux and Mehler, 2003; Ventureyra, Pallier and Yoo, 2004), such children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption, Latin Americans, Second Language Learning
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Giacobbe, Jorge; Cammarota, Marie-Ange – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The relationship between the source language (Spanish) and the target language (French) in the construction of lexis during target language acquisition was examined in two case studies, leading to the hypothesis that there are both systematic and nonsystematic approaches to the construction of lexis used by Hispanophones learning French.…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes
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de Heredia, Christine – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Analyzes the characteristics of exolingual communication, illustrated by case studies of dialogues between French and Latin American Spanish speakers. Hypotheses about exolingual communication are presented, specifically on the "guidance" offered by native speakers and the role of metalinguistic activities. (Author/CB).
Descriptors: Adults, Code Switching (Language), Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Monographs on pragmatics and language learning include: "Do We All Apologize the Same?--An Empirical Study on the Act of Apologizing by Spanish Speakers Learning English" (Montserrat Mir); "Conversational Openings in Kiswahili: The Pragmatic Performance of Native and Non-Native Speakers" (Alwiya S. Omar); "Experimental and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Traits