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Isaac Frausto-Hernandez – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
Cross-border migration is increasing in a globalized world. On the physical borderlands, migration across and between borders occurs on a habitual basis. This qualitative study employs semi-structured interviews to explore how three "transfronterizo" teachers along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands draw on their backgrounds and lived…
Descriptors: Migration, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nydia Martínez; Gina Mikel Petrie; Catherine Nolan-Ferrell – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study counters the popular assumption that Spanish Heritage Language Learners (SHLLs) on study abroad (SA) in a place of cultural origin can easily adapt and find acceptance due to the linguistic and cultural resources they bring with them. Our study builds on previous work to illustrate a more nuanced and complex story of desires for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Spanish, Native Language
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Degollado, Enrique David; Bell, Randy; Harvey-Torres, Rosalyn – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: Historically, the literature on access to quality education for Mexican Americans has been wrought with injustices committed on them because of the racist and deficit thinking of the time. This includes, but is not limited to, access to literacy in English and Spanish. This article focuses on las escuelitas, or little schools,…
Descriptors: Spanish, Bilingualism, Literacy, Mexican Americans
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Sahr, Annabell – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
This qualitative case study draws on a theoretical framework of translanguaging (García & Wei, 2014) and border pedagogies (Cashman, 2015) and seeks to shed light on the question of what role translanguaging can play in students' language learning in a German as a foreign language class at a Hispanic-serving university that is situated in the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Su Yeong Kim; Jinjin Yan; Wen Wen; Jiaxiu Song; Shanting Chen; Minyu Zhang; Belem G. Lopez; Maria M. Arredondo; Marci E. J. Gleason; Ka I. Ip – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Few studies have considered bilingualism's impact on cognitive development within the sociolinguistic and cultural context of the immigrant communities where bilingualism is commonly practiced. In the United States, many Mexican-origin bilingual youth practice their bilingual skills by "brokering" (i.e. translating/interpreting between…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Mexican Americans, Second Languages, Translation
Maria Fernanda Gavino – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This project explores how the variation in language experiences and attitudes that Mexican American Spanish heritage speaker bilinguals in the United States have affects their speech perception in both their languages. Heritage language bilinguals speak as a first language a minority language that they have cultural ties to (e.g., Spanish in the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Mexican Americans, Bilingualism, Spanish Speaking
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Mari Riojas-Cortez; Mary Esther Soto Huerta; Andrea Greimel – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2024
In the teaching of social studies, the use of funds of knowledge is beneficial for children to understand different experiences and perspectives. Families use funds of knowledge to teach their children what is important and valuable in their culture. In the case of Latino families, being bilingual is part of their history while for other families…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy Education, Low Income Students, Social Services
Mario Alberto Martinez Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In recent years, the number of Mexican youth moving (back) to Mexico from the US has been steadily growing (Sanchez Garcia & Hamann, 2016; Jensen & Jacobo-Suarez, 2019). The Pew Research Center for Hispanic Studies estimates that between 2009 and 2014, roughly 1 million Mexicans and their families moved from the US to Mexico…
Descriptors: Mexicans, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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M. Sidury Christiansen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This article investigates the language practices of a bilingual mariachi instructor teaching mariachi music to Latinx English dominant students. This ethnographic study draws on the concept of chronotope (Bakhtin 1981) to explore the spatiotemporal aspects of learning, particularly in terms of the teachers' selective use of language correction…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alvarez, Steven – Community Literacy Journal, 2017
This article reports from instances of child language brokering among emergent bilingual youths and parents at a New York City after-school community literacy program composed largely of Mexican immigrant families. I argue that youth language brokers negotiated literacies with and for their parents in differing contexts, with different audiences,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Mexicans, Translation, English (Second Language)
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Christiansen, M. Sidury – Written Communication, 2017
This study describes how members of a transnational social network of Mexican bilinguals living in Chicago manipulate their language on online social media to facilitate and maintain close connections across borders. Using a discourse-centered online ethnographic approach, I examine conversations posted on members' Facebook walls and the contexts…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Mexican Americans, Discourse Analysis, Bilingualism
Elena Costello – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Within Mexico City a community has formed known as Little L.A. This community came to exist as United States call centers in Mexico employed English speaking repatriated Mexicans. Repatriated in that individuals were either deported by force, some returned by choice, some were US citizens who came back with family members or loved ones. A call was…
Descriptors: Mexicans, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Krause, Gladys; Maldonado Rodríguez, Luz A.; Adams-Corral, Melissa – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
Lina, a Mexican American second grader, bilingual in Spanish and English, used a strategy for adding two two-digit numbers that the authors share as an example of the importance of listening to the mathematical ideas of children, especially when these ideas do not align with how mathematics is traditionally represented in the classroom. The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mexican Americans, Grade 2
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Maura Varley Gutiérrez; Carolina Napp-Avelli; Beatriz Quintos; Fany Salazar; Erin Turner; Marta Civil – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2024
In this article, we explore the power relationships and positioning that occurred between caregivers and teachers who engaged in mathematics tasks as a part of a year-long project involving workshops. Specifically, we explore the shifts in power and positioning that occurred when the tasks were grounded in the caregivers' funds of knowledge, in…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Kevin R. Hirschi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Millions engage in learning a Second Language (L2) using their mobile devices with a wide range of success. Concomitantly, there exists a growing interest in research on the effects of mobile-assisted language learning and predictors of learner outcomes (e.g., Loewen et al., 2020; Sudina & Plonsky, 2023). However, few of these apps and studies…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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