Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

Between language as problem and resource: Examining teachers’ language orientations in dual-language programs

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Article

Publication Date

11-21-2016

Abstract

Using a case study methodology, the article examines the language practices of two third-grade bilingual, dual-language education teachers as they prepare their students for their state’s standardized assessment. Findings revealed that both teachers taught in between the contradicting tensions of the language-as-problem and -resource orientations that simultaneously valued bilingual language practices but also positioned bilingual education and development as problematic to success on an English state test. Without a more concerted effort toward Bartolomé and Balderrama’s “ideological clarity” among educators and recentering of a language-as-right orientation in bilingual education, there is a danger that the benefits of bilingualism and the opportunity for bilingual development may not be extended to subjugated language communities.

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© 2016 the National Association for Bilingual Education.

https://www.tandfonline.com/share/KMKCTUVNZPTNFCPKNYGA?target=10.1080/15235882.2016.1242438

Publication Title

Bilingual Research Journal

DOI

10.1080/15235882.2016.1242438

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