Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
Language policies in the U.S., including matters relating to bilingual education, are tangled up with political tensions and ideology. All too often, the dialogue among educators and policymakers about what constitutes best practices for people learning English – for whom we will use the term emergent bilinguals (EBs) (Garcia, Kleifgen and Falchi 2008) – fails to include the voices of those they serve. The Rio Grande Valley (RGV) of South Texas provides a uniquely valuable laboratory in which to study bilingual education because of its location, demographic makeup, and migration patterns. In this study, a pedagogical intervention was made with a cohort of teacher candidates studying at a university in South Texas; the participants had themselves experienced bilingual education, as children, in RGV public schools. The implications of this study can be extended to teacher preparation for other minority communities receiving majority language instruction. The analysis based on transcripts of focus group discussions and asynchronous online discussions among 26 teacher candidates, of Mexican origin or descent, applies LatCrit theory and illustrates the development of a critical awareness of the hegemonic forces impacting the linguistic development of EB students such as themselves.
Recommended Citation
Alcione N. Ostorga & Peter Farruggio (2020) Preparing bilingual teachers on the U.S./Mexico border: including the voices of emergent bilinguals, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 23:10, 1225-1237, DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2018.1438348
First Page
1225
Last Page
1237
Publication Title
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
DOI
10.1080/13670050.2018.1438348
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Education Commons, Modern Languages Commons, Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Commons
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism on February, 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13670050.2018.1438348.