This article presents an ethnographic study of how bilingual teachers and children use their
home language, TexMex, to mediate academic content and standard languages. From the …

The label" Critical Language Awareness"(CLA) has been applied both to the understanding
of how language is imbued with social meaning and power relations, as well as to …

The field of sociolinguistics—broadly defined as the study of social aspects of language as
well as the interaction of language with sociocultural and political structures and …

What is involved in acquiring a new dialect-for example, when Canadian English speakers
move to Australia or African American English-speaking children go to school? How is such …

As Spanish heritage courses multiply all over the United States, the need to reexamine the
curriculum and pedagogical approaches that are most appropriate to meet instructional …

In contrast with the field of second language acquisition (SLA), where until recently
sociocultural concerns were largely unaddressed (Block, 2007), identity has always been at …

This article addresses Spanish for native speakers (SNS) instruction from the perspective of
critical pedagogy, including the critical examination of dominant educational paradigms as …

Experts in the field have advocated for critical approaches to Spanish heritage language
(HL) curricula in which learners' proficiency in the language varieties that they bring from …

Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that
bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition …

N THE 19908 the study of language ideologies gained wide currency within linguistic
anthropology and sociolinguistics, and this theoretical framework is also proving valuable in …