Download or read book Being Bilingual in Borinquen written by Alicia Pousada and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish-speaking island of Puerto Rico (also known as Borinquen) has had a complex linguistic landscape since 1898, due to the United States’ colonial imposition of English as the language of administration and education. Even after 1948, when Puerto Rico was finally permitted to hold its own gubernatorial elections and determine its own language policies, controversy regarding how best to achieve bilingualism continued. Despite many studies of the language dynamic of the island, the voices of the people who actually live there have been muted. This volume opens with a basic introduction to bilingualism, with special reference to Puerto Rico. It then showcases twenty-five engaging personal histories written by Puerto Rican language professionals which reveal how they became bilingual, the obstacles faced, the benefits accrued, and the linguistic and cultural future they envision for themselves and their children. The closing chapter analyzes the commonalities of their richly detailed stories as well as the variability of their bilingual life experiences in order to inform a more nuanced language policy for Puerto Rico. The linguistic autobiographies will resonate with bilinguals of all kinds in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, as well as those in other countries. The main message that emerges from the book is that there are many routes to multilingualism, and one-size-fits-all language policies are doomed to miss their mark.
Download or read book Borinquen written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Borinquen a Bilingual List of Books Films and Records on the Puerto Rican Experience written by New York Public Library. Office of Adult Services and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Borinquen an Anthology of Puerto Rican Literature written by María Teresa Babín and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behavioral and Neurophysiological Approaches to Code Switching and Language Switching written by Jeanine Treffers-Daller and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exposing Prejudice written by Bonnie Urciuoli and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urciuolis award-winning book explores how language and the social construction of race, class, and ethnicity shape the lives of working-class Puerto Ricans living in New York City. Her reflexive ethnographic study is a combination of two absorbing features: her analyses of language and power relations based on key principles in semiotic and linguistic anthropology, paired with the authentic voices of individuals who share their lived experiences of speaking Spanish and English. The subjects conversations, interview responses, and anecdotes are saturated with ideas about what correct English means to them. Through these extended transcripts readers gain insight about languages role in cultural dynamics that tangle minority populations in challenges, such as limiting where individuals and families live and work. Urciuolis provocative research and fieldwork give readers a rich understanding of language as the domain in which racial, ethnic, and class hierarchies are experienced.
Download or read book The Politics Of Language written by Pastora Cafferty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographers predict that by the end of the century Spanish-speaking persons will constitute the largest minority group in the United States--in this context, bilingual education must be considered a crucial issue for educators and policymakers at the state, national, and local levels. Professors Cafferty and Rivera-Martínez analyze bilingual education policies and programs, particularly as they affect the Puerto Rican child, and reach some startling conclusions. They find that these programs do not, despite the best intentions, offer the equal opportunity and social mobility that has been their purpose. While the authors attempt to neither examine nor define the general problem of bilingual education methodology, they do address the problem of educating the Puerto Rican child as one minority among many. They suggest alternatives for solving the problem and recommend specific policies for federal, state, and local governments attempting to integrate Spanish-speaking minorities into the educational process.
Download or read book Being Bilingual written by Safder Alladina and published by Trentham Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt to present issues of bilingualism to the bilingual families themselves, so that although psycho- and socio- linguistically sound, this book is straightforward and populist in style. The text argues for families to maintain their mother tongues and suggests strategies for doing so at home and with schools.
Download or read book Un Coqu de Boriqu n con Los Reyes a Bel n written by Armando Valdés Prieto and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Un coquí de Boriquén con los Reyes a Belén" es la historia de un coquí mágico que acompañó a una niña puertorriqueña a la primera Navidad. En agradecimiento, los Reyes le prometen encontrar anualmente a cada niño de su país, en o fuera de Puerto Rico, siempre que los llame el cantar de un coquí. Dirigido a todos los niños puertorriqueños, y en particular a los de la diáspora, el libro le explicará a los más chicos, con un cuento divertido en rimas, cómo los Reyes logran encontrar su hogar, vivan ellos en San Juan o Nueva York, en Orlando o Juana Díaz. Mantenga viva la tradición de los Tres Reyes para esta y futuras generaciones de niños boricuas. El libro contiene el texto de la historia en español y traducido al inglés. /// "From Boriquén to Bethlehem: A Coquí and the Three Wise Men" is the story of a magical coquí (a tree frog native to Puerto Rico), who traveled with a young Puerto Rican girl and the Magi to the first Christmas. In gratitude, the Kings promise the girl to yearly visit the children of Puerto Rico, and to find them wherever they may be if they hear the call of a coquí. Geared toward Puerto Rican children, and in particular those living outside of the island, mainly in the U.S., the fun rhyming story explains how the Magi are able to find children's homes, be it in San Juan or in New York, in Orlando or in Juana Díaz. Keep the Three Kings tradition alive for present and future generations. The book contains the text of the story in Spanish and in English translation.
Download or read book Bilingualism in the Barrio written by Joshua A. Fishman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doing Being Bilingual written by Holly Cashman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adi s Borinquen Querida written by Edna Acosta-Belén and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bilingualism in the Bicentennial and Beyond written by Gary D. Keller and published by Jamaica, N.Y. : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe. This book was released on 1976 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Boriqu n to Bethlehem a Coqu and the Three Wise Men written by Lara Mercado Maldonado and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Boriquén to Bethlehem: A Coquí and the Three Wise Men" is the story of a magical coquí, a tree frog native to Puerto Rico, who traveled with a young Puerto Rican girl and the Magi to the first Christmas. In gratitude, the Kings promise the girl to yearly visit the children of Puerto Rico, and to find them wherever they may be if they hear the call of a coquí. Geared toward Puerto Rican children, and in particular those living outside of the island, the fun rhyming story explains how the Magi are able to find children's homes, be it in San Juan or in New York, in Orlando or in Juana Díaz. Keep the Three Kings tradition alive for present and future generations. The book contains the text of the story in English and a Spanish translation.
Download or read book Words Were All We Had written by Maria de la Ruz Reyes and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging collection examines the personal narratives of a select group of well-respected educators who attained biliteracy when they were young students, and in the era before bilingual education. These autobiographical accounts celebrate and make visible a linguistic potential that has been largely ignored in schools—the inextricable and emotional ties that Latinos have to Spanish. The authors offer teachers important lessons about the individual potential of their Latino students. These stories of tenacity and resilience offer hope for a new generation of bilingual learners who are too often forced to choose between English and their native language.
Download or read book Being Bilingual is Fun written by Claudia Schwalm and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and pictures introduce the reader to the many languages spoken in the United States.
Download or read book Language Culture and Power written by Lourdes Diaz Soto and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-11-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of educational research have documented the best practices and optimal educational experiences for language-minority children. Yet, the current conservative climate in our nation openly threatens bilingual education programs in schools and communities. Over a nine-year period, the author collected data from bilingual families residing in "Steel Town" Pennsylvania regarding their educational experiences. In January 1993 the local school board and school superintendent decided to eliminate its nationally recognized, twenty-year-old bilingual education program. For the first time in the history of this community, the bilingual families organized themselves to speak out on the importance of these programs to their lives. The political struggle that ensued during the bilingual controversy in Steel Town led to asymmetrical power relations. The voices of the bilingual community leaders, bilingual educators, and, more important, the bilingual children, were disregarded by the decision makers.
