Books by Ana Celia Zentella. Angeline Kasia rated it really liked it Mar 14, Juan rated it really liked it Oct 18, Adelaida rated it it was amazing Apr 20, It was just a tremendous source of information. That being said, even I, a Spanish teacher interested in bilingual studies, found some parts to be tedious. A thorough ethnography which highlights the wealth of knowledge that bilingual children have. Sarah Bruschi rated it it was amazing Feb 27, I read this for a class and found it enjoyable and illuminating.
Individual differences in the use of these strategies, of English and Spanish, and zentela grammatical constituents, reflect the roles played by language dominance and social role of the speaker.
Fourteen variables were considered: Jun 29, Araceli added it. The principal methodology, ethnography, revealed that the community values and uses both Spanish and English in all aspects of community life in networks that alternately reinforce Spanish or English or code switching. Dene Rivera-shanley rated it it was ok Jan 02, Rafael Suleiman rated it it was ok Aug 14, Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
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Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Privacy Overview. Necessary Always Enabled. The natural discourse code switching of the five key subjects the girls consented to carry tape recorders in their backpacks for hours of taping over the course of 18 months is the focus of the next two chapters.
Zentella uses this spelling of "code switching" to cover both intrasentential switching and 'language alterna- tion"—that is, switching languages between turns or for a shift in addressee—be- cause the former, she contends, is a developmental transformation of the latter.
That is, bilingual children who grow up acquiring the communicative competence to switch codes in order to accommodate monolinguals will eventually begin using switches with fellow bilinguals for rhetorical effect, negotiating meaning 'Hike salsa dancers responding smoothly to each other's intricate steps and turns" p.
Case studies of the bilingual and social development of el bloque's children over the course of 14 years provide the material for the next three chapters. Zentella paints a bleak picture of societal forces in the s—from the urban blight driven by economic recession and political neglect to misguided when not actively racist education and welfare policies—and the impact these have on the lives and linguistic repertoires of el bloque's inhabitants.
Nonetheless, she is adept at teasing out the strategic choices and investments made by subjects in the face of such odds. Zen- tella's assessments of linguistic competencies are based in part on a controlled elid- tation study, in part on written texts collected over the years, and in part on scaled reports by self and others.
Zentella contrasts sociali- zation patterns in Puerto Rico with those experienced by the el bloque girls at the beginning of the study and then again with their children's socialization: analyzing transformations in what languages are used when and why, the cultural concepts such as respeto, and the gender expectations that guide child caregiver interactions, as well as the impact of school and literacy practices and mass media in the homes.
She highlights the notion of defenderse, the concern with teaching children to defend themselves both physically and verbally in an increasingly hostile world—for this youngest generation of parents, which linguistic variety the children use to defen- derse is of less concern than that they be safe.
And with this new set of children it seems clear that the pendulum has definitely shifted away from the acquisition of any real competence in Spanish.
In the final chapter, Zentella makes an impassioned case against English Only policies, which undermine bilingual education initiatives. She advocates instead a "bilingual critical pedagogy" that will build on the communicative competencies of the nation's multilingual minorities—expanding their repertoires, tapping their metalinguistic sensitivities, allowing for their reconstruction of a more secure eth- nolinguistic identity. This well-crafted book lends real credence to her claim that the result would be a benefit to the nation as a whole.
London: Sage Publications, At the same time, while certainly a growing area of interest, the study. Spanish and Identity among Latin s in the U.
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