Pushing Boundaries - Vasquez, Olga A.; Vasquez; Pease-Alvarez, Lucinda
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Children in Mexicano communities learn to use language in a variety of ways. At times they use both Spanish and English in the same conversation or help friends and family members enter mainstream society by translating English to Spanish for them. Pushing Boundaries describes Eastside, a Mexicano community in northern California, analysing language learning and language socialisation in the context of real, problematic, important activities in peoples' lives. The authors consolidate three separate studies providing a unique perspective on the ways bilingual children and their families use and…mehr

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Children in Mexicano communities learn to use language in a variety of ways. At times they use both Spanish and English in the same conversation or help friends and family members enter mainstream society by translating English to Spanish for them. Pushing Boundaries describes Eastside, a Mexicano community in northern California, analysing language learning and language socialisation in the context of real, problematic, important activities in peoples' lives. The authors consolidate three separate studies providing a unique perspective on the ways bilingual children and their families use and learn language. With children using the language of home, school, and community separately and in combination, the book reveals how these children use their traditional language and cultural knowledge as a critical component for learning their second language and its underlying cultural norms.

Table of contents:
Foreword by Luis Moll; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Eastside: a Mexicano community; 3. Home and school contexts for language learning; 4. Bilingual children crossing cultural borders; 5. Negotiating culture and language in the home; 6. Schooling from a recognition perspective; 6. Implications for schooling.

The authors demonstrate how bilingual children and their families learn and use language in a Mexicano community in northern California, in the context of real, problematic, and important activities in peoples' lives.

A study of the ways bilingual children in a Mexicano community use and learn language.