Building a Bilingual Classroom Community in Three Elementary Classrooms in Central Texas

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Abstract

Using culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) frame, this paper explores and describes ways three Tejana bilingual teachers create a bilingual classroom community while making it responsive and sustaining for emergent bilingual students. The purpose is to understand the enactment of CRP during the delivery of instruction in its natural context (classroom) as a mediating tool that bridges student’s language, culture and background knowledge with the standard elementary school curriculum.

Author

• Irene V. Garza, The University of Texas - Austin