"Mixteando": Language Ideologies of Bilingual Teachers and Latinx Immigrant Parents in the U.S. Borderlands

• In Event: 63.056 - Explorations of Parents', Teachers', and Students' Attitudes and Ideologies Toward Languages in Schools

Abstract

In this paper, we juxtapose the “enrichment-oriented” ideologies that have recently expanded opportunities for bilingual outcomes in U.S. schools against language ideologies that often remove emergent bilingual students from more stigmatized speech communities from the enrichment paradigm. Using the interview data of eight participants from Texas, three dual language teachers and five Mexican immigrant parents, we use thematic and discourse analysis to closely examine their language ideologies around bilingualism, especially regional dialects like Spanglish and Tex-Mex. The data showed that parents’ and teachers’ expressed language ideologies around stigmatized language varieties centered on their ideas about academic language and the relationship between language and identity.

Authors

• Christian Ellen Zuniga, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley

• Kiyomi Sanchez-Suzuki Colegrove, Texas State University