Latinx Bilingual Teachers' Ideologies and the Spanish Language

• In Event: Latinx Teachers: Using Culture and Language to Uplift

Abstract

This qualitative research study examines the language ideologies of California teachers as they prepared to be reintegrated into bilingual classrooms after the reversal of Proposition 227 (1998). The expansion of bilingual education programming throughout the state led a major school district in California's Central Valley to seek the support from local university faculty to design and teach a Bilingual Teacher Academy (BTA). The BTA aimed to ensure that teachers were equipped with up-to-date sociolinguistic understandings of language and current pedagogical frameworks and practices in bilingual education. The findings discussed in this paper pertain to the Spanish language ideologies teachers expressed throughout the course, which reveals important implications about the internalized purist notions of language that are pervasive in bilingual education.

Authors

• Luz Yadira Herrera, California State University - Channel Islands

• R. Joseph Rodriguez, Texas Tech University