Developing Minority Language Resources - The Case of Spanish in California

This book documents ongoing language shift to English among Latino professionals in California. It describes instructional practices used in the teaching of Spanish as an academic subject at the high school and university levels to "heritage" language students who, although educated entirely in English, acquired Spanish at home as a 1st language.

About the author

Guadalupe Valdés is the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education at Stanford University. Working in the area of applied linguistics, much of her work has focused on the English-Spanish bilingualism of Latinos in the United States and on discovering and describing how two languages are developed, used, and maintained by individuals who become bilingual in immigrant communities.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Ch?vez, Rebecca Chavez, Rebecca Chávez, Joshua A Fishman, Joshua A. Fishman, William Perez, Guadalupe Valdes, Guadalupe Valdés, Guadalupe Vald's
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2006
• EAN: 9781853598982
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-898-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Bilingual Education and Biling; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education and Biling
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories