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Direct linkKelly, Laura Beth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This study reports how authors use Spanish in award-winning Latinx children's picturebooks in the USA. Teachers, families, and librarians use these books to support heritage language and culture or to broaden children's understanding of cultures other than their own. Thus, how these books use Spanish matters because of the potential of these books…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Childrens Literature, Spanish, Language Usage
Peer reviewedMorris, Nancy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Reviews the history of the language controversy in Puerto Rico from the United States takeover of the island in 1898 through the 1991 and 1993 language laws that eliminated and then restored English as an official language. The article emphasizes the shifting ways that language has served as a symbolic maker. (47 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes
Peer reviewedKessler, Carolyn; Quinn, Mary Ellen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Discusses findings from an empirical investigation of the effects of bilingualism (Spanish-English) on the creativity of language minority children in terms of the cognitive processes of divergent and convergent thinking, and the linguistic process of metaphorizing in the context of formulating scientific hypotheses. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
