Mexico Host Family Reactions to a Bilingual Chicana Teacher in Mexico: A Case Study of Language and Culture Clash.

Riegelhaupt, Florencia; Carrasco, Roberto Luis

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ERIC Number: EJ631541

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Publication Date: 2000

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Mexico Host Family Reactions to a Bilingual Chicana Teacher in Mexico: A Case Study of Language and Culture Clash.

Riegelhaupt, Florencia; Carrasco, Roberto Luis

Bilingual Research Journal, v24 n4 p405-21 Fall 2000

A Chicana bilingual teacher from Arizona lived with a middle-class Mexican family during a 5-week Mexican immersion program. Her complaints about "harsh reactions" toward her and her Spanish showed how her use of a few stigmatized characteristics of nonstandard Spanish were judged by standard Spanish speakers to indicate an uneducated speaker of low social status. (Author/TD)

Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, Inservice Teacher Education, Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Metalinguistics, Nonstandard Dialects, Social Bias, Social Status, Sociolinguistics, Spanish

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Mexico

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