A School Language Policy for Puerto Rico
Author | : Pedro Angel Cebollero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Pedro Angel Cebollero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : City University of New York. Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños. Language Policy Task Force |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Bilingualism |
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Author | : Pastora Cafferty |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2019-06-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000304752 |
Demographers predict that by the end of the century Spanish-speaking persons will constitute the largest minority group in the United States--in this context, bilingual education must be considered a crucial issue for educators and policymakers at the state, national, and local levels. Professors Cafferty and Rivera-Martínez analyze bilingual education policies and programs, particularly as they affect the Puerto Rican child, and reach some startling conclusions. They find that these programs do not, despite the best intentions, offer the equal opportunity and social mobility that has been their purpose. While the authors attempt to neither examine nor define the general problem of bilingual education methodology, they do address the problem of educating the Puerto Rican child as one minority among many. They suggest alternatives for solving the problem and recommend specific policies for federal, state, and local governments attempting to integrate Spanish-speaking minorities into the educational process.
Author | : National Puerto Rican Task Force on Educational Policy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Bilingualism |
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Author | : Pedro A. Cebollero |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brenda Domínguez-Rosado |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2015-09-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443882097 |
Language and identity have an undeniable link, but what happens when a second language is imposed on a populace? Can a link be broken or transformed? Are the attitudes towards the imposed language influential? Can these attitudes change over time? The mixed-methods results provided by this book are ground-breaking because they document how historical and traditional attitudes are changing towards both American English (AE) and Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS) on an island where the population has been subjected to both Spanish and US colonization. There are presently almost four million people living in Puerto Rico, while the Puerto Rican diaspora has surpassed it with more than this living in the United States alone. Because of this, many members of the diaspora no longer speak PRS, yet consider themselves to be Puerto Rican. Traditional stances against people who do not live on the island or speak the predominant language (PRS) yet wish to identify themselves as Puerto Rican have historically led to prejudice and strained relationships between people of Puerto Rican ancestry. The sample study provided here shows that there is not only a change in attitude towards the traditional link between PRS and Puerto Rican identity (leading to the inclusion of diasporic Puerto Ricans), but also a wider acceptance of the English language itself on this Caribbean island.
Author | : Michael Bernard Gorman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Bilingualism |
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Author | : Erwin H. Epstein |
Publisher | : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Edith Algren de Gutiérrez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Presents a rhetorical analysis of the role that the movement against the use of English as the means of instruction in Puerto Rican public schools has played within the Island's broader movement toward political autonomy. Motivated by political reasons, Puerto Rican Leaders used the issue of language to advance the cause of autonomy between 1898 and 1949. Language has continued to be an issue in Puerto Rico since 1949. Of interest to teachers and students of bilingual education, sociolinguistics and rhetoric, and ducational policymaking.
Author | : Alicia Pousada |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2017-06-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443896071 |
The Spanish-speaking island of Puerto Rico (also known as Borinquen) has had a complex linguistic landscape since 1898, due to the United States’ colonial imposition of English as the language of administration and education. Even after 1948, when Puerto Rico was finally permitted to hold its own gubernatorial elections and determine its own language policies, controversy regarding how best to achieve bilingualism continued. Despite many studies of the language dynamic of the island, the voices of the people who actually live there have been muted. This volume opens with a basic introduction to bilingualism, with special reference to Puerto Rico. It then showcases twenty-five engaging personal histories written by Puerto Rican language professionals which reveal how they became bilingual, the obstacles faced, the benefits accrued, and the linguistic and cultural future they envision for themselves and their children. The closing chapter analyzes the commonalities of their richly detailed stories as well as the variability of their bilingual life experiences in order to inform a more nuanced language policy for Puerto Rico. The linguistic autobiographies will resonate with bilinguals of all kinds in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, as well as those in other countries. The main message that emerges from the book is that there are many routes to multilingualism, and one-size-fits-all language policies are doomed to miss their mark.