Category: multicultural education

• Latinx Community Raising Bilingual Children

  Ever since I decided to raise my daughters in a bilingual world I knew that I didn’t fit the profile of the many “how to raise a bilingual child”  books I was reading. First, the “one parent one language” (OPOL) method wasn’t a right fit because both my husband and I are bilingual. The “minority…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  June 15, 2017

  3rd generation bilinguals, Bilingual Education, Language:Culture Expression & Identity, multicultural education, multilingual education

  bicultural, bilingual, Bilingual Education, bilingual life, bilingual strategies, bilingualism, california dual language, foreign language schools, immersion schools, immigrant, language policy, Latinx Community, parents and second language education, spanglish

• Appropriating Whiteness by Accident.

  I didn’t do it on purpose. I mean I may have started to enunciate my words a certain way in middle school because “the way I spoke” was commented on a few times by white peers, but I swear I didn’t seek out to appropriate a white accent or mannerisms. I also didn’t purposely choose…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  May 5, 2017

  Bicultural Experiences, Bilingual Experiences, Language:Culture Expression & Identity, multicultural education, multilingual education

  accents, bicultural, bilingual, Bilingual Education, bilingual life, bilingualism, social positioning, sociocultural theory, spanish, translanguaging

• A Bilingual Journey of Spanish and English. Guest Post by Diana Sampedro

  My name is Diana, I am a Spanish mum of a 6 year old girl, and we live in Spain. Her dad is Spanish, too. I love languages and speak English so I decided to raise my kid bilingual, even though I am not a “native” English speaker myself. I think babies and kids have…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  June 22, 2016

  Bicultural Experiences, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Experiences, Bilingual Writers, dual immersion, dual language education, multicultural education, multilingual education, raising bilingual children, Translanguaging

  Native vs. non-native speakers

• 3rd generation bilinguals: an anomaly?

  Statistically speaking my daughters should not be speaking Spanish. It is a well known fact that most U.S. born individuals lose their parents or grandparents “native” language by the 3rd generation. First generation being the parents that immigrated to the U.S. and 2nd generation being the children born in the U.S. I have to admit…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  February 22, 2016

  3rd generation bilinguals, Bicultural Experiences, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Experiences, multicultural education, raising bilingual children, Translanguaging

• Multilingual Education: California Education for a Global Economy Initiative (California EdGE Initiative)/Senate Bill (SB) 1174

  This post is about Senate Bill 1174 which would repeal and amend proposition 227 of 1998 in the state of California. Proposition 227 ended bilingual education services for students who did not speak English. The new bill would provide services for ALL students in the state of California that would put them on the path…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  November 10, 2015

  Bilingual Education, California Education for a Global Economy Initiative (California EdGE Initiative), dual immersion, dual language education, multicultural education, multilingual education, SB 1174, senate bill 1174

  california dual language, dual language education