Tag: accents

• 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

• Do Children Learn or Acquire Language?

  Below is a video of our 3 year old speaking Mandarin. Her teacher sent it to us because she was very impressed with Siena’s accent in Mandarin and how natural it sounded. To be honest, I was very impressed as well even though I have no idea what she is saying. In fact, I find […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  April 2, 2017

  Uncategorized

  accents, bicultural, bilingual, Bilingual Education, bilingual life, bilingual strategies, bilingualism, Chinese Immersion, immersion schools, immigrant, Language Immersion

• Spanish as a right: We do what we please with our bilingualism!

  I have been speaking to my daughters in Spanish since they were in womb. I have made zero accommodations for anyone in the way I choose to navigate our bilingual lives. I have had a range of experiences in which I was asked to simply speak English in public spaces to being asked when I […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  February 4, 2017

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  accents, agency, bilingual, bilingualism, code-switching, identity, immigrant, language as a right, language policy, lingua franca, spanglish

• Language use, accents, and stereotypes.

  In Anjelah Johnson’s “Nail Salon” comedy act, which aired on the Comedy Time network in 2007, there is a deliberate use of marked language or speech markers by a speaker from outside the group in question. In fact, mocking speakers from outside her ethnic and racial group is a common theme in many of her […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  September 24, 2014

  Bicultural Experiences, Bilingual Experiences, Language:Culture Expression & Identity, Second Language Acquisition, Spanglish vs. Code-Switching

  accents, anjelah johnson, bilingual, nail salon, stereotypes