Tag: language policy

• 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

• 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

  Uncategorized

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

• A glimpse into my academic life…..

  This semester I am learning about language policy and discourse analysis. I am utterly reading pages and pages of material that are of utmost interest to me. I feel as if I have found my niche…or as I explained recently to a friend how my desire to become an anthropologist when I was a child…

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  February 3, 2012

  Uncategorized

  discourse analysis, language policy, language-in-use, linguistics, sociocultural theory, sociolinguistics