Tag: SLA

• For whom are we protecting the designated use of languages in two-way bilingual education (TWBE) programs?

  After attending the Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) convention this past week in Atlanta, GA and noticing how much “we” tend to place an immense amount of value on a certain kind “English,” I started thinking about the TWBE context. A context that is dear to my bilingual and Latinx heart as […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  March 18, 2019

  Bilingual Education

  bicultural, bilingual, bilingual children, Bilingual Education, bilingual life, bilingualism, code-switching, dual language education, immersion schools, Second Language Acquisition, SLA, spanglish, spanish, Texas, translanguaging, two-way bilingual education

• Bilingual Instructional Strategies

  There is some ground-breaking work to be done in the field of bilingual education. This work involves the development of instructional strategies that has the heritage language learner in mind. The following are a few terms (used by various researchers) who are starting to do work in naming and developing those strategies: Cross-language Transfer Translanguaging […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  May 4, 2012

  Bilingual Education, Language:Culture Expression & Identity, My Disclaimer, Second Language Acquisition, Spanglish vs. Code-Switching, Uncategorized, Why a doctoral degree?

  bilingual strategies, pedagogy, SLA, sociolinguistics