Tag: sociocultural theory

• 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 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