I Don’t Want To Be A Spanish Boy:

Trajectories of Raciolinguistic Socialization in a Kindergarten Two-Way Immersion Classroom

Thursday, January 19, 2017
10:15 A.M.
University of Colorado Denver
1380 Lawrence Street,
Lawrence St. Center, Rm. 745

Faculty, staff, students, alumni and

members of the public welcome!

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In this presentation Ms. Chaparro will examine the ways in which raciolinguistic ideologies (Flores & Rosa, 2015) play a part in children’s and families’ experiences in a two-way bilingual immersion program within the context of a large urban school district. More specifically, she will examine how race and class impact trajectories of socialization in the classroom – a process she refers to as raciolinguistic socialization. Students in this program come from vastly different class, cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds and therefore are differently subject to processes of racialization and marginalization. Taking three students as examples, she will illustrate how trajectories of socialization and evaluations of language abilities are differently impacted by race and class, and in the case of these students, how they impact decisions to stay or leave the program. Ms. Chaparro will discuss the implications this has for bilingual education programs, for teacher education, and for the education of bilingual students generally.

-Presented by Sofía Chaparro
PhD candidate in Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education

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