Conflicting Ideologies of Mexican Immigrant English Across Levels of Schooling by https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep An entry to the ESL 7501 Linguistics and Education Online Conference en-us 2016-10-12 21:32:38 UTC 2025-10-03 04:45:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Conflicting Ideologies of Mexican Immigrant English Across Levels of Schooling smeltzer_sarah https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130285798 Gallo, S., Link, H., Allard, E., Wortham, S., & Mortimer, K. (2014). Conflicting Ideologies of Mexican Immigrant English Across Levels of Schooling. International Multilingual Research Journal, 8, 124-140. DOI: 10.1080/19313152.2013.825563.]]> 2016-10-12 21:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130285798 The Major Issue smeltzer_sarah https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130287617 This article explores teachers in one school district who base their perceptions of their English Learner students on their level of English fluency. The article is especially concerned with what messages these perceptions of their language usage send of the students' level of belonging to their school and town, referred in the article as "cultural citizenship." ]]> 2016-10-12 21:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130287617 Research Questions smeltzer_sarah https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130292168 1. What language ideologies about Mexican immigrant English circulate among educators and emergent bilingual students at the high school and an elementary school in Marshall?
2. How are these ideologies negotiated and appropriated?
3. What do educators’ and students’ ideologies imply about cultural citizenship for emergent bilinguals?

--taken from page 127 ]]> 2016-10-12 22:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130292168 How was research conducted? smeltzer_sarah https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130292684 The researchers used ethnographic methodologies in the schools that they were observing, such as participant observation, interviews with both teachers and students, and videotaped classroom sessions. ]]> 2016-10-12 22:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130292684 Main Findings smeltzer_sarah https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130292884 1. Teachers talk about English as something that students either "have or lack," and English is the only acceptable language.
2. Speaking Spanish is not valued and is seen as a deficit.
3. Among students, it's understood that English is spoken at school and Spanish is spoken at home.
4. Teachers viewed non-native English speakers as unteachable due to language barriers.]]> 2016-10-12 22:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130292884 Conclusions and Implications smeltzer_sarah https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130294182 The school district sees Spanish-speaking as a deficit. This prevents teachers and students from building upon their existing skills and language resources. 
Education must build upon existing language resources rather than attempt to control and qualify their languages. To do the latter isolates the student from their education and school and prevents learning.
More professional development is needed so that teachers can build upon and develop bilingual fluency in their students.]]> 2016-10-12 23:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130294182 My Takeaways smeltzer_sarah https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130310619 Teachers must invest in their own learning so that they can learn more about students they may not understand, and school districts must work to ensure a school culture where all students are welcomed and valued for their strengths. 
In this article I sensed a lot of racism from the teachers towards their students. The article described the town as predominantly white with a recent influx of Mexican immigrants, and most of the teachers in the schools were white. Teachers need to be aware of their biases and work to correct them.
In working with English Learners, a teacher must build upon and develop the native language as well as English, and encourage students to use and develop their literacy in both. 
Teachers should be very concerned with whether their students feel as though they belong to a school. Many of the students in the study indicated feeling very unwelcome and isolated, which impedes their ability to succeed. ]]> 2016-10-13 01:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/smeltzer_sarah/hysn2r2uuxep/wish/130310619