Language Policy in Puerto Rico's Higher Education: Opening the Door for Translanguaging Practices. (March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Carroll, Kevin S.; Mazak, Catherine M.
• Is Part Of: Anthropology & education quarterly. Volume 48:Number 1(2017:Mar.)
• Page Start: 4
• Page End: 22
• Publication Date: 2017-03
• Subjects: Educational anthropology -- Periodicals; Education -- Periodicals; Anthropologie et éducation -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 306.43
• DOI: 10.1111/aeq.12180
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0161-7761

Abstract

Abstract : This paper investigates the relationship between meso university language policies in Puerto Rico and their micro instantiations in an undergraduate psychology classroom. We describe a typology of language policies used by 38 universities and campuses in Puerto Rico where their openness allows for flexible implementation of everyday micro policy. We then focus our attention on a linguistic ethnography of a psychology course where translanguaging practices reify and disrupt accepted classroom language ideologies in Puerto Rico. [translanguaging, language policy, higher education, bilingualism, Puerto Rico]