"Todas las poems que están creative": Language Ideologies, Writing and Bilingual Children. Issue 6 (1st November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Durán, Leah
• Is Part Of: Journal of language, identity, and education. Volume 19:Issue 6(2020)
• Page Start: 412
• Page End: 427
• Publication Date: 2020-11-01
• Subjects: Bilingual -- biliteracy -- ideologies -- language and ideology -- writing; Language and education -- Periodicals; Multicultural education -- Periodicals; 306.44
• DOI: 10.1080/15348458.2020.1726754
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1534-8458

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This research employs a language ideologies framework to examine the language practices and beliefs of bilingual first grade students in an ESL classroom, in which the teacher valued and encouraged Spanish and translingual talk and writing. Using ethnographic methods of data collection and analysis, the findings pointed to the influence of both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic ideologies in children's decisions about writing. These findings extend our knowledge of the process of ideological contestation to written as well as oral language, and highlights ways that teachers can provide support for bilingual writers and bilingual writing.