Language Use

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Language Use in the Classroom

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by Claudia Cano

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Language use in a bilingual classroom should be meaningful and explicitly taught. It is important that the teacher set up lessons that will help the students reach their full potential.

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Key Ideas

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Valuing and recognizing the uniqueness of the Spanish of the USA

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Translaguaging

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The power of the DLI Classroom

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Valuing and recognizing the uniqueness of Spanish of the USA

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“El spanglish es una creación social que debe ser valorada porque refleja el conflicto y la opresión que existen entre el español y el inglés y sus hablantes en los EE.UU” (Escobar & Potowski p. 149)

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El español de los Estados Unidos está compuesto de varios dialectos. Con la inmigracion de nuestra gente a este país, diferentes dialectos se han incorportado. Estos dialectos con el uso del ingles, ha creado the Español de los Estados Unidos

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It is important to explicitly show the relationship between the two focal languages. This will allow the students to truly become bilingual.

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Translaguaging vs Monolingual classroom

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The DLI classroom is a place where students can shine. Whether they are native Spanish or English speakers, they will have a chance to be the leaders of the classroom. In the DLI classroom, students will not only learn two languages but they will also learn about different cultures.

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The power of the DLI Classroom

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Strategies

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Cognates

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The Bridge

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Modeling

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Group work

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Graphic Organizers

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How can we help students see the value of being bilingual in a Monolingual society?

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How can we make sure teachers are creating a time for The Bridge?

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How can we make sure that students speak enough Spanish while giving them time to articulate themselves in their language of choice?

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Escobar, A. M., & Potowski, K. (n.d.). El español de los estados unidos. Place of publication not identified: Cambridge Univ Press. Showstack, Rachel Elizabeth. (2012). Symbolic Power in the Heritage Language Classroom: How Spanish Heritage Speakers Sustain and Resist Hegemonic Discourses on Language and Cultural DiversityLinks to an external site.. Spanish in Context, 9(1), 1-26. Wei, Li. May 2018. Translanguaging and Code-Switching: what’s the difference? Retrieved from https://blog.oup.com/2018/05/translanguaging-code-switching-difference/ Zwiers, J. (2014). Building academic language: Meeting common core standards across disciplines, grades 5-12. John Wiley & Sons.

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