Preserving Home Languages and Cultures in the Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities.

Soto, Lourdes Diaz; Smrekar, Jocelynn L.; Nekcovei, Deanna L.

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Title: Preserving Home Languages and Cultures in the Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities.

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Title:	Preserving Home Languages and Cultures in the Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities.
Authors:	Soto, Lourdes Diaz; Smrekar, Jocelynn L.; Nekcovei, Deanna L.
Descriptors:	Classroom Techniques; Cultural Maintenance; Cultural Pluralism; Elementary Secondary Education; English (Second Language); Heritage Education; Intercultural Communication; Language Maintenance; Language Minorities; Multicultural Education; Multilingualism; Native Language Instruction; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning
Source:	Directions in Language and Education, n13 Spr 1999
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Publication Date:	1999-00-00
Pages:	10
Pub Types:	Collected Works - Serials; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Information Analyses
Abstract:	Decades of research document the powerful academic and socio-affective benefits of a strong home language base and affirmation of home language and culture as a valuable resource. This article explores the implicit challenges, daily realities, opportunities, and practical implications of incorporating language and culture into classrooms as they relate to culturally and linguistically diverse language learners. It describes the daily realities faced by teachers, students, families, and communities, and then offers practical advice for all classroom educators. The following suggestions are given: accept the premise that children are members of diverse family and community systems bringing multiple gifts of language, culture, and wisdom; become an ethnographer: keenly observe children's language capabilities, both in the native language and English; encourage and accept children's attempts to communicate since errors are a normal part of language learning; provide many opportunities for children to communicate; plan authentic integrated communities that allow children to value and appreciate their identities; organize the physical environment to reflect the diversity of cultures in the classroom; build lines of communication among linguistically and culturally diverse families and educators; and initiate dialogues and advocacy work about language and culture among and across organizations and leaders capable of addressing the specific policy needs of young children. Contains many references to recent scholarship in the field and offers suggestions for further reading. (KFT)
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Record Type:	Non-Journal
Level:	1 - Available on microfiche
Institutions:	National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, Washington, DC.
Sponsors:	Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
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Languages:	English
Education Level:	Elementary Secondary Education

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