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50 Years of ERIC
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"Until I Became a Professional, I Was Not, Consciously, Indigenous": One Intercultural Bilingual Educator's Trajectory in Indigenous Language Revitalization
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Hornberger, Nancy H. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2014
Drawing from long-term ethnographic research in the Andes, this paper examines one Quechua-speaking Indigenous bilingual educator's trajectory as she traversed (and traverses) from rural highland communities of southern Peru through development as teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and advocate for Indigenous identity and language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
Revisiting the Continua of Biliteracy: International and Critical Perspectives.
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Hornberger, Nancy H.; Skilton-Sylvester, Ellen – Language and Education, 2000
The continua model of biliteracy offers a framework to situate research, teaching, and language planning in linguistically diverse settings. The continua model is revisited from the perspective of international cases of educational policy and practice in linguistically diverse settings, and from a critical perspective that seeks to make explicit…
Descriptors: Cambodians, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Literacy and Language Planning.
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Hornberger, Nancy H. – Language and Education, 1994
A framework for language planning categorizes 22 language planning goals in terms of the intersections between 3 types (status, corpus, and acquisition) and 2 approaches (policy and cultivation) of language planning. The model helps literacy developers to answer the question of which literacies to develop for what purpose. (Contains 44…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Usage, Literacy, Models
Ethnography in Linguistic Perspective: Understanding School Processes.
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Hornberger, Nancy H. – Language and Education, 1995
Explores perspectives and methodologies that sociolinguistics brings to ethnographic research in schools. The article identifies the methodological contributions arising from linguistics that interactional sociolinguistics and microethnograpy share, such as the use of naturally occurring language data, the consultation of native intuition, and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Class Activities, Classroom Environment
Misbehaviour, Punishment, and Put-Down: Stress for Quechua Children in School.
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Hornberger, Nancy H. – Language and Education: An International Journal, 1988
Explores language and interaction behaviors of Quechua children that point to the possibility of a stress reaction on their part. Behaviors of Quechua children in two schools, one with and one without a bilingual program, are discussed. Interaction is discussed in terms of underparticipation, overparticipation, and hostile participation. (15…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences