Oreto García
Biographic Data
| ID | 173070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oreto García |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oreto |
| FAMILY NAME | García |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1405-9965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 91 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 455 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 91 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Baetens Beardsmore, Hugo
I first met Hugo Baetens Beardsmore (1942) in New York City in the mid‐1980s. He had come to meet with Joshua Fishman and others, but also to visit bilingual schools. Although I had learned much about bilingualism from Baetens Beardsmore's work and especially his Bilingualism: Basic Principles , it was his watch that impressed me most. I accompanied him then on a visit to a bilingual elementary school. There, Hugo sat in children's chairs, as chi…
Bilingual/Multilingual Qualitative Research
This entry examines the paradigm shift in multilingualism research, tracing its evolution from monolingual‐based understandings to more nuanced approaches that recognize the complexity of linguistic practices. Traditional conceptualizations of bilingualism as double monolingualism and code‐switching as discrete language alternation have been challenged, instead embracing translanguaging—the fluid deployment of individuals' complete linguistic rep…
Translanguaging: Leveraging Theoretical Shifts Toward Social Change
Translanguaging posits that all people make meaning, communicate, and learn by orchestrating heterogeneous features from a unitary repertoire in ways that defy named languages and other socially constructed language categorizations. In this chapter, we share insights about translanguaging theory for applied linguistics by revisiting themes we surfaced in an encyclopedia article we authored a half‐decade ago, specifically reconsidering our 2017 te…
Expandability and temporality in translanguaging spaces: A space-centred systematic observation of Kongish Daily
This article aims to bridge the research gap in understanding the dynamic and discursive nature of translanguaging spaces. It does so through exploring the temporal and interactional qualities of translanguaging spaces using a newly proposed space-centred systematic observation approach to analyze two cases from Kongish Daily , a Hong Kong Facebook page with 75,000 subscribers. By examining initial social media posts, responses, and related disco…
Working in the gap: Empowering local educators in Taiwan’s bilingual education policy
The Continua of Biliteracy: Flows and Obstructions
The impact of Nancy Hornberger's Continua of Biliteracy is here considered. The paper identifies the flows that the Continua has made possible and the ways in which its conceptualization within a multidimensional multidisciplinary dynamic space has transformed not only the study of biliteracy itself but also the broader aspects of sociolinguistics as well as language education and the teaching of English. The constant sociopolitical efforts in th…
Understandings entrenzados: A commentary
I am not a scientist or an engineer. In fact, my understanding of science and engineering is extremely limited, the product of a generation in which science was hardly taught and engineering was nonexistent, especially for a Latina. When science was taught, it was about learning words and facts. And so, the topic of this Special Issue intrigued me, for it looked at ways in which translanguaging, which has been such an important part of both my li…
Entrevista com Ofélia Garcia
Entrevista - Ofelia Garcia
Actionable translanguaging love in education and research
This paper ties the concept of translanguaging to that of Mignolo (2000) on bilanguaging love. It presents how one teacher of Lao descent works with recently arrived adolescent immigrants in New York City by leveraging their translanguaging and centering understandings of love and relationships. By focusing on two texts written by African American women, one a novel using what some call Black English, and the other a treatise of essays, the teach…
A Multilingual Preschooler’s School Belonging: The Role of Translanguaging Pedagogy
Students must feel a sense of belonging to engage in learning. They need to feel accepted, respected, and supported by peers and teachers. A well-cultivated sense of belonging has positive impacts on children’s well-being and school success. However, migrant children often go to schools where language practices are different from those of their homes and where they often feel alienated. In this study, we closely examine how the teacher’s translan…
Introduction to Lau 50th anniversary special issue: From access to meaningful instruction to equitable access to high quality bilingual instruction
Literacy in Multilingual Classrooms
Literacy instruction that provides opportunities for learners from diverse language backgrounds to access their entire meaning‐making repertoire is essential in multilingual classrooms. This requires shifting conceptions of language/multilingualism and literacy/biliteracy that are prevalent in schools today by considering minoritized and racialized multi/bilingual learners as legitimate meaning makers themselves, with valid linguistic knowledge r…
Decolonizing US Latinx Students’ Language: El Sur in the Schools of El Norte
This article considers how the racialized bilingual Latinx students in El Norte live in an epistemological Sur where their knowledge systems, which include their language and cultural practices are discounted. Centring the schooling experience of two US Latinas today, the article theorizes the differences between perceiving their language and bilingualism from the external perspective of dominant schooling institutions of the Global North, and fr…
Translanguaging Décloisonnement: An Epilogue
1. IntroductionIt is always enlightening to read work on translanguaging when it is done with people’s own societal epistemologies. This is the case of the present issue of Lidil, focused on pratiques translangagières, which teaches us much about theories of language that in my speaking-English world I have called translanguaging (García & Wei, 2014; García et al., 2021; Otheguy et al., 2015, 2019). The authors from the English-speaking world hav…
Beyond Policías y ladrones: An Epilogue to Liminality
Not a First Language but One Repertoire: Translanguaging as a Decolonizing Project
Translanguaging has opened up spaces to recognize the dynamic multilingualism of students in classrooms taught in dominant languages, and problematized concepts such as ‘additive bilingualism’. This article aims to further explore two issues that remain little understood. This article clarifies that this is a misunderstanding, for the trans- in translanguaging connotes the transcendence of named languages, the going beyond named languages as have…
A pedagogia translíngue e a elaboração de tarefas na formação integral do educando brasileiro
O presente artigo procura propor um modelo de aplicação prática da pedagogia translíngue e oferecer uma contribuição dirigida ao aluno da educação básica brasileira, oportunizando o desempenho de tarefas através do inglês e do português, de maneira decolonial, e vinculando os entendimentos linguísticos emergentes em sala de aula aos conhecimentos conceituais que surgem a partir de tarefas colaborativas. Partindo da noção de língua como repertório…
“Not a bad thing”: A commentary on translanguaging among Chinese bilinguals
Language beyond flags: Teachers misunderstanding of translanguaging in preschools
Based on an analysis of the video recording and transcript of one lesson chosen by preschool teachers in Luxembourg as an example of translanguaging pedagogy, this article shows the teachers’ limited understandings of translanguaging. As a result of a new 2017 multilingual education policy for early childhood, the first author designed a professional development project in which the teachers in this preschool participated. During a lesson, the te…
Siting Biliteracy in New Mexican Borderlands
A Participatory Design Research (PDR) conducted with fifteen Chicana dual language bilingual teachers in New Mexico focused on expanding their understandings of their own translanguaging, so as to transform their concept of biliteracy and design their biliteracy instruction as a site for resistance and transformation of bilingual marginalized students. After reviewing how translanguaging shapes understandings of biliteracy, and describing the int…
Academic language and the minoritization of U.S. bilingual Latinx students
Most U.S. educational reforms have narrowly focused on how to improve the ways in which students use language, and most specifically English. But in the last two decades, it is something called “academic language” that has permeated all education discourse. Here we discuss the development of the construct of academic language and the pernicious effects it has had on Latinx minoritized bilingual students. We focus on how academic language is being…
Rejecting abyssal thinking in the language and education of racialized bilinguals: A manifesto
Following Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the authors of this article reject the type of “abyssal thinking” that erases the existence of counter-hegemonic knowledges and lifeways, adopting instead the “from the inside out” perspective that is required for thinking constructively about the language and education of racialized bilinguals. On the basis of deep personal experience and extensive field-work research, we challenge prevailing assumptions abo…
After Castañeda: A glotopolítica perspective and educational dignity paradigm to educate racialized bilinguals
Converse racialization' and 'un/marking' language: The making of a bilingual university in a neoliberal world
The discourse on the opening of a bilingual university along the Texas-Mexico border leads us to propose a theory of 'converse racialization' through which the local Spanish is being progressively 'unmarked' and disassociated from the language practice of Mexican Americans. Converse racialization, as the equal and opposite co-constituting underside of racialization, shifts the directionality of semiotic indexes away from a particular 'race' or 'e…
Plurilingualism and translanguaging: Commonalities and divergences
The concepts of plurilingualism and translanguaging are explained and distinguished, showing how each has contributed to transformations in the study of bilingualism and multilingualism. The terms have introduced different epistemologies related to multilingual speakers. The two concepts have different socio-political grounding, a difference that has contributed to carving divergent paths in educational practice. Plurilingualism, whose educationa…
Translanguaging and the Writing of Bilingual Learners
This article makes the case for using translanguaging in developing the academic writing of bilinguals. It reviews the emerging literature on learning and teaching theories of translanguaging and presents theoretical understandings of biliteracy development and specifically on the teaching of writing to bilingual learners. The article analyzes five written texts produced by young bilingual writers in which translanguaging is used in the planning,…
Dynamic landscapes, artifact taphonomy, and landuse modeling in the western Mediterranean
The Polop Alto valley, in eastern Spain, is characteristic of many Mediterranean landscapes. It has been sporadically reoccupied over the course of at least 80 kyr. Its landforms have undergone various geomorphic processes resulting from late Quaternary environmental fluctuations. During the Holocene, the valley has been modified by millennia of extensive land clearance, cultivation, and terracing. As a result, the evidence for human activity and…
Long-Term Socioecology and Contingent Landscapes
Translanguaging and Literacies
The authors trace the development of the concept of translanguaging, focusing on its relation to literacies. The authors describe its connection to literacy studies, with particular attention to bi/multilingual reading and writing. Then, the authors present the development of translanguaging as a sociolinguistic theory, discuss its formulations, and describe what is unique about translanguaging: its beginnings and grounding in educational practic…
Emergent Bilinguals and Tesol: What's in a Name
Reframing language allocation policy in dual language bilingual education
This article addresses language allocation policies in what is increasingly called “Dual Language Education” (DLE) in the U.S., offering a challenge to the strict language separation policies in those programs and a proposal for flexibility that transforms them into “Dual Language Bilingual Education” (DLBE). The article offers a historical review of policies and practices in bilingual education and the ways in which the present language policies…
Land-Use Dynamics and Socioeconomic Change: An Example from the Polop Alto Valley
The Polop Alto valley, in eastern Spain, serves as the focus of a study of long-term temporal and spatial dynamics in human land use. The data discussed here derive from intensive, pedestrian, non-site survey. We employ the concept of artifact taphonomy to assess the various natural and cultural processes responsible for accumulation and distribution patterns of artifacts. Our results suggest that the most significant land-use changes in the Polo…
Osteological and paleodietary investigation of burials from Cova de la Pastora, Alicante, Spain
Translanguaging in Schools: Subiendo y Bajando, Bajando y Subiendo as Afterword
Translanguaging pedagogies are considered here as mechanisms that work against the normalizing ideology of monolingual and monoglossic school language. In so doing, we consider how this restrictive view of school language and of language education policy has served to minoritize bilingual students and act as an instrument to exert “coloniality of power.” We start by describing the translanguaging theory that supports the translanguaging pedagogie…
In glacial environments beyond glacial terrains: Human eco-dynamics in late Pleistocene Mediterranean Iberia
Converse racialization' and 'un/marking' language: The making of a bilingual university in a neoliberal world
The discourse on the opening of a bilingual university along the Texas-Mexico border leads us to propose a theory of 'converse racialization' through which the local Spanish is being progressively 'unmarked' and disassociated from the language practice of Mexican Americans. Converse racialization, as the equal and opposite co-constituting underside of racialization, shifts the directionality of semiotic indexes away from a particular 'race' or 'e…
Critically assessing the 1968 Bilingual Education Act at 50 years: Taming tongues and Latinx communities
As the 1968 Bilingual Education Act (BEA) reaches its 50th anniversary, we provide a critical historical review of its contradictory origins and legacy. By distilling the BEA’s history into three periods that we label “power to the people,” “pride for the people,” and “profit from the people,” we demonstrate that the bill was never meant to fully support 1960s Latinx activists’ goal for a race radical bilingual education to confront racism and st…
Translanguaging: Towards a dynamic model of bilingualism at school / Translanguaging: hacia un modelo dinámico de bilingüismo en la escuela
As a response to the trend of using school languages separately, this article puts forward a pedagogical strategy labelled translanguaging which fosters the dynamic and integrative use of bilingual students' languages in order to create a space in which the incorporation of both languages is seen as natural and teachers accept it as a legitimate pedagogical practice. Thus, translanguaging becomes the process through which bilingual students creat…
Spanish language use and attitudes: A study of two New York City communities
This article presents the results of a comparative study of two Hispanic communities in New York City: Washington Heights and Elmhurst/Corona. Our data on language proficiency, language use, and attitudes were gathered using a sociolinguistic questionnaire. However, the study benefited from the interactive process established between the researchers and the communities which they studied and in which they live and work.Our data are analyzed along…
Testing technological practices: Neutron activation analysis of neolithic ceramics from Valencia, Spain
Latino Emergent Bilingual Youth in High Schools: Transcaring Strategies for Academic Success
This article explores the results of a study of Latino youth in New York City public high schools. We propose that the common element among the schools is what we call here transcaring, an overarching culture of care that allows for the creation of third spaces within school, transcending traditional dichotomies around language, culture, place, and measurement found in many U.S. schools. We identify the different threads that make up transcaring …
An approach for evaluating eias— deficiencies of eia in mexico
Insufficient Language Education Policy: Intercultural Bilingual Education in Chiapas
Based on ethnographic fieldwork research of the authors in schools in Chiapas, Mexico, the article provides an overview of efforts being made to address the unique educational needs of Mexico's Indigenous populations through intercultural bilingual education programs. The article examines the Indigenous teachers' commitment to intercultural bilingual education, as opposed to their incomplete understandings of bilingual teaching practices and bili…
Transferring, switching, and modeling in West New York Spanish: An Intergenerational Study
Article Transferring, switching, and modeling in West New York Spanish: an intergenerational study was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1989, issue 79)
En/countering Indigenous Bilingualism
The articles in this issue advance scholarship on Indigenous-language ideologies and practices in important ways. By focusing on youth, the authors “counter“ traditional ideologies about Indigenous
Understandings entrenzados: A commentary
I am not a scientist or an engineer. In fact, my understanding of science and engineering is extremely limited, the product of a generation in which science was hardly taught and engineering was nonexistent, especially for a Latina. When science was taught, it was about learning words and facts. And so, the topic of this Special Issue intrigued me, for it looked at ways in which translanguaging, which has been such an important part of both my li…
After Castañeda: A glotopolítica perspective and educational dignity paradigm to educate racialized bilinguals
Surviving the Holocene: Human Ecological Responses to the Current Interglacial in Southern Valencia, Spain
For hunter-gatherer groups, the dramatic changes in climate at the end of the last glacial cycle necessitated rearrangement of land use, including shifts in mobility strategies, settlement location, and resource use. We examine these behavioral changes using lithic attribute data as well as spatial distributions of artifacts and features. Using data from intensive survey and excavation, we trace human ecological response through the onset of the …
The Value of Speaking a Lote in U.S. Business
How much value do foreign languages really have in a country like the United States, where the most proficient speakers of languages other than English (LOTEs) tend to be immigrants with little influence or power and where the rich and powerful tend to have little knowledge of LOTEs? This article first discusses the role of English and LOTEs in the history of the United States and in our current position within a global community. It then present…
A Multilingual Preschooler’s School Belonging: The Role of Translanguaging Pedagogy
Students must feel a sense of belonging to engage in learning. They need to feel accepted, respected, and supported by peers and teachers. A well-cultivated sense of belonging has positive impacts on children’s well-being and school success. However, migrant children often go to schools where language practices are different from those of their homes and where they often feel alienated. In this study, we closely examine how the teacher’s translan…
Written Spanish in the United States: An analysis of the Spanish of the ethnic press
Article Written Spanish in the United States: an analysis of the Spanish of the ethnic press was published on January 1, 1985 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1985, issue 56)
Educational linguistics - Stacy Churchill, The education of linguistic and cultural minorities in the OECD countries. (Multilingual Matters, 13.) Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1986. Pp. i +…
Educational linguistics - Stacy Churchill, The education of linguistic and cultural minorities in the OECD countries. (Multilingual Matters, 13.) Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1986. Pp. i + 175. - Volume 17 Issue 4
Spanish language use and attitudes: A study of two New York City communities
This article presents the results of a comparative study of two Hispanic communities in New York City: Washington Heights and Elmhurst/Corona. Our data on language proficiency, language use, and attitudes were gathered using a sociolinguistic questionnaire. However, the study benefited from the interactive process established between the researchers and the communities which they studied and in which they live and work.Our data are analyzed along…
Transferring, switching, and modeling in West New York Spanish: An Intergenerational Study
Article Transferring, switching, and modeling in West New York Spanish: an intergenerational study was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1989, issue 79)
Bilingual Education: Focusschrift in Honor of Joshua A. Fishman on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
Comment. Que todo el pluralismo es sueño, y los suefios, vida son: Ethnolinguistic dreams and reality
Article Comment. Que todo el pluralismo es sueño, y los suefios, vida son: ethnolinguistic dreams and reality was published on January 1, 1994 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1994, issue 110)
The Value of Speaking a Lote in U.S. Business
How much value do foreign languages really have in a country like the United States, where the most proficient speakers of languages other than English (LOTEs) tend to be immigrants with little influence or power and where the rich and powerful tend to have little knowledge of LOTEs? This article first discusses the role of English and LOTEs in the history of the United States and in our current position within a global community. It then present…
English in Cuba: From the imperial design to the imperative need
El juego simbólico en los niños pasiegos: Muñecas y vacas
Las condiciones de aislamiento que rodean los primeros años de los niños pasiegos nos llevó a interesarnos por el desarrollo del juego en estos niños y sus posibles diferencias con lo observado en otros medios urbanos o rurales.Los datos permiten hablar de cierta universalidad en el desarrollo lúdico, como la aparición de la ficción y la coordinació n del espacio fingido con otros jugadores, a pesar de las escasas oportunidades de juego común que…
An approach for evaluating eias— deficiencies of eia in mexico
Land-Use Dynamics and Socioeconomic Change: An Example from the Polop Alto Valley
The Polop Alto valley, in eastern Spain, serves as the focus of a study of long-term temporal and spatial dynamics in human land use. The data discussed here derive from intensive, pedestrian, non-site survey. We employ the concept of artifact taphonomy to assess the various natural and cultural processes responsible for accumulation and distribution patterns of artifacts. Our results suggest that the most significant land-use changes in the Polo…
Dynamic landscapes, artifact taphonomy, and landuse modeling in the western Mediterranean
The Polop Alto valley, in eastern Spain, is characteristic of many Mediterranean landscapes. It has been sporadically reoccupied over the course of at least 80 kyr. Its landforms have undergone various geomorphic processes resulting from late Quaternary environmental fluctuations. During the Holocene, the valley has been modified by millennia of extensive land clearance, cultivation, and terracing. As a result, the evidence for human activity and…
Teaching language minorities in the United States: From bilingualism as a deficit to bilingualism as a liability
Article Teaching language minorities in the United States: From bilingualism as a deficit to bilingualism as a liability was published on June 26, 2002 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2002, issue 155-156)
Long-Term Socioecology and Contingent Landscapes
Testing technological practices: Neutron activation analysis of neolithic ceramics from Valencia, Spain
A Speech Community Model of Bilingual Education: Educating Latino Newcomers in the USA
With the rapid increase in immigration from Latin America to the USA, many US high schools are struggling with the thorny question of how best to educate newcomer immigrant youth with low levels of English proficiency. This paper examines what some might consider an anachronistic educational model – a segregated bilingual high school for Latino newcomers. Drawing on a qualitative case study of an unusually successful high school in Washington Hei…
Multilingual Identities in a Global City: London Stories by David Block
Spanish and Globalization: Shedding Its Armor and Baring Its Undulating Rhythms
Chapter 8 Education, Multilingualism and Translanguaging in the 21st Century
En/countering Indigenous Bilingualism
The articles in this issue advance scholarship on Indigenous-language ideologies and practices in important ways. By focusing on youth, the authors “counter“ traditional ideologies about Indigenous
Emergent Bilinguals and Tesol: What's in a Name
Surviving the Holocene: Human Ecological Responses to the Current Interglacial in Southern Valencia, Spain
For hunter-gatherer groups, the dramatic changes in climate at the end of the last glacial cycle necessitated rearrangement of land use, including shifts in mobility strategies, settlement location, and resource use. We examine these behavioral changes using lithic attribute data as well as spatial distributions of artifacts and features. Using data from intensive survey and excavation, we trace human ecological response through the onset of the …
Osteological and paleodietary investigation of burials from Cova de la Pastora, Alicante, Spain
Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times: Bilingual Education and Dominican Immigrant Youth in the Heights
Pedagogies and Practices in Multilingual Classrooms: Singularities in Pluralities
Bilingual classrooms most often have strict language arrangements about when and who should speak what language to whom. This practice responds to diglossic arrangements and models of bilingualism developed in the 20th century. However, in the 21st century, heteroglossic bilingual conceptualizations are needed in which the complex discursive practices of multilingual students, their translanguagings, are used in sense‐making and in tending to the…
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