Ofelia García
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1538029 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ofelia García |
| PRENOMES | Ofelia |
| SOBRENOME | García |
| ASSINATURA | GARCÍA O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | CUNY Graduate Center New York USA |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 424 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 10 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
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
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…
Understandings entrenzados
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…
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…
Beyond Policías y ladrones
Not a First Language but One Repertoire
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…
Rejecting abyssal thinking in the language and education of racialized bilinguals
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…
Converse racialization' and 'un/marking' language
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…
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…
Florian Coulmas
Teacher Education for Multilingual Education
This entry reviews the three strands of competencies that teacher candidates for multilingual education need to develop: (a) understanding about bilingual students and their families, especially language minoritized students; (b) knowledge of language, bilingualism/multilingualism, and translanguaging; and (c) awareness of how to deliver a pedagogy for multilingualism. Each of these three strands is described, emphasizing critical poststructural …
The glotopolítica of English teaching to Latinx students in the US
Using a lens from the theoretical perspective of glotopolítica, an approach described in this chapter, we examine the ideologies behind English language teaching of Latinx students in the US by analysing the assumptions about language, bilingualism, and language education that are part of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). We argue that the standards display a technical perspective of language which views English as an autonomous neutral lin…
Translanguaging
As a critical sociolinguistic theory, translanguaging has had the most application in language education, especially in the education of language‐minoritized students and in bilingual education and increasingly in what are considered foreign language programs. It has been seen to have the capacity and potential to transform the way we see, use, and teach language, literacy, and other subjects. This entry first discusses the meanings of translangu…
Bilingual and Multilingual Education
Bilingual and Multilingual Education
Translanguaging in Bilingual Education
Translanguaging
Translanguaging is a theoretical lens that offers a different view of bilingualism and multilingualism. The theory posits that rather than possessing two or more autonomous language systems, as has been traditionally thought, bilinguals, multilinguals, and indeed, all users of language, select and deploy particular features from a unitary linguistic repertoire to make meaning and to negotiate particular communicative contexts. Translanguaging als…
Bilingual and Multilingual Education
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society
It challenges the basic tenets of sociolinguistics as we know it. Each chapter provides the strength and limitations of positivist modernist perspective advocatiing for a step toward post-structuralist critical sociolinguistics
Translanguaging with Multilingual Students
Translanguaging in Bilingual Education
Language Policy and Planning in Language Education
This article considers the relevance of language policy and planning (LPP) for language education in the United States in relation to the country's longstanding and continuing multilingualism. In reflecting on the U.S. context, one striking feature is the absence of a guiding overarching explicit national educational language policy. Language policies and practices may either promote or restrict the teaching of languages. Thus, whether having suc…
Language and Political Economy
Mediatization and the Language of Journalism
At the intersection of applied linguistics and journalism studies lies media linguistics.This emerging subdisciplinary label is an umbrella term for the study of mass mediated language use, which, for the purposes of this chapter, is restricted to news media: public or private institutions of mass communication that produce and spread public information commoditized as news.Two issues stand out in the literature on media linguistics (and beyond).…
Language and Political Economy
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
Converse racialization' and 'un/marking' language
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…
Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Globalization, and Superdiversity
The chapter tackles key concepts in the study of language and society.It shows how the study of language has shifted its terminology and its conceptual understanding of language use by moving from (individual and societal) bilingualism to multilingualism and languaging, ending with the revitalization of a much abandoned concept, that of language repertoires.Rather than a comprehensive review, the chapter discusses selected key assumptions, topics…
Spanish language use and attitudes
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…
Mediatization and the Language of Journalism
At the intersection of applied linguistics and journalism studies lies media linguistics.This emerging subdisciplinary label is an umbrella term for the study of mass mediated language use, which, for the purposes of this chapter, is restricted to news media: public or private institutions of mass communication that produce and spread public information commoditized as news.Two issues stand out in the literature on media linguistics (and beyond).…
Latino Emergent Bilingual Youth in High Schools
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 …
Transferring, switching, and modeling in West New York Spanish
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)
Understandings entrenzados
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…
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…
Joshua A. Fishman 1926-2015
Joshua Fishman died in March this year. He was founder-editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, one of the early and central journals of sociolinguistics. Alongside this major editorial involvement, which he maintained to the end, he also edited several of the field-defining book collections which helped shape the growing field in the 1960s and 70s. He might well have viewed the founding of the Journal of Sociolinguistics…
Sociolinguistics and language planning in bilingual education for Hispanics in the United States
Article Sociolinguistics and language planning in bilingual education for Hispanics in the United States was published on January 1, 1983 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1983, issue 44)
Written Spanish in the United States
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
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
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
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
Comment. Que todo el pluralismo es sueño, y los suefios, vida son
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
Tu Mundo
The Multilingual Apple
Teaching language minorities in the United States
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)
Nouvelles espérances et barrières dans le domaine de l'éducation aux États-Unis
L'enseignement doit-il se dispenser en d'autres langues que l'anglais dans un pays où 12,5 % des individus sont originaires d'Amérique latine ? Cet article pointe les difficultés d'intégration dans le système scolaire des enfants de minorités ethniques imparfaitement anglophones. L'auteur, aux antipodes de l'universalisme à la française, décrit ici comment l'exigence croissante de bien maîtriser l'anglais à l'école est selon elle facteur de ségré…
Multilingual Identities in a Global City
Chapter 8 Education, Multilingualism and Translanguaging in the 21st Century
Emergent Bilinguals and Tesol
Negotiating Language Policies in Schools
Foreword, Nancy H. Hornberger 1. Introduction, Kate Menken & Ofelia Garcia Part I: Negotiation of Language Education Policies Guided by Educators' Experiences or Identity (Individual) 2. Appropriating Language Policy on the Local Level: Working the Spaces for Bilingual Education, David Cassels Johnson and Rebecca Freeman 3. Two-Teacher Classrooms, Personalized Learning and the Inclusion Paradigm in the United Kingdom: What's in it for Learners of…
Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times
Pedagogies and Practices in Multilingual Classrooms
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…
Literacy in Multilingual Classrooms
When one hears the word literacy, the first image that usually comes to mind is of a child learning how to read and write.
Teacher Education for Multilingual Education
If, as García (2009, p. 5) states, “bilingual education is the only way to educate children in the twenty‐first century,” then all teachers must be prepared both to advance the plurilingual competencies of students, as well as teach students with different home language practices and bilingual abilities.
Bilingual Education
Bilingual education is the use of two, or more, languages in the instruction and assessment of learners. Bilingual education differs from traditional language education programs that teach an additional language as a subject in that it uses the language as a medium of instruction. Programs vary in their goals, language use, and students served, and are also shaped by sociocultural and sociopolitical factors, historical context, as well as the sta…
Qualitative Research on Bilingualism and Multilingualism
In the 21st century, the study of bilingualism and multilingualism has come to the forefront.
Power-sharing and Cultural Autonomy
Article Power-sharing and Cultural Autonomy: some sociolinguistic principles was published on January 1, 2012 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2012, issue 213)
Latino Emergent Bilingual Youth in High Schools
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 …
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