Do they even know that they do it?”

Exploring Awareness of Spanish-English Code-Switching in a Sixth-Grade English Language Arts Classroom

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ID12752002
AuthorsRamón Antonio Martínez (0000-0003-2547-2410, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume37
Issue2
Pages195-210
Publication date2014-05-04
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBilingual Research Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1523-5882 • E-ISSN: 1523-5890
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15235882.2014.934972
OpenAlexW1982448106
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited22

This article draws on scholarship in educational and linguistic anthropology to explore awareness of Spanish-English code-switching among bilingual Chicana/o and Latina/o students in a sixth-grade English Language Arts classroom. Analysis of qualitative data gathered via participant observation, video/audio recording, and semistructured interviews reveals that students articulated practical and discursive forms of awareness and that these forms of awareness were also sometimes embodied in their language use. It is argued that viewing awareness as a continuum affords a clearer understanding of the full range of their awareness by allowing for embodied reflections of awareness and shifts in individual speakers’ awareness across contexts

Art · Bilingual education · Code-switching · English language · Language arts · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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