Hi Karen--
There is a really interesting, too little cited, article by moll, diaz
and estrada (I think!) in the LCHC newsletter from about 1980. It compares
reading in an English only classroom with reading in Spanish classroom
FOR THE SAME KIDS at different times in the day. Kids who were reading
at 4-5grade level in Spanish and were orally bilingual were observed
to be reading a pre/first grade level in English. The authors reveal the
social organizational ideological features of the classrooms that
constructed this absurd situation and went on to intervene in a productive
way.
A good way to find the article is to search using google on the lchc website.
Its one of those studies that should reorganize education of ESL kids and
gets forgotten like rain over a desert in summer where the water never
reaches the ground..... a manifestation of ideology as mode of social
practice and hegemony.
mike
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