Thanks for the reference, Mike. I recall reading a very brief synopsis of
the article somewhere sometime ago. Once my slow little phone line
downloads it, I'll give it a good read.
Anything that promises to help transform the archaic practices of schooled
F/S language education deserves scrutiny.
Phil
Here's the link to the PDF copy of the newsletter.
http://lchc.ucsd.edu/Histarch/jl80v2n3.PDF
At 07:29 11/7/03 -0700, you wrote:
>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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