“We teach in English here”: Conflict between language ideology and test accountability in an English-only newcomer school
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Drawing from a six-month ethnography of tenth grade immigrant students from Mexico and their teachers in a Central Texas English immersion program, this article documents multiple contradictory teacher practices regarding the use of English and Spanish in the classroom. This article argues that these varying practices represented a tension between Literacy High’s official English-only policy and a contradictory political ideology prioritizing performance on standardized tests that led to tolerance of Spanish language use.
Source: Berkeley Review of Education
DOI: 10.5070/b810142318
Author: Rolf Straubhaar
Institutions: Texas State University, University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3118377600