Theory Into Practice · 2019 · 299 citations · 12 references
HumanitiesLinguisticsMulticultural EducationBilingual EducationLatino StudiesLinguistic AnthropologyLatino BilingualismLatino LanguageLatinx StudiesMultilingualismRace In EducationRace In SchoolingAcademic Language InstructionBilingual Education PoliticsCommon Core State StandardsLanguage Ideologies In EducationLinguistic Equity In EducationLinguistic RacismRacial LiteracyRoot Causes
The article argues that academic language functions as a raciolinguistic ideology that portrays racialized students as linguistically deficient and proposes language architecture as an alternative framing to resist these ideologies in research and practice. Using language architecture as a lens, the author analyzes the Common Core State Standard’s literacy demands, illustrates how bilingual Latinx children meet these demands through ethnographic data, and outlines a unit plan grounded in this perspective. The study concludes by urging the integration of language architecture into broader political efforts to dismantle the inequities that underlie deficit views of Latinx and other racialized students.
In this article, I argue that academic language is a raciolinguistic ideology that frames racialized students as linguistically deficient and in need of remediation. I propose language architecture as an alternative framing of language that can serve as a point of entry for resisting these raciolinguistic ideologies in both research and practice. I use this framework as a lens for analyzing the literacy demands of the Common Core State Standard (CCSS). Using data collected as part of a larger ethnographic study, I illustrate how Latinx children from bilingual communities have unique opportunities for engaging in the language architecture called for in the standards. I then describe a unit plan that I developed from this perspective. I end with a call for situating language architecture within broader political struggles seeking to dismantle the political and economic inequities that are the root causes of deficit perspectives of Latinxs and other racialized students.
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Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective
Jonathan Rosa, Nelson Flores · Language in Society · 2017 · 1.5K citations