Spanish Literacy and the Academic Success of Latino High School Students: Codeswitching as a Classroom Resource

Bilingual Latino high school students who studied Spanish as an academic subject demonstrated a heightened awareness of how to use their two languages as complementary resources in school and professional settings. A case study traces one student's literacy development in Spanish over 4 years a...

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Published inForeign language annals Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 498 - 511
Main Authors Nichols, Patricia C., Colon, Manuel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2000
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Subjects
Academic Achievement
Bilingualism
Case Studies
Code Switching
Code Switching (Language)
College Students
English
High School Students
High Schools
Higher Education
Hispanic Americans
Literacy
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Spanish
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Summary:Bilingual Latino high school students who studied Spanish as an academic subject demonstrated a heightened awareness of how to use their two languages as complementary resources in school and professional settings. A case study traces one student's literacy development in Spanish over 4 years and her ability to use it as a resource in her development of academic English in a college setting. (Author/VWL)
Bibliography:1. We are deeply grateful to Campbell Union High School District and especially to Rita Matthews, principal of Prospect High School, for encouraging and making possible the research reported on here. We thank Carol Myers Scotton and Guadalupe Valdes for comments on an earlier draft and two anonymous reviewers for their suggestions.
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ISSN:0015-718X
1944-9720
DOI:10.1111/j.1944-9720.2000.tb01994.x