Incouple numbers and dedómetros: listening for meaning in bilingual children’s mathematical lexical inventions

• Published in: ZDM Vol. 55; no. 6; pp. 1101 - 1112
• Main Authors: Martínez Hinestroza, José, Peña-Pincheira, Romina S., Adams Corral, Melissa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.11.2023; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Bilingual Education; Bilingual Students; Bilingualism; Classrooms; Code Switching (Language); Education; Elementary School Students; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Grade 3; Grade 4; Immersion Programs; Inventions; Language; Language Proficiency; Linguistics; Listening; Mathematical analysis; Mathematics; Mathematics Education; Morphology; Numbers; Original Paper; Phonology; Semantics; Spanish; Submerging; Teachers; Teaching Methods; Translation; Validity; Vocabulary; Colombia; United States; United States > US; Translanguaging; Bilingualism; Mathematics education; Raciolinguistics

Previous research on bilingual mathematics education has proposed that as children “language mathematics” they use multiple sources of meaning. In this paper, we focus on lexical inventions—bilingual children’s made up words that are not formally defined or used but follow the phonology and morpholo...