“While bilingual is understood as a valuable asset or goal for middle-class and upper-class students, for working-class and poor students it is framed as a disability that must be overcome” ClassMiddle ClassDisabilityWorking ClassUpper ClassBilingualBilingualismEslEnglish Second Language Book:Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad Source: Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
“I repeat, Há, and wish I knew enough English to tell her to listen for the diacritical mark, this one directing the tone downward.” EslEnglish Second Language Book:Inside Out & Back Again Source: Inside Out & Back Again