عنوان

Illegal alphabets and adult biliteracy :

شابک

0805836268

شابک

0805836276

شابک

9780805836264

شابک

9780805836271

شماره

b783402

عنوان اصلي

Illegal alphabets and adult biliteracy :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Latino migrants crossing the linguistic border /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Tomás Mario Kalmar.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Mahwah, N.J. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

L. Erlbaum Associates,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2000.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

v, 129 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-123) and index.

متن يادداشت

"Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy - based on four years of intensive fieldwork in a small rural community in Southern Illinois - is a landmark work in the area of adult literacy, combining insights from linguistics, anthropology, literacy studies, and education in a culturally situated exploration of the language and literacy practices of migrant workers. As such, it is a substantive contribution to the linguistic study of indigenous literacies; to sociocultural approaches to language, learning and literacy; and to ethnographic and critical approaches to education. The book begins with a true story about "illegal aliens" who, in the summer of 1980, in the town of Cobden, Illinois, decided to help each other write down English como de veras se oye - the way it really sounds. The focus is on why and how they did this, what they actually wrote down, and what happened to their texts. The narrative then shifts to how and why the strategies adult immigrants actually use in order to cope with English in the real world seem to have little in common with those used by students in publicly funded bilingual and ESL classrooms. The book concludes with a discussion of the ideal of a universal alphabet, about the utopian claim that anyone can use a canonical set of 26 letters to reduce to script any language, ever spoken by anyone, anywhere, at any time. This claim is so familiar that it is easy to overlook how much undocumented intellectual labor was invested over the centuries by those who successfully carried the alphabet across the border from one language to the next. From this undocumented labor, without which none of us would now be able to read, everyone profits. To make his story and his argument as accessible as possible, Kalmar steers clear of jargon and excessive technical terminology. At the same time, however, readers who are familiar with any of the current postmodern discourses on the social construction of symbolic forms will be able to bring such discourses to bear on what he has to say about the game, the discourse, and the scene of writing that constitute the focus of his theoretical analysis. When people today argue about "illegal aliens" in the United States, probably the last question on their minds is the one to which this book is devoted: how do "illegal aliens" use an alphabet they already know in order to chart the speech sounds of colloquial English? It is the author's hope that readers will interpret his story as a parable with serious political implications. Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy is a relevant book for researchers, students, practitioners, and anyone else interested in language and literacy in social, cultural, and political contexts, including bilingual and ESL education, second-language acquisition and development, applied and sociolinguistics, multicultural education, educational anthropology, and qualitative research."--Jacket.

موضوع مستند نشده

Adult education-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Bilingualism-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Alphabet.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Self-instruction.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Study and teaching-- Spanish speakers.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Study and teaching-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Hispanic Americans-- Education.

موضوع مستند نشده

Hispanic Americans-- Languages.

موضوع مستند نشده

Languages in contact-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Adult education.

موضوع مستند نشده

Bilingualism.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Alphabet.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Study and teaching-- Spanish speakers.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language-- Study and teaching.

موضوع مستند نشده

English language.

موضوع مستند نشده

Hispanic Americans-- Education.

موضوع مستند نشده

Languages in contact.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Kalmar, Tomás Mario,1942-

تاريخ عمليات

20201206214505.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y