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SUMMARY:Multilingual Identities and Heterogeneous Language Ideologies in t
 he New Latino Diaspora - Professor Stanton Wortham\, Boston College
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:This presentation explores how language ideologies—beliefs a
 bout immigrant students’ language use—carry conflicting images of Span
 ish speakers in one town that has received thousands of Mexican immigrants
  over the past two decades. I describe how teachers and students encounter
 \, negotiate\, and appropriate divergent ideologies about immigrant studen
 ts’ language use in school\, and I show how these ideologies convey diff
 erent messages about belonging to the community and to the nation. Dominan
 t ideologies vary both across types of speaker and across level of schooli
 ng. Elementary educators and students\, for example\, had a positive\, “
 bilinguals-in-the-making” ideology about Spanish-speaking students\, whi
 le secondary educators used more familiar deficit accounts.\n\n*Stanton Wo
 rtham* is the Charles F. Donovan\, S.J.\, Dean of the Lynch School of Educ
 ation at Boston College. He earned his B.A. with highest honors from Swart
 hmore College and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Human Develo
 pment. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and has been a Javits Fellow\, a S
 pencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow\, a National Academy of Education Po
 stdoctoral Fellow\, a W.T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellow and an Am
 erican Educational Research Association Fellow. His research applies techn
 iques from linguistic anthropology to study interaction\, learning and ide
 ntity development in classrooms and organizations. For the past decade he 
 has done research with Mexican immigrant and Mexican American adolescents 
 who live in areas of the United States that have only recently become home
  to large numbers of Latinos. This work explores the challenges and opport
 unities facing both Latino newcomers and host communities\, in places wher
 e models of and practices for dealing with newcomers are often more fluid 
 than in areas with longstanding Latino populations.\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
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