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Traducción Y Herencia, Jose M. Davila-Montes Jan 2006

Traducción Y Herencia, Jose M. Davila-Montes

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

Salvo que la ensefianza de lenguas extranjeras en el sistema escolar estadounidense cambie de forma radical ( cosa que no parece previsible en los pr6ximos afios ), es razonable pensar que el estudiante prototipico de traducci6n entre las lenguas inglesa y espafiola en este pais sea, por abrumadora superioridad estadistica, el denominado heritage student. Nos referimos con esto a las segundas generaciones de inmigrantes hispanohablantes que, segun adquieren acceso a la educaci6n universitaria, proporcionan una de las pocas oportunidades para que la ensefianza de la traducci6n tenga lugar en un estadio anterior al ciclo de postgrado ( que es donde …


Teaching/Learning Centers: Professional Development For Teachers Of Linguistically And Culturally Diverse Students, Holbrook Mahn, Dee Mcmann, Sandra I. Musanti May 2005

Teaching/Learning Centers: Professional Development For Teachers Of Linguistically And Culturally Diverse Students, Holbrook Mahn, Dee Mcmann, Sandra I. Musanti

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

This article describes an innovative professional development model that uses on-site Teaching/Learning Centers in which teachers work and collaborate with other teachers to learn about effective methods of literacy instruction for linguistically and culturally diverse students. This model fosters collaborative, sustained, on-site, and practical development in which teachers plan, model, observe, discuss, and reflect together as they transform their practice.


A Comparative Study Of The Latino Discourse In The United States, Héctor Manuel Ramos Romero Jan 2005

A Comparative Study Of The Latino Discourse In The United States, Héctor Manuel Ramos Romero

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La Transformación De La Visión De John Quincy Adams Sobre Mexico, Lyon Rathbun Jan 2005

La Transformación De La Visión De John Quincy Adams Sobre Mexico, Lyon Rathbun

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

En este artículo se analiza la actitud cambiante frente a Mexico de John Quincy Adams, de ser el primer arquitecto de la expansion territorial de Estados Unidos en la epoca nacional temprana hasta convertirse en ardiente defensor de la integridad territorial de Mexico en los años treinta. El autor se plantea también la siguiente pregunta: ~Que nos dice la transformación de John Quincy Adams sobre las relaciones mas amplias entre Estados Unidos y Mexico? El trabajo muestra como, durante la segunda década del siglo XJX, en la búsqueda de autosuficiencia y ampliación territorial de Estados Unidos, Adams valoraba poco el …


Connecting Students To Culturally Relevant Texts, Yvonne Freeman, David Freeman Apr 2004

Connecting Students To Culturally Relevant Texts, Yvonne Freeman, David Freeman

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

Yvonne Freeman and David Freeman argue the importance of providing students with culturally relevant books and discuss their criteria for deciding if a book is culturally relevant to a particular child.


Centering In The Borderlands: Lessons From Hispanic Student Writers, Beatrice Mendez Newman Jan 2003

Centering In The Borderlands: Lessons From Hispanic Student Writers, Beatrice Mendez Newman

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

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Chapter Eight: Are Schools Prepared To Support Excellence For Nonmainstream Children? Latino/A Voices As A Response, Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto Jan 2002

Chapter Eight: Are Schools Prepared To Support Excellence For Nonmainstream Children? Latino/A Voices As A Response, Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

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Attitudes Toward Spanish Language Maintenance Or Shift (Lmls) In The Lower Rio Grande Valley Of South Texas, Hugo A. Macias, Pamela L. Anderson, Ralph Carlson Jan 2002

Attitudes Toward Spanish Language Maintenance Or Shift (Lmls) In The Lower Rio Grande Valley Of South Texas, Hugo A. Macias, Pamela L. Anderson, Ralph Carlson

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

This article considers attitudes among Spanish/English bilinguals of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas toward Spanish language maintenance or language shift to English. The investigation was undertaken to replicate and compare results with similar data collected in 1982. Since the area has changed socially in the intervening years and is now the third-fastest-growing metropolitan-suburban area in the United States. it seems prudent to reconsider the sociolinguistic attitude changes that may also have occurred. Data collection. sampling. the indices. and the analysis of the 1982 study were replicated as nearly as possible for the present study. Results of the analysis …


The Debate Over Annexing Texas And The Emergence Of Manifest Destiny, Lyon Rathbun Oct 2001

The Debate Over Annexing Texas And The Emergence Of Manifest Destiny, Lyon Rathbun

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

Scholars have long understood that the ideology of manifest destiny congealed out of the millennial ideals embedded in American culture. However, they have not fully appreciated that manifest destiny only became a national ideology by overwhelming the arguments that were first voiced during the Monroe administration to resist the incorporation of Texas into the Union. Understanding how the secular ideals of the classical republican tradition were used to resist the inclusion of Texas can help us understand the crystallization of manifest destiny into a theologized ideology in the 1840s.


The Ciceronian Rhetoric Of John Quincy Adams, Lyon Rathbun Apr 2000

The Ciceronian Rhetoric Of John Quincy Adams, Lyon Rathbun

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

This article examines the way in which the classical rhetorical tradition inspired John Quincy Adams's public life. While rhetorical scholars have probed Adams's role as Harvard's first Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, they have not appreciated how the classical tradition in general, and Ciceronian rhetoric in particular, influenced his political career. Social scientists, on the other hand, have studied Adams's impact on Antebellum America but have not appreciated how his life-long devotion to classical rhetoric shaped his response to public issues. John Quincy Adams remained inspired by classical rhetorical ideals long after the neo-classicalism and deferential politics of the founding generation …