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Educational Language Policy: An Examination Of Race And Language In Policy Discourse, Dionne L. Davis
Educational Language Policy: An Examination Of Race And Language In Policy Discourse, Dionne L. Davis
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Linguistic diversity is an integral thread in the tapestry of America. As such researchers how linguistic differences across ethnoracial groups can be understood as resources rather than problems. The aim of this study was to examine ideologies concerning race/ethnicity and language in the discourse of educational language policies that guide multilingual approaches to education. The design of this study was critical discourse policy analysis, and the framework was a combination of Critical Language and Race Theory, also known as LangCrit (Crump, 2014), and Raciolinguistics (Alim, 2016; Flores and Rosa, 2015). The research questions were: (1) How are ideologies about the …