<div dir="ltr">The documentary "Speaking in Tongues" is great for revealing the range of ideologies surrounding such programs (e.g., Spanish-speaking parents who didn't want their kids learning in Spanish at school; Euro-American relatives of Chinese-American kids in a Mandarin immersion school who thought that everybody should be speaking English; and of course the advocates of immersion/bilingual ed).<br><br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1337544/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1337544/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 October 2016 at 21:52, Netta Avineri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:navineri@gmail.com" target="_blank">navineri@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div></div><div>For those who haven't seen it yet check out the piece that a few of us from the language & social justice task group co-authored on the topic:</div><div>"Save CA Residents From A Language Drought: Vote 'Yes' This Fall"</div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/11387726" target="_blank">http://m.huffpost.com/us/<wbr>entry/11387726</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Also the FB group for Californians Together, the main group spearheading the Prop. 58 efforts:</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="https://m.facebook.com/CaliforniansTogether/" target="_blank">https://m.facebook.com/<wbr>CaliforniansTogether/</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">I have copied on this message Shelly Spiegel-Coleman, Executive Director of Californians Together, who can share more about what would be useful for students to help with at this stage. You can also request from them brochures in English and Spanish as well as buttons.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Ana Celia Zentella has been making phone calls for the efforts, in particular with Spanish-speaking households. She and Stephen Krashen among others have written responses to articles about the subject. Ted Everhart is researching the language activism around Prop. 58 (and a student of mine plans to help him). Nelson Flores wrote a great piece recently about it: </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://www.c-sail.org/resources/blog/california-ready-tear-down-barriers-bilingual-education" target="_blank">http://www.c-sail.org/<wbr>resources/blog/california-<wbr>ready-tear-down-barriers-<wbr>bilingual-education</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Lots of opeds and articles lately in the LA Times, SD Union Tribune, and other national outlets (and even international - I saw it in the Economist recently). So important for us to get the word out in as many ways as possible that bilingual education is vital and important!</span></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Oct 20, 2016, at 2:22 PM, Grace Reynolds <<a href="mailto:gr3ck@virginia.edu" target="_blank">gr3ck@virginia.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Likely already on your radar, but Woolard has a great 1989 piece up this general alley:</div><div id="m_3881619858221749570AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_3881619858221749570AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Woolard, Kathryn A. "Sentences in the language prison: The rhetorical structuring of an American language policy debate." <i>American Ethnologist</i>16, no. 2 (1989): 268-278.</span><br><br><br></div><div><br>On Oct 20, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Sarah Benor <<a href="mailto:sbenor.huc@gmail.com" target="_blank">sbenor.huc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Do people who teach in California have any suggestions for teaching</span><br><span>surrounding Proposition 58? This statewide proposition allows for</span><br><span>dual-language immersion programs, reversing Proposition 227 from 1998,</span><br><span>which eliminated most bilingual education in the state. I'm trying to</span><br><span>decide how to deal with this in my class "Language, Race, and Identity</span><br><span>in the United States Today" at USC. I'm considering either an in-class</span><br><span>debate or a service learning project where students would write op-eds</span><br><span>about it.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Here's more info about the proposition:</span><br><span><a href="http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/58/" target="_blank">http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/<wbr>en/propositions/58/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Thanks,</span><br><span>Sarah Bunin Benor</span><br><span>Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies</span><br><span>Hebrew Union College</span><br><span>University of Southern California</span><br><span>______________________________<wbr>_________________</span><br><span>Linganth mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Linganth@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">Linganth@listserv.<wbr>linguistlist.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/linganth" target="_blank">http://listserv.linguistlist.<wbr>org/mailman/listinfo/linganth</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>______________________________<wbr>_________________</span><br><span>Linganth mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Linganth@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">Linganth@listserv.<wbr>linguistlist.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/linganth" target="_blank">http://listserv.linguistlist.<wbr>org/mailman/listinfo/linganth</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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