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Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy: Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border, Expanded Edition

Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy: Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border, Expanded Edition

Kalmar, Tomás Mario

Paperback

English as a Second LanguageBilingual EducationGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1138804290
ISBN13: 9781138804296
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 10 2015
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How do illegal aliens chart the speech sounds of colloquial English? This book is timeless in offering an unusually direct entry into how a group of Mexican fruit pickers analyze their first encounter with local American speech in a tiny rural Midwestern community in the United States. Readers see close up how intelligently migrant workers help each other use what they already know--the alphabetic principle of one letter, one sound--to teach each other, from scratch, at the very first contact, a language which none of them can speak. They see 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 in publicly funded bilingual and ESL classrooms.

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