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Words Were All We Had: Becoming Biliterate Against the Odds

Words Were All We Had: Becoming Biliterate Against the Odds

Reyes, Maria de La Luz

Hardcover

Series: Language and Literacy

Bilingual EducationGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0807751812
ISBN13: 9780807751817
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: Apr 8 2011
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This engaging collection examines the personal narratives of a select group of well-respected educators who attained biliteracy at a young age in the era before bilingual education. Their autobiographical accounts celebrate and make visible a linguistic potential that has been largely ignored in schools and underscores the inextricable and emotional ties that Latinos have to Spanish. Teachers can glean important lessons about the individual potential of their Latino students from the lived experiences of successful Latinos whose life stories dispel the myth that Spanish is an obstacle to learning. These stories of tenacity and resilience offer hope for a new generation of bilingual learners who are too often forced to choose between English and their native language.

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