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Leer y escribir en español: una manera de mantener la L1 de inmigrantes mexicanos en Canadá
Maria Eugenia de Luna Villalón
312-325 (complete pdf)
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Basado en la idea de que las prácticas de lectoescritura son formas culturales de usar el lenguaje escrito (Barton et al. 2000), este trabajo examina las prácticas de lectoescritura en el hogar de cuatro familias mexicanas inmigrantes en el oeste de Canadá usando métodos etnográficos de investigación. Algunos de los resultados son que las prácticas de lectoescritura en el hogar son una manera en que los niños y sus padres pueden permanecer en contacto con su país de origen, con sus redes sociales y con su cultura; asimismo, son una manera de preservar y compartir sus prácticas culturales y la herencia cultural de su país de origen.

Based on the idea that literacy practices are the cultural forms of using written language (Barton et al. 2000), this study examines home-literacy practices of four Mexican immigrant families living in the West of Canada. Data was collected through such ethnographic research methods as interviews, observations, field notes, and photographs. Some findings were that home-literacy practices were used by parents and children to keep in touch with their home country, their social networks, and their culture; furthermore, they are a way to preserve and share their cultural practices and their cultural heritage.



Published in:
Selected Proceedings of the 12th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
edited by Claudia Borgonovo, Manuel Español-Echevarría, and Philippe Prévost

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ISBN 978-1-57473-440-9 library binding
v+325 pages
publication date: 2010
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA

Printed edition: $270.00



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