Tongue-tied : the lives of multilingual children in public education / edited by Otto Santa Ana.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Santa Ana, Otto, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of minorities--Education--United States.

Children of minorities.

Children of minorities--Education.

Bilingualism in children.

Linguistic minorities.

United States.

Linguistic minorities--United States.

Bilingualism in children--United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 311 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2004]

Summary:

Tongue Tied is an anthology that gives voice to millions of people who, on a daily basis, are denied the opportunity to speak in their own language. First-person accounts by Amy Tan, Sherman Alexie, bell hooks. Richard Rodriguez, Maxine Hong Kingston, and many other authors open windows into the lives of linguistic minority students and their experience in coping in school and beyond. Selections from these writers are presented along with accessible, abridged scholarly articles that assess the impact of language policies on the experiences and life opportunities of minority-language students. Vivid and unforgettable, the readings in Tongue-Tied are ideal for teaching and learning about American education and for spurring informed debate about the many factors that affect students and their lives.

Contents:

Introduction: The Unspoken Issue That Silences Americans / Otto Santa Ana 1

Part I The Child's Struggle against Silencing

"Cut into Me" / Carole Yazzie-Shaw 11

"The Girl Who Wouldn't Sing" / Kit Yuen Quan 13

"Prospectus" / Joe Nieto 22

"Learning Silence" / Maria Mazziotti Gillan 23

from Always Running / Luis Rodriguez 25

from Lost in Translation / Eva Hoffman 27

"Name Giveaway" / Phil George 31

"Masks and Acculturation" / Margaret Montoya 32

"Aria" / Richard Rodriguez 34

"Language and Consciousness" / Simon Ortiz 40

"Back in Those Days" / Carole Yazzie-Shaw 48

"Indian Boy Love Song (#2)" / Sherman Alexie 55

"Wasicuia ya he? Do you speak English?" / Delphine Red Shirt 56

"Off Reservation Blues" / Paula Gunn Allen 64

"Que dice? Que dice? Child Translators and the Power of Language" / Antonia Castaneda 66

"No Questions Asked" / Armand Garnet Ruffo 70

"Me Talk Pretty One Day" / David Sedaris 71

"The Silence of Polyglots" / Julia Kristeva 75

from "voz en una carcel" / Juanita M. Sanchez 77

from The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston 78

Part II The History of Silencing Children

Chronology of Events, Court Decisions, and Legislation Affecting Language Minority Children in American Public Education 87

Part III The Potential and Vulnerability of Multilingual Children

"The Failure to Educate Immigrant Children" / Guadalupe Valdes 111

from 36 Children / Herbert Kohl 118

"Today's Deficit Thinking about the Education of Minority Students" / Richard Valencia, Daniel Solorzano 124

"Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence" / William Labov 134

"Beginning Where the Children Are" / Luis Moll, Norma Gonzalez 152

excerpt from "Translating Translation: Finding the Beginning" / Alberto Alvaro Rios 157

Part IV Mother Tongue

"Elena" / Pat Mora 165

from Healing Earthquakes / Jimmy Santiago Baca 166

"Mother Tongue" / Amy Tan 169

"Lakota Words" / Delphine Red Shirt 174

"Immigrants" / Pat Mora 178

"My Hawai'i" / Nana Veary 179

"Chief Wachuseh" / Jose Antonio Burciaga 184

"Translation" / Rhina Espaillat 186

"Bilingual Cognates" / Jose Antonio Burciaga 187

"Learning to Trust the Language I Thought I'd Left Behind" / Michael Awkward 190

Part V Excellence and Neglect in the Schooling of Multilingual Children

"Principles of Successful Schools for Multilingual Children" / Daniel Solorzano, Ronald Solorzano 197

"The Best Multilingual Schools" / Tamara Lucas, Rosemary Henze, Ruben Donato 201

"The Four Spokes of the Second Language Learning Wheel" / Catherine Snow 214

"Teaching Multilingual Children" / Virginia Collier 222

"Suite for Ebony and Phonics: Reflections on African American English" / John Rickford 236

"What Should Teachers Do about Ebonics?" / Lisa Delpit 242

Part VI Rage, Regret, and Resistance

"I Want to Write an American Poem II" / Benjamin Alire Saenz 253

"Teaching New Worlds/New Words" / bell hooks 255

"Desmet, Idaho, March 1969" / Janet Campbell Hale 261

"Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers" / Gloria Anzaldua 262

"Two Languages in Mind, but Just One in the Heart" / Louise Erdrich 264

"Mi Problema" / Michele M. Serros 268

"Linguistic Terrorism" / Gloria Anzaldua 270

"I Recognize You" / Rosario Morales 272

"The New World" / Eva Hoffman 273

"I Want to Write an American Poem III" / Benjamin Alire Saenz 281

"Speaking Spanglish" / Abby Figueroa 284

"English con Salsa" / Gina Valdes 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293) and index.

ISBN:

0742523829

0742523837

OCLC:

53231760