Publications

Publication details [#53664]

Velasco, Patricia. 2010. Indigenous students in bilingual Spanish–English classrooms in New York: a teacher's mediation strategies. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2010 (206) : 255–271.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | classroom conversation | mediation | student | teacher

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This analysis of a teacher's mediation in a bilingual (Spanish–English) New-York kindergarten class interaction with two indigenous Mexican-Mixteco students, illuminates the crucial role of teacher–student interactions in the acquisition and comprehension of academic language.