Since the end of the last century, more than 10% of students in Catalonia's schools are immigrants, mostly concentrated in areas of Catalonia where the population speaks Castilian in everyday life. Although these newcomers are educated in Catalan, the majority use diverse varieties of Spanish as their language of everyday communication. In the case of students from Latin America, it is possible to observe the emergence of a new repertoire that shares traits of different varieties of Spanish spoken in South America. This article focuses on the hybrid features of this repertoire, its transmission among peers, and also on the way teachers categorize and value it. The research results reveal that students develop multilingual abilities to fulfill practical goals. The data also show that varieties of vernacular Catalan and Spanish are articulated with a new Latino language repertoire in a complex set of resources in which linguistic forms of various origins are mixed. The uses of this hybrid repertoire can be related to key issues such as the speaker's stance regarding school, but also to symbolic aspects of broader processes, such as the re-territorialization of languages and people and the emergence of new processes of identity construction in a multilingual and cosmopolitan city.
Interactionists interested in second language acquisition postulate that learners’ competences are sensitive to the context in which they are put into play. Here we explore the language practices displayed, in a bilingual socio-educational milieu, by three dyads of English learners while carrying out oral communicative pair-work. In particular, we examine the role language choice plays in each task. A first analysis of our data indicates that the learners’ language choices seem to reveal the linguistic norms operating in the community of practice they belong to. A second analysis reveals that they exploited their linguistic repertoires according to their interpretation of the task and to their willingness to complete it in English. Thus, in the first two tasks students relied on code-switching as a mechanism to solve communication failures, whereas the third task generated the use of a mixed repertoire as a means to complete the task in the target language.
Resumen: El presente trabajo muestra los primeros resultados de una investigación sociolingüística en curso sobre la de educación intercultural bilingüe (EIB) en Argentina. El interés final de este trabajo es identificar algunos elementos que permitan dar cuenta del rol de las lenguas en los procesos sociales que involucran a la población indígena, poniendo en evidencia las formas en que los usos lingüísticos participan en la lucha por recursos materiales así como las representaciones sociales e ideologías lingüísticas que participan en la distribución desigual de dichos recursos entre grupos y al mantenimiento de desigualdades sociales. Para ello, se analiza el caso de una población -que llamamos El Algarrobo -en donde se forman docentes indígenas, los cuales son incorporados paulatinamente en las escuelas de la zona. En esta incorporación las instituciones educativas definen los roles de los docentes indígenas, así como el lugar de las lenguas en las mismas. Según muestra este trabajo, esta gestión de las lenguas está ligada a procesos de lucha social en los cuales las lenguas tienen un rol clave. La concepción del bilingüismo, las evaluaciones sobre las competencias lingüísticas de estudiantes y docentes indígenas, y las prácticas lingüísticas en las aulas ponen en evidencia la distancia entre los significados que circulan en los discursos oficiales sobre la EIB en Argentina y el sentido que obtienen éstos en las prácticas concretas en las aulas. Palabras clave: Educación Intercultural Bilíngüe. Sociolingüística. Multilingüismo.Resumo: O presente trabalho expõe os primeiros resultados de uma pesquisa sociolinguística a respeito da Educação Intercultural bilíngue (EIB) na Argentina. O interesse final deste trabalho é identificar alguns elementos que permitem compreender DOI: 10.5212/PraxEduc.v.7iEspecial.0002 ** Doctora en Filología. Universidad de Buenos Aires -CONICET. E-mail:
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