Multilingual realities, monolingual ideologies: Social media representations of Spanish as a heritage language in the United States

Kircher, Ruth; Kutlu, Ethan

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“…In contrast, in the United States, cultural factors led to the stigmatization of Spanish Kircher and Kutlu, 2022), and as a result, immersion programs are rare and there are regional and racial disparities in access to general education in Spanish (Rosa, 2016). Children in the United States mostly do not receive any support in Spanish beyond the foreign language classroom, and for those who do, it is not sustainable at the national level.…”

Section: Categorical Perception In the Context Of Heritage Bilingualismmentioning

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The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

2024

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Section: Categorical Perception In the Context Of Heritage Bilingualismmentioning

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The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

2024

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“…In contrast, in the United States, cultural factors led to the stigmatization of Spanish ( Kutlu and Kircher, 2021 ; Kircher and Kutlu, 2022 ), and as a result, immersion programs are rare and there are regional and racial disparities in access to general education in Spanish ( Rosa, 2016 ). Children in the United States mostly do not receive any support in Spanish beyond the foreign language classroom, and for those who do, it is not sustainable at the national level.…”

Section: Categorical Perception In the Context Of Heritage Bilingualismmentioning

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Moving away from deficiency models: Gradiency in bilingual speech categorization

2022

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For much of its history, categorical perception was treated as a foundational theory of speech perception, which suggested that quasi-discrete categorization was a goal of speech perception. This had a profound impact on bilingualism research which adopted similar tasks to use as measures of nativeness or native-like processing, implicitly assuming that any deviation from discreteness was a deficit. This is particularly problematic for listeners like heritage speakers whose language proficiency, both in their heritage language and their majority language, is questioned. However, we now know that in the monolingual listener, speech perception is gradient and listeners use this gradiency to adjust subphonetic details, recover from ambiguity, and aid learning and adaptation. This calls for new theoretical and methodological approaches to bilingualism. We present the Visual Analogue Scaling task which avoids the discrete and binary assumptions of categorical perception and can capture gradiency more precisely than other measures. Our goal is to provide bilingualism researchers new conceptual and empirical tools that can help examine speech categorization in different bilingual communities without the necessity of forcing their speech categorization into discrete units and without assuming a deficit model.

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“…Negative attitudes toward particular languages are often linked to discriminatory attitudes toward people. Such discriminatory attitudes are unfortunately widespread (e.g., Australia: Piller, 2016; Europe: OECD, 2014; the US: Kircher & Kutlu, 2022). Negative language attitudes create and perpetuate social inequality (Piller, 2016).…”

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The danger of bilingual–monolingual comparisons in applied psycholinguistic research

Houwer¹

2022

Applied Psycholinguistics

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The pervasive monolingual bias present within many societies threatens the well-being of bilingual children and their families. Unfortunately, such bias is present in much psycholinguistic research as well. Bilingual–monolingual comparisons with methodological approaches upholding monolingual norms are not equitable to bilinguals. We do not need such comparisons to learn more about bilingual use and processing. Instead, psycholinguistic research investigating the impact of different kinds of environments for language learning, use, and processing within bilingual populations can be transformative. Applied psycholinguistic research with an increased focus on investigating all the languages bilingual children and their families need for day-to-day communication, and on the factors supporting their learning and use, can help inform educators, policy makers, and language and speech professionals. This will hopefully contribute to the well-being of the people we study.

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Multilingual realities, monolingual ideologies: Social media representations of Spanish as a heritage language in the United States

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

Moving away from deficiency models: Gradiency in bilingual speech categorization

The danger of bilingual–monolingual comparisons in applied psycholinguistic research

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