Words Were All We Had Becoming Biliterate Against The Odds
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780807751817
Description: This collection examines the personal narratives of a select group of educators who attained biliteracy at a young age, and in the era before bilingual education. Their autobiographical accounts celebrate and make visible a linguistic potential that has been largely ignored in schools and underscores the emotional ties that Latinos have to Spanish.--[book cover]