The indigenous, national, and international language in higher education: students’ academic trajectories in Oaxaca, Mexico  

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O’Donnell, Jennifer Lee

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 3 (2010), page 386-416.
Topik: multilingualism; language and education in multilingual settings; language and identity; language shift/loss; English as a Lingua Franca/ international language
Fulltext: O'Donnell_Jennifer_Lee.pdf (309.94KB)

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Studies regarding multilingualism have shown that literacy in two languages facilitates the acquisition of a third. This paper compares the progress of Mexican bilingual indigenous language/Spanish-proficient students to Mexican monolingual Spanish-proficient students in their university level English classes. Two major research strategies are presented: (1) qualitative analysis based on a student questionnaire, and (2) inferential quantitative analysis of bilingual and monolingual students’ grade averages in academic and language classes. Results show that bilingualism in an indigenous language positively affects the acquisition of English language skills. These results suggest that through language maintenance and development, indigenous communities in Mexico may be able to benefit from globalization, or at least withstand its negative effects.

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