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Language Policy in Puerto Rico's Higher Education: Opening the Door for Translanguaging Practices
Author(s) -
Carroll Kevin S.,
Mazak Catherine M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12180
Subject(s) - translanguaging , sociology , typology , neuroscience of multilingualism , ethnography , openness to experience , ideology , bilingual education , language policy , pedagogy , multilingualism , linguistics , psychology , political science , anthropology , social psychology , politics , philosophy , law
This paper investigates the relationship between meso university language policies in Puerto Rico and their micro instantiations in an undergraduate psychology classroom. We describe a typology of language policies used by 38 universities and campuses in Puerto Rico where their openness allows for flexible implementation of everyday micro policy. We then focus our attention on a linguistic ethnography of a psychology course where translanguaging practices reify and disrupt accepted classroom language ideologies in Puerto Rico. [translanguaging, language policy, higher education, bilingualism, Puerto Rico]