Brokering tareas : Mexican immigrant families translanguaging homework literacies / Steven Alvarez.

Author
Alvarez, Steven, 1979- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xxix, 182 pages ; 24 cm

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    Brokering Tareas examines a grassroots literacy mentoring program that connected immigrant parents with English language mentors who helped emerging bilingual children with homework and encouraged positive academic attitudes. Steven Alvarez gives an ethnographic account of literacies practices, language brokering, advocacy, community-building, and mentorship among Mexican-origin families at a neighborhood afterschool program in New York City. Alvarez argues that engaging literacy mentorship across languages can increase parental involvement and community engagement among immigrant families, and he offers teachers and researchers possibilities for rethinking their own practices with the communities of their bilingual students. -- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index.
    Contents
    • Mexican New York City : making community at MANOS
    • Translanguaging events : homework literacies at MANOS
    • Translanguaging in practice : homework, linguistic power, and family life
    • Brokering the immigrant bargain : negotiating language, power, and identity in Mexican immigrant families
    • Brokering community : community superación and local literacy investment
    • Tareas, community, and brokering care : mentoring local languages and literacies.
    ISBN
    • 9781438467191 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 1438467192 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016055587
    OCLC
    987678757
    Other standard number
    • 99974913420
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