Brokering Tareas: Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies
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Brokering Tareas: Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies
Abstract/Description
Provides concrete examples of homework mentorship and positive academic interventions among immigrant families. 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.
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SUNY Press
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Research/Scholarly Media
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Published Text
Scholarship genre
Textbook
Open access/full-text available
No
Peer reviewed
No
ISBN
978-1-4384-6719-1
Num pages
214
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