Tomás Mario Kalmar
Gebundenes Buch

Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy

Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border, Expanded Edition

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How do "illegal aliens" chart the speech sounds of colloquial English? This book is timeless in offering an unusually direct entry into how a group of Mexican fruit pickers analyze their first encounter with local American speech in a tiny rural Midwestern community in the United States. Readers see close up how intelligently migrant workers help each other use what they already know-the alphabetic principle of one letter, one sound-to teach each other, from scratch, at the very first contact, a language which none of them can speak. They see how and why the strategies adult immigrants actuall...