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Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy

Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border, Expanded Edition

Author: Tomás Mario Kalmar  

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In this new expanded edition of Tomás Mario Kalmar’s landmark Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy, commentaries from six distinguished scholars—Peter Elbow, Ofelia García, James Paul Gee, Hervé Varenne, Luis Vázquez León, Karen Velasquez— bring to it their own personal, professional, and (multi)disciplinary viewpoints.

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In this new expanded edition of Tomás Mario Kalmar’s landmark Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy, commentaries from six distinguished scholars—Peter Elbow, Ofelia García, James Paul Gee, Hervé Varenne, Luis Vázquez León, Karen Velasquez— bring to it their own personal, professional, and (multi)disciplinary viewpoints.

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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 actually use in order to cope with English in the real world seem to have little in common with those used in publicly funded bilingual and ESL classrooms.

What’s new in this expanded edition of Tomás Mario Kalmar’s landmark Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy are in-depth commentaries from six distinguished scholars—Peter Elbow, Ofelia García, James Paul Gee, Hervé Varenne, Luis Vázquez León, Karen Velasquez—who bring to it their own personal, professional, and (multi)disciplinary viewpoints.

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About the Author

Tomás Mario Kalmar organized Paulo Freire’s visit to Sydney in 1974 and served as his interpreter. He has helped to launch a wide variety of innovative educational projects for children and adults, ranging from Su Casa Migrant Head Start in southern Illinois to California State University Monterey Bay. Currently he is Co-Director, Community Learning Center, International Sonoran Desert Alliance, USA.

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd | Routledge
Published
5th March 2015
Edition
2nd
Pages
176
ISBN
9781138804296

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