{"title":"“We teach in English here”: Conflict between language ideology and test accountability in an English-only newcomer school","authors":"Rolf Straubhaar","doi":"10.5070/b810142318","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Straubhaar, Rolf | Abstract: Drawing from a six-month ethnography of tenth grade immigrant students from Mexico and their teachers in a Central Texas English immersion program, this article documents multiple contradictory teacher practices regarding the use of English and Spanish in the classroom. This article argues that these varying practices represented a tension between Literacy High’s official English-only policy and a contradictory political ideology prioritizing performance on standardized tests that led to tolerance of Spanish language use.","PeriodicalId":42751,"journal":{"name":"Berkeley Review of Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Berkeley Review of Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5070/b810142318","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Author(s): Straubhaar, Rolf | Abstract: Drawing from a six-month ethnography of tenth grade immigrant students from Mexico and their teachers in a Central Texas English immersion program, this article documents multiple contradictory teacher practices regarding the use of English and Spanish in the classroom. This article argues that these varying practices represented a tension between Literacy High’s official English-only policy and a contradictory political ideology prioritizing performance on standardized tests that led to tolerance of Spanish language use.