"In the middle": Language Attitudes and Identity among Bilingual Hispanic-American College Students
Abstract
The current project was born out of response to the current dearth of research regarding language experiences and linguistic identity within the heritage language camp. It seeks to investigate what current college students born to Hispanic immigrants have experienced growing up bilingual in the United States. From there, the project examines what attitudes towards and what opinions about both the English and Spanish languages the subjects now have as adults. Finally, what ethnic, cultural, and linguistic identity issues these subjects grapple with will be explored. While the more immediate goals of the project are to help give a voice to this marginalized population and to help instructors of Spanish for Spanish Speakers courses better understand what linguistic/identity issues their students are bringing to the classroom, the broader objectives are to offer a view of what members of the various immigrant language communities in the U.S. are experiencing; and to further the discussion of how bilingual programs in the elementary/secondary/university settings should be designed.
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