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Humanities

Elementary school teachers in multilingual classrooms sometimes discourage non-English parents from speaking their heritage language to their children at home or in the community.They also discourage parents from helping their children with homework in the heritage language, insisting instead that such help, if given, be given in English.What is the teachers’ motivation in doing so? What kind of language ideology do you think underlies this motivation? What might be the consequences of this ideological stance for both the children and their families? Call on the information in both Van Herk and Wiley & Lukes (1996) to support your position.