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Fuller, J. & J. Torres (2018) Spanish in the United States. In Seals, C. & S. Shah, eds. Heritage Language Policies around the World: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics. New York: Routledge.
http://208.254.74.112/books/details/9781138193321/
En Nuestra Lengua: Spanish school teaches language, creates community
By Nardy Baeza Bickel
December 20, 2017, Michigan News at the University of Michigan
"Ojos aquí," calls teacher Patricia Valdivieso, a command that translates to "eyes on me." At this, 19 second graders in a Michigan elementary school slowly quiet down. "Does anyone know in what country people celebrate Three Kings' Day?" she asks, still in Spanish as hands shoot up as the anxious answers come.
Interview on Michigan Public Radio, Stateside with Cynthia Canty, November 2017
When a child who has grown up speaking Spanish comes to school, that student is going to be sitting in English-only classrooms, being mainstreamed into the English language and culture.
Potowski, K. (2017) Spanish Language and Education in the Midwest. In Valerio-Jiménez, O., Vaquera-Vásquez, S. & C. Fox, eds. The Latina/o Midwest Reader. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/66dbq7ys9780252041211.html
In Our Language
By Brian Short
University of Michigan, LSA Magazine, fall 2017:
Since 2010, the En Nuestra Lengua program has offered Saturday classes for bilingual children in Ann Arbor.
Read more: https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/news-events/all-news/search-news/in-our-language.html
LSA faculty helps bilingual kids in Southeast Michigan excel in school, connect to community
By Rachel Reed
Summer 2017, Michigan Impact Magazine
Every Saturday morning during the school year, 150 young students form all over southeast Michigan, along with their parents, head to Bach Elementary School, settling in for a day of laughter and learning in Spanish--the language their families speak at home.
En Nuestra Lengua
By April Caldwell
January 2013, in the RLL Newsletter
Nationally recognized En Nuestra Lengua (ENL) started in 2010 to create solutions that successfully combat the Latino education achievement gap.
En Nuestra Lengua: Literacy and Culture Project
By the Center for Applied Linguistics
November 2012, in the Alliance News Flash
This program, a collaboration between the University of Michigan, the Ann Arbor Public School District, and members of the Latino community in Ann Arbor, seeks to develop academic language proficiency of Spanish-speaking children.
En Nuestra Lengua: Helping children to become truly bilingual
By Eve Silberman
June 2012, in the Ann Arbor Observer
At Bach School on a recent Saturday, a teacher reads a Spanish-language picture book on grocery shopping to a group of five-year-olds. When she asks where their parents buy food, the kids shout "Meijer's!" and "Trader Joe's!"
ISR in the community: En Nuestra Lengua
By Susan Rosegrant
April 18 2012, in the ISR Sampler
José Benkí and Teresa Satterfield speak Spanish at home with their two boys. They read books in Spanish, fix dinner in Spanish, and play games in Spanish. But when Angel goes to preschool, and Felix goes to second grade, their work and play are in English.
