Angélica: A Spanish/English Dual Language Graduate

Abstract

Through Angelica’s testimonio, readers will take a journey with her through her elementary dual language bilingual program into her English-dominant high school. Her experiences with literacy and language show how the terms literacies and languaging provide a more accurate and multidimensional view of this former English learner’s full skill-set. Specifically, as a teenager in the U.S. and proud self-described Mexican, her resistance to a deficit, reified view of her languages and cultures illustrate how literacy research can become instigators of social justice in our society. In this chapter, we highlight how Angelica engages in resistance literacies through advocacy languageing, how critical, multilingual family literacies may develop race languaging, as well as how language brokering may become part of her cosmopolitan literacies.