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What is Linguistic Capital

Chapter 10
Handbook of Research on Race, Culture, and Student Achievement
An individual’s ability to leverage their language(s) pragmatics and power dynamics relevant to time, place, and manner based on the social and/or academic setting.
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Instructional Framework for Integrating Cross-Cultural Content Using Culturally Responsive and Linguistically Affirming Pedagogies
J. Joy Esquierdo (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA) and Maritza De La Trinidad (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5705-4.ch010
Abstract
This chapter describes an instructional framework for culturally relevant and affirming teaching and curricula that addresses effective ways to interconnect cross-cultural content to expand cultural and content literacy in K-12. The Culturally and Linguistically Affirming Pedagogies for Local Context (CLAP-LC) Framework was developed to create culturally and linguistically affirming content, promote equitable education, and nurture student engagement. The framework centers on the intersection of cultural knowledge and lived experiences of students, families, and communities in content and curriculum to promote student achievement, especially students from minoritized and marginalized groups.
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Chapter 8
Changing Gears in the Assessment Cycle: Preparing for Gradual yet Substantial Shifts
More than traditional language proficiency (knowledge, skill, fluency), linguistic capital envelops an individual’s leveraging of pragmatics and power dynamics pertinent to time, place, and manner-- often in relation to the dominant social group.
Published in Chapter: Changing Gears in the Assessment Cycle: Preparing for Gradual yet Substantial Shifts; From: Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Assessing Inclusive Teaching and Learning
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Family-Teacher Relationships: To What Extent Do Cultural and Linguistic Capital Matter?
This is used to mean the various language resources that an individual has access to. It predetermines one’s standing in society and is negotiated through social power relations. Thus, these resources play a critical role in power dynamics at, among others, individual, familial, and institutional levels.
Published in Chapter: Family-Teacher Relationships: To What Extent Do Cultural and Linguistic Capital Matter?; From: Bridging Family-Teacher Relationships for ELL and Immigrant Students
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Leveraging Learner Experience: Pedagogical Scaffolding With Refugee-Background Adults
A strength or asset associated with a multilingual identity that an individual can leverage through communication for various social, cultural, educational, and political purposes.
Published in Chapter: Leveraging Learner Experience: Pedagogical Scaffolding With Refugee-Background Adults; From: Handbook of Research on Cultivating Literacy in Diverse and Multilingual Classrooms
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Chapter 10
An Assets-Oriented, Formative Oral Language Assessment for Multilingual Students: The Oral Language Record
The concept of valuing the different languages and registers (including non-standard syntax and lexicon) students bring to school and viewing students’ home language(s) through an assets-orientation. Yosso (2005) AU44: The citation "Yosso (2005)" matches multiple references. Please add letters (e.g. "Smith 2000a"), or additional authors to the citation, to uniquely match references and citations. developed the concept.
Published in Chapter: An Assets-Oriented, Formative Oral Language Assessment for Multilingual Students: The Oral Language Record; From: Handbook of Research on Assessment Practices and Pedagogical Models for Immigrant Students
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Chapter 7
Equitable Design and Assessment: Exploring Multilingual Perspectives and Bakhtin's Dialogism in English Writing Pedagogy
Linguistic capital is a way of being through experience and language which influences one’s actions and understanding. Some languages are considered more valuable, thus an increased linguistic capital.
Published in Chapter: Equitable Design and Assessment: Exploring Multilingual Perspectives and Bakhtin's Dialogism in English Writing Pedagogy; From: Handbook of Research on Policies and Practices for Assessing Inclusive Teaching and Learning
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