Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy: Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border, Expanded Edition

by Tomas Mario Kalmar

How do "illegal aliens" chart the speech sounds of colloquial English? This book is timeless in offering an unusually direct entry into how a group of Mexican fruit pickers analyze their first encounter with local American speech in a tiny rural Midwestern community in the United States. Readers see close up how intelligently migrant workers help each other use what they already know-the alphabetic principle of one letter, one sound-to teach each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138804274
• ISBN13: 9781138804272
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"