Rachel Elizabeth Showstack
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rachel Elizabeth Showstack is involved.
Articles
2012 Symbolic power in the heritage language classroom: How Spanish heritage speakers sustain and resist hegemonic discourses on language and cultural diversity Spanish in Context 9:1, pp. 1–26 | Article
This study examined classroom discourse in two Spanish language courses for Spanish-English bilingual students at a large university in central Texas, in order to investigate the ways that participants used language to construct their linguistic and cultural identities. The study found that… read more
2012 Chapter 7. Co-construction of identity in the Spanish heritage language classroom Spaces of Polyphony, Lorda, Clara Ubaldina and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (eds.), pp. 101–114 | Chapter
This study examined classroom discourse in two Spanish language courses for Spanish-English bilingual students in Texas in order to investigate how students and instructors co-constructed students’ linguistic and cultural identities within different social practices in the classroom. Taking a view… read more