Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This linguistic paella, a free-form blend of Spanish and English, is popularly known as Spanglish. It is becoming an increasingly common conversational mode in areas with heavy concentrations of Hispanic immigrants, especially California, the Gulf Coast and New York City. The informal acceptance of this hybrid reflects the fact...
Collins' exasperation reflects the feelings of millions of Americans on one side of an inflammatory issue: bilingual education in America's public schools. More than 1.3 million students whose primary language is not English are enrolled in federal, state or local study programs that provide instruction in their native tongues...
Bilingual learning, no longer just an optional classroom service, has become a fundamental issue of public policy. "It's cultural, it's social, it's political," says Robert Calfee, professor of education and psychology at Stanford University. Nationally, by some estimates, 3.6 million school-age youngsters are rated as LEPs...
Meanwhile, dedicated teachers are laboring to lead their LEPs into the mainstream, either with strict bilingual methods or with broad variations on them. In El Paso, public secondary schools are using the High Intensity Language Training program that emphasizes training in English as a second language. Until 1982, many of...
An Anglo's nose and ears, to be sure, might be unable to tell the difference today. But that is likely to change. Already the growth of the U.S. Hispanic population is one of the most startling phenomena in American social history, and if anything it is likely to speed...