Ovando & Combs - Ch. 10 - Students - Vocab

Question 1

Bilingual Community

Answer 1

defined in terms of parents, guardians, and extended families of minority children attending a specific school. The concept has been extended to encompass bilingual educators, university researchers, neighbors and community organizations and businesses that are connected to the local school. This cooperation that many different community resources, include professional educators and lay persons, that the best programs for language minority students can be developed.

Question 2

Biliteracy

Answer 2

This refers to a person’s ability to read and write in two languages. The concept has taken a sociopolitical dimension, especially as reflected in the work of Paulo Freire, who links literacy with issues of social justice and empowerment.

Question 3

Cultural capital

Answer 3

the accumulation of knowledge, behaviors and skills that one can tap into to demonstrate one’s culture competence, and thus one’s social status standing society.

Question 4

Diglossia

Answer 4

t refers a relatively stable arrangement of two languages existing together in a s society, namely primary dialects of the language (which may include a standard or regional standard) coexisting with a divergent and often grammatically more complex variety that serves as the vehicle of a respected body of written literature. used to describe a situation in which two languages or language varieties are used within the same community, but within separate circumstances or contexts.

Question 5

Funds of Knowledge

Answer 5

to refer to the historically accumulated and culturally developed bodies of knowledge and skills essential for household or individual functioning and well-being”. creates a richer and more highly-scaffolded learning experience for students.