NDLI: The effect of Arizona language policies on Arizona Indigenous students

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Combs, Mary Carol Nicholas, Sheilah E.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	This article discusses the effect of Arizona’s language policies on school districts serving Native American students. Although these policies were designed to restrict the access of Spanish-speaking immigrant and citizen students to bilingual education programs, their reach has extended into schools and school districts serving Native Americans. Arizona’s coercive and contradictory language and education policies for English language learners thus provide an instructive example of the phenomenon of unintended consequences. Nonetheless, that such policies may be unintentional make them no less egregious. The authors argue that Arizona’s language policies, together with the difficult reporting mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, have compromised tribal efforts to revitalize endangered Indigenous languages and abrogated their federally recognized, though frequently ignored, rights to self-determination and sovereignty. The article discusses these and other inconsistencies between federal and state-supported policies that both create and foreclose educational opportunities and spaces for Indigenous communities.
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	118
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15684555
Journal	Language Policy
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731863
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-02-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Native American students Indigenous language revitalization Unintended consequences Language policy Sovereignty Political Science Sociolinguistics Language Education Applied Linguistics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Linguistics and Language

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