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Understanding the Symbolic Idea of the American Dream and Its Relationship with the Category of 'Whiteness' (2005)
Journal Article
Madriaga, M. (2005). Understanding the Symbolic Idea of the American Dream and Its Relationship with the Category of 'Whiteness'. Sociological Research Online, 10(3), 107-119. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.1123

This article examines the impact the category of ‘whiteness’ has on individual interpretations of the American Dream. Via twenty-five life-history interviews, this article presents how US military male Veterans have varying interpretations of the col... Read More about Understanding the Symbolic Idea of the American Dream and Its Relationship with the Category of 'Whiteness'.

Literature in L2 Spanish Classes: An Examination of Focus-on-Cultural Understanding (2005)
Journal Article
Zapata, G. (2005). Literature in L2 Spanish Classes: An Examination of Focus-on-Cultural Understanding. Language Awareness, 14(4), 261-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658410508668841

This paper investigates the development of L2 Spanish students’ cultural awareness through the teaching of literature by the application of the method Focus-on-Cultural Understanding. The paper partially reports on a one-semester study in which 17 in... Read More about Literature in L2 Spanish Classes: An Examination of Focus-on-Cultural Understanding.

Contact and contracting Spanish (2005)
Journal Article
Zapata, G., Sánchezb, L., & Jacqueline Toribio, A. (2005). Contact and contracting Spanish. International Journal of Bilingualism, 9(3-4), 377 - 395. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069050090030501

This investigation is inspired by an interest in the contact/contracting grammars of heritage speakers of Spanish who have experienced prolonged exposure to English in the United States and, in particular, what their linguistic performance reveals of... Read More about Contact and contracting Spanish.

Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa (2005)
Thesis
Swanson, D. M. Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa. (Thesis). University of British Columbia. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14601775

"Voices in the Silence" is a critical exploration of the construction of disadvantage in school mathematics in social context. It provides a reflexive, narrative account of a pedagogic journey towards understanding the pedagogizing of difference in m... Read More about Voices in the Silence: Narratives of disadvantage, social context, and school mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa.