The Movement Against Teaching English in Schools of Puerto Rico

• Author(s): Edith Algren de Gutiérrez,
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Pages: 165
• ISBN_10: 0819160873
  ISBN_13: 9780819160874
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / General , Education / Reference , Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language , Language Arts & Disciplines / General ,

Description:... Presents a rhetorical analysis of the role that the movement against the use of English as the means of instruction in Puerto Rican public schools has played within the Island's broader movement toward political autonomy. Motivated by political reasons, Puerto Rican Leaders used the issue of language to advance the cause of autonomy between 1898 and 1949. Language has continued to be an issue in Puerto Rico since 1949. Of interest to teachers and students of bilingual education, sociolinguistics and rhetoric, and ducational policymaking.