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PROFILE

Ana Celia Zentella, Professor in Ethnic Studies at the University of California at San Diego, received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in Educational Linguistics. She identifies herself as an anthropolitical linguist, and is a central figure in the study of U.S. Latino varieties of Spanish and English, bilingualism, Latino children’s language socialization, “Spanglish,” and “English-only” laws. Her book, Growing Up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York (Blackwell, 1997), won the 1998 Book Prize of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, and the 1999 Book Award of the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists. Zentella’s current research, in collaboration with Ricardo Otheguy (CUNY) and funded by the National Science Foundation, investigates the impact of interdialectal contact and the influence of English on subject pronouns in Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Mexican, and Puerto Rican Spanish in New York City.

Source: http://isb4.asu.edu/keynoters/Zentella.htm

CLIPS

Ana Celia Zentella News Interview on Spanglish.

Source: http://www.uga.edu/lsava/Zentella/Zentella.html

Books

• Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York

• Building on Strengths: Language And Literacy in Latino Families And Communities (Language and Literacy Series