Hi Hector!
I really liked the connections and questions you raised between the Cummins and Flores reading. I think it really made me think about how the Cummins is missing such an important perspective on how home languages practice are perceived and how much this affect teacher-student relations. More specifically, when it comes to improving academic proficiency often teachers would implement linguistic practices that disregards the student's language identities and their language context for the sake of increasing CALP fluency which ends up harming the most vulnerable groups in school setting such as the migrant community. I also really agree with your point on how the CALP rebuttal emphasizes how it fails to considerate the student's home languages and how this ideology keep perpetuating non-English languages as non academic. I think it even more dangerous to see this here at Swat and society as English becomes the main base languages of knowledge and research which can disregard intersectionality perspectives completely.
I really liked the connections and questions you raised between the Cummins and Flores reading. I think it really made me think about how the Cummins is missing such an important perspective on how home languages practice are perceived and how much this affect teacher-student relations. More specifically, when it comes to improving academic proficiency often teachers would implement linguistic practices that disregards the student's language identities and their language context for the sake of increasing CALP fluency which ends up harming the most vulnerable groups in school setting such as the migrant community. I also really agree with your point on how the CALP rebuttal emphasizes how it fails to considerate the student's home languages and how this ideology keep perpetuating non-English languages as non academic. I think it even more dangerous to see this here at Swat and society as English becomes the main base languages of knowledge and research which can disregard intersectionality perspectives completely.