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Peter Sayer

Researcher at Ohio State University

Publications -  43
Citations -  1154

Peter Sayer is an academic researcher from Ohio State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Language education & Translanguaging. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 43 publications receiving 980 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Sayer include University of Texas at San Antonio & Arizona State University.

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Translanguaging, TexMex, and Bilingual Pedagogy: Emergent Bilinguals Learning Through the Vernacular

TL;DR: Garcia et al. as discussed by the authors present an ethnographic study of how bilingual teachers and children use their home language, TexMex, to mediate academic content and standard languages in a second-grade classroom in a transitional bilingual education program in a well-established Mexican American community in San Antonio, Texas.
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Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities

TL;DR: Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities as discussed by the authors, by Ana Celia Zentella (editor), New York: Teachers College Press, and Covina, CA: California Association of Bilingual Education, 2005, 213 pages, US$2395 (paper)
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Using the linguistic landscape as a pedagogical resource

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a small-scale research project undertaken in a local EFL community in Mexico using public signs to analyse the social meanings of English and identify six social meanings represented on the signs and uses photographs to illustrate each meaning.
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Reading through linguistic borderlands: Latino students’ transactions with narrative texts

TL;DR: This article examined the role of language in children's reading comprehension of narrative texts in Spanish and English in a school context and found that for young bilingual and bicultural students, their languages themselves exist on a continuum.
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Demystifying Language Mixing: Spanglish in School

TL;DR: This paper studied the use of Spanglish among young bilingual students doing an in-school reading activity and considered the ways that students' use of English, Spanish, and spanglish might inform how educators see language use in the classroom.