"When a child who has grown up speaking Spanish comes to school, that student is going to be sitting in English-only classrooms, being mainstreamed into the English language and culture.

How does this English-all-the-time approach affect those students?

That question hit home for linguist Teresa Satterfield, an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan. She’s the founder of a program called En Nuestra Lengua, a Saturday Spanish school in Ann Arbor."

By STATESIDE STAFF • NOV 16, 2017

Featured Photo: Students Caitlin Dick Ruiz and Ángel Zulueta Benkí with linguist Teresa Satterfield.

CREDIT STATESIDE STAFF / MICHIGAN RADIO

 

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