Nguyen Dao

Skagit Valley College · English Language Acquisition

The research focuses on the transnational literacy and language practices of a Vietnamese immigrant family in Midwestern United States. Drawing upon multiple bodies of contemporary research and conceptual frameworks, this investigation intends to go beyond transnational movements to indicate the complex nature of bi-literate, bilingual and bi-cultu...

Employing ethnography and the theoretical paradigm of language ideology (Silverstein, M. 1979. “Language structure and linguistic ideology.” In The Elements: A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels, edited by P. Clyne, W. Hanks, and H. Carol, 193–247. Chicago Linguistic Society), this article examines how ideologies of language inform language...

Under the theoretical underpinnings of language socialization and continua of biliteracy, this ethnographic case study documents how cultural performing arts, as part of extracurricular activities, promote bicultural identity and biliteracy development among Vietnamese American children. The study was set in two transnational contexts: a community-...

This paper provides a brief overview of sociocultural approaches toward English teaching and learning for migrant adult learners. It considers Washington State's vision for its Adult Basic Education programs and recent practice-oriented research in the field. The shared approaches include transparency in content and language objectives, translangua...

Urged by the overarching problem of the language shift phenomena (Wong-Fillmore, 1991, 2000) and the lack of research among groups of less commonly taught languages, this ethnographic case study documents how the stakeholders from two Vietnamese language programs engaged in language and cultural socialization practices with respect to curricular de...

In recent years, translanguaging has emerged as both a theoretical and pedagogical concept through which to examine how multilingual speakers learn by leveraging their full set of linguistic resources (Vogel S, García O, Translanguaging. Publications and Research. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/402, 2017). With a translanguaging lens, resea...

Under the language socialization paradigm, the research reported here focuses on documenting communication and language socialization patterns, mediated through a point-of-sale (POS) system, among the migrant staff working in a Vietnamese restaurant in South Texas, USA. The study employed an ethnographic approach that drew upon analyses of observat...