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atricia Baquedano-López is a linguistic anthropologist who studies language socialization and literacy practices as they intersect with ideologies about language use, ethnicity, race, class, and immigrant status. Her research is ethnographic and uses discourse analytic methods to investigate the ways in which language practices influence, promote, or restrict learning across educational contexts. Her research has examined the language socialization and literacy practices of Spanish-speaking immigrant students enrolled in religious instruction in Catholic churches and in public schools. She has also examined the strategies of linguistic and interactional adaptation of teachers and students in 3rd and 4th grade science inquiry activities in public schools. An earlier project investigated the language socialization experiences of English-speaking children who receive care from Spanish-speaking nannies. Her most recent project examines the migration experiences of Yucatec Maya speakers to the Bay Area of Northern California in order to understand the socialization practices that promote immigrant identities among youth and their families. In 2004 Professor Baquedano-López received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award. She was a fellow of UC ACCORD (All-Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity) from 2001-03, a UC President's Post-Doctoral Fellow from 1998-99, and a Spencer Dissertation Fellow from 1997-98. She is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Latinos in Education and has served on the editorial board of Reading Research Quarterly, Language Arts, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. From 2007-09 Professor Baquedano-López was chair of the UC Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research. She is affiliated faculty of the Center for Latin American Studies and the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
On sabbatical leave during the academic year 2009-10
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Applied Linguistics
Articles (Refereed Journals, Proceeding)
Solís, J., Kattan, S., & Baquedano-López, P. (2009). Locating time in science learning activity: Adaptation as a theory of learning and change. In K. Richardson Bruna & K. Gomez (Eds.), Talking science, writing science: The work of language in multicultural classrooms (pp. 139-166). New York/London: Routledge. Baquedano-López, P. (2008). The pragmatics of reading prayers: Learning the Act of Contrition in Spanish-based religious education classes (doctrina). Text & Talk 28 (5), 582-602.
Baquedano-López, P., & Kattan, S. (2008). Language Socialization in Schools. In N. Hornberger & P. Duff (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd Edition. Volume 8: Language Socialization. (pp. 161-173). Springer/Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Baquedano-López, P., & Kattan, S. (2007) Growing Up in a Bilingual Community: Insights from Language Socialization. In P. Auer & L. Wei (Eds.) (pp.57-87). New Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
García, E. & Baquedano-López, P. (2007). Science Instruction for All: An Approach to Equity and Access in Science Education. Language Magazine 6(6): 24-31.
Baquedano-López, P., Solís, J. & Kattan, S. (2005). Adaptation: The language of classroom learning. Linguistics and Education 6:1-26.
Baquedano-López, P., Leyva, R.L., & Barretto, T. (2005). Strategies for linguistic and cultural continuity in Spanish-based Catholic religious education programs (doctrina). Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism (pp.199-209). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Baquedano-López, P. (2004). Traversing the center: The politics of language use in a Catholic religious education program for immigrant Mexican children. Anthropology and Education Quarterly. 35(2). 212-232.
Baquedano-López, P. (2003). Language, literacy, and community. In J. Larson, N. Hall & J. Marsh (Eds). Handbook of Research on Early Childhood Literacy. (pp. 66-74). London: Sage Publishers.
Garrett, P. & Baquedano-López, P. (2002). Language socialization: Reproduction and continuity, transformation and change. Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 31, 339-361. Palo Alto, CA, Annual Reviews.
Gutiérrez, K., Baquedano-López, P. & Asato, J. (2000). English for the Children: The new literacy of the Old World Order. Bilingual Research Journal, 87-105.
Baquedano-López, P. (2000) Narrating community in doctrina classes. Narrative Inquiry 10(2), 1-24.
Baquedano-López, P. (2000). Prayer. Special Issue. Language matters in anthropology: Lexicon for the new millennium. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (9)1-2, 197-200.[Reprinted in A. Duranti (ed.). (2001). Key terms in linguistic anthropology(pp.193-196). New York: Blackwell.]
Gutiérrez, K., Baquedano-López, P., & Tejeda, C. (1999). Rethinking diversity: Hybridity and hybrid language practices in the Third Space. Mind, Culture, & Activity 6(4): 286-303.
Gutiérrez, K., Baquedano-López, P., Alvarez, H., & Chiu, M. (1999). Building a culture of collaboration through hybrid language practices. Theory into Practice 38(2), 87-93.
Gutiérrez, K., Baquedano-López, P., & Turner, M.G.(1997). Putting language back into the language arts: When the Radical Middle meets the Third Space. Language Arts 74(5), 368-378.
Baquedano-López, P. (1997). Creating social identities through doctrina narratives. Issues in Applied Linguistics 8(1), 27-45. [Reprinted in A. Duranti (Ed.). (2001). Linguistic anthropology: A reader. (pp.343-358). Malden, MA: Blackwell.]
Book Chapters
Baquedano-López, P. (2004). Literacy practices across learning contexts. In A. Duranti (Ed.), Companion to linguistic anthropology. (pp.245-268). London: Blackwell Publishers.Baquedano-López, P. & Ochs, E. (2002). The politics of language and parish storytelling: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe takes on English-Only. In P. Linell & K. Aronsson (Eds.), Selves and voices: Goffman, Viveka, and dialogue (pp. 173-191). Linkoping, Sweden: Linkoping University.
Baquedano-López, P. (2002). Language socialization at a parish in Los Angeles: The affective construction of identity. In J. Leather & J. van Dam (Eds.), Ecology of language acquisition. (pp. 107-121). Dortrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Press.
Gutiérrez, K., Baquedano-López, P., & Alvarez, H. (2001). Literacy as hybridity: Moving beyond bilingualism in urban classrooms. In M. Reyes & J. Halcon (Eds.), The best for our children: Latina/Latino voices in literacy (pp. 122-141). New York: Teachers College Press.
Gutiérrez, K., Baquedano-López, P., & Alvarez, H. (2000). The crisis in Latino education: The norming of America. In C. Tejeda, C. Martinez, & Z. Leonardo (Eds.), Charting new terrains in Chicano(a) and Latina(o) education (pp.. 213-232). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.
Other Papers/Reports/Op-Eds/Computer Programs
Baquedano-López, P. (2002). A stop at the end of the bus line: Nannies, children, and the language of care.Working Paper # 51. Berkeley, CA: Center for Working Families.Baquedano-López, P. (1995). On Chicano languages and Chicano life: An interview with Otto Santa Ana A. Issues in Applied Linguistics 6(1), 65-84.
Book Reviews, Comments, etc.
Baquedano-López, P. (1995). Review of Colin Baker's Foundations of bilingual education and bilingualism. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1993. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 6(1): 108-111.
Areas of Specialization / Interests
Immigrant Issues
Language Socialization and Development
Learning
Literacy
Research Methods
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