English Second Language Quotes

“I repeat, Há, and wish I knew enough English to tell her
to listen for the diacritical mark, this one directing the tone downward.”
― Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

“While bilingual is understood as a valuable asset or goal for middle-class and upper-class students, for working-class and poor students it is framed as a disability that must be overcome”
― Jonathan Rosa, Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad