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	Chicano English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chicano English is a dialect of American English used by Chicanos (persons of Mexican descent in America).
		One major variation of Chicano English is Tejano English, used mainly in south Texas.
		It is mistakenly referred to as Spanglish, which is not a recognized dialect of English but rather a mixing of English and Spanish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicano_English (80 words)

	Encyclopedia: Chicano English
		American English (AmE) is the form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America.
		A Chicano is a person of Mexican descent born in the United States.
		Spanglish, a portmanteau of the words Spanish and English, is a name used to refer to a range of language-contact phenomena, primarily in the speech of the Hispanic population of the USA, which is exposed to both Spanish and English.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chicano-English (171 words)

	Commonwealth English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Australian English, the difference is still greater (often 3:1, by frequencies in the ACE corpus), and the tendency has been reinforced by official endorsement of -ise by the Australian government Style Manual since 1966.
		Although Hiberno-English (Irish English) is listed as Commonwealth English, the Republic of Ireland is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, but Northern Ireland is (as part of the United Kingdom).
		Although Hong Kong English is listed as Commonwealth English, since 1997 Hong Kong is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, but a Special Administrative Region of China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Commonwealth_English (963 words)

	Chicano. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		Chicano is used only of Mexican Americans, not of Mexicans living in Mexico.
		It was originally an informal term in English (as in Spanish), and the spelling of the first recorded instance in an American publication followed the Spanish custom of lowercasing nouns of national or ethnic origin.
		However, the literary and political movements of the 1960s and 1970s among Mexican Americans established Chicano as a term of ethnic pride, and it is properly written today with a capital.
	www.bartleby.com /61/55/C0285500.html (217 words)

	Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . American Varieties . Chicano \| PBS
		Chicano English is a distinctive U.S. English dialect.
		Chicano English is a dialect spoken mainly by people of Mexican ethnic origin in California and the Southwest.
		Chicano English is a stable and fully-formed dialect, linguistically and structurally equivalent to other dialects of English, such as the varieties spoken by Anglos in the same regions.
	www.pbs.org /speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/chicano (1470 words)

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		Chicano English is an ambiguous term; it may refer to all the English spoken by the Chicano, including varieties indistinguishable from Anglo English, or it may refer to varieties of English spoken only by Chicanos (Penalosa, 1980, page 115).
		To develop a definition of Chicano English, six elementary classroom teachers were interviewed individually and in a focus group regarding student discourse in and out of the classroom to provide insight and information about Chicano English from their classroom experiences.
		It is important to note that it was often challenging to capture Chicano English as students were disinclined to use it in contrived situations or when a perceived authority was observing.
	www.calstatela.edu /academic/ccoe/aera/ChicanoTalkAERA2004.doc (1988 words)

	chicano.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While Chicanos expressed pride in their ability to speak their Spanish language, they shared interesting attitudes toward the English they speak as well as toward the English they hear.
		Other variations in Chicano English result from the influence of African-American Vernacular English, which uses "they is" as opposed to "they are" and invariant 'be' as in "He be going out them" (8).
		In fact, with the exceptions of pronunciation and vocabulary, most of these adolescents felt they spoke English as well as Anglo speakers, and "hardly anyone (the exception was one female) mentioned the English variety spoken by Anglos to be superior" (11).
	courses.wcsu.edu /valkommen/chicano.htm (419 words)

	languagehat.com: January 2005 Archives
		Instead, she suggests a bipartite division of the history of the English language on the basis of the influx of Romance vocabulary (end of thirteenth to fifteenth century).
		English is a slippery divil; the rules are lagging far behind the caravan, and the inmates are not only running the asylum, they’re instituting managed care and turning a stupendous profit.
		The emergence of Chicano English is similar in some ways to the development of a special set of languages called pidgins and creoles.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/2005_01.php (9478 words)

	Latinos & WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Richard Griswold del Castillo is the chairman of the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at San Diego State University.
		Otto Santa Ana is a founding member and associate professor in the César Chávez Center for Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
		Over 150 full-length interviews of Chicanos and Chicanas were conducted across five generations, from immigrants to the great-grandchildren of immigrants.
	www.utexas.edu /projects/latinoarchives/about.html (2751 words)

	- SHOP.COM
		Chicano English in Context is the first modern, comprehensive study of Chicano English, a variety spoken by millions of Latinos in the U.S. It is also one of the first studies of ongoing sound change within an ethnic minority community.
		It also corrects misconceptions I how the general public views Chicano English.
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	www.shop.com /op/aprod-p26302295 (254 words)

	Do You Speak American . For Educators \| PBS
		Jeffrey Reaser is a doctoral student in sociolinguistics at Duke University and a member of the North Carolina Language and Life Project at North Carolina State University.
		He has conducted research on English dialects in eastern North Carolina and in the Bahamas.
		The units have not been designed for a particular college sequence and in fact, may be well suited to a junior college curriculum.
	www.pbs.org /speak/education (841 words)

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		Center for Underrepresented Engineering Students (CUES) is nationally recognized as a leader in recruiting and retaining future engineers with individual support tailored to the needs of those missed by programs that serve majority students.
		Established in 1969, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Library serves as a resource for library and information needs of Chicano-related curriculum and research.
		El Centro Chicano serves to catalyze Chicanos and Latinos at Stanford into a proactive community that creates an environment which celebrates and promotes the history, contributions, intellectual heritage, education, growth, and empowerment...
	www.portaluno.com /eng/newportalmain-eng.asp?Cat1=Education (1880 words)

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