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Garcia, Ofelia. 2008. Multilingual language awareness and teacher education. In Cenoz, J & Horeberger, N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd edition Vol 6. Knowledge about Language. Berlin: Springer, pp. 385-400
García, Ofelia. 2008. Spanish and Globalization: Shedding Its Armor and Baring Its Undulating Rhythms. International Multilingual Research Journal 2 (1), 1-4. Author Posting. (c) 'Copyright Holder', 2008.
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García, Ofelia. forthcoming. Language ideologies and the education of US Latinos. In The racialization of Latinos: Inequity and oppression in the United States and abroad, ed. by José Cobas, Joe Feagin, y Jorge Duany. Paradigm Publisher.
García, Ofelia and Leah Mason. forthcoming. Where in the World is U.S. Spanish? Creating a space of opportunity for U.S. Latinos. In Language and Poverty, ed. by Wayne Harbert, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Amanda Miller and John Whitman, eds. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
García, Ofelia and Pei Ju Tsai. forthcoming. Language Education Policy in Global Perspective. Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, ed. by Josué González. Sage Publisher
García, Ofelia. forthcoming. Einar Haugen. Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, ed. by Josué González. Sage Publisher.
García, Ofelia. forthcoming. Joshua A. Fishman. Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, ed. by Josué González. Sage Publisher
García, Ofelia. forthcoming. Teaching Spanish and Spanish in Teaching in the U.S.: Integrating Bilingual Perspectives. In Integrated Perspectives towards Bilingual Education: Briding the gap between prestigious bilingualism and the bilingualism of minorities, ed. by Anne Marie de Mejía and Christine Helot. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
García, Ofelia (with K. Kabat). forthcoming. L'enseignement en milieu multilingue aux Etats-Unis. In Penser le Bilinguisme Autrement, C. Hélot (ed.). Peter Lang Publisher.
García, Ofelia. In press. Multilingual Language Awareness and Teacher Education. In Cenoz, J & Hornberger, N. (eds.) 2008. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd edition, Vol 6. Knowledge about Language. Berlin: Springer.
García, Ofelia, Lesley Bartlett and JoAnne Kleifgen. 2007. From Biliteracy to Pluriliteracies. In Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 5: Multilingualism, ed. by Peter Auer and Li Wei. Berlin: Mouton/de Gruyter, pp. 207-228.
García, Ofelia. 2007. Lenguas e identidades en mundos hispanohablantes. Desde una posición plurilingüe y minoritaria. In M. Lacorte (ed.), Lingüística aplicada del español. Madrid: Arco, pp. 377-400.
García, Ofelia and Lesley Bartlett. 2007. A speech community model of Bilingual Education: Educating Latino Newcomers in the U.S. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 10: 1-25.
García, Ofelia and H. Schiffman (with Z. Zachariah). 2006. Fishmanian Sociolinguistics: 1949 to the present. In García, O., R. Peltz and H. Schiffman (eds.). Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change: Joshua A. Fishman´s Contributions to International Sociolinguistics. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, pp. 3-68.
García, Ofelia, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and María Torres-Guzmán. 2006. Weaving spaces and de(constructing ways for multilingual schools: The actual and the imagined. In García, O., T. Skutnabb-Kangas and M. Torres-Guzmán, eds. Imagining Multilingual Schools: Languages in Education and Glocalization. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, pp. 3-47.
García, Ofelia and Kate Menken. 2006. The English of Latinos from a plurilingual transcultural angle: Implications for assessment and schools. In Dialects, Other Englishes, and Education, ed. by Shondel Nero (pp. 167-184). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
García, Ofelia. 2006. Lost in transculturation: The case of bilingual education in New York City. In M. Putz, J.A. Fishman, and Neff-Van Aertselaer (eds.), pp. 157-178. Along the Routes to Power: Exploration of the empowerment through language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
García, Ofelia. 2005. Positioning Heritage Languages in the United States. Modern Language Journal 89 (4): 601-605.
García, Ofelia. 2005. Minority Language Education. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. by Keith Brown. Vol. 8. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 159-163.
García, Ofelia. 2004. Lost in transculturation: The case of bilingual education in New York City. Linguistic LAUD Agency. Series A, Paper No. 624. Universitat Duisburg-Essen.
García, Ofelia. 2003. Nouvelles espérances et barrières dans le domaine de l’éducation aux États-Unis. Hommes et Migrations (France) no. 1246. (Novembre-Décembre 2003, pp. 17-27.
García, Ofelia. 2003. La enseñanza del español a los latinos de los EEUU. Contra el viento del olvido y la marea del inglés. Ínsula julio-agosto, núm. 679-680 (julio-agosto, 2003, Spain).
García, Ofelia and Cecelia Traugh. 2002. Using Descriptive Inquiry to Transform the Education of Linguistically Diverse U.S. Teachers and Students. In Opportunities and Challenges of (Societal) Bilingualism, ed. by Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele and Alex Housen. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 311-328.
García, Ofelia. 2002. Teaching language minorities in the United States: From bilingualism as a deficit to bilingualism as a liability. Comments to Eugene Garcia, Bilingualism and Schooling in the United States. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 155/156: 125-130.
García, Ofelia. 2001. Writing backwards across languages: The inexpert English/Spanish biliteracy of uncertified bilingual teachers. In Developing Advanced Literacy in First and Second Languages, ed. by M. Schleppegrell and Cecelia Colombi. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
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García, Ofelia. 2001. Language Spread. Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics, ed. by R. Kaplan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
García, Ofelia, José Luis Morín and Klaudia Rivera. 2001. How Threatened is the Spanish of New York Puerto Ricans? Language Shift with vaivén. In Can Threatened Languages be Saved? Reversing Language Shift Revisited ed. by Joshua A. Fishman. Clevedon, Avon: Multilingual Matters, 44-73.
García, Ofelia. 2001. Bilingual education is beneficial. In Education. Opposing Viewpoints, ed. By Mary E. Williams. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 126-129.
García, Ofelia. 2000. Language, a diversity category beyond all others. In Rights to Language. Equity, Power, and Education, ed. by Robert Phillipson, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 243-248.
Otheguy, Ricardo, Ofelia García, and Ana Roca. 2000. Speaking in Cuban: The Language of Cuban Americans. In New Immigrants in the United States. Readings for Second Language Educators, ed. by Sandra McKay and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 165-188.
García, Ofelia. 1999. Reversing language shift: The Role of scholarship and grandfathership. Liber Amicorum Koen Zondag. Ljouwert, Friesland, The Netherlands. pp. 29-30.
García, Ofelia and Jessica Trubek. 1999. Where have all the minority educators gone and when will they ever learn. In Educators for Urban Minorities 1: 1-8.
García, Ofelia. 1999. The Forging of a Latin American Ethnolinguistic Identity: Between the Written and Oral Word. In Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, ed. by Joshua A. Fishman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 226-243.
García, Ofelia. 1999. Educating Latino High School students with little formal schooling. In So Much to Say. Adolescents, bilingualism and ESL in the Secondary School, ed by Christian Faltis and Paula Wolfe. New York: Teachers College Press, pp. 61-82.
García, Ofelia. 1997. From Goya Portraits to Goya Beans: Elite traditions and popular streams in U.S. Spanish language policy. In Southwest Journal of Linguistics 12 (1993): 69-86.
García, Ofelia. 1997. New York´s Multilingualism: World Languages and their Role in a U.S. City. In García, Ofelia and Joshua A. Fishman, eds. The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City. Berlin: Mouton, pp. 3-50.
García, Ofelia. 1997. Bilingual Education. In The Handbook of Sociolinguistics, ed. by Florian Coulmas. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 405-420.
García, Ofelia and Ricardo Otheguy. 1997. No sólo de estándar vive el aula: Lo que nos enseñó la educación bilingüe sobre el español de Nueva York. In La ensenanza del español a hispanohablantes: Praxis y Teoría, ed. by M. Cecilia Colombi and Francisco Alarcón. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 156-174.
Corona, Dolores and Ofelia García. 1996. English in Cuba: From Imperialist Design to Imperative Need. In Post Imperialist-English, edited by Joshua Fishman, Andrew Conrad and Alma Rubal-Lopez. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
García, Ofelia. 1995. Spanish Language Loss as a Determinant of Income among US Latinos: Implications for language policy in schools. In Power and Inequality in Language Education, ed. by James W. Tollefson. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 142-160.
García, Ofelia and Milagros Cuevas. 1995. Spanish ability among second generation Nuyoricans: A study of its determinants. Spanish in Four Continents. Studies in Language Contact and Bilingualism, ed. by Carmen Silva-Corvalan. Georgetown University Press, pp. 184-195.
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove and Ofelia García. 1995. Multilingualism for all? General Principles. In Multilingualism for All. ed. by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets and Zeitlinger, pp. 221-256.
García, Ofelia. 1994. Que todo el pluralismo es sueño, y los sueños, vida son: Ethnolinguistic dreams and reality: A response to John Edwards. In International Journal of the Sociology of Language 110: 87-104.
García, Ofelia and Ricardo Otheguy. 1994. The value of speaking a LOTE in U.S. Business. In Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 532: 99-122.
Otheguy, Ricardo and Ofelia García. 1993. Convergent conceptualizations as predictors of degree of contact in U.S. Spanish. In Spanish in the United States, ed. by Ana Roca and John Lipski. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
García, Ofelia. 1993. Understanding the societal role of the teacher in transitional bilingual education classrooms: Lessons from Sociology of Language. In Bilingual Education in Friesland: Facts and Prospects, ed. by Koen Zondag, pp.25-37. Leeuwarden, The Netherlands: Gemeenschappelijk Centrum voor Onderwijsbegeleiding in Friesland.
García, Ofelia. 1992. Societal multilingualism in a multicultural world in transition. In Languages for a Multicultural World in Transition. Northeast Conference Reports on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. ed. by Heidi Byrnes, pp. 1-27. Lincolnwood, Illinois: National Textbook Company.
García, Ofelia. 1991. Latinos and Bilingual Education in the United States: Their Role as Objects and Subjects. New Language Planning Newsletter 6: 3-5. Mysore, India: Central Institute of Indian Languages.
García, Ofelia. 1991. The Politics of the Language of Literacy: Spanish Literacy for New York Latinos. Information Update. Literacy Assistance Center. Fall1990/Winter 1991. Vol 7, no. 1, pp. 9-10.
García, Ofelia. 1991. A gathering of voices, a `Legion of scholarly decency' and bilingual education. In Bilingual Education: Focusschrift in honor of Joshua A. Fishman, ed. by Ofelia García. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 3-19.
Beckum, Leonard, Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy et. al. 1991. Identifying a knowledge base for teaching multicultural, multilingual students: An international study. In Changing the Practice of Teacher Education, ed. by Marleen Pugach, Henrietta Barnes and Leonard Beckum. Washington, D.C.: AACTE.
García, Ofelia. 1989. José Sánchez-Boudy. In Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States. ed. by Nicolas Kanellos. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 274-283.
García, Ofelia. 1989. Rafael Catalá. In Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the United States. ed. by Nicolas Kanellos. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 55-60.
Otheguy, Ricardo, Ofelia García and Mariela Fernández. 1989. Transferring, switching, and modeling in West New York Spanish: An intergenerational study. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 79:41-52.
García, Ofelia, I. Evangelista, M. Martinez, C. Disla and B. Paulino. 1988. Spanish language use and attitudes: A study of two New York City communities. Language in Society 17:475-511.
García, Ofelia and Ricardo Otheguy. 1988. The bilingual education of Cuban American children in Dade County's ethnic schools. Language and Education 1:83-95.
García, Ofelia and Ricardo Otheguy. 1988. The Language situation of Cuban Americans. In Language Diversity: Problems or Resource? ed. by Sandra Mc Kay and Sau-ling Wong. Harper and Row, 166-192.
García, Ofelia. 1988. The education of biliterate and bicultural children in ethnic schools in the United States. Essays by the Spencer Fellows of the National Academy of Education, Vol. IV, 19-78.
Otheguy, Ricardo and Ofelia García. 1988. Diffusion of lexical innovations in the Spanish of Cuban Americans. In Research Issues and Problems in United States Spanish. ed. by J.L. Ornstein-Galicia, G.K. Green and D.J. Bixler-Marquez. Rio Grande Series in Language and Linguistics No. 2. Bronsville: Pan American University, 203-242.
García, Ofelia. 1986. The education of biliterate Japanese children in the Japanese School of New York. Research Bulletin (Japanese School of New York), Vol. 5, Spring 1986, 67-70.
García, Ofelia and Ricardo Otheguy. 1986. Impressions of London from a New York perspective. Primary Teaching Studies 2, 80-94.
García, Ofelia. 1986. Committed research on the education of language minorities. Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños Bulletin, June 1986, 9-11, 24-25.
García, Ofelia, Joshua A. Fishman, Silvia Burunat and Michael Gertner. 1985. The Hispanic Press in the United States: Content and Prospects. In The Rise and Fall of the Ethnic Revival: Perspectives on Language and Ethnicity, ed. by Joshua A. Fishman. The Hague: Mouton, 343-362.
García, Ofelia and Silvia Burunat. 1985-1986. La prensa hispana en los Estados Unidos. Boletín de la Academia Nortemericana de la lengua española 6-7, 31-38.
García, Ofelia. 1985. Foreign languages as a requirement for excellence? In The Great School Debate. Beatrice and Ronald Gross, eds. New York: Simon and Schuster, 209-211.
García, Ofelia and Ricardo Otheguy. 1985. The masters of survival send their children to school: Bilingual education in the ethnic schools of Miami. Bilingual Review. Revista Bilingüe 12, 3-19.
García, Ofelia, Joshua A. Fishman, Michael Gertner and Silvia Burunat. 1985. Written Spanish in the US. An Analysis of the Ethnic Press. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 56: 85-98.
García, Ofelia. 1984. Bilingualism in the United States: Present Attitudes in the light of past policies. In The English Language Today: Public Attitudes Toward the English Language, ed. by Sidney Greenbaum. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 147-158.
García, Ofelia. 1984. La problemática del idioma en el ensayo puertorriqueño: Proyecciones de la sociolingüística. Círculo: Revista de Cultura 13, Fall 1984, 79-86.
García, Ofelia. 1983. Sociolinguistics and language planning in bilingual education for Hispanics in the United States. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 44:43-54.
García, Ofelia. 1982. The "Cocopleonasm" of Oliverio Girondo's Poetry. Dada/Surrealism. 10/11, 47-53.
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