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Community members demonstrate overwhelming support and predominantly multilingual ideologies toward the inclusion of K'iche' in a Spanish/English bilingual program, despite the concurrent presence of internalized colonial, neoliberal, and identity surveillance ideologies. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To investigate community language ideologies and public perceptions surrounding the integration of K’iche’, an Indigenous Mayan language, into a Spanish/English dual language bilingual education program.

August 22, 2026Critical Inquiry in Language Studies

Utz Calidá: a critical analysis of language ideologies regarding the teaching of K’iche’ in a Spanish/English dual language bilingual education program

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TCTheresa CatalanoUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln ICIngrid Lindal ChavarriaUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln DMDan MoranUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln

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Critical discourse study reveals strong community support for Indigenous K’iche’ instruction in bilingual education, highlighting grassroots impacts on multilingual preservation.

Key Points

To investigate community language ideologies and public perceptions surrounding the integration of K’iche’, an Indigenous Mayan language, into a Spanish/English dual language bilingual education program.
Applied social media critical discourse analysis to a Facebook thread responding to a Telemundo news broadcast regarding K'iche' kindergarten instruction in the US Midwest.
Analyzed 186 user comments to evaluate levels of community support and categorize emergent ideological stances.
Comment analysis revealed overwhelming community backing for the program, with the vast majority of responses expressing support for multilingual and inclusive pedagogies.
Identified secondary ideological themes including internalized colonial and raciolinguistic perspectives, neoliberal economic valuations of language, and identity surveillance.

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Catalano et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895eeeca7ade938187d1f0 https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2026.2711696

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Critical discourse study reveals strong community support for Indigenous K’iche’ instruction in bilingual education, highlighting grassroots impacts on multilingual preservation.

Utz Calidá: a critical analysis of language ideologies regarding the teaching of K’iche’ in a Spanish/English dual language bilingual education program

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Utz Calidá: a critical analysis of language ideologies regarding the teaching of K’iche’ in a Spanish/English dual language bilingual education program

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