Enregistering Reading and Papá voices in peer bilingual play: Mexican heritage children's scaling practices at a bilingual U.S. preschool

This study uses the framework of space and scale (Blommaert et al., 2005) and construct of “enregisterment” (Agha, 2005) to examine how bilingual Spanish-English Mexican heritage children in California engage with and explore registers in multilingual play with peers. Children's spontaneous pretend play at a bilingual Spanish-English Head Start preschool at which teachers used local diversified bilingual educational practice, but were also...