1. Newcomer Language Development through Choral Music Education: Social Construction through a Figured World Lisa Serna The University of Texas at El Paso College of Education Teaching, Learning and Culture

2. WELCOME! I am… Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Friend Teacher, Student PhD in TLC Choir Director – 17 Years

3. “NEWCOMER” English Language Learner

4. PURPOSE The Role High School Chorus plays in the Language Development of Newcomer ELLs

5. RESEARCH QUESTION Newcomer ELLs Social and academic language Choral music education

6. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK The Figured World (Holland, Lachiotte, Skinner & Cain, 1998) Four Characteristics

7. METHODOLOGY Qualitative Case Study Phenomenological Ethnographic »(Seidman, 2012) Purposive Sampling »Pseudonyms

8. RESEARH CONTEXT US-Mexico Border City Lower Valley High School High school treble (all girls) chorus

9. PARTICIPANTS Jeanette and Fernanda

10. DATA COLLECTION IRB Approved

11. DATA ANALYSIS Hand coding Memo writing Coding with NVIVO

12. FINDINGS The Figured World 1.Recruiting Members 1.Actions and Integration 1.Socially Organized and Sorted 1.Landscape and Environment

13. RECRUITING MEMBERS Actors in the community Relationships between actors develop

14. ACTION AND INTEGRATION Relevant Activities Multimodality Meaning Making through Repertoire instruction

15. SOCIALLY ORGANIZED Reassurance and Reliability Translanguaging

16. LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENT Classroom Position –Risers –Row –Position –Neighbor Whole Group  Voice Part

17. LIMITATIONS Pilot Study to inform larger work Number of participants Gender of students – mixed choir versus treble choir

18. CONCLUSION Identity Figured World Choral Music Education!

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