Theoretical Framework

Considering that language brokering thrives in a social context and in bilingualism, the theory I will follow on this website is the educational sociology of language as developed by Joshua Fishman in 1972. In fact, this theory was used to study and analyze the relationship between languages and society, especially the effects of languages on a society. Of course, there are many effects in a language. According to Baker (2006), learning a language implies learning of its culture. When it comes to the case of many children who translate from one language to another for their parents Baker (2006), Buriel, Perez, De Ment, Chavez, & Moran (1998), and De Jong (2011) state that those children not only translate, explaining sentences or words, but also they interpret and explain mainstream culture and society to their parents. In other words, they are cultural ambassadors to their family members. As applied to this website, using the educational sociology of language theory, I will be able to demonstrate how parents receive mainstream American cultural inputs through the great labor of their bilingual children brokers.