ABSTRACT
We met Nilda Quintana in the summer of 1992, through an acquaintance who worked in a California state community college. 1 At the time, Nilda was 29 years old, a single mother who was raised in a Latino farm worker community by Mexican immigrant parents who spoke Spanish at home. However, as we discovered, Nilda's own decisions regarding her child's language socialization reflected the ebb and flow of her adult life, a life in which, as she came to terms with it, she had lived in “two worlds.”
