Linguistic Minority Students Go to College (eBook, ePUB)

Preparation, Access, and Persistence
Redaktion: Kanno, Yasuko; Harklau, Linda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together emerging scholarship on the growing number of college-bound first-generation linguistic minority immigrants in the K-12 pipeline, this ground-breaking volume showcases new research on these students' preparation for, access to, and persistence in college.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136814945
• Artikelnr.: 38277721

Autorenporträt

Yasuko Kanno is Associate Professor of TESOL in the College of Education, Temple University. Linda Harklau is Professor of the Teaching Additional Languages program and the Linguistics program at the University of Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Linguistic Minority Immigrants Go to College: Introduction
Yasuko Kanno and Linda Harklau I. College Preparation In High School 2.
High School ESL Placement: Practice, Policy, and Effects on Achievement
Rebecca M. Callahan and Dara R. Shifrer 3. Linguistic Minority Students'
Opportunities to Learn High School Mathematics Eduardo Mosqueda 4. Paving
the way to college: An analysis of an International Baccalaureate Diploma
Program serving immigrant students in California Anysia P. Mayer 5. How
Paola Made It to College: A Linguistic Minority Student's Unlikely Success
Story Linda Harklau and Shelly McClanahan II. Access To College 6. Top 10%
Linguistically Diverse Students' Access and Success at Texas Public
Universities Cristóbal Rodríguez 7. Who are Linguistic Minority Students in
Higher Education?: An Analysis of the Beginning Postsecondary Students
Study 2004Anne-Marie Nuñez and P. Johnelle Sparks 8. Immigrant English
Learners' Transitions to University: Student Challenges and Institutional
Policies Yasuko Kanno and Sarah Arva Grosik 9. A Linguistic Minority
Student's Discursive Framing of Agency and Structure Manka M. Varghese
III. College Experiences And Persistence 10. Navigating "Open Access"
Community Colleges: Matriculation Policies and Practices for U.S.-Educated
Language Minority Students George C. Bunch and Ann K. Endris 11. Retention
of English Learner Students at a Community College Cate Almon 12.
Contextualizing the Path to Academic Success: Culturally and Linguistically
Diverse Students Gaining Voice and Agency in Higher Education Melissa
Holmes, Cristina Fanning, Amanda Morales, Pedro Espinoza, and Socorro
Herrera 13. Benefits and Costs of Exercising Agency: A Case Study of an
English Learner Navigating a Four-Year University Ronald Fuentes 14.
Citizens vs. Aliens: How Institutional Policies Construct Linguistic
Minority Students Shawna Shapiro About the Contributors