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The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781847692108 |
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Publisher: | Multilingual Matters Ltd. |
Publication date: | 10/28/2009 |
Series: | Bilingual Education & Bilingualism , #74 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 328 |
Product dimensions: | 5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Jin Sook Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD in Education from Stanford Universityand an MA degree in Linguistics from Yonsei Universityin Korea. Her research focuses on the educational processes of immigrant children, in particular as they pertain to the understanding of the cultural, sociopolitical, and sociopsychological factors that influence and shape their language learning and development. She is an active member of the American Educational Research Association and the American Association of Applied Linguistics and serves on the editorial board of the International Multilingual Research Journal (Taylor & Francis). She is a recipient of the Foundation for Child Development Young Scholars Award.
Russell W. Rumberger is Professor of Education in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California (UC) Santa Barbara and for ten years served as Director of the UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute (UC LMRI), a UC multi-campus research unit that fosters interdisciplinary research to improve academic achievement of children from diverse language backgrounds. He received a Ph.D. in Education and a M.A. in Economics from Stanford University. He has published widely on education and work; the schooling of disadvantaged students, particularly school dropouts and linguistic minority students; school effectiveness; and education policy. He is directing the California Dropout Research Project to develop a state policy agenda to improve California's high school graduation rate (http://lmri.ucsb.edu/dropouts/).
Table of Contents
Introduction: Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States: Introduction, Background and Overview - Terrence Wiley & Jin Sook Lee
Ch. 1: A Language Graveyard? The Evolution of Language Competencies, Preferences and Use Among Young Adult Children of Immigrants - Rubén G. Rumbaut
Ch. 2: The Economics of Language for Immigrants: An Introduction and Overview - Barry R. Chiswick
Ch. 3: Immigration, Race, and Higher Education Outcomes - Christine Qi Liu, Robert H. Tai & Xitao Fan
Ch. 4: Immigrant Youth in High School: Understanding Educational Outcomes for Students of Mexican Origin - Regina Cortina
Ch. 5: A Synthesis of the Roles of Heritage Languages in the Lives of Children of Immigrants: What Educators Need to Know - Jin Sook Lee & Debra Suarez
Ch. 6: Assimilation and Resistance: How Language and Culture Influence Gender Identity Negotiation in First Generation Vietnamese Immigrant Youth - Diem T. Nguyen & Tom Stritikus
Ch. 7: Agentive Youth Research: Towards Individual, Collective, and Policy Transformations - Kathryn A. Davis
Ch. 8: The Need for Multiple Measures in Reclassification Decisions: A Validity Study of the Stanford English Language Proficiency Test* - Kate Mahoney, Tom Haladyna & Jeff MacSwan
Ch. 9: Immigrant Students, English Language Proficiency, and Transitions From High School to Community College - George C. Bunch Commentary: Language, Immigration and the Quality of Education: Moving Toward a Broader Conversation - Guadalupe Valdés