Linguistic Minority Students Go to College: Preparation, Access, and Persistence

ISBN-13: 9780415890625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 270 str.

Yasuko Kanno; Linda Harklau

Opis

Currently, linguistic minority students -- students who speak a language other than English at home -- represent 21% of the entire K-12 studentpopulation and 11% of the college student population. Bringing together emerging scholarship on the growing number of college-bound linguisticminority students in the K-12 pipeline, this ground-breaking volume showcases new research on these students' preparation for, access to, andpersistence in college.

Spis treści

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