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Direct linkMenard-Warwick, Julia – Multilingual Matters, 2013
This book brings the voices of teachers into the fierce debates about language ideologies and cultural pedagogies in English language teaching. Through interviews and classroom observations in Chile and California, this study compares the controversies around English as a global language with the similar cultural tensions in programs for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Ideology
Schecter, Sandra R.; Bayley, Robert – 2002
This book offers an ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas. It illustrates cases where language is used by speakers to choose between alternative self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories (ethnicity, gender, and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity
Maykovich, Minako K. – 1972
The major theme of this book is the label "Quiet American" for the Japanese American. In order to locate Japanese Americans sociologically and psychologically in the structure of American society, various concepts such as "marginal man,""alienation," and "inauthenticity" are examined, specifying these…
Descriptors: Acculturation, College Students, Cultural Influences, Ethnic Groups
Sandberg, Neil C. – 1974
This study investigated the relationship between different generational and social class groups within the Polish-American community and the salience of ethnicity in each group. One of the largest immigrations to America was that from Poland. By the turn of the century a dispersed and highly mobile Polish-American population was evident in the Los…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Age Differences, Community Surveys, Cultural Images
Ogbu, John U. – 1974
This book is about education in Burgherside, a low-income neighborhood in Stockton, California, the majority of whose residents are blacks and Mexican-Americans: They make up about 92% of the elementary school population. The study reported here probes into the reasons for many children from the neighborhood failing in public schools. The goal was…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Bilingual Education, Black Students, Cultural Influences
Delgado-Gaitan, Concha; Trueba, Henry – 1991
With the rapid increase of ethnic minorities entering industrial societies and interacting with mainstream cultures, issues of cultural and linguistic differences must be addressed. Particularly relevant to educators is understanding the process of acculturation and socialization of uprooted ethnic or low-income minority children. Such children…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Childrens Games, Cultural Influences, Educational Anthropology
Adamson, H. Douglas – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2005
This book addresses questions of language education in the United States, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students in American public schools who do not speak English as a native language. These students are at the center of a national debate about the right relationship among ESL, bilingual, and mainstream classes. Bilingual education…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Public Policy
