Jacky, an 11-year-old biliterate Latina, was the subject of this case study. She used her home funds of knowledge to become computer literate through the development of a website focused on Mexican heritage. The website, created via funds of knowledge drawn from the community, in turn involved families and the local community in computer…

This article examines the efforts of a school in a Mexican community in Chicago to help children and parents capitalize on the language and culture of their 2 worlds. It builds on the concepts of border crossings and hybridity, metaphors used to describe the sociocultural and linguistic reality of people living transnationally. Some US communities…

This study illustrates the regularity with which the children of mostly Mexican immigrants in Chicago interpret languages and cultural practices for their families. It also tests the hypothesis, generated from qualitative research, that such "language brokering" is related to academic outcomes. Using data collected from a subset of…

This article examines how Chicana/o and Latina/o youth employed their political-historical knowledge to "talk back" to the xenophobia and political contradictions that underlie the (im)migration "debate." A literacy unit that honed bilingual students' everyday translating created opportunities for students to utilize this political-historical…

A questionnaire was administered to twenty-five teachers of the El Paso, Texas, area to determine their attitudes toward the Spanish and English spoken in the area. Most viewed the language as a "border slang" not equivalent to correct English or Spanish. (CK)

The goal of the model presented here is to help Latino students develop the ability to function bicognitively, biaffectively, biculturally, and assertively. If these methods are used by counselors, students will have a better opportunity to achieve these goals. (Author)

Presents methods for dealing with bicultural situations among Mexican-American students. (RB)

An instructional program is described which leads to increasing the self confidence of Chicano children in the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas. (CB)

First grade rural Mexican American children were tested to determine whether the use of a bilingual interpreter would significantly influence their Verbal, Performance, and Total IQ scores. Results indicate no significant differences. (Author)

Resolving conflicting linguistic traditions and struggling with new identities are significant challenges for immigrants to the United States. This case study introduces an immigrant mother from Mexico who renamed her youngest son on his first day of first grade to avoid the widespread stereotypes and academic stagnation experienced by her two…

A MEANS OF ADAPTING THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS TO THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF STUDENTS FROM SPANISH-SPEAKING HOMES IS PRESENTED. THE MODIFIED TESL (TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE) APPROACH ASSUMES THAT CHILDREN HAVE NO COMMAND OF ENGLISH AT SCHOOL ENTRANCE. THE READINESS ACTIVITY IS LARGELY AURAL-ORAL WITH EMPHASIS ON LISTENING AND…

A study was made of the relationship between the language dominance of a child and the effects of viewing a bilingual television program called Carrascolendas. A previous study showed that the program did have an effect on average knowledge gains among viewers. In order to ascertain whether these gains were in some way related to the language…

Effective teaching of the so-called bilingual" child who is often not bilingual in any sense, but only monolingual in his native language, Spanish. (Author/RY)

The Problem Oriented Screening Inventory for Teenagers (POSIT) was analyzed in a Hispanic majority school district to determine the test/retest correlation of the English and Spanish versions of the instrument. Data analysis indicated fairly weak agreement between the English and Spanish POSIT version results for this sample of bilingual…