Drawing on the recent call for repositioning youth as creative and responsible agents in language and education research (e. g., McCarty & Wyman, 2009) and the notion of engaged ethnography (e.g., Davis & Phyak, 2015), the researcher engaged 16 minority student youth in a remote mountainous province in Vietnam in interrogating the…

Examines attitudes and needs of 311 Vietnamese American tenth and eleventh graders (75 Chinese Vietnamese and 230 Vietnamese) to provide information about better meeting their needs. Students generally perceive their school experiences as positive, although discrimination is felt. Implications of findings for education of second-language students…