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Morrison, Stephaney S.; Smith, Delores E.; Bryan, Julia A.; Steele, Janeé M. – Journal of School Counseling, 2016
Jamaican immigrant students are highly represented in U.S. public schools, primarily in regions concentrated throughout the east coast. Many of these students and their families have personal and social concerns that have implications for school counselors. In particular, scholars suggest that among this population, harsh methods of child…
Descriptors: Discipline, Parenting Styles, Latin Americans, Immigrants
Chavez, Hugo Alexander Moran – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influenced the success of Latino/a international students in graduate school at a Research I institution in the South East of the United States. The design of this study was qualitative. Purposive and snowball sampling were the methods to recruit the sixteen participants of this study.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Hispanic Americans, Campuses
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Sáenz, Victor B.; Ponjuan, Luis; Segovia, Jorge, Jr.; Del Real Viramontes, José – New Directions for Higher Education, 2015
This chapter highlights the development of Project MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success). At the center of Project MALES is a mentoring program that aims to cultivate an engaged support network for males of color at the University of Texas at Austin and across surrounding communities. Specifically, there is a discussion of the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Males, Supervisory Methods, Social Networks
Nieto, Sonia – Harvard Education Press, 2015
In "Brooklyn Dreams," Sonia Nieto--one of the leading authors and teachers in the field of multicultural education--looks back on her formative experiences as a student, activist, and educator, and shows how they reflect and illuminate the themes of her life's work. Nieto offers a poignant account of her childhood and the complexities of…
Descriptors: Public Education, Multicultural Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs
Amezaga Rivera, Lesbia Nannette – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Considering the signifying power of visuality to function as language as it constructs, fashions, and alters conceptualizations, and focusing on the Caribbean woman for my research, this study explored the dynamics involved in the construction of the Other by means of the colonial visual imagery and written discourse deployed by Europe and the…
Descriptors: Females, Latin Americans, Power Structure, Foreign Policy
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Roy, Kevin; Messina, Lauren; Smith, Jocelyn; Waters, Damian – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2014
Many children in economically disadvantaged communities assume adult roles in their families. Negotiating the responsibilities and expectations associated with becoming what some young men describe as "man of the house" has important implications for how adolescent boys move into adulthood. In this study, we share insights from field…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, African Americans, Latin Americans, Males
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Newton, Joanna – Education Sciences, 2018
Academic vocabulary knowledge is central to reading and academic achievement. Largely based in the lexicons of Latin and Greek, academic vocabulary comprises morphemic structures. Many teachers devote little time to focused instruction in this area because they may lack pertinent morphological and pedagogical knowledge. This article reports…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Vocabulary Development, Academic Achievement, Latin
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Acheson, Kris; Taylor, Justin; Luna, Kera – Modern Language Journal, 2016
An area of research that may shed light on the pressing problem of FL teacher attrition is emotion labor. Emotion labor (or emotional labour), a construct stemming from research in the fields of communication and psychology and focusing mainly on service professionals, has recently been taken up in education literature. Although student emotions…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Interviews, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Cortés, Jimy Alexander; Arellano, Iván Darío – English Language Teaching, 2017
Even though the majority of Colombian professors are also involved in research, they have limitations in their English language skills that separate them from the rest of the scientific society. Evidently, these limitations have become an obstacle in the awareness of professors' modest, but no less important, research work. In order to carry out…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Role, Scientific Research, College Faculty
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Browne, Raffie A.; Shen, Hong – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Higher education is considered as one of the most essential factors in influencing societal changes, due to its ability to help formulate good decision making in every sphere of modern society, in businesses, education, politics and science. Higher education over the years has significantly increased, thus given rise to many opportunities for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Change, Economic Development, Databases
Figueroa, Nicholas James – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation investigated the speech productions of the implosive -r consonant by U.S.-born Puerto Rican and Dominican Heritage Language Spanish speakers in New York. The following main research questions were addressed: 1) Do heritage language Caribbean Spanish speakers evidence the same variation with the /?/ consonant in the implosive…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Speech Communication, Phonemes, Puerto Ricans
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Webb, Andrew; Alvarez, Patricio – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2018
This article addresses the role of friendship dynamics among newcomer Latin American migrant youth during their transitions to Chilean secondary schools. Drawing on qualitative life history interviews, we discuss ethnic minority well-being in two high-ethnic mix schools, and how power inequalities and racial discrimination are managed through…
Descriptors: Victims, Equal Education, Friendship, Secondary School Students
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LeLoup, Jean W.; Schmidt-Rinehart, Barbara C. – Hispania, 2018
This current study reports the findings of sociolinguistic research investigating the place of the "voseo" in the Spanish language curriculum in the United States. The study describes the results of questionnaire responses from 177 US Spanish teachers and survey responses from 560 US college students of Spanish. Both instruments sought…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Busey, Christopher L.; Cruz, Bárbara C. – Social Studies, 2015
As the Latin@ population continues to grow in the United States, it is imperative that social studies teachers are aware of the rich history and sociocultural complexities of Latin@ identity. In particular, there is a large population of Latin@s of African descent throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America. However, Afro-Latin@s…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Black Studies, Social Studies, Latin American History
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VanPatten, Bill; Smith, Megan – Second Language Research, 2019
This article reports the findings of a study in which we investigated the possible effects of word order on the acquisition of case marking. In linguistic typology (e.g. Greenberg, 1963) a very strong correlation has been shown between dominant SOV (subject object verb) word order and case marking. No such correlation exists for SVO (subject verb…
Descriptors: Word Order, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Language Classification
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