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Charon-Cardona, Euridice – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2013
During the Cold War over half a million Asians, Africans and Latin Americans studied and graduated in the Soviet Union's universities and technical schools as part of this country's educational aid policies. Cuba was an intermediary player in the Cold War geopolitical contest between the United States and the Soviet Union, fuelled by the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developed Nations, Latin Americans, Social Systems
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Noboa, Julio – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2013
The overall objective of this investigation was to explore the views of border history teachers on a wide variety of issues that influence their instructional approaches, curricular content choices, and capacity to teach history more effectively. More specifically, the focus was on identifying factors that affect their ability to utilize…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, History Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Cote, Linda R.; Bornstein, Marc H. – First Language, 2014
The importance of input factors for bilingual children's vocabulary development was investigated. Forty-seven Argentine, 42 South Korean, 51 European American, 29 Latino immigrant, 26 Japanese immigrant, and 35 Korean immigrant mothers completed checklists of their 20-month-old children's productive vocabularies. Bilingual children's vocabulary…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, Acculturation
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Walrond, Jean – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2008
The number of people living in Canada of Caribbean heritage has increased substantially over the past forty years. This paper examines aspects of Caribbean culture and Caribbean education culture to explore if Caribbean Canadians can claim a Caribbean education philosophy. The research claims there is one. The article suggests that this philosophy…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Youth, Latin American Culture, Educational Philosophy
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Briones, Elena; Tabernero, Carmen – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
Based on social cognitive theory, the purpose of this study is to examine certain social cognitive and demographic factors involved in intrinsic satisfaction amongst secondary school students of different cultural backgrounds in a new migrant-receiving country. Given the role of schools in youth acculturation and adaptation, it is important to…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Self Efficacy, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Freund, Deanna Patrice Nichols – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The opportunity to learn for African American and Latino children is extremely limited in a large number of US classrooms. Many societal issues are to blame, but high-stakes testing has exacerbated this problem. The pressure to increase test scores has caused a narrowing of the curriculum, particularly in low-performing schools, most of which are…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Norms, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
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Ullman, Ellen – Community College Journal, 2011
According to the Geneseo Migrant Center, 1 million to 3 million migrant workers leave their homes each year to work in agricultural fields, many coming to the United States from homes in Mexico and Latin America. The Pew Hispanic Center recently reported that one in four U.S. farm workers is an unauthorized immigrant, meaning they lack either a…
Descriptors: Migrant Workers, Foreign Countries, Undocumented Immigrants, Migrants
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Vaquera, Elizabeth; Kao, Grace – Child Development, 2012
This study explores the educational achievement of immigrant youth in Spain employing data from 3 waves of the Longitudinal Study of Families and Childhood (Panel de Families i Infancia), a representative sample of children in Catalonia first interviewed at ages 13-16 in 2006 (N = 2,710). Results suggest consistent disadvantage in achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Outcomes of Education, Immigrants
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Delgado Bernal, Dolores; Burciaga, Rebeca; Flores Carmona, Judith – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2012
While the genre of "testimonio" has deep roots in oral cultures and in Latin American human rights struggles, the publication and subsequent adoption of "This Bridge Called My Back" and, more recently, "Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios" by Chicanas and Latinas, have demonstrated the power of "testimonio" as a genre that exposes…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Race, Nature Nurture Controversy, Cultural Traits
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DeVries, Scott – Hispania, 2010
In this paper, I begin with the identification of a moment of intertextuality between "Un viejo que leia novelas de amor" (1989) by Chilean Luis Sepulveda and "La voragine" (1924) by Colombian Jose Eustasio Rivera as an analytical motif for a reevaluation of the environmentalism and political ecologies in the Spanish American "novela de la selva"…
Descriptors: Spanish Americans, Ecology, Hispanic Americans, United States Literature
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Rasinski, Timothy V.; Padak, Nancy; Newton, Joanna; Newton, Evangeline – Reading Teacher, 2011
In this article, the authors make a case for teaching vocabulary in the elementary grades through a focus on the morphological structure of words, in particular English words that are derived through Latin and Greek roots and affixes. The authors present a set of engaging instructional ideas for the use of Latin and Greek derivations to teach…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction
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Kolinsky, Regine; Verhaeghe, Arlette; Fernandes, Tania; Mengarda, Elias Jose; Grimm-Cabral, Loni; Morais, Jose – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
To examine whether enantiomorphy (i.e., the ability to discriminate lateral mirror images) is influenced by the acquisition of a written system that incorporates mirrored letters (e.g., b and d), unschooled illiterate adults were compared with people reading the Latin alphabet, namely, both schooled literate adults and unschooled adults…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Illiteracy, Latin, Visual Discrimination
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Simpkins, Sandra D.; O'Donnell, Megan; Delgado, Melissa Y.; Becnel, Jennifer N. – Applied Developmental Science, 2011
Latino adolescents often are less likely to participate in extracurricular activities compared to youth from other ethnic groups. This descriptive study examined the differences in activity participation by family resources and markers of cultural orientation for the four largest Latino ethnic groups in the U.S. Findings were based on secondary…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Ethnic Groups, Adolescents, Data Analysis
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Hsu, Wenhua – Language Teaching Research, 2013
This study created a medical word list (MWL) to bridge the gap between non-technical and technical vocabulary. The researcher compiled a corpus containing 155 textbooks across 31 medical subject areas from e-book databases (totaling 15 million running words) and examined the range and frequency of words outside the most frequent 3,000-word…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Medical Education
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2019
Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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