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Portes, Alejandro, Ed. – 1996
This book compiles findings on the children of recent immigrants to the United States. The dearth of accessible census data and the tendency for school records and scholarly surveys to compress second-generation youth into a classificatory scheme that obliterates their history have obscured a major phenomenon in U.S. society--a rapidly growing…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Asian Americans
Download full textGoodwin, Judy; And Others – 1993
This document is composed of 5 separate volumes which represent case studies of 57 Asian Limited English Proficient (LEP) high school students who attended sheltered classes in the Philadelphia School District (Pennsylvania). Case studies, conducted in 1991-92, were part of a larger study of the student experience in sheltered classes in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Case Studies
Bradby, Denise; And Others – 1992
This report examines the demographic and language characteristics and educational aspirations of Asian American and Hispanic American eighth graders and relates that information to their mathematical ability and reading comprehension as measured by an achievement test. Special attention is paid to students who come from homes in which a…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Asian American Students, Demography, English (Second Language)
Allison, Desmond M., Ed. – Hongkong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1990
Papers on linguistics and language teaching in this volume are the following: "Language in Education: Hard Choices for Hong Kong" (Jo Lewkowicz); "EL2--Medium Education in a Largely Monolingual Society: The Case of Hong Kong" (Nigel Bruce); "A Programme for Semantics" (Laurence Goldstein); "Semantics and Its…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Correction, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
Cantalupo, Denise – 1992
An evaluation was conducted of the fourth year of a 5-year program in New York City, Choosing Optional Infused Career Education for Students in High School Bilingual Programs (Project CHOICE). The project is designed to provide services to Spanish-speaking and Haitian-speaking students of limited English proficiency at Fort Hamilton and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Career Education, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Evaluation
Gass, Susan M., Ed.; Neu, Joyce, Ed. – 1995
Articles on speech acts and intercultural communication include: "Investigating the Production of Speech Act Sets" (Andrew Cohen); "Non-Native Refusals: A Methodological Perspective" (Noel Houck, Susan M. Gass); "Natural Speech Act Data versus Written Questionnaire Data: How Data Collection Method Affects Speech Act…
Descriptors: Advertising, Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Vogt, Christina; Oliver, David – 1998
A survey of University of Kuwait medical students' perceptions of the English-language curriculum had three objectives: to compare their attitudes with those of Arabs from other Arab countries; elicit students' opinions of the English-based medical and science curriculum and the adequacy of their English language preparation; and assess the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education, Arabs, College Admission
Bell, Nancy, Ed.; Evans, Bruce, Ed.; Wang, Shuhan C., Ed. – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1997
Four papers on linguistic theory and language research include: "Language Policy, Language Education, and Language Rights: Indigenous, Immigrant, and International Perspectives" (Nancy H. Hornberger), a discussion of how language policy and language education serve as vehicles for promoting the vitality, versatility, and stability of…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Educational Strategies, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Pierce, Lorraine Valdez; O'Malley, J. Michael – 1992
Performance assessment procedures and a portfolio assessment framework are presented for monitoring the language development of language minority students in the upper elementary and middle grades. Unlike standardized achievement tests, performance-based assessment can effectively monitor the progress of language minority students because it can…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Check Lists, Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria
Fantini, Alvino E. – 1985
An ongoing longitudinal study, 15 years old at the time of publication, is reported. It is a sociolinguistic, developmental study of the acquisition of two languages, Spanish and English, by a boy from birth, with data drawn from direct observation and occasional tape recordings of speech. An introductory chapter outlines the objectives and method…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Children
Clark, Eve V., Ed.; And Others – 1989
Papers in this volume include the following: "The Structural Sources of Verb Meaning" (Lila R. Gleitman); "Acquisition of Noun Incorporation in Inuktitut" (Shanley Allen, Martha Crago); "Why Do Children Omit Subjects?" (Paul Bloom); "Acquiring Language in a Creole Setting: Theoretical and Methodological…
Descriptors: Adverbs, American Sign Language, Child Language, Chinese
Hadfield, Oakley D.; And Others – 1990
Of the many factors that have been proposed as a rationale for poor mathematics conceptualization by American Indians, cultural factors remain the most popular when explanations are submitted. Additionally, the accepted fault for poor achievement is focused upon mathematics anxiety. A study of American Indian school mathematics achievement and…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Castellanos, Diego; Leggio, Pamela – 1983
This history of bilingual education in the United States begins with the advent of the Spanish in the early 16th century, and traces the development of the phenomenon to the present. Chapters cover (1) early immigration of Spanish and Germans before the Revolution, (2) early 19th century xenophobia, (3) bilingual schooling in the early 19th…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Activism, Adult Education, Bilingual Education
Peer reviewedBrown, Annie; Iwashita, Noriko; McNamara, Tim – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
This report documents two coordinated exploratory studies into the nature of oral English-for-academic-purposes (EAP) proficiency. Study I used verbal-report methodology to examine field experts? rating orientations, and Study II investigated the quality of test-taker discourse on two different Test of English as a Foreign Language? (TOEFL®) task…
Descriptors: Evaluators, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1989
The New York State Board of Regents has established that state educational policy and practices must help limited-English-proficient (LEP) students enter the English mainstream as quickly as possible, while regarding the first language as an important cultural asset and a useful academic tool. These policies state the following: (1) all students…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Cultural Awareness, Educational Needs
