Linguistic minority students go to college : preparation, access, and persistence / edited by Yasuko Kanno, Linda Harklau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kanno, Yasuko, 1965-

Harklau, Linda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic minorities--Education (Higher)--United States.

Linguistic minorities.

Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Currently, linguistic minority students, students who speak a language other than English at home, represent 21% of the entire K-12 student population and 11% of the college student population. Bringing together emerging scholarship on the growing number of college-bound linguistic minority students in the K-12 pipeline, this ground-breaking volume showcases new research on these students' preparation for, access to, and persistence in college. Other than studies of their linguistic challenges and writing and academic literacy skills in college, little is known about the broader issues of linguistic minority students' access to and success in college. Examining a variety of factors and circumstances that influence the process and outcome, the scope of this book goes beyond students' language proficiency and its impact on college education, to look at issues such as student race/ethnicity, gender, SES, and parental education and expectations. It also addresses structural factors in schooling including tracking, segregation of English learners from English-fluent peers, availability and support of institutional personnel, and collegiate student identity and campus climate. Presenting state-of-the-art knowledge and mapping out a future research agenda in an extremely important and yet understudied area of inquiry, this book advances knowledge in ways that will have a real impact on policy regarding linguistic minority immigrant students' higher education opportunities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Linguistic Minority Students go to College: Preparation, Acess, and Persistence; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Linguistic Minority Students Go to College: Introduction; Part I: College Preparation in High School; 2. High School ESL Placement: Practice, Policy, and Eff ects on Achievement; 3. Linguistic Minority Students' Opportunities to Learn High School Mathematics; 4. Paving the Way to College: An Analysis of an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program Serving Immigrant Students in California

5. How Paola Mad e It to College: A Linguistic Minority Student's Unlikely Success StoryPart II: Access to College; 6. Top 10% Linguistically Diverse Students' Access and Success at Texas Public Universities; 7. Who are Linguistic Minority Students in Higher Education?: An Analysis of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Study 2004; 8. Immigrant English Learners' Transitions to University: Student Challenges and Institutional Policies; 9. A Linguistic Minority Student's Discursive Framing of Agency and Structure; Part III: College Experiences and Persistence

10. Navigating "Open Access" Community Colleges: Matriculation Policies and Practices for U.S.-Educated Linguistic Minority Students11. Retention of English Learner Students at a Community College; 12. Contextualizing the Path to Academic Success: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students Gaining Voice and Agency in Higher Education; 13. Benefits and Costs of Exercising Agency: A Case Study of an English Learner Navigating a Four-Year University ; 14. Citizens vs. Aliens: How Institutional Policies Construct Linguistic Minority Students; About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-81494-9

1-136-81495-7

0-203-82938-7

9780203829387

OCLC:

798532653