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Academic ESL Program
Access to higher education
and mentoring
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CLD Student
College Generation Status
College minority recruitment
Content Area Coursework
EL Student
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ESL Course
ESL Coursework
ESL Placement
ESL Program
ESL Section
ESL Student
ESOL
First generation immigrant students
Generation Immigrant Students
GPA
Grade Point Average
High School GPA
IB Diploma Program
K-12 immigrant students
Linguistic minority students
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Optometry School
orientation
Postsecondary minority students
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PTO Meeting
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Texas Public Universities
Top Ten Percent Plan

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415890625
  • Weight: 520g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Mar 2012
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

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.
About

Yasuko Kanno is Associate Professor of TESOL in the College of Education, Temple University.

Linda Harklau is Professor of the Teaching Additional Languages program and the Linguistics program at the University of Georgia.