Linguistic minority students go to college : preparation, access, and persistence /
edited by Yasuko Kanno, Linda Harklau.
- ix, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Linguistic minority students go to college: introduction / College preparation in high school -- High school ESL placement: practice, policy, and effects on achievement / Linguistic minority students' opportunities to learn high school mathematics / Paving the way to college: an analysis of an International Baccalaureate diploma program serving immigrant students in California / How Paola made it to college: a linguistic minority student's unlikely success story / Access to college -- Top 10% linguistically diverse students' access and success at Texas public universities / Who are linguistic minority students in higher education? An analysis of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Study 2004 / Immigrant English learners' transitions to university: student challenges and institutional policies / A linguistic minority student's discursive framing of agency and structure / College experiences and persistence -- Navigating "open access" community colleges: matriculation policies and practices for the U.S.-educated linguistic minority students / Retention of English learner students at a community college / Contextualizing the path to academic success: culturally and linguistically diverse students gaining voice and agency in higher education / Benefits and costs of exercising agency: a case study of an English learner navigating a four-year university / Citizens vs. aliens: how institutional policies construct linguistic minority students / Yasuko Kanno, Linda Harklau -- Rebecca M. Callahan, Dara R. Shirfrer -- Eduardo Mosqueda -- Anysia P. Mayer -- Linda Harklau, Shelly McClanahan -- Cristóbal Rodríguez -- Anne-Marie Nuñez, P. Johnelle Sparks -- Yasuko Kanno, Sarah Arva Grosik -- Manka M. Varghese -- George C. Bunch, Ann K. Endris -- Cate Almon -- Melissa Homes ... [et al.] -- Ronald Fuentes -- Shawna Shapiro.
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 university student population in the United States. Bringing together emerging scholarship on the growing number of university-bound linguistic minority students in the K-12 pipeline, this title showcases new research on these students' preparation for, access to, and persistence at university. 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 higher 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.
0415890616 9780415890618 0415890624 9780415890625
2011037628
Linguistic minorities--Education (Higher)--United States Education, Higher--United States