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Direct linkSheng, Zhaohui; Sheng, Yanyan; Anderson, Christine J. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2011
English language learners (ELLs) are the most rapidly growing student population in U.S. elementary and secondary schools, and this growth rate will continue throughout the next few decades. Indirect evidence has suggested that the youth population that grows the fastest has the highest risk of dropping out of school. This article reviews the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, At Risk Students, Cultural Background, Limited English Speaking
Peer reviewedRowsell, Lorna V. – ELT Journal, 1992
This article is concerned with classroom related reasons for dropping-out from the adult English-as-a-Second-Language classroom. It presents a novel method of discovering how adult students from various cultural backgrounds perceive language learning events. (18 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cultural Background, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
Download full textValencia, Richard R., Ed. – 1993
This book examines the school failure and success of Chicano students from a wide variety of perspectives. It attempts to promote further understanding of what constitutes, maintains, and helps shape school failure among Chicano students, and to present research and policy agendas that may help to realize Chicano school success. Five sections…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Bilingual Education, Culture Conflict
