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Brock, Cynthia H. – Urban Education, 2007
This investigation is an ethnographic case study of the literacy learning opportunities of a fifth-grade Hmong child (pseudonym Deng) who came to the United States from Laos via Thailand at the very end of his third-grade year in school. Deng was one of 25 students in a mainstream urban classroom in the Midwest during his fifth grade in school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
McKay, Sandra Lee, Ed.; Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia, Ed. – 2000
Articles include the following: "The Flowering of America: Linguistic Diversity in the United States" (R. Macias); "The American Linguistic Mosaic: Understanding Language Shift in the United States" (C. Veltman); "Bilingualism and Language Use Among Mexican Americans" (G. Valdes); "Puerto Ricans in the United…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Colonialism