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Peñalva, Stacy L. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This ethnographic study aims to foreground the voices of 34 first through twelfth graders who belong to first-generation immigrant families from Mexico and Central America and attend Nueva Vida Church (fictitious name) in a Midwestern US city. They insightfully reflect upon their language, culture and citizenship during Sunday school class focus…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Churches, Ethnography
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Weisskirch, Robert S. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
Children of immigrant parents often are asked to language broker, translating documents and face-to-face interactions, for their parents and other adults. Many individuals continue to language broker as adults for their parents and other relatives, despite their adult status and living away from home. Twenty Mexican American college students…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Mexican Americans, Acculturation, Hispanic Americans