Teachers' Experiences and Prepared Readiness in Servicing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student Populations
Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This literature review was conducted to determine how critical the issue of language acquisition will be in public schools across the United States in coming years.Demographics in the United States are predicted to change to such an extent that between the years of 2005 to 2050 the Hispanic population will comprise 60 percent of the total national population growth of the United States (Passel & Cohn, 2008).Teachers' attitudes and perceptions of students who have immigrated to the United States and speaking languages other than English are influenced by prior training and exposure.Federal and state laws also mandate what is required of teachers and can put stress on them to achieve adequate yearly progress.Some teachers are not knowledgeable about the difference between communicative English and academic English which impacts their methods of working with students whose primary language was not English.
Author: Frank A. Akey
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2187728811