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Succeeding in school: Exploring how academic achievement is possible for Mexican-origin English learners.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Succeeding in school: Exploring how academic achievement is possible for Mexican-origin English learners./
Author:	de Souza, Marcela.
Description:	172 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2431.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-07A.
Subject:	Education, Bilingual and Multicultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3226257
ISBN:	9780542794797

Succeeding in school: Exploring how academic achievement is possible for Mexican-origin English learners.
de Souza, Marcela.

Succeeding in school: Exploring how academic achievement is possible for Mexican-origin English learners. - 172 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2431.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006.

This is a study of eighteen high-achieving, economically disadvantaged, English learners of Mexican descent who transcended numerous obstacles in order to make a personal dream come true. Monolingual in Spanish upon arrival in California, they received English as a Second Language instruction in the public school system while embarking upon a journey of cultural adaptation and personal transformation that would eventually lead them to higher education. What major factors contributed to their academic success? This is the main question the study sought to answer.

ISBN: 9780542794797Subjects--Topical Terms:

626653
Education, Bilingual and Multicultural.

Succeeding in school: Exploring how academic achievement is possible for Mexican-origin English learners.
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