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Low-Level English as a New Language: Latino Adults' Perceptions Involving Their Learning and Teaching

Benson, Katrina Rosamay
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586548364034606

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2020, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Cross-Cultural, International Education.
As the student population in Minnesota continues to diversify, the school environment increasingly does not reflect student needs. In Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs, there is often an English as a New Language (ENL) track in which adults may participate. ABE students range from Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) to students with advanced degrees from their country of origin. The dearth and aging body of ENL ABE research concerning overarching student perceptions has led to the following research questions I examine in this study: 1) How do low level English as a New Language adult Latino immigrant students experience their own learning? 2) How do these participants teach others in the community and their family? I use a combination of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) (Kinloch, 2017) and Cultural Capital Theory (Bourdieu, 1986) as a framework to analyze the perceptions of participants. I collected data from nine individual interviews with Mexican and Ecuadorian low level ENL students enrolled in an urban ABE program in Minnesota. I coded the data to examine common themes from the interviews. The data suggests adult Latino low-level ENL learners use and exchange their capital to access linguistic capital for different outcomes including agency, assimilation and personal fulfillment. Participants reported they teach others while seeking an outcome of building linguistic capital for their children, gaining United States school-cultural capital, and/or agency. Mediating factors such as gender, psychological factors, seeking different capital influenced this exchange process for participants.
Bruce Collet, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Christy Galletta Horner, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Timothy Murnen, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Megan Strom, Ph.D (Committee Member)
191 p.
Adult Education; Education; English As A Second Language
English as a New Language; ENL; English as a Second Language; ESL; Adult Basic Education; ABE; Learning Perceptions; Teaching Perceptions; Cultural Capital Theory; Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education; SLIFE

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  • Benson, K. R. (2020). Low-Level English as a New Language: Latino Adults' Perceptions Involving Their Learning and Teaching [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586548364034606

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Benson, Katrina. Low-Level English as a New Language: Latino Adults' Perceptions Involving Their Learning and Teaching . 2020. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586548364034606.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Benson, Katrina. "Low-Level English as a New Language: Latino Adults' Perceptions Involving Their Learning and Teaching ." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586548364034606

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