Linguistically Diverse Immigrant and Resident Writers

Spotlighting the challenges and realities faced by linguistically diverse immigrant and resident students in U.S. secondary schools and in their transitions from high school to community colleges and universities, this book looks at programs, interventions, and other factors that help or hinder them as they make this move. Chapters from teachers and scholars working in a variety of contexts build rich understandings of how high school literacy contexts, policies such as the proposed DREAM Act and the Common Core State Standards, bridge programs like Upward Bound, and curricula redesign in first-year college composition courses designed to recognize increasing linguistic diversity of student populations, affect the success of this growing population of students as they move from high school into higher education.

Christina Ortmeier-Hooper is an Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, USA. Todd Ruecker is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, USA.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Paying Attention to Resident Multilingual Students Christina Ortmeier-Hooper Todd Tuecker Part I: Multilingual Writers in High Schools Chapter 2: Opportunity Gaps: Curricular Discontinuities across ESL, Mainstream, and College English Betsy Gilliland Chapter 3: The Common Core State Standards and Implications for Writing Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners Luciana C. de Oliveira Chapter 4: Resident Multilingual Writers across a Secondary Curriculum: Toward a Postmethod Approach Sarah Henderson Lee Chapter 5: The Role of Social Networks and Social Support in the Reading, Writing, and College Planning of Multilingual Urban Adolescents Jennifer Shade Wilson Chapter 6: "I Don't Want to Be Special:" English Language Learners in Rural and Small Town High Schools Todd Ruecker Part II: Transition and Disruption: Sponsors, Programs, Politics, and Policies Chapter 7: Promises and Limitations of Literacy Sponsors in Residential Multilingual Youths' Transitions to Post-Secondary Schooling Amanda Kibler Chapter 8: Literacy Sponsorship in Upward Bound: The Impact of (De)segregation and Peer Dynamics Shauna Wight Chapter 9: Digital DREAMS: The Rhetorical Power of Online Resources for DREAM Act Activists Genevieve Garcia de Mueller Chapter 10: Bengali-speaking Multilingual Writers in Transition into Community College Ruhma Choudhury Leigh Garrison-Fletcher Chapter 11: Immigrant Mosaics: Advancing Multilingual Education in Canadian Post-Secondary Settings Julia Kiernan Part III: Resident Multilinguals in First-year Composition: Reimagining Faculty Development, Curriculum, and Administration Chapter 12: When the First Language You Use is Not English: Challenges of Language Minority College Composition Students Patti Wojahn Beth Brunk-Chavez Kate Mangelsdorf Mais Al-Khateeb Karen Tellez-Trujillo Laurie Churchill Cathilia Flores Chapter 13: Re-envisioning Faculty Development when Multilingualism is the New Norm: Conversations on First-Year Writing at a Hispanic Serving University Kimberly Harrison Chapter 14: Transitional Access and Integrated Complexity: Interconnecting People, Research, and Media for Transitional Writing Students Randall Monty Karen Holt Colin Charlton Chapter 15: Teaching Multilingualism, Teaching Identification: Embracing Resident Multilingualism as a Curricular Paradigm Tarez Samra Graban Chapter 16: Internationalization and the Place of Resident ML Students: Identifying Points of Leverage and Advocacy Christina Ortmeier-Hooper Dana Ferris Richard Lizotte Patricia Portanova Margi Wald Index