Teaching Writing With Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

by Kirklighter, Cristina; Cardenas, Diana; Wolff Murphy, Susan; Kells, Michelle Hall

• ISBN13: 9780791471944
• ISBN10: 0791471942
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-09
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Engages the complexities of teaching Latino/a students at Hispanic Serving Institutions.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Teaching Writing at Hispanic-Serving Institutions	p. 17
Teaching English in a California Two-Year Hispanic-Serving Institution: Complexities, Challenges, Programs, and Practices	p. 37
Discovering a "Proper Pedagogy": The Geography of Writing at the University of Texas-Pan American	p. 63
Literate Practices/Language Practices: What Do We Really Know about Our Students?	p. 87
Mas alla del ingles: A Bilingual Approach to College Composition	p. 99
Un pie adentro y otro afuera: Composition Instruction for Transnational Dominicans in Higher Education	p. 119
Building on the Richness of a South Texas Community: Revisioning a Technical and Professional Writing Program through Service Learning	p. 135
It Is All in the Attitude - The Language Attitude	p. 145
Changing Perceptions, and Ultimately Practices, of Basic Writing Instructors through the Familia Approach	p. 169
The Politics of Space and Narrative in the Multicultural Classroom	p. 193
Collaboratively Mentoring Our Identities as Readers, Writers, and Teachers: A Black Cuban, Black American's Impact on a South Texas Community	p. 211
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