ERIC Number: EJ1042752
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Oct
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The Effect of Community Linguistic Isolation on Language-Minority Student Achievement in High School
Drake, Timothy Arthur
Educational Researcher, v43 n7 p327-340 Oct 2014
Research on language-minority student outcomes has revealed sizeable and persistent achievement gaps. The reasons for these gaps are often closely linked with other factors related to underperformance, including generational status, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Using sociocultural second-language acquisition theories and community linguistic capital as a theoretical frame, this study builds upon the extant literature to examine the relationship between community linguistic isolation and language-minority 10th-grade student achievement outcomes. I find that language minority achievement gaps are three to five tenths of a standard deviation in reading and math but that the effect is attenuated by increased levels of linguistic isolation. These results appear robust to a number of specifications. Possible reasons for the attenuation are also discussed.
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Minorities, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Outcomes of Education, Achievement Gap, Race, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, Underachievement, Social Isolation, Native Language, English (Second Language), Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories, Least Squares Statistics, Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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