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Fu, Danling – Voices from the Middle, 1998
Argues that, for new immigrant children, literacy education that challenges students to speak and engage in meaningful work (not worksheets and handwriting practice) is the key to initiating them into American culture, to helping them feel this country is their home, and to unlocking their lonely hearts. Focuses on the special problems of Chinese…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Chinese Americans, Cultural Pluralism