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ERIC Number: EJ690311
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jan
Pages: 29
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-1538-1927
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Second-Language Acquisition, Culture Shock, and Language Stress of Adult Female Latina Students in New York
Buttaro, Lucia
Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, v3 n1 p21-49 Jan 2004
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the educational, cultural, and linguistic adjustments and experiences encountered by Hispanic adult females in learning English as a second language (ESL) and the relation of these experiences to the variables of language, culture, and education of adult Hispanic females. Adult ESL learners face problems of controlling linguistic rules and of applications in various situations while attempting to deal with the shock of living in a new cultural environment.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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