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Supporting Indigenous Latinx Students’ Success in U.S. Schools

By Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Ph.D. (2021) This article first appeared on and is linked to the Colorín Colorado website, a bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners. Learn more about the ways that schools can better identify and partner with Indigenous students from Latin America who speak languages other than Spanish and bring diverse educational experiences with them. On this article Setting the Stage: Indigenous Latinx Students and Formal Schooling Improving the Intake Process How are we welcoming students? Language Support for Instruction and Translation Language Resources in the Community Video: Family Engagement with Indigenous Families from…

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Critical Storytelling: Multilingual Immigrants in the United States

Purchase from This edited book is a beautiful and powerful collection of poems and personal and visual narratives of multilingual immigrants in the United States. The purpose of this book is to create a space where immigrant stories can be told from their personal perspectives. The contributors are immigrants from all walks of life who represent a diverse picture of languages, professions, and beliefs from the immigrant diasporas within the United States. Inspired by the use of autoethnography, authors examine their own lives through poems and personal and visual narratives to share with others who might have similar experiences. PART…

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Indigenous Students from Latin America in the United States

Estudiantes indígenas de América Latina en los Estados Unidos This report is published on Harvard University’s Instituto Cervantes at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for the Observatorio Instituto Cervantes Symposium 2018. Informes del Observatorio / Observatorio Reports. 042-08/2018EN (Orig.) Topic: Present and future of immigrant indigenous students from Latin America in American classrooms Abstract: This report provides an overview of indigenous Hispanic students from Latin America in the United States. More specifically, this report provides an overview about the indigenous cultures of Latin America, indigenous Hispanic students in American classrooms, Hispanic indigenous populations in the community, and reflections…

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NML Interview with Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Language Educator

This blog post first appeared on the The National Museum of Language (NML) Blog on December 12, 2017. This month, we feature Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, a Spanish and ESOL teacher and doctoral candidate in Leadership: Reading, Language, and Literacy from Concordia University. Luis has made several presentations and publications on both the studying of languages and the state of language learning and ESOL in the United States. Here’s what he had to say about the current state and future of language education. Please tell me about your educational and professional background. I started my education back in 2007 while serving in Japan…

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Mariano Cubí y Soler: The Legacy of a Pioneer Spanish Linguist in Maryland

First published on Underbelly: Maryland Historical Society, November 10th, 2016 Earlier this year I started researching into the life and works of Professor Mariano Cubí y Soler as a Lord Baltimore Fellow at the Maryland Historical Society. During this time, I have learned a great deal about professor Cubí y Soler, an innovative and distinguished scholar in the nineteenth century in the United States, Latin American, and Spain. In this article, I offer an adapted version of my entire research and focus only on professor Cubí y Soler’s transcendental works and legacy in the field of Spanish language instruction in…

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