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Nearly every community school system has faced the arrival of immigrant and refugee students, increasing the need for teachers to gain a better understanding of students' educational background and culture. "Understanding Your Refugee and Immigrant Students" is a valuable resource that provides useful information about the history, educational system, cultural beliefs, teacher-student relationships, and potential adjustment challenges of students from different countries. This resource is a result of a vast amount of research on 18 countries and includes interviews with students from these countries. The countries included are Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Croatia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iran, Laos, Liberia, Peru, Somalia, Sudan, and the Ukraine.
Illustrations | maps |
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Pages | 260 |
Date Published | 30 Nov 2006 |
Publisher | Michigan ELT |
Subject/s | Education   ELT: English for academic purposes   Teaching skills & techniques   Migration, immigration & emigration   Teaching of students with English as a second language (TESOL)   Refugees & political asylum   |
Jeffra Flaitz is professor of MATESOL at the University of South Florida.