Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791471934 ISBN 13: 9780791471937

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2007

Synopsis

Engages the complexities of teaching Latino/a students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

This groundbreaking collection brings together the eclectic voices of two-year and four-year writing teachers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) throughout the United States to explore the complexities of teaching writing with Latino/a students. Made up of narratives, qualitative studies, and conversations, the book presents the theories and practices of these experienced teachers. Its strength lies in the diversity of perspectives and methods used by these teachers to address many of the issues central to teaching Latino/a and other minority students: acknowledgment of difference, respect for diversity, student identity, students' right to their own language, and the valuing of home and school literacies and languages.

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About the Author

At Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, Cristina Kirklighter is Associate Professor of English and the author of Traversing the Democratic Borders of the Essay, also published by SUNY Press, Diana Cárdenas is Associate Professor of English, and Susan Wolff Murphy is Assistant Professor of English.

From the Back Cover

This groundbreaking collection brings together the eclectic voices of two-year and four-year writing teachers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) throughout the United States to explore the complexities of teaching writing with Latino/a students. Made up of narratives, qualitative studies, and conversations, the book presents the theories and practices of these experienced teachers. Its strength lies in the diversity of perspectives and methods used by these teachers to address many of the issues central to teaching Latino/a and other minority students: acknowledgment of difference, respect for diversity, student identity, students' right to their own language, and the valuing of home and school literacies and languages.

"The writers and editors of this important new book are at the forefront of the scholarship of learning for Latino students, and the summary of their experiences serves as a resource for other disciplines and for all faculty members focused on effectively engaging Latino students." -- Sarita E. Brown, President, Excelencia in Education

"At a time of anti-Latino hysteria in the United States, it is good to be reminded that our Latino and Latina students come from any number of Spanish-language communities, with their varying dialects and customs. It is good to be reminded that our Latino and Latina students are many-generational U.S.-American, first generation, generation 1.5, bilingual, multilingual, monolingual in Spanish, monolingual in English. This book breaks down the monolith, not only reminding us all of the great variety within the largest language group of the Western Hemisphere, but also providing us with ways to consider and reconsider what compositionists might do in their classrooms." -- Victor Villanueva, author of Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color

"I applaud the editors and contributors for meeting the need for a pedagogically and theoretically sound work focusing on writing instruction at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. I also admire the unconventional approach that many of the contributors adopt: seeing the Hispanic writer as far more complex than is usually portrayed." -- Howard Tinberg, coeditor of What Is "College-Level" Writing?

Contributors include Robert J. Affeldt, Jennifer Anderson, Isabel Araiza, Isis Artze-Vega, Isabel Baca, Diana Cárdenas, Humberto Cárdenas, Peter Cavazos, Elizabeth I. Doud, Rachel Eatmon-Hall, Cathy Freeze, Misty Lynn García, Susan Loudermilk Garza, Barbara Jaffe, Rebecca Jones, Michelle Hall Kells, Cristina Kirklighter, Dundee Lackey, Jody Millward, Beatrice Méndez Newman, Marianne Pita, Dora Ramírez-Dhoore, Jennifer Nelson Reynolds, David Starkey, Sandra Starkey, Belkys Torres, Sharon Utakis, Sandra Valerio, Billy D. Watson, Susan Wolff Murphy, Elizabeth Worden, and Stacy Wyatt.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791471934
• ISBN 13: 9780791471937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Kirklighter Cristina, Cardenas Diana, Wolff Murphy Susan