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Latino Home and Community Contexts (2001)
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@MISC{Monzó01latinohome,
author = {Lilia Monzó and Robert Rueda and Lilia Monzó and Robert Rueda},
title = {Latino Home and Community Contexts},
year = {2001}
}
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Abstract
How do the family contexts in which immigrant Latino children participate contribute to developing an achievement orientation toward literacy and schooling? Minority children are often thought to lack an achievement orientation. In this paper we discuss the home and community contexts of Latina/o immi-grant children in a low-income community in Southern California, to demon-strate how sociocultural factors interact to produce motivation. Our findings reveal that even among demographically similar families, a diverse set of constraints and affordances are at play which significantly impact students achievement orientations toward literacy and schooling. Further, we find that the families ’ daily struggles to negotiate within a linguistically and cul-turally unfamiliar environment make the importance of literacy—particu-larly English literacy—quite transparent to children. Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
Keyphrases
community context latino home achievement orientation sociocultural factor family daily struggle unfamiliar environment immi-grant child literacy particu-larly english literacy minority child diverse set early reading achievement university immigrant latino child student achievement orientation low-income community southern california michigan ann arbor similar family family context
