Pew Research Report: The Rise of Asian Americans
(Contributed
by C. Allen Lynn)
According
to the Pew Research Center, Asians are the fastest growing immigrant
group in the United States. However, like the terms “Latino” or
“Hispanic”, “Asian” does not describe a monolithic group. The
Pew report does a fine job of parsing the issue, pointing out the
various individual nationalities of the new immigrants and what they
bring to the United States in terms of education and wealth.
Although
North Carolina is well known for its large Latino population, has
anyone seen any evidence of this rise in Asian immigration in North
Carolina ESL classrooms? What kind of challenges do you think such a
shift will present to ESL teachers accustomed to working mainly with
Spanish speaking ELLs?
Pew Research Report: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/06/19/the-rise-of-asian-americans/
When I first began teaching ESL in North Carolina in the late 1980s, my students were split between those from Spanish-speaking countries (mostly Mexico) and kids from Vietname, Cambodia, and South Korea--with the majority being Hmong from Vietnam and Laos.
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