Success Stories: Latina/o High Schoolers Share About Their Bilingualism, Community Involvement, and Path to College

• In Event: Roundtable Session 22
  In Roundtable Session: Postsecondary Experiences in the Context of Multiple Languages and Literacies

Abstract

With a focus on students’ sociocultural learning and cultural assets, the current study presents in-depth interview data from five bilingual Latino/a graduating seniors at a public high school in California. All five participants come from immigrant families and are first-generation college-bound students. Their voices speak to the role of bilingualism in their lives, its presence in many different cultural contexts, and its impact on their Latino/a identity and academic success. Results are discussed in relation to the importance of recognizing Latino/a youths’ cultural and linguistic assets at school and disseminating research that documents their successes.

Author

• Noah Borrero, University of San Francisco