Carina's Files

Language Diversity and Schooling By: Carina Marinangeli “When you are an immigrant, many doors are closed. Well, yes, some, some are open-but they are hidden. Without help, I can’t find them”. This is a quote by Edgar Stritikus, a 15-year-old immigrant student from Mexico. He expressed his feelings in a new country with new customs and culture for him. As we, teachers, see the ethnicity and diversity in the classrooms, they see the differences between their culture and their partners’ ones. Mainly when we come across with students from different nationalities from ours, we should try to put on their shoes. I mean, to try to understand them. Immigration continues to be one of the primary sources for linguistic diversity in the United States. While immigration has a tremendous impact on all of American life, nowhere has this been more keenly felt than in U.S. public schools. But diversity is increasing here in our country, maybe not as in the U.S., but we have immigrants ...