Keeping la promesa
This grant-funded mixed-methods study investigates how cross-cultural relations impact the well-being and academic performance of immigrant adolescents from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds. Focusing on a Philadelphia high school where we have a long-term research relationship, our study uses ethnography and survey methodologies to examine how immigrant students experience cross-cultural relations and how these experiences impact their academic achievement, well-being, and language learning. Investigating cross-cultural relations in an English as a second language (ESL) program where students regularly interact across differences responds to calls for nuanced research focusing on the interplay of contexts that shape emergent bilinguals’ cultural adjustment (e.g., Schachner et al., 2018) and academic success.
CO- PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR: DR. ELAINE ALLARD, Swarthmore College
STUDENT COLLABORATORS:
Naw Hser Nay Paw, ‘27
Allison Morales, ‘26
Yusra Ali, ‘24
Zachary Parker, Graduate Research Assistant
Quynn Hotan, ‘23
Ashley Pyon, ‘22
Research funded by a Spencer Foundation Small Grant