Becoming a “Model Minority”: Acquisition, Construction and Enactment of American Identity for Korean Immigrant Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 620-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert C. Park
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Korean Immigrant

Literacy Practices and Heritage Language Maintenance

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyungmi Joo
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
School Students ◽  
Ethnic And Cultural Identity ◽  
English Dominant ◽  
At Home

The number of students who speak a language other than English at home has significantly increased in various Anglophone (i.e., English-dominant) countries in recent decades. As the student populations in these countries’ schools have become more linguistically and culturally diverse, concerns about language minority students’ language and literacy development have also increased. Researchers have documented the literacy practices of various linguistic and cultural groups at home and/or in the community. This paper portrays the literacy practices of Korean-American students, in particular the population of immigrant adolescents. Drawing upon case studies of four Korean immigrant students, the study described in this paper reveals that these middle school students enjoyed reading and writing for pleasure at home in Korean as well as in English (the main language of their formal schooling), although there existed differences among them in terms of the degree to which they used the languages and the activities they engaged in. Their literacy practices were necessarily accompanied by ethnic and cultural identity formation.

scholarly journals Stereotypes in Disguise: The Dual School Lives of Japanese Immigrant Students

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukari Takimoto Amos
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Northwestern Part ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Model Minority Stereotype ◽  
Japanese Adolescents ◽  
Ethnic Language

This study investigated how Japanese adolescents behaved and performed in differing educational contexts. A qualitative analysis of 12 male and 11 female students revealed that they were quiet and reserved and fit the model minority stereotype while attending public/private schools in an urban region of the northwestern part of the United States. In contrast, at a Japanese weekend school the same students were relaxed, loud, and careless about academic performance. The findings of the study suggest a unique function of an ethnic language school beyond the maintenance of language and culture.

scholarly journals Using the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire and the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning in Assessing Motivation and Learning Strategies of Generation 1.5 Korean Immigrant Students

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Stoffa ◽  
Joseph C. Kush ◽  
Misook Heo
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Generation 1.5 ◽  
Moderate Correlation ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Similar Content ◽  
Motivation And Learning

This study examined the potential of utilizing the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) and the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) as instruments in measuring Generation 1.5 students' motivation and their use of language learning strategies. The MSLQ was of particular interest because it contains both a basic motivation subscale as well as a motivation/language learning strategies subscale. Participants of this study were 104 Generation 1.5 Korean immigrant students who were members of Korean communities located in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Participants provided general demographic information and completed both scales in a counterbalanced manner. Results indicated that while the two scales do have some similar content, the scales do not overlap entirely and appeared to measure two discrete indices. Results also indicated that a moderate correlation between MSLQ learning strategies and SILL learning strategies was found as well as between the SILL total score and the MSLQ total score.

The Ambiguous Practices of the Inauthentic Asian American Woman

Hypatia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Asian American Women ◽  
Asian American Woman ◽  
American Women ◽  
Asian American Identity

The Asian American identity is intimately associated with upward class mobility as the model minority, yet women's earnings remain less than men's, and Asian American women are perceived to have strong family ties binding them to domestic responsibilities. As such, the exact class status of Asian American women is unclear. The immediate association of this ethnic identity with a specific class as demonstrated by the recently released Pew study that Asian Americans are “the highest‐income, best‐educated” ethnicity contrasts with another study that finds Asian American women have the highest suicide rates in the United States. To understand these contrasting statistics, this article explores Asian American women's sense of authenticity. If the individual's sense of authenticity is intimately related with one's group identity, the association of the Asian American identity with a particular class ambivalently ensnares her as dichotomously inauthentic—as both the poor Asian American woman who fails to achieve economic upward mobility and the model minority Asian American woman who engages in assimilation practices. Feminist philosophers understand that identities change, but exactly how these transformations occur remains a mystery. The article ends with three speculations on the difficulties for practicing and recognizing individual acts that transform one's group identity.

Que(e)rying the American Dream in Films of the Early Twenty-First Century

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Ty
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
American Identity ◽  
First Century ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Saving Face ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter looks at a selection of post-2000 Asian American films that feature Asian American protagonists who are 1.5 or second-generation immigrants. The Debut (dir. Gene Cajayon), Red Doors (dir. Georgia Lee), Saving Face (dir. Alice Wu), and Charlotte Sometimes (dir. Eric Byler) question the professional and financial ambitions that were hallmarks of the model minority ideal of the economically successful Asian American established in the 1960s. The films depict protagonists who find themselves unable to fulfill what Sara Ahmed calls the "happiness duty" and experience melancholia and depression. A number of these independent Asian American filmmakers explore non-heteronormative and non-conjugal ways of expressing love and passion, revealing the shifting values, transcultural affiliations and desires that are now part of the multiplicity of Asian North American identity.

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