The Teaching of English and Latinos in America: Where do we go from here?

“The teaching of English and Latinos in the United States is without a doubt interrelated to the historical, cultural, political and socio-economic relations that exist between the American Latino community and the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s hardest experience in life was not becoming President but enduring the hardships of a one hundred-mile journey from Knob Creek to Little Pigeon Creek, Indiana. The hardest experience for the teaching of English for Latinos has been the constant twists and turns of the educational policies that have governed it during the last one hundred plus years. Because these elements co-exist, a constructive view of the teaching of English is needed to recognize and set forth a vision, which includes four basic stages:

1. An in-depth acknowledgement of the historical, cultural, social and socio-economic reality,

2. A nation-wide public dialogue with teachers, students, administrators and parents,

3. A consolidation plan in reaction to the first two,

4. And a clear, concise and constructive view of the teaching of English for Latinos as the final stage in the ladder of success.”

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