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Please make plans to join us on November
5, 1999 at:
the Central High School-East Campus Performing
Arts Center
3535 N. Cornelia Avenue, Fresno.
8:30 -10:30 - Presentation
and Discussion
Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda
(Performing Arts Center)
Dr. Kenji Hakuta has broad interests in developmental psycholinguistic
issues as they occur in diverse sociocultural and K-12 educational settings.
Specifically, his research centers on first and second language acquisition,
the relation between bilingualism and cognitive development, transfer of
skills across languages in bilingual students, and bilingual maintenance
loss. His languages of primary interest are English, Japanese, and Spanish.
In addition to his teaching, research, and writing, Dr. Hakuta has recently
been active in communicating findings on limited-English-proficient students
to federal policymakers. Dr. Hakuta received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology
from Harvard University, and has been a Professor of Education at Stanford
University since 1989. Dr. Hakuta is coeditor with Diane August of the recent
book Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda
in which a committee of experts focuses on the central question 'How do
we effectively teach children from homes in which a language other than
English is spoken?' For more information please visit Professor Hakuta's
Web page at www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/.
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