REN, Inc. Context:

The Publication for Refugee Educators
This newsletter is a way to provide teachers and others with information on newcomers to their classrooms. Listed below is our complete library of Context (and Refugee Update) publications from 1980 to 2002. Browse through to find articles that may interest you. Click on the appropriate link to download the .pdf file. You will need Adobe Acrobat to view the files.

Volume 22, No. 152, September/October 2002 FINAL ISSUE
My, how time flies!
How many recent immigrant students are in California: How have immigration trends changed over three years? (California National Origin Census, 2000-02, by country of origin)
Top 25 sending countries for recent immigrant students, 2002
What is the percent change, 2000 to 2002?
Where (in California) do English learners live? (2002 LEP)
How many languages do English learners speak (R30, 2002)
2002 English learners in California are most likely to speak which languages?
Districts enrolling the majority of Khmer, Mienh, Lao, Hmong, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, and Armenian English learners in 2002…
How many 2002 English learners are there in Sacramento County districts?
We are Family: Refugees Then and Now (15th annual Refugee Educators’ Faire)
Context articles 1988-2002, Volumes 8-22

Vol 22, No. 151, May/June 2002
Competing the circle: A Mien woman’s journey home (Hammond, Saetern)
Project FIELD
Teaching in the 21st century (Dunstan)
Southeast Asian high school student tutors
Refugee Educators’ Faire #15: We are Family: Refugees Then and Now
Hmong, Vietnamese, Russian English learners in California; 2001 CELDT results

Vol 22, No. 150, March/April 2002
Beyond the registration form
Academic language: English Language Arts standards K-8
Title III $$$: Will you get it?
NCBE No. 5: What are the most common (US) language groups for LEP students?

Vol 22, No. 149, January/February 2002
Year of the horse, 4699
Chinese horse proverbs and idioms
Global horse proverbs and idioms
Language census (R30), March 2001
Changes in English learners by language and (California) county, 1998-2001
English learner shifts: Which California districts have seen the greatest change? (1998-2001: Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Hmong, Mien, Khmer)
Refugee Educators’ Faire 14 Grid
New federal legislation for immigrant students
Sacramento county English learners, 2001

Vol 22, No. 148, October/November 2001
Different cultures, different kids: Children’s native wiring interacts with each culture’s lessons to shape the young (Sue Mote)
Child-rearing study (Oberg et. al)
Finding out about students from Afghanistan
2001 Hmong Population Facts
One Story’s Words
Reauthorization of IASA
Education code advocacy for immigrant students
Common mistakes: EIEP annual program performance reports

Vol 21, No. 147, August/September 2001
Cats and mouses: Forming generalizations
Drawing conclusions about the SAT-9, 2001, LEP vs. non-LEP
Refugee Educators’ Faire #14
Quick guide to English language development
Dickenson’s vocab program for newcomers
Lessons: True or false or a bit of both?
Community heritage language schools, 2000-01

Vol 21, No. 146, April/May 2001
Global Learning Networks (Orillas)
Universe of proverbs: A global learning network project
Human universals
Interesting language tidbits
Echoes from the Wall (Vietnam War)
Excerpts from census 2000

Vol 21, No. 145, February/March 2001
Hmong come in bunches, like grapes: How acculturation through schooling widens the generation gap (Mote)
Raising children, educating children: Understanding different socialization goals
“Lost boys” of Sudan
Emergency Immigrant Education Program (EIEP), March 2001
Grammar background for English language development:
Infinitives and gerunds as nouns
Immigrant Voices, 2001-02 (Jefferson Union High School District)
Refugee Educators’ Network goals, budget, and progress to date.

Vol 21, No. 144, December 00 / January 2001
Year of the Snake
Proverbial snakes
Mythical snakes
Fabled snakes
Storied snakes
From Peter in Laos
Child-rearing proverbs
Refugee Children Assistance Program (California’s 9 grants)
“Abuse or Discipline? Observations from the Field” (Magagnini)

Vol 20, No. 143, October/November 2000
Refugee students find their voices in two midwestern communities (Harrison)
Concept of refuge (activity)
Linguistic olympics (Nahuatl, Hausa)
Academic English: Key to long-term school success (Scarcella, Rumberger)

Vol 20, No. 142, August/September 2000
When reading is not reading (4 characteristics of English text that affect
English learners’ reading comprehension)
Survival Strategies: ELD beginning level—Key word assignments
March 2000 Language Census (R30)
English learners in Sacramento County districts, 2000
English learners and the SAT-9 2000
World wise schools: More than meets the eye (Peace Corps)
Fast facts: Today’s newcomers (National Immigration Forum, 2000)
Southeast Asian Parents’ Conference

Vol. 20, No. 141, April/May 2000
Newcomers 2000 (Graphs and charts on immigrants to the US)
Refugees admitted to the US, FY 98-99
Refugee priorities, FY 2000
Illegal aliens FY96
Emergency Immigrant Education Program, March 2000
Research and essay topics (immigration)
Map activity: refugees
My day in Yogaville: A lesson in who I am (Pahwa)
State accommodation policies for students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in high stakes assessment.

Vol. 20, No. 140, February/March 2000
Community heritage language schools; Ukrainian and Armenian Saturday schools in Folsom Cordova USD
Heritage languages initiative
Strategies and lesson ideas for newcomer students
A lesson learned: Help others, help yourself (Sacramento Bee, November 1999)
Highlights from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (Rumbaut), part 2
Then and now: A comparative perspective on immigration and school reform during two periods in
American history (Olsen)

Vol. 20, No. 139, December 99/January 2000
Year of the Dragon
Dragon proverbs & idioms
Dragons culturally
Dragon resources
Dragons cross-culturally (activity)
Key findings from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (Rumbaut), part 1
Selected bibliography of immigrant studies
Selected research about the Hmong, 1995-99

Vol. 20, No. 138, October/November 1999
Students and languages in California, 1999: Total EL/FEP by language; top ten counties; top ten languages
in Sacramento County; ten-year trend in EL/FEP; one-year changes in EL by language
Districts with 50 or more English learners for Cantonese, Vietnamese, Lao, Mien, Khmu, Lahu,
Burmese, Hmong, Khmer, Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian
English learners for SEACRC-supporting districts
Diagnostic “pie” for English learners who are having difficulty (adapted from Roseberry-McKibbin)
Saturday, in LA (Silvern)
Additional standards needed for English learners (Merino and Rumberger)

Vol. 19, No. 137, August/September 1999
Effective programs for English learners (from August & Hakuta)
SAT-9 reading results for EO/FEP & LEP students in California and Sacramento CountyELD standards adopted
Cooperative Learning: A Positive Response to Language Diversity (Holt)

Vol. 19, No. 136, April/May 1999
Immigrants, refugees, sojourners: A newcomer update
Emergency Immigrant Education Program 1999 census dataFY97 immigrant data
Refugee ceilings and admissions
Albanian situation map (UNHCR May 1999)
Albanian phonemes, surnames, dictionaries, and online resources
The case for enrolling immigrant students in two-way bilingual immersion education (Dolson)

Vol. 19, No. 135, February/March 1999
Do-it-yourself” Hmong literacy development materials
Ups and downs of native language instruction in American public schools, 1830s to 1990s
Teaching second-language students to identify and edit writing errors (terHaar)
Children’s literature for immigrant students
Laos for teachers (summer travel)
Identifying effective instructional interventions for immigrant students

Vol. 19, No. 134, December/January 1998-9
Year of the Rabbit
Rabbits and hares across languages (Chinese)
A cunning rabbit has three holes (Chinese)
Cooking the hounds once the hares are caught
Aesop’s hares
Reading is an unnatural act…
The wonderful tar-baby (Harris, 1881)
The rabbit and the tiger (Vietnamese)
Coyote goes hunting (Apache)
The old woman and the hare (Cambodian)
New study on native-language instruction (Dolson)

Vol. 19, No. 133, October/November 1998
Newcomer Programs: English Immersion and the SAT-9
High frequency words by phoneme; by function
High frequency verbs with tenses
Phrasal verbs with high frequency words

Vol. 18, No. 132, August/September 1998
1997-98 demographics: Second language speakers in CA March 1998
LEP students in districts with more than 50: Russian/Ukrainian/Armenian; Burmese/Cantonese; Hmong;
Lao/Mien; Khmer/Khmu/Lahu; Vietnamese
Languages with the highest percentage of LEP10-year trend in CA LEP and FEP, 1988-98
1998 immigrant students in grades K-12: top 30 countries of origin

Vol. 18, No. 131, May 1998
Cognitive Skills in Cultural Context (from Cole)Checkpoints for Progress in Reading and Writing for Parents: English and Hmong; Comparison of
Ethnocultural Groups, pt 2

Vol. 18, No. 130, March 1998
Out of Africa
Refugee admissions, FY 96, 97, 98
Refugee Resources for Teachers
Comparison of Ethnocultural Groups pt 1
Conjunctions: English, Russian, Armenian, Spanish, Hmong, Vietnamese
Chinese Heritage Community Language Schools

Vol. 18, No. 129, January 1998
Year of the tiger
Cats (English, Latin, Spanish, Hmong, Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian, Armenian)
Tiger and lion proverbs
Tus pojniam thiab tus tsov (The woman and the tiger) (Hmong)
The fox borrowing the tiger’s might (Chinese)
A tyrannical government is more fearful than tigers (Chinese)
The jaguar and the little skunk (Mayan)
Why the tiger has stripes (Vietnamese)
Puma and the bear (Native American)
Educated cat (Russian)
The kingdom of the lion (Aesop)
The lost wig (Aesop)
The cunning jackal (Russian)
Chinese parents’ influence on academic performance (Zhang, Carrasquillo)Recommended books for the reluctant young adult reader Hmong, Mien, Lao literacy materials (Merced City USD)

Vol. 18, No. 128, November 1997
The sounds of literacy: Comparative phonemes
Consonant charts for English, Spanish, Hmong,
Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian
Near equivalents for English phonemes: English, Spanish, Hmong, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian
Vowel charts: English, Spanish, Hmong, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian
Minimal Pairs

Vol. 17, No. 127, July 1997
By the Numbers
Top 10 LEP Languages California 1997
Changes in LEP language groups from 1993 to 1997
Total for languages (LEP and FEP) 1996, ranked by percent LEP
Top 10 districts for LEP languages
Immigrants and their educational attainment: Some facts and findings (from Schwartz)
Cinderella crossculturally

Vol. 17, No. 126, April 1997
Not all Mexicans Speak Spanish; Languages Spoken in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
(Summer Institute of Linguistics)
Diversity of Latin-American Born Population in the US (US Census)
FY96 Immigration to US and to CA
March 1997 Recent Immigrants in CA (EIEP), Sacramento County; School Districts
Browsing the Amazon for recent materials about Cambodia, Vietnam, Lao, and Hmong
Southeast Asia Community Resource Center description and report for 5-year period
1996-97 Refugee Educators’ Network members

Vol. 17, No. 125, February 1997
Year of the bovine
Buffalo cross-linguistically (English, Latin, Chinese, Hmong, Vietnamese, Spanish)
The water buffalo and the tiger (Vietnamese tale)
How the buffalo were released on Earth (Native American)
Farmer Chin and the ox (Chinese)
Example of background knowledge (Chinese)
Aesop on oxen
Ox proverbs and idioms
Emergency Immigrant Education Program Workshops
Amulets, Omens, and Talismans (Luck Crossculturally): 13th annual Immigrant EducationFaire.

Vol. 17, No. 124, November 1996
California Reading Initiative for English learners: Key topics, implications for LEP students, strategies
English reading charts: initial consonants plus shor vowels and final “t”; long vowels; special vowels; rcontrolled vowels
I-Poly International High School (Baker)
Immigrant Education Faire 13 flyer

Vol. 17, No. 123, September 1996
ESL Standards (TESOL): Pre-K to 3rd; 4th to 8th; 9th to 12th
Resources from NCRCDSLL
Hmong professional degrees, by clan and area Mexican cultural groups
Intergenerational relationships among Iu-Mien (Chao)
Tawm Lostsuas Mus: Out of Laos flyer.

Vol. 16, No. 122, June 1996
What is the “right” age for marriage?
Human themes: Marriage (activity)
Arabic resources.
Sources for bilingual materials for Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese students
Out of Laos

Vol. 16, No. 121, April-May 1996
Resiliency
Successful mentoring
Resilience resources
Membership in violent gangs...deterred through respect
Coping strategies of resilient African American adolescents
Gangs and schools
Emergency Immigrant Education Program, April 1995 (map)
Student achievement and the changing American family (RAND)

Vol. 16, No. 120, February-March 1996
Character education
Common moral elements
Character education by the bookUncle
Noel’s Fun Fables Program
Universal declaration of human rights
Global values survey
Human themes: Respect
MegaSkills
Character development resources
California, Sacramento county K-12 LEP and FEP students (R30 1995)
Trip to Laos
Humorous English mistranslations,
SEACRC Update
Yamada Language Center (web)

Vol. 16, No. 119, December 1995
Year of the big mouse
Proverbs
A hatred for rats (Vietnamese)
Why the rat is first
The lion and the mouse
The mouse and the frog
Rats on the ‘net
Vietnamese New Year
Chinese new year’s foods
The mice daughter’s dowry (Chinese)
The mice and the rooster (Ukrainian)
Dictionary of Cultural Literacy online
Refugee Educators’ Faire: Journeys

Vol. 16, No. 118, October 1995
From village to commencement (Dr. Lue Vang)
One orphan story (Hmong)
Hmong in America: Refugees from a Secret War
Fonts & Languages on the ’net
SEA Community Resource Center and borrowers, 1993-95.

Vol. 16, No. 117, September 1995
Life as a Natoma Boy (Vietnamese Gangs) Vietnamese gangs: Bibliography Study questions
Human themes: proverbs (same messages)
Vietnam on the ’net

Vol. 15, No. 116, May 1995
Language: speaking in tongues (Weiss)
LEP Groups in Sacramento 1994 v. 1989
Human themes: Want v. need v. have

Vol. 15, No. 115, March 1995
Myths, legends, and folktales
Southeast Asian cultural core
Hmong folktale, 1900
Same story, 1985
Hmong alternating songs: Stories with style
Modern Hmong sung verse
Mien verbal dueling
Paj ntaub, Hmong “flower cloth”
Orality vs. literacy: Implications for educators

Vol. 15, No. 114, January 1995
Year of the pig
The lion and the boar (Aesop)
The eagle, the cat, and the wild sow (Aesop)
The wild boar and the fox (Aesop)
The piglet, the sheep, and the goat (Aesop)
Tseng-tzu kills the pig (Chinese)
Proverbs
Foreign-born stats 1990
World holidays (Jan/Feb)

Vol. 15, No. 113 November/December 1994
Hmong in America: Refugees from a secret war
Semiotics and language arts
Southeast Asia Education Faire (11): Legends, myths, folktales
Instructional conversation
Developing metacognition

Vol. 15, No. 112, October 1994
Questions asked at Phanat Nikhom refugee processing center, Thailand, July 1994
Empowering culturally and linguistically diverse students with learning problems (ERIC)
Recalling magic of their old names (Lam)
Human themes: Thanks (etiquette around the world)

Vol. 15, No. 111, September 1994
The “code of the streets” (from Anderson)
Schools attack the roots of violence (ERIC)
LEP students in California, 1994
Instructional conversationHuman themes: Fears, death, memorials

Vol. 14, No. 110, April/May 1994
Intercultural harmony in the schools (Cotton)
Asian/Pacific Islander needs, Sacramento County, 1992

Vol. 14, No. 109, February-March 1994
From past issues
Intercultural programs: Two approaches
Teachers & acquisition of language, culture, reading
Krashen’s model...Acquisition of culture
Why do you….? Characteristics of American culture
Vietnamese family and given names; characteristics
Chinese family and given names; characteristics
Hmong family and given names; characteristics
Iu-Mien family names; characteristics
Lao names; characteristics
Cambodian names; characteristics
Ukrainian, Armenian, Russian names
Soviet refugees, from nyet to da
Learning to read, 500 high-frequency words (Sitton)
Things we keep hearing....
Language minority students in California, selected counties 1993 R30

Vol. 14, No. 108, January 1994
Year of the dog
It’s a dog’s life (proverbs)
American and Chinese zodiac
Lunar new year customs
Iu-Mien and P’an Hu
Yang Sheng’s dog (Chinese)
Southeast Asia Education Faire (10), 1994

Vol. 14, No. 107, November 1993
Holidays in the classroom: Dealing with a diversity of beliefs
Appropriate and inappropriate activities
Multicultural resources
Sacramento ethnic and cultural organizations, 1994
Learning a second language: Helpful lists from the research
Language learning strategies

Vol. 14, No. 106, October 1993
Read with your child: what does it mean? (English,
Vietnamese, Armenian, Russian, Spanish, Hmong)
Background knowledge for all: Equalizing opportunities
Dragons

Vol. 14, No. 105, September 1993
15 easy & effective efforts
Ten most useful words
50 most frequent words in reading
Continuum of tolerance
Rubber stamps for communicating with parents
Signs of the times in Vientiane (Giacchino-Baker)
Proverbs from other cultures.

Vol. 13, No. 104, May/June 1993
Crosscultural understanding: Activities for the classroom
Refugees, 1993-94

Vol. 13, No. 103, April 1993
Bits of research (theses, dissertations to 1991)

Vol. 13, No. 102, February 1993
Neural networks: Simulated language acquisition (Allman)
Literacy tutors’ checklist
Southeast Asia Community Resource Center
Cultural common denominators
Most common family names
Socializing skills.

Vol. 13, No. 101, January 1993
Year of the Chicken
How to raise chickens (Chinese)
Rats, cats, and chickens
Polecat and the rooster (Cambodian)
Rooster and wise wife cause the husband to become chief of a village (Hmong)
New year pictures
Proverbs (same idea, different cultures)
Southeast Asian Education Faire (9), 1993
How many Indochinese students in California schools? 1990-1992
China Boy (excerpt, Gus Lee)
Tragic Mountains (Hamilton-Merritt)

Vol. 13, No. 100, November 1992
Songs of the new year (Hmong)
Hmong new year paj ntaub (activity)
Attribution retraining

Vol. 13, No. 99, October 1992
Competence: Teacher’s role in the acquisition of language, reading, culture
Using Krashen’s model for language acquisition for acquisition of culture

Vol. 13, No. 98, September 1992
Window closes in 1994 (Language Development Specialist)
Pronouncing names: Vietnamese, Hmong, Chinese, Iu-Mien

Vol. 12, No. 97, May 1992
Common questions: Former Soviet Union, pronouncing Nguyen, “speak English at home”?, peanuts/public, copying from the board, “you should...”, when is dating a life choice?

Vol. 12, No. 96, April 1992
Meeting the challenge of language diversity: Evaluation report (BW Associates, 1992)
Proposed SB2026: California language minority education act
Conflict resolution
Ukrainian folktale (and drawings)

Vol. 12, No. 95, March 1992
Selected Resources 1992
What language does he speak? Last name gives a clue (Iu-Mien, Hmong, Khmu, Lao, Cambodian,
Vietnamese, Overseas Chinese (Vietnam), From the Commonwealth of Independent States (Russian,
Ukrainian, Armenian)
What are the major value contrasts between Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, Hmong, Mien, and Chinese
cultures and American culture?

Vol. 12, No. 94, January 1992
Ta’ one an’ pass de res’ bag (accent)
Southeast Asia Education Faire, 1992
Hmong at the Turning Point (Yang Dao)
Indochinese Refugee Families and Academic Achievement (Caplan et. al)

Vol. 12, No. 93, November/December 1991
Year of the monkey
Three in the morning and four in the evening (Chinese)
Monkey business (proverbs and idioms)
Sun Wu-kung (Chinese)
Wang Yani, Chinese brush artist
More monkey business
Red-bottomed monkeys (Vietnamese)
What can you do with a monkey? (excerpt from
Huynh Quang Nhuong)
The Yao of South China (Lemoine)
NAFEA 13th annual conference

Vol. 12, No. 92, October 1991
“At risk” youth: Who are they? And then what?
Core knowledge (Hirsch)
Classification

Vol. 12, No. 91, September 1991
Of cockroaches and landlords (Elliott) (Lua’)
Satisfaction in culture 1 equals satisfaction in culture 2 (Cato)
Sovereignty and Rebellion: The White Hmong of Northern Thailand (Tapp)
Reading in a language you don’t understand (activity with Hmong)
Modifying lessons for LEP students

Vol. 11, No. 90, April/May 1991
When text is a test
Dolch words, 95 most common nouns, 500 high frequency words
Samples of text (high frequency words)
Separable and non-separable verbs
Most common newspaper words
These are memories of war (Chhan)
Amerasian program, 1988-1991
Happenings

Vol. 11, No. 89, March 1991
Lao & Cambodian new year
Guidelines for diversity & equality
Ching Ming (Chinese)
Cold food festival (Chinese)
Two valedictorians (Hun Saechao; Lue Xiong)
Happenings
UNHCR Films

Vol. 11, No. 88, February 1991
Selected resources: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos (1991)
What language does he speak? Last name gives a clue (Iu-Mien, Hmong, Khmu, Lao, Cambodian, Vietnamese,
Overseas Chinese (Vietnam), Vietnamese Montagnard

Vol. 11, No. 87, January 1991
Year of the yang (sheep)
Sheep/goat/lamb expressions
A story about sheep for the Year of the Sheep (in Chinese)
The goat who could not be tricked (Chinese)
The monkey judge (Chinese)
Ban Me Sot (Thailand), 1990
Creative conflict resolution
New at the SEACRC
Southeast Asia Education Faire (7), 1991
Tet customs (Vietnamese)

Vol. 11, No. 86, November/December 1990
Human mirrors and self-worth
Essay by Diana Ho
What do you mean when you say that?
Refugee ceilings FY91
Refugee arrivals FY90
Armenians (bookstores, organizations, people)
Iu-Mien, Yiu Mien, Kim Mun, Yao
NAFEA conference
Culturgrams
New immigration law
Window of opportunity (Language Development Specialist)

Vol. 11, No. 85, October 1990
Lucky thirteen (Dr. Nam, Kennedy)
New at the SEACRC
Cultural diversity and health beliefs: A bibliography
Hmong new year/Noj Peb Caug

Vol. 11, No. 84, September 1990
Literacy and cognition
Is it true that a lot of Indochinese have January 1 as their birthday?
Passages (Howard)
American culture (books); major American themes
Teaching the Vietnam War through Literature
1st language acquisition: Exposure + interaction = cognition

Vol. 10, No. 83, May/June 1990
The Boat People and Achievement in America (Kaplan et. al)
Using interpreters
New at the SEACRC
Music and dance of Cambodia
Soviet refugees
Sacramento numbers (non-Southeast Asian refugees receiving public assistance)
Language needs in Sacramento county (by zip code)
Southeast Asia Community Resource Center: Hmong 1, Hmong 2
Little Hoover Commission: K-12 education in California
Five-year study of LEP students’ progress
Laotian Handcraft Center
New Soviet refugee students in the schools

Vol. 10, No. 82, April 1990
Legends and tales
The tbal kdoong (Cambodian)
Building a fire of beanstalks for boiling beans (Chinese)
About the Mien charter
The flood: How Hmong names began
The story of the flood (Khmu)
The story of the betel leaf and the areca nut (Vietnamese)
The beginning (Lao)

Vol. 10, No. 81, March 1990
Becoming a Nation of Readers: What about language minority students?
50 most common words
Boehm relationship words
Do the Hmong really believe in ghosts?
Christian refugees from the Soviet Union
How were Hmong paj ntaub squares used in traditional village life in Laos?
AB1441: Toll-free hot line for reporting crimes in the Southeast Asian communities
Recommended literature, grades 9-12 (Asia an Pacific Island regions)

Vol. 10, No. 80, February 1990
Selected resources: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos (1990)
What language does he speak? Last name gives a clue (Iu-Mien, Hmong, Khmu, Lao, Cambodian, Vietnamese,
Overseas Chinese (Vietnam), Vietnamese Montagnard

Vol. 10, No. 78, January 1990
New American face with fading European traces (Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 1990)
Refugees yet to come
Language Census 1989: Students in the Sacramento area
Southeast Asia Education Faire (6), 1990
Lunar New Year (Vietnamese, Chinese)

Vol. 10, No. 77, November/December 1989
Learning a second language (from Hakuta)
Amazon-ing!
Teachers, counselors, principals: Can you identify Vietnamese gang members in your school? (Munks)

Vol. 10, No. 76, October 1989
Experts turn to “learning teams” to combat racism
Teaching English reading to the literate newcomer student
English vowel and consonant sounds; charts (missing)
Thailand: A first asylum country for Indochinese refugees
Refugee admissions FY89, proposed FY90
LEP students in California, March 1989
Parents and children: Asian and American views

Vol. 10, No. 75, September 1989
The acculturation process and refugee behavior (Berry)
Language Development Specialist
Poems of childhood
Classroom hints: can/can’t
LEP students in Sacramento and Yolo counties, 1988
Amerasians

Vol. 9, No. 74, May/June 1989
Traditional Vietnamese music
Southeast Asia and the Indochina wars (Dalley Bookstore)
Research
Refugee mental health training videos
Papers on mental health
An ESL communicative curriculum guide for the preliterate high school student (Henderson)
New at the Center
Cultural literacy (Hirsch): l thru z

Vol. 9, No. 73, April 1989
Language census findings, 1988
Southeast Asians in Sacramento County (by zip), 1988
Hmong summer class
Newcomers to America videos
Slide set: Food habits of the Hmong in Central California
New at the Center

Vol. 9, No. 72, March 1989
Boon Pee Mai: Lao new year celebration
ASEAN nations suspend automatic “refugee” status to seekers
International Association for Yao Studies
Stop, look, and listen (communicative styles, Hmong and American)
Therapists find emotions vary from society to society
Teresa P. v. Berkeley Unified School District

Vol 9, No. 71, February 1989
Selected resources: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos (1989)
What language does he speak? Last name gives a clue (Iu-Mien, Hmong, Khmu, Lao, Cambodian,
Vietnamese, Overseas Chinese (Vietnam), Vietnamese Montagnard

Vol. 9, No. 70, January 1989
Year of the snake
Adding legs to a snake (Chinese)
Reflections of an American woman on Tet (Coutant)
Rice cakes, square and round (Truong Chinh)
Month 1, day 1 of the lunar calendar
Mien new year
Cultural literacy: g through k
Southeast Asia Education Faire (5), 1989
Hmong population in California, 1982/1987
Ceilings and actual admissions, FY75-89

Vol. 9, No. 69, November/December 1988
The “concentration camp syndrome” among Cambodian refugees (Kinzie)
Lyrics from a new experience (Hmong song, “Picking Up Nightcrawlers”)
1988 session bills signed by the governor
Conference: Ethiopian immigrants
Story cloth
Amerasians
High lead and arsenic levels
Cultural literacy: d through f
Recent additions to the Center

Vol. 9, No. 68, October 1988
Two Vietnamese artists
Cultural literacy: a through c
Lecture series: Asian immigrants and refugees
New at the Center

Vol. 9, No. 67, September 1988
Cambodia in the news
NAVAE conference
Cambodian alphabet for the Macintosh
Recent additions to the Center

Vol. 8, No. 66, May/June 1988
The adaptation of Southeast Asian refugee youth: A comparative study (Rumbaut and Ima)
The Ravens (Robbins)
Equal access to success: Minimal services to language minority students
Prudent approaches to bilingual education in California (Winger)
Southeast Asians and cultural conflicts: Why can’t they be like us? (Cryer)
The will of the Mien people (Saephan)
Brushwriter 2 for IBM and Macintosh (Chinese)

Vol. 8, No. 65, April 1988
Crossing the schoolhouse border (California Tomorrow)
Year of the dragon
Thailand pushes refugees back to sea

Vol. 8, No. 64, March 1988
Old wine in a new bottle
Selected resources: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos

Vol. 8, No. 63
Year of the Dragon

Vol. 8, No. 62
Refugees in California

Vol. 8, No. 61, October 1987
Mid-Autumn Festival

Vol. 8, No. 60, September 1987
SEACRC open house | Basic Library | News: Ethnic Chinese who fled Vietnam to China arrive in Hong Kong | Orderly Departure Program (ODP) Interviews Resume | Quotable Schultz in Asia, Simpson in Whashington | What to do with Cambodians? | California Vetoed bilingual law -- what does it mean for us?

Vol. 7, No. 59, May 1987

Vol. 7, No. 58, April 1987
Ban Vinai. Trip to Bua Chan, Thailand.

Vol. 7, No. 57, February 1987
Mien and their history

Vol. 7, No. 56, January 1987
Southeast Asian Education Faire 1987

Vol. 7, No. 55, December 1986
Resources. Chinese Sayings.

Vol. 6 No. 54, October 1986
Southeast Asian Special Conference

Vol. 6 No. 53, September 1986
California Reading Initiative Reading List

Vol. 6, No. 52, May 1986
Cultural Studies

Vol. 6, No. 51, April 1986
Summer Language Program

Vol. 6, No. 50, February 1986
Orderly Departure Program

Vol. 6, No. 49, January 1986
Health Access by Phone

Vol. 6, No. 48, November 1985
Academic Success of Boat People