Cristina igoa biography of martin

The Inner World of the Immigrant Child By Cristina Igoa [] Synopsis by Stanley A. Lucero, February 18, “Native Americans, the descendants of those original inhabitants of this country who were able to survive centuries of invasion and genocide, are the only people who can rightfully claim that they are neither the product of immigration nor of forcible abduction to the United States.” (Ada, , p.

vii) “More and more bilingual and ESL teachers, like Cristina Igoa, have begun to ask immigrant children to tell their stories, and to invite their parents to share their stories as well.” (Ada, , p. viii) “Cristina Igoa, with profound intuition, understood that uprooted immigrant children would not be able to truly benefit from a dialogue with their new reality until they had the opportunity to express the intricacy of their inner world.

She did not allow the children’s incipient abilities with the English language to limit them: she found a medium fo