Student Interview Research Paper

The sole purpose of this interview paper is to help us as future teachers, identify the cultural capital that diverse students bring to the schooling or classroom setting. This information will help serve as an aid for identifying cross-cultural communication and teaching strategies, which will allow us as teachers to better accommodate and facilitate student success in school. My Interviewee is an African American male who has moved and lived around the world and was not born in America. He is 21 years old and attends school here in Central Washington University. Michal, my interviewee, has moved around as he grew up. He moved here to America from London when he was 2 years old. After moving here and for his early years he lived in Tacoma he mentioned that he lived in an area where there were many Caucasians especially at his elementary school. According to Washington-State’s Demographics 60% of the

For adults there are specific human resource job sites for people with other native languages where people who speak those languages can find a job in which they can use this skill in the workplace. This allows the people with native languages to work in an environment that benefits them, and allows them to feel comfortable using both English and their native language. There are also many big corporate companies in Tacoma/ Seattle area such as Boeing which is a company that my interviewee’s dad works for and major hospitals which his mother worked as a nurse. Other resource companies may be the Catholic Community Services and also a couple small universities around the area such as the University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University. One thing Michal mentions that there were many groups, clubs, and other accommodations for the Latino community, but not a noticeable amount for the African American