Module 1: Activities

The following activities help better understand some of the studies that have been made about language brokering.

01.  Recording Voices: Stories of Asian Pacific American Youth as Language Brokers in New York City. This is a presentation of a research project on Asian youth brokers. Kids are asked to tell their stories about their experience as interpreters. The goal of this project was to analyze the impact of these practices in terms of family dynamics and of improving language access for the Asian American communities and other linguistically diverse communities.

-       02. Translating Childhoods: book presentation by Dr. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana. This activity helps understand language brokering in several aspects: psychological, sociological, educational, and demographically. 
      

 
03. Dr. Marjorie Faulstich Orellana’s conference on language brokering in Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University (See link "Dr. Orellana at WWU)