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The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1959 and headquartered in Washington, DC. Its mission is to promote language learning and cultural understanding. Its president and chief executive officer is Joel Gómez.
Hortensia Amaro is a Cuban-American educator, and formerly Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University [1] and Associate Vice Provost of Community Research and Dean's Professor of Social Work and Preventative Medicine at the University of Southern California. [2] Amaro was born in Cuba and moved to Los Angeles, California as a child. [3]
De la Vega was born in Havana, Cuba, November 28, 1925, educated at De La Salle College, Havana, 1940–1944 (B.A. in humanities); University of Havana, 1944–1946 (M.A. in diplomacy); Ada Iglesias Music Institute, Havana, 1951–1958 (M.A. in musicology, 1956; Ph.D. in composition, 1958) and studied composition privately with Fritz Kramer in Havana (1943–1946) and Ernst Toch in California ...
New book profiles 54 successful Cuban-American women. “Discipline, courage and authenticity,” was what Dr. Eneida Roldán, executive director of the Florida International University health ...
A study done on Latin American middle schoolers in East Los Angeles highlights different ways in which bilingual students utilize Spanglish to advance academic literacy. Martinez’s list of skills students exhibited when using Spanglish in educational settings include: (1) clarify and/or reiterate utterances (2) quote and report speech
Each institute features a number of endowed chairs named after prominent linguists: the Sapir chair in general linguistics, [18] [19] the Hermann and Klara H. Collitz Chair in historical linguistics, [20] and since 2005, the Ken Hale chair in linguistic fieldwork and the preservation of endangered languages. [21]
Ronald Reagan is particularly popular in the Cuban-American community for standing up to Soviet communism and Fidel Castro's so-called "exportation of revolution" to Central America and Africa (there is a street in Miami named for Reagan), [67] [68] [69] and George W. Bush received 75 and 78 percent (in 2000 and 2004 respectively) of the Cuban ...
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