E. BOSSIER Robert Rossier has just completed his 30th year in the Los Angeles Unified School District. For almost 25 years of this period he has served as a teacher. counselor. program coordinator. and consultant In programs for teaching English to immigrant students. He has also been a consultant to the Santa Ana Unified School District and in 197879 helped in the planning for that district of an alternative program to bilingual education. The head of a bilingual family consisting of wife Rosa Maria (a native of Mexico and a teacher) and three children. Dr. Rossier has been intimately Involved over the years by both choice and necessity with second language learning with family at home. friends in the community. and students in the schools. Because of his interest in immigrant English language learning in American schools. Dr. Rossier did his advanced university work in the psychology of second language learning. receiving a Ph. D. in Psychology of Education from the University of Southern California in 1975. His dissertation dealt with psychological variables affecting the immigrant students learning of English. Previously he had carried out a study for his masters degree which produced statistical Information about the relative academic performance and scholastic aspirations of immigrant students in Los Angeles schools.
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