Immigrant children in New York school find cultural bridge and new friends through soccer.
- Immigrant students at the School for International Studies report their extracurricular soccer program as a key channel for them to develop language, social, and cultural skills.
- One U.S.-born student shares how he took up Arabic to learn how to better communicate with his teammates on the field.
- New York City has a population of more than 150,000 English language-learners in its school system.
“Any game, I make friends. When we play basketball, I make friends, like, you play with your friends. You make new friends any ways.”
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