This study describes the sociocultural, personal and interactional context in which a young Mexican male adolescent participates. The interrelations between these factors reveal the difficulties which some Mexican immigrant students confront in their acculturation process and the affects of those influences on their academic achievement. The acculturation process referred to here assumes that an immigrant student can acquire a new language and culture while maintaining his own culture. This paper postulates that a student's academic failure and success depends upon a complex set of interrelated factors which must be understood in order to design effective educational intervention programs. The intervention approach presented here attempts to build upon the knowledge of the student's experience and to provide a resocializing model for high-risk students.
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