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Showing 1 to 20 of 648 for “"Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education"”.
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Latina/o Immigrant Parents Becoming Better Advocates for their Middle School Aged Adolescents
… to provide Latina/o parents with different tools and strategies to better advocate for their children in the American school system. The 9-session program is specifically targeted for Latina/o parents of children in the middle school years that are going through the challenging transition to …
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Filling the Gap-A Handbook for Immigrant Families to Communicate with Teacher in U.S.A
… gap between immigrant families, teachers and school by designing a foundation level English language handbook. To ensure immigrant families can use this handbook to communicate with the teacher who cannot speak the second language. This field project can help the immigrant families apply …
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LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY, AND EQUITY IN CHINESE-ENGLISH DUAL LANGUAGE BILINGUAL EDUCATION: FROM CURRICULUM TO CLASSROOM PRACTICES TO STUDENT EXPERIENCE
… most research on Chinese-English Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) programs, which primarily examines one-way models serving English-dominant, middle-class children (e.g., Tian, 2020; Zheng, 2020), this dissertation investigates a different context—an all-minority student program in New …
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Teacher professional development related to emergent bilinguals: Teacher perceptions and experiences
<p>As of 2021, the National Center for Education Statistics reports that there are 5.3 million students whose first language is one other than English, or are emergent bilinguals (EBs), in the United States. If teachers are not prepared adequately, they are not able to meet the needs of students …
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Understanding the potential effects of trauma on refugees’ language learning processes
… students’ language learning processes might be, and how an awareness of these events and their potential effects might inform a teacher’s pedagogical practices. In this thesis, I address these concerns by identifying types of traumatic experiences that refugees may encounter (pre-, during, and …
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Telling stories and contextualizing lived experiences in the Cuban heritage language and culture: an autoethnography about transculturation
… her path to becoming a United States citizen and a language teacher. The lived experiences in both Cuba and the United States include (1) her father’s “one year, one month, and one day” in the Aid-to-Production Camp where young Cuban men—even the most educated— were “recruited” to work in the …
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Effective Techniques for Teaching Phrasal Verbs to Improve Communicate Competence of Chinese English learners
<p><strong>Effective Techniques for Teaching Phrasal Verbs to Improve Communicate Competence of Chinese English learners </strong></p>
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On the Job Teacher Training for Native English-Speaking Teachers in South Korean Intensive English Kindergartens
… South Korea while adapting to both teaching and working within South Korea. To collect data for the study, eight native English-speaking teachers were interviewed about their training and teaching experiences in South Korea. Results show that many native English-speaking teachers desire …
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Teaching Reading As An Integrated Skill: An Evaluation of Two Popular ESL Textbooks
… need for effective English language instruction, and with that, effective instructional materials. With a growing population of adult English language learners with below basic prose literacy, the need for effective adult English language literacy instruction is also evident. Because people do not …
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An Investigation of the Private EFL Sector in South Korea: Meeting Students’ and Parents’ Goals and Expectations
… educators working in the large, private English education industry. Many of these educators work for private language institutes known as hagwons, where they teach English as a foreign language (EFL) to preschool and primary school students. However, due to language barriers and other …
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Teaching English as a Second Language through Rap Music: A Curriculum for Secondary School Students
… to teach ELLs vocabulary, grammar, discourse and prosody. The rationale for using musical instruction is based on Gardner’s (2006) multiple intelligence theory and Bloom’s (1978) learning domains. This curriculum instructs students through musical intelligence and the affective domain which …
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Inside Jokes: English Language Humor From the Outside
<p>Humor is a complex and dynamic mode of communication that serves a number of important social functions. While humor is found in all cultures, English language learners (ELLs) in the United States must learn to navigate American humor with all of its inherent cultural, social and linguistic …
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Constructive Feedback in L2 Writing with Chinese High School Students in Taiwan
… of this study was to examine how age, culture, and the education system in Taiwan influenced students’ motivation in learning English writing. It provided insight about how academic environments influence students’ motivation in learning English, how teachers’ feedback shapes students’ learning …
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Implementation Of Technology In The Foreign Language Classroom
… language learning (FLL) is critical to modern education because it allows learners to integrate with the global community in a meaningful way and offers a multitude of advantages to graduates and professionals (Akbar, 2015; Hampel, 2015). The intersection of technology implementation in foreign …
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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP COMPONENTS AND PROGRAM OUTCOMES IN CHINESE-AS-A-FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PROGRAMS FOR PRE-K TO 12 LEARNERS IN THE UNITED STATES
In the United States, language education programs are increasingly popular and have expanded considerably in recent years. At the same time, very little data exists on the leadership practices that have guided the most successful language education programs (Forman, 2015; Hutton, 2018; Rocque et …
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Selected Variables Related to the Knowledge of, Attitude Towards, and Utilization of Bilingual Education Services by Spanish American Parents in Two Michigan Cities
<p>Problem. There has been much controversy over bilingual education programs during the past decade. This has attracted the attention of the news media and local communities throughout the United States. However,parents' views, expectations, or attitudes toward bilingual-education services have …
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Psycho-Social Factors Influencing the Learning of a Second or a Foreign Language
<p>Problem. With bilingualism now a world-wide phenomenon, language has become a powerful force for unity both at home and abroad. This, along with increased immigration, has emphasized the need for the study of second or foreign languages. In the United States, bilingualism and the learning of …
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