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The effect of an ESL Writing Workstation on ESL students' writing
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:58:41Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Issues in ESL Academic Writing
… to issues in English as a Second Language (ESL) academic writing. A mixed methods approach was employed to investigate the issue by collecting surveys and interviewing both students and teachers. The quantitative research findings revealed that most of the language-related errors were …
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Collaboration to Support ESL Instruction
Collaboration in English as a Second Language (ESL) education holds potential for consistency and efficiency in pedagogical planning for English Language Learners (ELLs), and supports ELLs’ needs through targeted instructional strategies. This study sought to investigate these processes of …
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Influence Of Siop Cognitive Coaching Workshops On Teaching Practices Of Esl Teachers And Esl Paraprofessionals
… part of professional development, has on ESL teachers' and ESL paraprofessionals' learning and practice in the context of educating English learner (EL) students using the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model of instruction. An examination was made on the views of 52 ESL …
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Teaching EFL/ESL College-level Learners through Current Global Topics: Integrated Lessons for EFL/ESL Teachers
… connectivity. Unfortunately, many EFL/ESL college-level students, specifically Korean EFL students, do not seem to have sufficient preparation to build English communicative competence and cultural awareness necessary to cope with various situations in which they need to communicate …
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ESL ABE, VESL, and bell hooks' Democratic education: a case study of four experienced ESL instructors
… thesis is a case study of four experienced ESL instructors of Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Vocational ESL. (VESL). All are alumni of the Master of Arts in English Program with a Teaching English as a Second Language emphasis at Eastern Washington University (EWU). The primary focus of the …
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Students' perceptions of nonnative ESL teachers
There has been a lot of research on native speaker and nonnative speaker teachers of English as a second language. Authors have addressed negative and positive aspects of these two classes. However, there has not been much research on how students of English as a second language see their nonnative …
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Bringing Pragmatics into the ESL Classroom
… of learners of English as a Second Language (ESL), and (2) to examine whether instruction was effective in improving those learners' pragmatic knowledge. Pragmatic competence was measured quantitatively, through discourse judgment tasks, multiple-choice discourse completion tasks (MDCTs) and …
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Increasing Parent Involvement for ESL Parents
<p>Parents of ESL students are often misguided and misunderstood. As educators, it is important to understand theory and applying teaching frameworks to various cutural backgrounds. This handbook addresses some of the needs of ESL parents, focusing on the parent involvement framework, and applies …
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Effective conversations about literature in ESL
The purpose of this thesis was to investigate how to facilitate effective conversations about shared texts in English as a Second Language lessons. Since effective instructional talk between students and teachers help English learners develop speaking and listening skills, as well as improve their …
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Sentence combining and the ESL student
Also covers linguistic error hierarchy.
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Sentence combining and the ESL student
Also covers linguistic error hierarchy.
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ESL students' perceptions of role-play activities
… view. The current qualitative study investigated ESL students' perceptions of role-play activities drawing on observations, questionnaires, and interviews. The results showed that the participants recognized several benefits (e.g., improving oral proficiency, acquiring vocabulary, and rehearsing …
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Guidebook for ESL Teachers of Chinese Students
… be a tool for the teachers of Chinese speaking ESL students. English language instruction in China is often teacher centered, with the instructor lecturing and students taking notes. Most classes do not focus on communicative skills. Different language groups often vary in terms of which English …
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Teaching Health Literacy in Conjunction with ESL
… States, many English as a Second Language (ESL) speakers who have limited English proficiency also have low levels of health literacy. The purpose of this project is to create a curriculum that ESL teachers can implement to improve the English language proficiency and the health literacy …
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Cohesion and coherence in Chinese ESL writing
… cohesion and coherence features of Chinese ESL writings, explored the similarities and the differences between Chinese and English, and investigated the role of language transfer and interference in Chinese ESL writings. Four Chinese graduate students each composed two expository essays in …
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