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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"ESL teaching"”.
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Developing ESL teaching materials to enhance the Language Partners program at Danville Correctional Center
… Case Study which investigated the development of teaching materials as a way to enhance the quality of the Language Partners program, an English as a Second Language program resulting from the partnership between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Danville Correctional Center …
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Community College Faculty Perceptions and Use of Pedagogical Translanguaging in the Academic ESL Classroom
… rates and poor progression have plagued academic ESL students for decades. While these students aspire to eventual matriculation into an academic or vocational program, the vast majority will fall victim to attrition. The time has come for administrators and faculty leaders to reject the status …
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Belief change in ESL student teachers during a master's- level teaching practicum
Teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning greatly influence their classroom practices. This is particularly evident in an English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching practicum, where student teachers are exposed to new practices and react to them based on their current beliefs about teaching. …
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Academic writing in English and Chinese : case studies of senior college students
… was consonant with their instructors' methods of teaching writing and the curricula set up for teaching writing. Based on these findings, implications for contrastive research and EFL/ESL teaching are discussed and suggestions for further contrastive studies of English and Chinese writing are made.
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Book buddies : celebrating shared reading
… of 12-13 year-old English second language (ESL) learners, and the other, student teachers from a university ESL teaching methodology course. Before and after the project, the ESL participants' attitude toward reading was surveyed and their writing accuracy was measured throughout. They were …
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Translanguaging in Community College English as a Second Language: Exploring a Rubric for Teaching During the Covid-19 Pandemic
… translanguaging to English as a second language (ESL) classrooms may provide an equitable way for teachers to ensure students reach their academic goals and foster bilingual identity development. With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic comes new challenges for ensuring continued access to …
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Practical English for Chinese Newcomers: A Handbook for Teachers
… information into English as a second language (ESL) teaching is thus important from a sociocultural and intercultural perspective. Therefore, the underlying purposes of this project is to enhance English communicative competence and American cultural adaptation among new Chinese immigrants by …
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The Effectiveness Of Teaching Methods In Traditional Amish Schoolhouses In Lawrence County, TN
… of this study is to research the existing ESL teaching methods and their effectiveness in traditional Amish schools in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Through my research, I discovered the cultural conditions, teaching methods used by Amish teachers, and other factors that may play a role in …
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Critical Moments: Exploring Critical Pedagogy in an Adult ESL Classroom
… adult English as a Second Language (ESL) program with a focus on language learners with low proficiency in English. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the limitations and possibilities of developing and carrying out a critical pedagogical approach to ESL teaching in a …
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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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Conceptualising ESL Language Teacher Identity: Changing Classroom Practice through Action Research
… of the notion of English as a Second Language (ESL) LTI. Many researchers seem to have simply appended the term “language” to teacher identity (TI) to represent the identities of language teachers. In this sense, the subject-specific notion of LTI is often equated with the general construct of …
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Exploring Teaching Approaches and Sociocultural Dynamics in the Middle and High School English Second Language Teaching Environment from the Perspective of the Multicultural Educator
ABSTRACT The act of teaching in the middle and high school involves highly complex sociocultural dynamics in challenging environments. English second language specialists are the type of educators that closely work with the most at risk students in that context. This study explored middle and high …
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Translanguaging in a midwestern U.S. university: Perspectives across two disciplines
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01