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Showing 1 to 20 of 245 for “"Education, Bilingual."”.
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An examination of classroom practices for the development of writing in English as a second language in a Malawian primary school
… of the history of Malawi' s language in education policy from the era of British colonialism to the present multilingual era. English is given a high status in schools despite the fact that many more teachers and pupils speak local languages. Malawi's new language in education model …
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Teaching Desta: A teacher research case study of a tutoring relationship.
Teaching Desta: A teacher research case study of a tutoring relationship.
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Differences in Mathematics and Reading College Readiness by Student Language Status and Economic Status: A Multiyear Statewide Investigation
… to which differences were present for Emergent Bilingual students and non-EmergentBilingual students in their performance on the Algebra I and English I End-of-Course exams and the degree to which Emergent Bilingual students who were economically disadvantaged and Emergent Bilingual students who …
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La représentation de l'immigration et des minorités culturelles dans des manuels en français au Québec entre 1976 et 1999.
Au moyen d'une recherche à la fois qualitative et quantitative, la question de la représentation des groupes ethnocultures et de l'immigration dans les manuels scolaires francophones du Québec est abordée dans cette thèse. Plus précisément, on y présente les résultats d'une analyse de contenu d'un …
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Dictionnaires arabes bilingues : présentation historique et étude comparative.
Bilingual Arabic lexicography came into being at the end of the 9th century. Unlike monolingual lexicography, bilingual lexicography in the Arab world advanced little during the Muslim empire, and lay dormant under the Ottoman occupation. It was not until the beginning of the 19th century, when …
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Simultaneous and Sequential Bilinguals in a German Bilingual Program
Bilingual Programs in western Canada provide children with instruction in a non-official language for up to 50% of the school day, and the corresponding curriculum documents are based on the assumption that the prototypical student speaks English at home and is learning the minority language as a …
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Investigation of Mentoring Relationships of Korean Expatriates in the United States in Relation to Adjustment and Demographic Similarities
Utilization of host country employees with a home country background as mentors for expatriates is suggested. The results showed that Korean-American mentors met the psychosocial mentoring needs of the Korean expatriates as much as the Korean mentors did. Future research directions were suggested.
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The Impact of a Study -Abroad Experience on the Acquisition of L2 Spanish Syntax: The Null Subject Parameter
These findings are important in that it is the first study that looks at the effect of the study-abroad experience on L2 learners' Spanish syntax. Empirical evidence gained from generative studies focusing on the development and acquisition of underlying syntactic competence by L2 learners in an …
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Spanish Heritage Speakers' Spanish and English Writings: Contrastive Rhetorical and Linguistic Analyses
The present study examines both the rhetorical patterns and the linguistic features that SHS in corporate in their Spanish and English writing discourse. For the purpose of this research, university students wrote two argumentative-persuasive essays from four to ten pages in length. The Spanish …
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The Development of Verbal Morphology in Instructed Italian L2A
Eighty-five university-level L2 learners of Italian were assigned to one of three proficiency levels and completed a picture identification task, a picture description task, and a primed lexical decision task. Reaction times (RT) and accuracy scores were submitted to a series of repeated-measures …
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Accent Marks in L2 French: Keyboarding, Presentation Format, Working Memory, and Pronunciation Ability
Foreign-language teaching often changes in response to technological advances. However, for a given implementation of technology in the foreign language classroom, are there some implementations which lead to measurable advantages over others? Sturm and Golato (in press) and Sturm (2006) found a …
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Analysis of American Curricular Materials on Japanese Music, K Through 8: Rethinking the Images of the Koto, Sakura, and Kimono
Principal suggestions for designers of multicultural curricular materials are that they (1) reconsider the definition of authenticity, since music changes within a culture; (2) include adequate contextual information and appropriate illustrations or photos; (3) develop lesson plans that respect …
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Facing Japan While Living in the United States: The Study Abroad Experiences and Expectations of Japanese Women
… cross disciplinary literature in international education. Moreover, an understanding of how Japanese women ""face Japan"" during their educational experiences abroad has applied significance for practitioners in the field of international education, by aiding administrators and educators in …
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The Healthy Heart Project: A Bilingual Nutrition Intervention Program and Standarized Open-Ended Interviews
A culturally sensitive bilingual nutrition cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction educational program for Hispanics was developed. The program development was theory driven and involved five studies. In Study I, the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) curricula was assessed …
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The Effect of Output Practice on the Automatization of Korean Morphosyntactic Rules
The current study explored the effect of input and output practice on the automatization of three Korean morphosyntactic rules: word order (SOV), case-marking for nominative (-ka) and accusative (-reul), and classifier constructions. Twenty-eight native speakers of English were assigned into input …
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Everyday Challenges of Building Community and Empowerment: An Ethnographic Study of Immigrant Mexican Parents Advocating for School Reform
"The present critical ethnography narrates the experiences of undocumented Mexican immigrant parents working to make schools responsive and accountable to Latino American children and families in a small Midwestern city. The study is based on a four-year long participant-observation project in …
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The Effects of Asian American Studies on Asian American College Students' Psychological Functioning
… participation in multicutural programming and education to affirm and foster students' positive racial identity. Two studies examined the hypothesis that for Asian American students, participation in multicultural education and programming buffers stresses associated with racial minority status …
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Making Sense of Special Education in the Preservice Teacher Preparation Program: A Qualitative Study
A special education field-experience was a component of a preservice general education curriculum and instruction course in a large research-oriented public university. Using participant-observation, survey, and interview data, this study analyzes how the preservice general education teachers make …
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Linguistic, Educational and Cultural Difficulties That May Affect Arab Students' English Language Proficiency
The results showed that the undergraduates, who were also the younger students who had been studying in the United States for fewer years and performed lower academically, felt less strongly about their perceptions of the linguistic-cultural influences. Whereas, the graduate students, who were …
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Possessive Investment: California, 209 and the Reconstruction of Racist Educational *Policy
"This study is concerned with the development of educational policy in the State of California. The California Civil Rights Initiative (Proposition 209), as anti-affirmative action legislation, was composed and implemented with the intent to limit the access of African-American and Latino/a …
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