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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Education, English as a Second Language"”.
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Collaborative Reasoning in Japan: English Learners' Discussions and Experiences
A study involving an assistant professor and seven students at a Japanese university investigated feasibility, impact, and dynamics of Collaborative Reasoning (CR), a new instructional model, in a foreign language learning context in Japan. Through participants' experiences of ten CR sessions over …
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Clause structure in the development of child L2 English of L1 Arabic
… of clause structure from the earliest stages of language production of a child native speaker of Arabic learner of English. Specific attention is paid to the acquisition of the TP and CP systems and their related syntactic features. The first major objective of this work is to investigate the …
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The acquisition of complex wh- questions in the L2 English of Canadian French and Bulgarian speakers: Medial wh-constructions, inversion phenomena, and avoidance strategies
… long-distance wh- movement questions in the L2 English of (Canadian) French and Bulgarian speakers. The main phenomenon under investigation is medial wh- constructions (wh- scope marking and wh- copying). Such constructions are of particular interest because they are unattested in both the L1 …
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Diverse Students' Perceptions of Cultural Congruity and Environment at a University
<p>The Culturally Responsive Special Education/English as a Second Language (ESL) program was designed to assist students from diverse backgrounds in being academically successful in a large western private university. Utilizing the Cultural Congruity Scale (CCS) and University Environment Scale …
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Turkish Students’ Attitudes Towards Science in Early Childhood Education
The purpose of the study was to identify Turkish students’ attitudes towards science and to ascertain the causes of them. A survey, which is a quantitative design, was used for this research. The data was collected with the Child’s Attitude Toward Science (CATS) survey which was developed by this …
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The Efficacy of Instructional Methods for Fourth Grade English Learners Using the Jason Project Science Curriculum
<p>One of the growing issues currently facing education is the increasing number of English learners. Content curricular areas, such as science, are often inaccessible to English learners while their language is developing. The purpose of this study is to explore using effective methods for …
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Picturing Literacies and Noticing Main Ideas: Teaching ELL and NES Striving Readers to Notice Main Ideas in Nonfiction Texts
… teachers can use to meet the needs of adolescent English language learners and native English speakers who struggle to read texts in school. The interventions were designed to both expand students’ concepts of literacy and of themselves as literate people, and to capitalized on students’ …
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Educational policy and literacy learning in an ESL classroom: constraints and opportunities
This dissertation was a qualitative case study of an educational program for English Language Learners (ELL) at an elementary school in a small city in the Midwest. This case study investigated how language ideologies influence the constraints and opportunities for the planning and execution of …
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Intercultural and academic transitions: A study of the gap between Chinese secondary schools and western universities
… to develop global competencies. However, as the number of Chinese students is increasing, so is the awareness of their difficulties in acculturating to the Western system of higher education. The literature attributes some of these difficulties to cultural, academic, and social factors. …
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CLASSROOM DISCOURSE OF ELEMENTARY ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ WRITING INSTRUCTION IN A MIDWESTERN SCHOOL
The purpose of this study was to investigate the discourse of English Language Learners’ writing instruction in a third and fifth grade classroom. Indiana has experienced great growth in the population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the past ten years, with this school district sharing a …
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Early Bilingual Education: An Examination of Purposely Selected Teacher Viewpoints: South East China and San Francisco Area
<p>In the coming years, an increasing number of children in urban Chinese areas are taking a second language at an early age. It leads to an argument about whether it is appropriate for children to learn a second language in an early age Some people disagree that idea, because children are not …
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Getting Down to Business: An EFL curriculum design for the business setting
… of information across countries and cultures has become crucial to creating a global citizenry. After World War II, efforts to create a global commercial market resulted in the promotion of communication across cultures. The purpose of this thesis is to outline a theoretical rationale for a …
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Parent and teacher perspectives on Congolese students in the American education system
… of ESL students face a unique set of challenges as they begin to navigate the American education system after immigrating to the United States. They often utilize different home literacy practices from American parents (Heath, 1982) and have different practices for socializing their children into …
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The waning of an innovative dual-language program in a culturally and linguistically diverse rural community
… of the State-required Transitional Bilingual Education arrangements, a small group of teachers initiated a two-way, dual-language (D-L) immersion program for the elementary grades of their school. When first established, an experienced director was hired to see to the needs of the program and …
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Learning systems: An ecological perspective on advanced academic literacy practices of multilingual writers
<p>Recent work in composition's leading journals has challenged the field's exclusive focus on native English speakers and has called for a more international perspective on writing research and pedagogy. This dissertation, which grew from requests from multilingual graduate students in my own …
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Accessing A Global Language: A Comparison of G-TELP and TOEFL Performance
The ESL (English as a Second Language) field has traditionally focused on foreign students who come to the United States to learn English to pursue an academic degree. Those students gain English proficiency, earn a degree, and often return home to be leaders in their countries. The author has …
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Saudi students and IEP teachers: converging and diverging perspectives
… of teachers and Saudi students in an Intensive English Program (IEP) on the necessary skills for international students’ success in American university classes, the IEP’s effectiveness in developing those skills, and on the role of high-stakes English-language proficiency tests such as the TOEFL …
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