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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"English Only policy"”.
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The quest for belonging: Arab Muslim ESOL students' (re)-construction of linguistic and cultural identities
… impact the identities of Arab Muslim adolescent English language learners?" The study draws on sociocultural theory and postcolonial theory in order to examine the ways in which the ESOL students negotiate and their identities as they learn English. Findings indicate that students' identities are …
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Fragile civility: an evangelical American school meets Korean educational sojourners in neoliberal time
… Korea’s “Early Study Abroad” (ESA) movement and English hegemony and bilingual education, and in the larger narrative of global educational migration, especially the integration of international students into U.S. schools. It examines the conflicts that emerged when a noncompetitive evangelical …
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"We Have Found the Native Tongue Indispensable": Missionary Interactions with the Dakota Language, 1834-1893
… argue that national attitudes and federal Indian policy influenced how the missionaries viewed and interacted with the language. With each new national attitude or policy, new changes came to the Dakota language. Chapter 1 shows how an intense belief that Indians could be spiritually saved before …
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"We Have Found the Native Tongue Indispensable": Missionary Interactions with the Dakota Language, 1834-1893
… argue that national attitudes and federal Indian policy influenced how the missionaries viewed and interacted with the language. With each new national attitude or policy, new changes came to the Dakota language. Chapter 1 shows how an intense belief that Indians could be spiritually saved before …
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Assembly Line Americans: Labor, Language, and Literacy at Ford Motors
… produced Model T’s and in 1914 founded the Ford English School (FES). The FES engaged an Americanization curriculum as a way of preparing a largely migrant workforce for labor on the assembly line and to apply for US citizenship in the name of developing an industrial class of labor. I begin by …
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Teacher's and learner's beliefs about the use of code-switching in English Second Language classrooms : a case of two secondary schools in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe
… mother tongue, in the teaching and learning of English in secondary schools in Zimbabwe. Two secondary schools in Masvingo District were used as a case study. The study was informed by bilingualism, models of bilingualism and related theories such as Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and …