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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"English as a Second Language Education"”.
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Dynamic elements of synchronous and asynchronous learning in English as a Second Language education: self-efficacy, achievement, persistence, and satisfaction
… how instructional modality influences adult English as a Second Language (ESL) learners enrolled in a non-credit language program. Learners in this state-funded program were able to determine their own balance of synchronous, face-to-face instruction and asynchronous online learning based on …
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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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Special Education Trumps ESL: Policy as Practice for ELs with Disabilities
This dissertation investigates the educational practices surrounding English Learners (ELs) with disabilities, a unique population of learners who are not only acquiring English as a Second Language (ESL) but also have an institutionally identified disability. Possessing these characteristics, …
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Language, culture, and identity negotiation: perspectives of adolescent Japanese sojourner students in the Midwest, USA
… in the U.S. are like—particularly in areas with small Japanese populations—and how their experiences in the U.S. shape their current identities as cultural and linguistic minority students. This research also aims to learn how the students’ sojourning experiences influenced their mindsets …
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Writing their way to the university: An investigation of Chinese high school students' preparation for writing in English in high schools, cram schools, and online
… studies in U.S. universities in terms of English writing from three perspectives: English writing instruction in high schools, private supplementary tutoring (PST) in English writing in cram schools, and experience with writing online and using online resources. On the basis of data from a …
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Exploring a Prefigurative Culture in the Immigrant Family: A look at the sociolinguistic impact of children on the immigrant parent
… States is that of immigrants. With this increase in recent immigration, the population of limited English speakers has also increased which includes both children and adults. While much research has been done in terms of how bilingualism and biculturalism have impacted the children within …
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The Revaluation of the National Language in a Post-National Era: Language Policy and the Governance of Migration and Citizenship
… of governance on a revaluation of the national language, in the form of formalized requirements and testing of language proficiency, within immigration, integration, naturalization, and citizenship policy in Canada and the United Kingdom. Employing an interdiscursive language policy analysis (da …
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Second language vocabulary acquisition through storybook reading for Chinese children
<p>This six-week quasi-experimental study compared the effectiveness of two English storybook reading styles (preview-review reading versus concurrent translation) on the vocabulary development of kindergarteners ( n =50) in China, whose primary language is Chinese, who learn English as a second …
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A JAPANESE COLT: ANALYZING TEACHING PERFORMANCE IN A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PRACTICUM
… the Japanese COLT (Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching Observation scheme), the three groups of raters (student teachers, college teachers, practicum supervisor) identified four specific problems with individual student teacher's teaching. They (a) explained new sentence patterns …
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The Place That Was Promised: Japanese Returnees at a Foreign Language University in Japan
… or adolescence, and then return to the Japanese educational system, are referred to in Japan as kikokushijo [帰国子女] or returnee students. In this year-long narrative analysis study I focus on three such students in their first year at a gaikokugo daigaku [(外国語大学) foreign language university] in …
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A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Student Explanations in Content and Language Integrated Learning
This study was an investigation of students’ explanations of disciplinary knowledge in content and language integrated learning (CLIL). In recent years, an increased interest in teaching content subjects in a foreign language (FL) has brought a growing body of research on CLIL (e.g., Dalton-Puffer, …
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THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION ON L2 ORAL PROFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT
This study was an examination of the effects of explicit form-focused instruction on the English development of Japanese university students during a seven-week intervention. Speaking proficiency development is a continuous challenge for most EFL learners who have limited exposure to the target …