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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"English-only"”.
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Local language policy: shifting scales in the English-only movement
… United States write, discuss, and resist local English-only policies. By tracing the trajectories of four interconnected, local campaigns to make English the official language, I show that such policies are not static texts or abstract impositions, but rather a kind of writing, one that emerges …
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English—only when necessary: literacy practices of Korean undergraduate students at a 'global' university
… in U.S. higher education in the early 1990s, English language literacy has been a central focus to literacy teachers. Despite the plethora of studies concerning students' second language proficiency, primarily aiming to enhance assimilation and acculturation into the U.S. academic disciplines, …
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A study of the academic achievement of fifth grade bilingual students in English-only classes
… achievement of students when they were placed in English-only classes. Six fifth grade Hispanic students and three classroom teachers participated in the study. Brief classroom observations were conducted. Testing results were collected for three different tests along with report card grades. All …
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Workshop-Style Instruction: Comparing Achievement and Attitudes of English Only and English Language Learning Students
… effect differentiated between students who speak English as a native or second language.</p>
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English-only instruction: A comparative case-study of a rural and an urban basic school in Ghana
This study takes a critical look at ‘English-only’ medium of instruction in Ghana. Like many African countries, Ghana has multiple languages. Davis and Agbenyega (2012) estimate that Ghana has approximately 49 spoken languages and dialects. Local languages are used for everyday life in local …
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BILITERACY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN A TWO-WAY BILINGUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM
… and academic achievement of elementary English learners in southern California. Scores from the California Standards Test (CST) for language arts and mathematics were used to compare the effects of a bilingual curriculum on Hispanic English learners and Hispanic English Only Speakers. …
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The Use of Soundabet to Increase Phonemic Awareness
… effectiveness of using Soundabet to teach both English language learners and English only students. The rate of letter sound acquisition was analyzed and compared for both subgroups. It was found that although the overall final assessment mean for English only participants was higher English …
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The strange career of bilingual education: A history of the political and pedagogical debate over language instruction in American public education, 1890-1990
… to middle years of the twentieth century when English-Only pedagogy appeared as a, dramatic aberration to the American bilingual tradition. The historiography and interpretive battles of this subject are examined and explained in the Introduction. Chapter One offers a brief historical sketch of …
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Full Capstone
… policies on linguistically diverse students. English-only settings have harmed students academically, mentally, emotionally, physically, and socially. The implications of this problem are lack of motivation, low self-esteem, anxiety, stress, and a lack of cultural diversity. Research has …
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The effect of bilingual music therapy on the expressive language of Spanish speaking children who are learning English in early childhood classrooms
… output in special needs children learning English in early childhood classrooms. Eleven English language learners participated in either an English-only control group or a Bilingual experimental group. In the English-only group, the researcher utilized Western songs, and spoke and sang only …
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A Biographical Narrative Inquiry into the “Mundos” of Two Hispanic Families with an English-Speaking Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… who have Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and only speak English because of subtractive bilingual programs or English-only instruction. The central question of this narrative inquiry was: What are the lived experience of families with an English only speaking children with Autism Spectrum …
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The Influence of Dual Language Education Upon the Development of English Reading Skills of Kindergarten Through Grade Two Students
… Dual Language Education Upon the Development of English Reading Skills of Kindergarten through Grade Two Students.</p> <p>The purpose of this inductive and quantitative research study is to examine the influence of dual language education upon the development of literacy skills in English …
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Finding Relationships Between Multiple-Choice Math Tests and Their Stem-Equivalent Constructed Responses
… to explore differences in the performance of English Learners in a low performing, predominantly Latino high school. The study also determined relationships between math scores and gender and math scores and language proficiency, as well as relationships between CAHSEE and CST scores.</p> …
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Teaching English as a foreign language in Oman: an exploration of English Language teaching pedagogy in tertiary education
… between 2004 and 2007 into the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in tertiary education institutions in Oman. The research was an exploration of English language teaching pedagogy with a particular focus on bilingual (English and Arabic) versus monolingual (English only) …
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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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Neurophysiologic and Behavioral Measures of Phonetic Perception in Adult Second Language Speakers of Spanish
… listeners of Spanish were compared with native English listeners with no knowledge of Spanish and native Mexican listeners to determine if they would show the ability to discriminate phonetic distinctions that are present in Spanish and not English. Behavioral and Electrophysiological measures …
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PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS SKILL OF SEGMENTING IN BILINGUAL ENGLISH/SPANISH SPEAKING 4- AND 5-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN
… of phonological awareness PA), in bilingual English/Spanish-speaking 4-and 5-year-old children at the levels of syllable, onset-rime and phoneme. The results of this study were then compared to a previous study that explored PA skill development in monolingual English speaking children of the …
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PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS SKILL OF SEGMENTING IN BILINGUAL ENGLISH/SPANISH SPEAKING 4- AND 5-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN
… of phonological awareness PA), in bilingual English/Spanish-speaking 4-and 5-year-old children at the levels of syllable, onset-rime and phoneme. The results of this study were then compared to a previous study that explored PA skill development in monolingual English speaking children of the …
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