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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Language Minority Students"”.
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Educational Leaders Serving Language Minority Students (1965-2001)
… three legislations that affected education for language</p><p>minority students. The research starts with a historical overview of the foundation of the</p><p>United States and the education of the non-English speaking population. It examines the</p><p>conditions that led to the first Bilingual …
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Comparison of quiet and outgoing language minority students through journal writing
<p>Outgoing students have the advantage over quiet students in oral class participation. Our problem was to determine whether this relationship was the same in the medium of writing by studying differences in quantity and quality of writing between a quiet and an outgoing group.</p>
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Comparison of quiet and outgoing language minority students through journal writing
<p>Outgoing students have the advantage over quiet students in oral class participation. Our problem was to determine whether this relationship was the same in the medium of writing by studying differences in quantity and quality of writing between a quiet and an outgoing group.</p>
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TOWARD A DATA LITERACY ASSESSMENT THAT IS FAIR FOR LANGUAGE MINORITY STUDENTS
… world. Researchers emphasize the need for K-12 students to attain data literacy. However, few available instructions have incorporated validated assessments. Therefore, I developed and implemented the Data literacy Assessment for Middle graders (DLA-M) that can diagnose students’ current stages …
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Literacy Learning Experiences of Four Language Minority Students: The Principles of Importance
… of the factors that complicate the participating students' literacy learning. First, literacy progress is impacted by language programs provided at school and parental literacy support at home. Second, the parents' views or beliefs concerning first and second language acquisition have an impact on …
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A Longitudinal Study of Language Minority Students' Academic Achievement and Transitional Bilingual Education Program Effectiveness on Mainstream Education
… to 10.5 at grade 8 in 1998 for the 50 bilingual students; (b) reading achievement ranged from 2.9 at grade 3 in 1993 to 10.0 at grade 8 in 1998 for the 50 bilingual students; (c) reading emerged as the most preferred activity; library usage least preferred; (d) reading achievement was a …
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Language Minority Students at Community College: How Do Developmental Education and English as a Second Language Affect Their Educational Outcomes?
… a postsecondary credential. However, immigrant students may face obstacles in pursuit of a postsecondary degree, particularly second language challenges that can inhibit their success in college-level coursework. This dissertation seeks to provide some of the first evidence on the impact of …
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A Causal Analysis of Achievement Models for Language Minority Students in the United States: A Linear Structural Relations (Lisrel) Approach
… validity of a theoretical model linking ethnic-language dominance, socio-economic status, and parental involvement to cognitive achievement and psychological orientation. An unbalanced, multi-group sample was randomly selected from the 1980 High School and Beyond national database. A total of …
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Teachers' perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism: the effect on language arts pedagogy
Few studies on English language learners (ELLs) focus on teachers’ perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism and describe the impact of those perceptions on language arts pedagogy. While numerous studies have explored the teaching of diverse students and the negative effects of standardized …
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Oral tradition in the classroom: The relationship between the use of culturally appropriate reading material and reading comprehension
… and reading comprehension among Spanish-speaking language minority students of elementary school age. Text includes Spanish and English transcriptions of stories.
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Oral tradition in the classroom: The relationship between the use of culturally appropriate reading material and reading comprehension
… and reading comprehension among Spanish-speaking language minority students of elementary school age. Text includes Spanish and English transcriptions of stories.
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Towards a Bourdieuian understanding of the South Asian language minorities' language acquisition in Hong Kong
The inadequacy of Chinese language skills of the South Asian language minorities has raised concerns among educators and policymakers in recent years. Further to the notification given by the Equal Opportunities Commission to the Education Bureau of its concerns about the education of …
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The Effect of Social Skills on Academic Achievement of Linguistically Diverse Elementary Students: Concurrent and Longitudinal Analysis
Due to the difference in cultures and languages, language minority students, who are mostly immigrant students, are confronted with more demands than are mainstream students (Ogden, Sorlie, & Hagen, 2007). Further, when they are limited in English proficiency (LEP), they tend to perform at lower …
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Core French in Eastern Ontario: a language-minority student's experience
… conducted to learn about the experiences of one language-minority student learning French in a core French class in Eastern Ontario. In-class observations and interviews with the language-minority learner (LML), his guardian, his teachers and principal were conducted over a six-week period. The …
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The New Face of Bilingual Education: Is It Worth the Battle? One School's Struggle
… and confusion about the role of native language use in academic settings. There are no detailed, undisputed guidelines for effective program models in bilingual education but there are some overarching themes and characteristics found across the board in successful programs. Above all, …
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Mainstream teacher attitudes toward english language learners
… categories of their attitudes toward English language learners: (a) inclusion of ELLs, (b) the second language acquisition process/language and language learning, (c) modification of coursework, and (d) ESL professional development. Though studies on teacher attitudes toward ELLs remain …
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