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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Second Language Acquisition & Teaching"”.
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Kia matatau ki te reo: Factors influencing the development of proficiency in te reo Māori with adult learners
… what factors help or hinder adult Māori second language learners to become proficient speakers of te reo Māori? I ask this question at a moment in history when te reo, like other indigenous languages, sits on the edge of a precipice in terms of its survival as a living language. …
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Contexts That Inform Racial Awareness and Affect Teaching Practice: A Study of White Bilingual Teachers
… contexts that inform racial awareness and teaching practice for White bilingual teachers. These contexts include the teacher education program in which the teachers were trained, the personal experiences of the participants, and the schools in which they teach. This study also investigates …
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Blending Lifewriting and Technology to Teach Language, Culture & Identity in the ESL Classroom
… advocate for a method, theory, and approach to teaching language, culture, and identity in the ESL classroom that also uses both. I call this Transautomedia. I combine analysis (theory), application (original research projects), and activism (vigorous action in support of my cause). This is …
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Meeting the Needs of Foreign Language Teaching Assistants: Professional Development in American Universities
… that has traditionally dominated foreign language (FL) departments is no longer desirable. According to the 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) report entitled "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World," these departments need to strive to create …
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Cambios dialectales e idiosincrasias en la enseñanza del segundo idioma a estudiantes minoritarios a través de la poesía Afrocubana
Cotidianamente los profesores se hacen esta pregunta: ¿cómo pueden relacionarse mis estudiantes con la lección? Saben que si los estudiantes pudieran acoplarse con el contenido de la lección, entenderían y aprenderían con gran eficacia. En la mayoría de los distritos escolares urbanos de …
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Reading Children's and Adolescent Literature in Three University Second-Semester Spanish Courses: An Action Research Study
… students of Spanish. The study investigated second-semester students' perceptions of their experiences reading children's and adolescent literature in Spanish and the relevance of reading this literature on their acquisition of Spanish and their understanding and appreciation of Latino …
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Second Language Instruction with Phonological Knowledge: Teaching Arabic to Speakers of English
… speakers of English learning Arabic as a foreign language. The study utilized an intervention strategy that introduced the letters and sounds of Arabic to two groups of adult English-speaking learners of Arabic. </p> <p>Forty-six students of Arabic 101 at The University of Montana participated in …
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Second Language Instruction with Phonological Knowledge: Teaching Arabic to Speakers of English
… speakers of English learning Arabic as a foreign language. The study utilized an intervention strategy that introduced the letters and sounds of Arabic to two groups of adult English-speaking learners of Arabic. </p> <p>Forty-six students of Arabic 101 at The University of Montana participated in …