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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"monolingual English"”.
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A Description of Monolingual English Teachers Appreciations of Student Language Repertoires in Hutterian Colony Schools
This phenomenological study describes five monolingual English teachers’ understandings of the language repertoires of their students in a Hutterian colony context. The five participants deliver the provincial curriculum through the English language to Hutterian colony students who have the three …
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Exploring an Monolingual English - Speaking Teacher's Perceptions of Classroom Interventions to Foster Hispanic English Language Learners' Primary Language
… into United States classrooms. The education of English Language Learners is a controversial topic due to people's mixed beliefs on the amount of English and primary language instruction needed to aid students' English language development. Due to the shortage of bilingual teachers many English …
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The use of monolingual English and bilingual Arabic-Engish dictionaries in Kuwait: an experimental investigation into the dictionaries used and reference skills deployed by university students of arts and science
… into the use of dictionaries by students of English and Science at Kuwait University with a particular focus on bilingual dictionaries of Arabic and English. In the introductory chapter we discuss the increasingly important role of vocabulary in EFL methodology and the relevant emphasis on …
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Effects of Language Dominance in Spanish-English Bilingual Speakers
… study examines the semantic networks of Spanish-English bilingual adults and monolingual English-speaking peers to determine whether language dominance structures the semantic space of a bilingual speaker to more closely match the semantic space of a monolingual speaker of the dominant language. …
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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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Narrative Accounts of Third-Generation Mexican-Americans: Bilingualism in a Third Space
… as parental communication and interactions with monolingual relatives of the minority language that provide the third generation with opportunities to use the language. The scholarship on the language shift to monolingual-English and the maintenance of Spanish in Latino immigrant families in the …
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The developmental progression of cognitive-linguistic skills in emergent bilingual children
… that focuses upon literacy development in monolingual, English speaking children, very little research has been conducted regarding the problems encountered by children learning English as an additional language (EAL). Recent political and educational concerns have been the educational …
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Factors Influencing Reading Ability and Self-Esteem: A Study of Bilingually Educated and Non-Bilingually Educated Students
… and measurement of self-esteem of 21 Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students (Group BE) that participated in a transitional bilingual program for three to four years (Kindergarten or Grade 1 to Grade 3). These students were compared to other LEP students that were not in the bilingual …
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The relationship of language orientation and racial/ethnic attitude among Chinese-American primary grade children
… attitude. Generally, Chinese-Americans are monolingual Chinese speakers (MCS), monolingual English speakers (BECS). These three linguistic groups of Chineses-American children were compared in this study to determine the existence of a language orientation-racial/ethnic attitude …
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Acculturation and Cardiovascular Behaviors Among Adult Asian-Americans
… second or more OR=0.11, 95% Cl: 0.03, 0.32) and monolingual (English only) Japanese (OR=0.25, 95% Cl: 0.09, 0.70). Finally, binge drinking was positively associated with being first generation South Asian (OR=3.05, 95% Cl: 1.55, 5.98) and monolingual (English only) Vietnamese (OR=3.00, 95% Cl: …
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What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms
What counts as English depends on the circumstances and where and how it is employed. In classrooms this socio-cultural artefact is constructed through practices in particular ways. Language and literacy practices in schools produce and re-produce certain things that count. In this dissertation I …
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Fine-Grained Analyses of Multisensory Integration and Emerging Language in 24-Month-Olds
… was predictive of vocabulary in 24-month-olds monolingual English learners. However, it was the collapsed looking-time data for each condition across six trials that yielded these results. Instead, this analysis used fine-grained measures to characterize attention changes over time. The …
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Examination Of Speech Disfluencies In The Story Generation Narratives Of Bidialectal Children
… for stuttering that were created based on monolingual English-speaking norms. Specifically, research has already revealed that bilingual Spanish-English speaking children are at an increased risk for misdiagnosis of stuttering. The purpose of this study was to determine if bidialectal …
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Exploring translingual assessment for learning in multilingual grade 10 afrikaans home language classes
… inevitable, yet learners are still subjected to monolingual English and Afrikaans assessment practices. Despite South African policies advocating for multilingualism, monolingual ideologies are still hindering education in South African public schools (Makalela, 2017). This context prompted this …
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A triple case study of two Saudi and one Italian language learners' self-perceptions of target language (TL) speaking proficiency
… diverse ways in which two Saudis and one Italian English language learner (ELL) came to speaking proficiency according to his or her own perceptions and observations. The researcher conducted interviews of the two Saudi ELLs face-to-face and the one Italian ELL through Skype by asking 15 …
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A Qualitative Study of the Positioning of Emergent Bilinguals during Formal and Informal School-Based Interactions
… languages and speakers of languages other than English. Using a multiple case study design, this study sought to explicate the often-complicated intersection of outsider institutional and societal ideologies with the insider lived experiences of emergent bilinguals in schools. The population of …
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Working Memory Effects on Bilingual Sentence Processing
… relative clause attachment preferences of English monolingual speakers, Korean monolingual speakers, and late Korean/English bilingual speakers when processing globally ambiguous English and Korean relative clauses. Results showed that both the English monolingual group and the …
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Towards establishing the equivalence of the English version of the verbal analogies scale of the Woodcock Munuz Language Survey across English and Xhosa first language speakers
… Africa (SA), learners commence education in English. This English milieu poses a considerable challenge for English second-language speakers. In an attempt to bridge the gap between English as the main medium of instruction and the nine indigenous languages of the country and assist with the …
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A phenomenon in the making: the Hizmet Movement, its philosophy on education, schools, and notions of bilingual education
… the use of home language and improve the English proficiency of bilingual children. This will also benefit the monolingual English-speaking students as well. This study looks into a new emerging movement deeply involved in education: The Hizmet Movement (HM). Its emergence, philosophy, …
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