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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"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
… 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 personal …
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Creativity Through Oracy: A Mixed Methods Study of Creativity in L2 Talk
… in order to adapt to the rapidly-changing world. Second language teachers, needless to say, have not been exempted from this 21st century skills demand. Nevertheless, it appears to be challenging for teachers to embed the teaching of creativity into the language classroom, where the primary goal …
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Generally speaking : exploring expressions of generality in secondary mathematics classrooms
… The study uses the framework, and draws on second language education literature, to re-examine the fifty-two main study lessons. This analysis highlights the complexity of expressing generality through natural language, and suggests that natural language exhibits many of the pitfalls and …
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Promoting Students’ Interest in Learning English as a Foreign Language: A Case Study of Vietnamese University Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices
Second language education research has seen a scarcity of investigations into ‘interest’, even though interest adds significantly to learning processes and results. In EFL tertiary learning contexts like Vietnam, most learners fail to generate interest in learning, although they know advanced …
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Developing beliefs and practices regarding vocabulary teaching through a dialogic approach for professional development: A case study of English language teachers in Hong Kong
… to teachers’ change in relation to the language area. This thesis, therefore, seeks to investigate teachers’ epistemological and pedagogical beliefs about vocabulary development, understand their relationship with actual practice, as well as exploring how they develop through a dialogic …
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A Comparison of Full-Day and Half-Day English and French Immersion Kindergarten: Children's Outcomes and Experiences
… on full-day kindergarten programming as well as second-language education. Findings suggest that FDK has a greater impact on reading in second-language contexts and that increased exposure to the second language, as well as learning through play, is beneficial for vocabulary development and word …
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Beyond the gender gap: Masculinities in Austrian German as L2 education for refugees
This dissertation aims to bridge the gaps between second language education research, gender studies, and forced migration studies. Particular emphasis is placed on dimensions of temporality and spatiality and their various intersections with participants’ experience of border policies, …
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Early Bilingual Education: An Examination of Purposely Selected Teacher Viewpoints: South East China and San Francisco Area
… 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 developed enough to receive foreign language …
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Non-native text analysis with Syntactic Diff, a general comparative text mining framework
… outnumber native speakers; English is the main language of books, newspapers, airports, air-traffic control, international business, academic conferences, science, technology, diplomacy, sports, international competitions, pop music, and advertising [1]. Online education in the form of MOOCs …
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French As a Second Language Teachers’ Conceptualizations and Pedagogical Views of Intercultural Awareness, Intercultural Competence, and Global Citizenship
… 8, and 9 Ontario Core and Immersion French as a second language (FSL) teachers’ conceptualizations of intercultural awareness (IA), intercultural competence (IC) and global citizenship (GC). Questions that guided the research were: ‘How does a purposeful sample of FSL teachers conceptualize GC?’, …
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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
… schools due to cultural differences and the language barrier; these issues often prevented the students from establishing friendships and expressing themselves at their local schools. At the same time, I found that several sojourner students and mothers valued the students’ local school …
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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
… I hope this dissertation will shed light on second language writing teaching in the U.S. as well as in China and second language writing research</p>
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Exploring a Prefigurative Culture in the Immigrant Family: A look at the sociolinguistic impact of children on the immigrant parent
… on the parents and how the children's English language learning and acculturation have impacted their own English learning and acculturation. This study was intended to fill that lack of research by exploring the sociolinguistic impact that children are having on their immigrant parents. This …
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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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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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Second language vocabulary acquisition through storybook reading for Chinese children
… kindergarteners ( n =50) in China, whose primary language is Chinese, who learn English as a second language. The children (aged 5 to 6) were pretested to evaluate their knowledge of general and targeted words using a researcher-designed instrument tailored to the content of three selected English …
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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
… 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, 2007; Llinares, Morton, & Whittaker, 2012), …
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