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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"teacher beliefs and practices"”.
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Teacher beliefs and practices: their effects on student achievement in the urban school setting
… of a Eurocentric curriculum taught by White teachers, which often limits the use of a multicultural curriculum—one that values the culture and lifestyles of diverse students. This study focused on elements within teaching practices that improved achievement among students of color. An …
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English learners or multilingual learners: To what extent does terminology even matter?
… to students whose home language is not English and qualify for language support services. While this change represents a broader sociopolitical effort to reframe linguistic diversity as an asset, little is known about how such shifts influence teacher beliefs, instructional practices, or …
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Parent involvement in Migrant Head Start : parental beliefs and teacher practices
… Head Start. Under investigation were parent and teacher beliefs and practices pertaining to involvement in the child's early schooling context. An ethnography approach and modified grounded theory approach was chosen which involved in-depth interviews, observations, and focus groups for …
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Teacher Beliefs On Balanced Literacy And Collective Efficacy In Kindergarten
<p>The research problem of this study was teacher beliefs about early literacy pedagogy. Research over the past 15 years had made significant strides in studying the complex relationships between teacher beliefs and practices (Fang, 2006). Teacher beliefs play an important role in teachers’ work …
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The Relationship Between English Language Test Scores Among Nigerian High School Students And Teacher Beliefs About Language Teaching And Their Classroom Practices
… test scores among Nigerian high school students and teacher beliefs about language teaching and their classroom practices. Three research questions and associated hypotheses were addressed in this study. A total of 23 teachers, one from each high school in the Government District of Nigeria, …
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Shanghai kindergarten teachers' beliefs about engagement in Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the context of educational reform
… This study aimed to develop a better understanding of kindergarten teachers’ beliefs and practice of Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) in Shanghai in the context of educational reform, the relationship between teachers’ beliefs and their practice, and whether the type of school …
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Teachers Matter: Expectation Effects in Foreign Language Classrooms at University
The current research explored normative teacher expectation effects in first-year foreign language classrooms in tertiary settings. Mixed methodology was adopted in this research to survey 4,617 first-year undergraduate students (116 classes) and their 50 teachers from 2 universities in China. …
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An investigation into the Professional Development of English Teachers in Syrian Secondary Schools.
Despite continued interest and research into teacher professional development (TPD), as an important topic within English language teaching, the researcher identified some areas where there is much still to reveal. These include: teachers' customary engagement with different TPD activities aside …
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The effectiveness of two spelling approaches on vocabulary development for Hispanic learners
… to evaluate two approaches to teaching spelling and vocabulary to second through fourth graders in two different urban school systems to determine if one program revealed greater growth scores on Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) reading components. Research question 1 posited: …
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Form-focused instruction: A case study of Vietnamese teachers’ beliefs and practices
Despite the reported powerful influence of teachers’ beliefs on their pedagogical practices in the classroom, very few in-depth case studies of foreign language teachers’ beliefs and the correspondence between their beliefs and instructional strategies have been internationally published – Woods …
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THE TEACHING OF EARLY READING IN ENGLISH USING THE PHONICS APPROACH IN MALAYSIAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS: TEACHER BELIEFS, KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES
The aim of this study was to understand and explore how the relationship between teacher beliefs and practices is developed in the teaching of early reading of English as a second language in Malaysia. It also investigated how the presence of knowledge as a mediator may influence this relationship. …