EFL TO ESL: A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH L2 STUDENTS IN TRANSITION

This is a case study of four international English L2 students transitioning from their home countries into the academic context of a US university. It investigates the intersections of identity and investment as English L2 students interact with English resources, and how proficiency may or may not mitigate the type and quality of access to English resources. Furthermore, the study proposes a learner as agent framework for understanding the processes of gaining access to English resources. Finally, the study argues that proficiency is a complex issue that needs to be analyzed and defined locally rather than globally and that decontextualized proficiency assessments only provide a partial account of an L2 learners language skills.'

Name thesis:degree_name

Educational Linguistics

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Schwartz, Michael W.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Meyer, Lois M.
• Morford, Jill P.
• Peele-Eady, Tryphenia
• Romano, Susan

• Second language acquisition
• English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
• Applied linguistics
• Discourse analysis

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_llss_etds/41

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalrepository.unm.edu:educ_llss_etds-1040