Colonial Algeria was the locus of a rich mingling of populations since the land had been inhabited by many different ethnic groups throughout its history. Successive occupations by Romans, Arabs, Jews, Turks and by colonists from Europe make the situation of Algeria different fr…
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This study emerges out of a need to provide a new interpretation and critical analysis of what is considered "classical rhetorical theory." In most cases, what is termed "classical" are traditions and ideals derived from the ancient Greco-Roman world. In response to the overwhel…
Recent research in SLA have reflected an awareness of the influence of the socio-cultural context on the language learning process (McKay & Wong, 1996; Peirce, 1995). Most of these studies have been carried out in English language native-speaker settings. Using a qualitative app…
Growing evidence suggests that evaluation designs that are sensitive to cultural dimensions contribute to the validity and utilization of evaluation findings (Klitgaard, 1995; Shulha & Cousins, 1997). Program-theory-type evaluation represents a recent trend that typically involv…
This research project examines how humans are depicted in computer-based representations, with particular attention to the representation of cultural difference. Hypermedia environments from a range of sources are analyzed as sites of meaning making, including two websites built…
According to the research conducted, the growth in the Hispanic population in California has had an impact on health services. Health providers have attempted to meet the needs of this population by bridging a communication gap that currently exists. This investigation studied t…
Kazakhstan Evangelical Christian Seminary (KECS) has been training leaders for the service of Christian churches since 1993. It has experienced some small ethnic conflicts during the course of its ministry that have made me consider ways of pacifying the school environment. In t…
This research examined whether the intervention of an African-based, gender-sensitive video curriculum, similar to the series Freestyles , would encourage rural primary school students of Northern Kenya—the American equivalent of junior high students—to modify their sex-role ste…
Over the past decade much has changed in the United States schools. The number of minority students in U.S. continues to increase. The number of ethnically diverse teachers is declining. By the year 2000, it estimated that minority students will compromise 33% of the school popu…
Problem statement. This study is an exploration of the meaning of work and concepts of self in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and California, interpreted through theories of language and tradition, within a framework of autopoietic relationship. The primary research question is:…
This study was an initial effort to examine the applicability of Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) procedures to measure reading in a language other than English, and more specifically, in Hebrew. Participants included 416 regular education students from grades 1–5 from 3 eleme…
The primary purpose for the investigation was to determine if strategies used in the Open Court curriculum truly meet the needs of second language learners. A survey of current second language learner teaching strategies was used to collect data. Due to the numerous strategies a…
This paper reports on the relationship between the perceptions of the native listener of personality traits of nonnative speakers and the grammatical errors and phonetic errors of nonnative speakers' speech. Research to date shows that native listeners do have definite attitudes…
This ethnography of communication seeks to identify the factors that contribute to second-language acquisition and production in an environment, a residential summer camp, considered conducive to learning. Although English is the native tongue of ninety-five percent of the parti…
Even though adults have long faced the experience of learning to function in new cultural contexts, very little is understood about the processes of this sort of learning. This project approaches learning culture from the assumption that cultural knowledge is best understood in …
A cornerstone of democracy is an educated and participating citizenry. The American system for teaching English to immigrant students is often ineffective, shortchanging students and depriving the country of their intellect, skills and creativity. Israel provides Jewish immigran…
The current study investigated the content and construct validities of second language proficiency as measured by the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)—i.e., the types of language (test content) and the types of skills (constructs) involved in a second language test …
This dissertation presents three case studies of collaborative interaction in a third-grade dual-language classroom during writing instruction over the course of a school year. The study addresses the notion of developing student voice, and how instruction can be seated so that …