The increasing parental participation and involvement in education can be shown in programs such as bilingual education. Thus, the knowledge and attitudes of bilingual parents toward their district's bilingual education programs needed investigation to determine current levels o…
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The cultural identity of multilingual Lebanese students is examined in academic writing (mainly argumentative) in Arabic and in English essays using case studies. This area is important because it helps reach an understanding on whether different languages allow us to take up di…
The purpose of this study was to develop a volunteer tutoring program to integrate foreign students into a Jewish day school. Jewish day schools offer a dual curriculum of Judaic studies, which are taught in Hebrew, and secular studies, which are taught in English. This presents…
Beginning with Ritchie (1978), no less than 20 studies have probed the issue of Universal Grammar (UG) access by adult second language (L2) learners. In a majority of these studies the results pointed toward UG accessibility. Schachter (1989a, 1990) found it to be otherwise. Whi…
The research in the present study investigates the contribution of learners' knowledge of linguistic factors, namely, vocabulary and syntax to English as a foreign language reading comprehension. Four research questions are addressed: (a) Is there a correlation between lexical k…
This thesis utilizes a critical life history methodology to examine the lived experience of eight research participants. Each participant experienced a one year teacher education program at a Canadian university with a focus on antiracist education during the 1994–95 academic ye…
This case study focused on understanding the processes involved in the development of science curriculum in a higher educational institution in a foreign setting. It explored the impact of participation and factors which mediated the environment in which curriculum is developed.…
Commensurate with an emerging demand for social mobility in Malaysia has been an increasing governmental focus on racial/ethnic social equality. Tensions focused on social outcomes associated with racial affinity have created deep-seated ill feelings across ethnic boundaries in …
To become an independent nation after the Soviet Union's collapse, the ruling Kazakh elite and Kazakh language medium school administrators struggle to restore ethnic nationality consciousness, consolidate the Kazakhs' political power at the government and school levels, and imp…
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the use of language alternation and the role it played in four ESP (English for Specific Purposes) classrooms at the College of Business Studies (CBS) in Kuwait, with special reference to the Business English courses taught i…
This case study described certain characteristics of the American overseas school experience as perceived by Bahraini graduates of Bahrain School. Bahrain School, located on the island of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf, is a kindergarten through grade twelve school, operated by the…
Mainstreaming bilingual children while providing them with in-class language support is a language policy which aims to provide for the needs of children in multicultural British schools. In classes where there are substantial numbers of pupils for whom English is not their firs…
International development organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the G8, and USAID have launched initiatives to provide developing nations with access to information technology. Education and training are major components of these initiatives. As these organiz…
Immigrant communities, particularly small ones, often face pressures to adjust their behavioral archetypes to a new context. This study examines this issue within the Christian Arab Canadian community in Edmonton. In order to conform to contemporary peers, teenagers and young ad…
This study applies ethnographic methods using the Epistemic Triangle as a lens for investigating teachers' appropriation of a bilingual educational reform policy (i.e., making it their own) in first and second grade Hausa-French classrooms in Niger. The Epistemic Triangle highli…
The purpose of the present dissertation is to derive the criteria/dimensions underlying learners' second language (L2) oral ability scores across three tasks: an oral interview, a narration, and a read-aloud. A stimulus tape of 18 speech samples was presented to three native spe…
This study investigated the language loss factors that plagued two Mexican-American families and the language maintenance strategies that they used to preserve Spanish in their lives. Six subjects participated in the study. A representative of each family for each of three gener…
ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) community college students enrolled in a required writing course were introduced to contrastive rhetoric to assist them in making connections between their first languages (L1) and English to enhance their writing. Students wrote a …
The purpose of this study was to explore the musical experiences of immigrant students in an American high school choral classroom. This study revealed some of the central issues and tensions that immigrant students face as they are acculturated into secondary school music progr…