Students in the Middle East are being educated to believe that adherents of other religions are malevolent, evil and their enemy. These misconceptions or the 'psycho politics of fear' influence their outlook towards the world and once this prejudiced attitude is formed, it can b…
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This qualitative case study explores the factors inhibiting English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program completers from placing into non-remedial college level courses. In this study, nine face-to-face interviews with EAP faculty and administrators were conducted and applicable …
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to identify the specific gaps between the California administrative leadership competencies in (a) vision and leadership, (b) positive school culture and instructional program, (c) school management, and (d) school and community, and the cu…
This research study examines the commonalities among school principals and their role as instructional leaders, their training as school administrators, and their work experience in schools with high concentration of language minority students of Hispanic descent. Ethnography an…
My dissertation project, "College Knowledge: The Experiences of Mexican Mothers and Educational Success in the Midwest", is grounded in the idea that Mexican parents (regardless of citizenship status) take part in a critical role in U.S. schooling today. While Mexican parents ho…
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between perceived discrimination and subsequent academic motivation of adolescent refugee girls who have been resettled in the United States. In the study, I addressed the following questions: (a) Do adolescent refugee gi…
This study investigates language policy and language planning (LPP) in a small private school in an urban area of Puerto Rico. This school is considered an elite school where most of the students are bilingual (Spanish and English) and sometimes multilingual (Spanish, English, F…
This study investigated the dynamics of adult Iranians' social interactions in Canada. The purpose was to identify social and cultural factors that improve or block speaking opportunities for adult Iranian immigrants. Eight Iranians, five men and three women, who had spent their…
Research focused on educational language policy (ELP) within the United States has explored orientations, ideologies and outcomes for English Learners (ELs) (Wiley, 2002; Skutnabb-Kangas, 2000; Hornberger, 2005). This study seeks to intersect these variables in order to investig…
Full time Torah study in a yeshiva in Israel, once considered an exotic experience for a modern Orthodox high school graduate, is now a commonplace phenomenon in North American Jewish education. This study examined American modern Orthodox high school graduates before (N = 403) …
This qualitative study explored, through a process of elicitation of awareness for teachability, the metacognitive strategies that fifth-grade elementary monolingual English-speaking students in a dual English and Hebrew language program are using in reading comprehension in the…
This study explores the linguistic landscape and sociolinguistic context of an expanding circle country, namely Mongolia. German, Korean, Japanese, and Turkish, in addition to English, Russian, and Chinese, are used by Mongolians to varying degrees, placing Mongolia in a unique …
This study investigated the reactions of American professors to the written prose of non-native speaking international students in their classes. The need for a clear understanding of the specific nature of the writing required in particular content areas has been recently stres…
This work on the development of Mongolian ethnicity is the culmination of my own personal experience growing up as a Mongol, as well as of my more recent anthropological field research in Inner Mongolia. This dissertation is based on two major theoretical constructs: the existen…
The purpose of this research project was to compare the degree of multicultural representation among illustrations of foreign language textbooks from different types of educational systems (central, decentralized, or partially centralized). The study also investigated whether di…
This study examined the question of whether there was a difference in the general school experiences of children who move to a new country with an entirely different culture and language and children who immigrate to a country with a language and culture that is similar to their…
This study begins by identifying the relations between American and Middle-Eastern Arab societies as characterized by conflict. It then identifies the potential positive impact that teacher exchange programs can have on improving these strained diplomatic relations. This is reco…
The need for classroom instruction and materials that reflect students who come from different cultural and linguistic background is important in a country with a multiethnic population. The purpose of this study is to investigate how student teachers respond to literary texts t…
This study explores the educational experiences at home and in school in relation to the ethnic identity development of the Indonesian-Dutch, a biracial minority group that emerged from the colonial situation in the Dutch East-Indies. Comparisons were made across the three major…