This thesis explains the significance that bilingualism has played and should play in life. It consists of three chapters: Chapter 1 examines bilingual perspectives from different communities inside the United States; Chapter 2 presents a critical assessment of research from lin…
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The imagination of the Chinese nation is a process continuing up to the present. As the Ethnic Classification Project was significant in the initial construction of the Chinese nation, education played an essential role in the latter part of the story. This paper focuses on the …
Enacting Discourses of Tutorship: An Autoethnographic Journey May 2021Nicolasa Barbosa de Garcia, M.Ed., Texas A & M University-KingsvilleChair of Dissertation Committee: Ari Sherris, Ph.D.Throughout history, universities have searched for ways to guide students through their st…
National statistics indicate substantial mental health and academic challenges experienced by a sizable proportion of Hispanic children and adolescents in American school settings. School counselors can provide culturally responsive supports to this population and would benefit …
Esta tesis propone la presencia del sincretismo y del anti-sincretismo religioso en las novelas Yawar fiesta (1941) y Los ríos profundos (1958), del escritor peruano José María Arguedas (1911-1969). Desde el punto de vista sociológico de Karl-Heinz Hillmann (2001), antropológico…
Historically, the native speaker (NS) has long been used as a model when it comes to language teaching and learning. However, to date, the discussion of the native speaker teacher (NST) and non-native speaker teacher (NNST) has been primarily limited to English as a second langu…
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether bilingual students enrolled in an English as a New Language (ENL) program achieve English language proficiency levels based on their performance levels on the New York State English as a Second Language Achievement Te…
Elicited imitation (EI) is a method of assessing oral proficiency in which the examinee listens to a prompt and attempts to repeat it back exactly as it was heard. Research over recent decades has successfully established correlation between EI testing and other oral proficiency…
This study employs Critical Race Theory (CRT) through the lens of Lat/Crit, to situate the bilingual multicultural education debate and the political discourse occurring in the state of New Mexico. The ideological perceptions of school principals’ to effectively implement, evalu…
UAE nationals ('Emiratis') constitute less than 10% of the resident population of Dubai. Despite having access to free education in the public sector, where Arabic is the medium of instruction, more Emirati families in Dubai choose to enrol their children in private schools, spe…
The majority of scholars’ work on code-switching within the sociolinguistic approach of Arabic has been mainly concentrated on the interaction of the Standard variety with other regional dialects in indigenous communities (Albirini, 2011; Bassiouney, 2006; Saeed, 1997; Soliman, …
Osmanlı Devleti’nin son zamanlarında, özellikle batılılaşma hareketlerinin ön plana çıktığı, ıslahatların gerçekleştiği dönemde, sözlükçülük alanında da çok önemli eserler ortaya konmuştur. Söz konusu dönemde özellikle Fransa ile kurulan ikili ilişkilerle birlikte, Osmanlı Devle…
"Wherever there is a situation of domination and subordination between any two groups, whatever their color or religion, this will be reflected in the language relationship: one language dominating the other." —wa Thiong’o (2011, p. 244)
This study is about the reactions of anglophones in Saskatchewan to the Official Languages Act of 1969. This study is based on a systematic analysis of 132 articles published in the Regina Leader Post between 1968 and 1969. The objective of this research is to identify the facto…
This quasi-experimental classroom-based study (n=128) looks at what students in an English for Academic Purposes Program (EAP) learn from the process of writing collaboratively and how this affects the individual writing that they subsequently produce. This is compared to how in…
This study explored the effects of a three-week vocabulary intervention for three Spanish-dominant bilingual preschoolers with expressive language delay. The project addressed the relative and absolute treatment differences among the young bilinguals receiving treatment for over…
The Kurdish people have historically occupied the eastern and southeastern regions of Turkey. Since 1923 the Kurdish question is still the most serious internal issue in the Turkish republic's eighty-eight year history. Undoubtedly, one of the main obstacles for the Kurds in Tur…
This study was an action research study that examined how second grade bilingual children defined "the word and their world" (Freire & Macedo, 1987) during literature discussions; that world is structured by societal, school, and classroom constructions of race, culture and lang…
In linguistically heterogeneous societies, language planning constitutes core institutional practice for maintaining social cohesion as well as unique cultural identities. This critical sociolinguistic and comparative analysis examines education language policy process in India,…
This study analyzes three legislations that affected education for language minority students. The research starts with a historical overview of the foundation of the United States and the education of the non-English speaking population. It examines the conditions that led to t…