This multi-case dissertation describes a qualitative inquiry into the experiences of Ethiopian immigrant parents and elementary school teachers with respect to their perspectives on their relationship for serving the educational needs of select Ethiopian children. Data obtained …
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Models of wellness first emerged in the seventies and these focused on optimal living and lifestyle choices that promoted health and well-being. These models led to the development of assessment tools like Testwell and Five Factor Wellness Inventory (5F-Wel); two of the tools fr…
This research explores the transformative potential and effect of democratic education as an alternative to mainstream hegemonic education. It examines and compares two unique schools in two diverse communities: The one is a bilingual (Spanish and English) multicultural public e…
This quantitative study examined the role that metacognition and self-efficacy, through goal-setting practices, play in increasing English proficiency of middle school English learners. The problem addressed was middle school English learners' lack of awareness of the need to be…
This qualitative research study used a phenomenological descriptive design with a modified Husserl (1969) approach to explore the experiences of native Spanish-speaking teachers from Mexico and Spain (NSSTMS), recruited to teach English language learners (ELL) in a Midwestern st…
The purpose of this phenomenological bounded case study was to identify campus principals’ perceptions of how principal mentorship influenced their ability to lead a dual language campus in one Texas school district. The research questions that guided this study examined how the…
This study focuses on identifying students' perceptions of the most successful and least successful methodologies of teaching/learning English language and literature in Saudi Arabian universities. The study employed a questionnaire format, which was distributed to the English D…
The Simple View of Reading model (SVR) was used as a theoretical lens to explore some of the reading comprehension issues and challenges faced by Arabic Heritage Language Learners (HLLs) in the United States. This study investigated which of the two SVR model components, decodin…
We are all born into a culture, however, the culture we are born into may not necessarily be the culture we live in or identify with. Forming a cultural identity can be difficult especially when you are part of two different cultures. This study aims to compare the cultural iden…
Bilingual Arabic lexicography came into being at the end of the 9th century. Unlike monolingual lexicography, bilingual lexicography in the Arab world advanced little during the Muslim empire, and lay dormant under the Ottoman occupation. It was not until the beginning of the 19…
The current study investigates the influence of learners' attitudes toward reading in their native language (L1) on reading in their second language (L2). Since attitude is one of the factors contributing to positive learning outcomes, an understanding of learners' attitudes to …
International students are often under considerable pressure from language barriers, culture shock, social isolation and lack of social support in American universities. Those stressors often discourage international students as ESL learners from practicing English with native s…
This study examines the identity construction processes of multilingual undergraduate university students taking the Foundations of Academic Literacy (FAL) course at Simon Fraser University (SFU). I conducted an ethnographic study with an interpretative approach to highlight the…
Metalinguistic abilities such as phonological and morphological awareness are important language proficiency components. Three interrelated studies, based on a longitudinal project, investigated the development of phonological and morphological skills in children with English as…
Over the last 15 years, approximately 12,000 Somali immigrants and refugees have settled in the capital region of Ottawa-Carleton. According to a study of Somali youth (Ali, 1995), about seventy percent (70%) of the Somalis in Ottawa-Carleton are between 1 and 17 years old. The …
In this study, an effort has been made to explore formulaicity in the Urdu language and its pedagogical implication in second language acquisition, both for English as a second language and Urdu as a second language learner. It is believed that formulaic sequences or prefabs mak…
Emotion research in second language acquisition (SLA) research is undergoing rapid changes with an increasing number of studies exploring its role in second language (L2) learning (Prior, 2019). In line with this rising wave of studies, my research aims (1) to introduce the cons…
An exploration into teachers’ understandings and operationalization of Academic Language and Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for secondary English learners. It has been established that language is at the heart of teaching and learning (Dicerbo et al., 2014),…
A leadership concern relevant in today’s public education system is the disparity of scores also known as the achievement gap between the general education population and the English Language Learner (ELL). This qualitative study addressed administrators’ perceptions of transiti…