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…
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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 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 …
There were two purposes of the current study: (1) to evaluate if the East Asian Student Stress Inventory could be used to assess the stress experienced by International and American students at the University of North Texas and (2) to determine if the Inventory could discriminat…
Lack of participation in the school by the minority parents is related to lack of support from the school to attract and to involve these parents. This ethnographic research studies the perceptions of seventeen English speaking, immigrant, minority parents regarding participatio…
The framework employed for this study is adaptation theory which illustrates the cultural-adjustment of Somalis in the Metro Toronto school system. This study then looked at the challenges faced by Somalis in their attempt to integrate into Canadian society and the school system…
This five-month case study investigated three kindergarten children's writing with computers. The focal children were raised in families from Taiwan, Arabia, and Nigeria. Taking a socio-cognitive view, the researcher examined the impacts of using two different computer software …
Statement of the problem. Theories of second language acquisition discuss the effects of the native language on learning a second language. Contrastive analysis of the languages determines the level of interference of the native language and predicts the difficulties a learner w…
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine if a relationship exists between teaching strategies and standardized test scores. A second purpose was to identify the instructional strategies that teachers use most frequently. In this case study investigation, twelve…
Interlanguage fossilization and stabilization, its precursor, are brought on by biological, acculturational, or interactive factors. Some of these biological factors form an unchangeable final boundary for language growth. The rest of the factors can form initial boundaries on l…
Many students from Malaysia and Southern China who come to the United States to study have problems in communicating; and their pronunciation, together with other linguistic disabilities in listening comprehension and reading, constitutes a persistent challenge to educators of E…
Following an introductory chapter, effects of the multifaceted character of the Caribbean on the formation of the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship were examined. In chapter II, a study of the contextual setting included geography, colonial background, economy, culture and religion, …