Purpose: The goal of this study was to examine how vocabulary size and inhibitory control affect word learning in bilingual (English-Spanish) children with hearing loss. Experiment 1 examined whether children with larger vocabularies learn and retain more words than children wit…
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The study examined the acculturation experiences of Asian Indian immigrant math and science teachers in a K-12 urban school district. The study was preceded by a pilot study in 2008 to develop a protocol for dissertation, which examined the acculturation experiences of professio…
The purpose of this study was to examine the culture learning process in study abroad. More specifically, this study attempted to understand the preparation that on-site staff have had for their role as intercultural educators, how they conceptualize and facilitate culture learn…
In Lebanon, the symbolic value of language has held prominence in religious and secular nationalist discourses and ideological struggles over the last century, as bilingual educational practices spread through missionary and colonial institutions. This dissertation examines the …
This dissertation is a historical, comparative examination of resistance and agency by Jewish and African American activists seeking redress in the form of redistribution of resources and early multiculturalist efforts demanding recognition of group identities within New York Ci…
This ethnographic study examines the processes of identity negotiation among immigrant children at a Cypriot public primary school. It particularly focuses on the ways in which children situate themselves in, through, and across contexts (the home, the school, the playground) of…
This longitudinal study examines a change in the language of instruction for Mathematics and Science (M & S) subjects from Bahasa Malaysia (BM) to English in Malaysia. This policy, known by the acronym of PPSMI, has two objectives: to promote student learning of M & S, and also …
This master's thesis is written by an indigenous person who sees education as a healing process. In the tradition of narrative inquiry (Clandinin and Connelly, 2000) I interweave autobiographical texts with reflections on colonialism, indigeneity and multiculturalism. I am Amazi…
In this study, two tenured Canadian teacher educators were asked the question, "What are your personal and pedagogical experiences of engaging with the complexities of teaching anti-racist, multicultural education in your graduate courses?" The researcher is a Muslim woman, born…
This study examines the efficacy of academic preparatory course interventions on the success rates of foreign language learning. Specifically, this study assesses the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center’s (DLIFLC) Introduction to Language Studies (ILS) preparatory…
This study examines traditional African indigenous knowledges and educational practices for the purposes of determining their relevance to and applicability in Black-focused schools in Toronto, Ontario. Literature-based, the study examines the writings of Afrocentrists---Cheikh …
Because of the increase in minority immigrant student enrolment in the K-12 and consequently the higher educational system, there is a corresponding need to ensure that their specific needs are taken care of. Postsecondary multicultural developmental education can be part of the…
This study focuses on the impact of attending an ethnoreligious school on different dimensions of social integration. Data are measures of students of fourth and fifth secondary registered in French speaking ethnoreligious schools in the province of Quebec. This study is also se…
This study investigated the impact of participation in the Seeds of Peace International Summer Camp program on attitudes toward perceived enemies and in-group members. Specifically, individuals' social dominance orientation, stereotype attributions, closeness to own and out-grou…
Scope and method of study. This case study, based on the experiences of teaching business reporting in Egypt, grew from the experiences of the instructor/author while teaching at Cairo University and Misr International University in Egypt. The study looks at the challenges in te…
This dissertation portrays twentieth century Chinese Indonesians struggling to find their place in the history of what is now Indonesia. The teaching of Chinese language has played a special role in their efforts. During the New Order (1966-1998), Chinese was banned and treated …
Bilingual education has been controversial since its inception (Medina, 2003), and the immigration debate in the early 21st century has compounded this dilemma. The concept of Dual Language seems to be accepted by both sides of the debate (Thomas & Collier, 1997), as it appears …
This study investigates whether the remedial tertiary-level EFL classes in the Arabian Gulf States optimize the process of acquiring English for the majority of the students, namely the graduates of government high schools. I have endeavoured to uncover, by reference to my three…
The education of boys in the Middle East has received very little attention despite falling retention and achievement rates and rising repetition rates among males. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this trend is very clear; boys have higher dropout rates, higher repetition rat…