Bilingual Education

This qualitative case study examined the process of composing from a picture prompt for six English as a second language (ESL) high school students. Building upon previous research in picture perception and second language writing, the researcher sought to describe how the proce…

This is a year long in-depth, longitudinal case study of Noa, a six-year-old female in a bilingual first grade class which documents and analyzes her literacy development in a multilingual setting. Data collection for the study includes: written artifacts, anecdotal records, inf…

This dissertation represents a case study of a nonformal, functional education program. The study was designed to ascertain which elements contributed to successful acquisition and retention of literacy skills. Data were collected through use of an interview-survey, analyzed, an…

This thesis discusses those elements of web design that may create different impact on people from distinct cultures, specifically Arab versus Western cultures. Since the inception of the Internet, there has been only one set of standards in designing web sites (including educat…

Theological Education by Extension (TEE) was operated in the early 1970s and 1980s by two Nigerian denominations namely the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) and the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN). The study explores the causes for the demise of the program in ECWA a…

This research is an exploration of how advancements in the Internet have been utilized by Kuwaiti students attending colleges in the U.S. The main advancement researched is Internet telephony, the method that uses the Internet to transmit voice and audio communications from one …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the English language proficiency of students who study under suggestology and those who do not. The study was designed to determine the nature of the bilingual classroom dynamics with regard to the effect of s…

Placing Arab/Chaldean students into mainstream classrooms has presented challenges to teachers within urban school systems. Teachers who have not taught immigrant students with different cultures and language may have problems with these students in their classrooms. Because of …

Liminality, or the state of being in-between, describes the adolescent life stage as it is considered to be a passage from child to adult life. ‘Liminal identities’, and ‘liminal spaces’ refer to existing in-between, belonging to more than one culture, ethnicity, or place, and y…

This study was conducted to understand what emigrant Iranian women experience as they entered and progressed in their academic and professional environments. Research objectives were to identify and articulate aspects of the educational and professional experience of professiona…

The end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ushered in a new era in China. The Chinese government abandoned the previous assimilative ethnic policy and adopted a pluralist policy and a multicultural education policy to promote cultural diversity. However, if the plurali…

This study explored the relationship between the bilingual/bicultural condition of children who speak English as their second language and performance variations in intelligence tests. The WISC-III and the K-ABC were selected. Children who have limited exposure to the mainstream…

For the first time in over 450 years Palestinians control their educational destiny. This study was initiated to identify the core cultural values that leading educators in Palestine consensually believe should guide philosophy and practice in their new educational system. Twent…

Proverbs and sayings, forms of figurative language, exist in the lexicon of the native speaker and occur in both spoken and written language. This study, focusing on the question of how familiar non-native speakers of English are with proverbs, aims to investigate the factors th…

Throughout American history, people have come to the United States to escape intolerable conditions elsewhere and to seek a better life. After the collapse of the South Vietnamese government, hundreds of thousands of persons fled to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines…

This study investigates cultural simulation as a means of teaching culture and reducing cultural bias in children. Research on perseverance effects, the tendency of subjects to cling to erroneous beliefs, as well as on the process by which children establish racial attitudes, po…

This study involved an ethnographic investigation of a bilingual program designed to improve the academic success and promote the self-esteem of Turkish children in Denmark. Although listed as Turkish nationals, a significant proportion of students enrolled in the program were o…

This foundational qualitative study examined the history, meanings and practices of academic freedom at Arab universities. Eight professors who had experience teaching at Arab universities and one university president were interviewed. Results indicated that Arab higher educatio…

This thesis offers a critical reading of the narratives of Quebec nationalism. It focuses on a central public moment in which a young schoolgirl wearing the Islamic headscarf or hijab was prohibited from attending school. Reading this incident first as a moment of racism, the st…

Colonial Algeria was the locus of a rich mingling of populations since the land had been inhabited by many different ethnic groups throughout its history. Successive occupations by Romans, Arabs, Jews, Turks and by colonists from Europe make the situation of Algeria different fr…