Commensurate with an emerging demand for social mobility in Malaysia has been an increasing governmental focus on racial/ethnic social equality. Tensions focused on social outcomes associated with racial affinity have created deep-seated ill feelings across ethnic boundaries in …
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To become an independent nation after the Soviet Union's collapse, the ruling Kazakh elite and Kazakh language medium school administrators struggle to restore ethnic nationality consciousness, consolidate the Kazakhs' political power at the government and school levels, and imp…
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the use of language alternation and the role it played in four ESP (English for Specific Purposes) classrooms at the College of Business Studies (CBS) in Kuwait, with special reference to the Business English courses taught i…
This study investigated the reactions of American professors to the written prose of non-native speaking international students in their classes. The need for a clear understanding of the specific nature of the writing required in particular content areas has been recently stres…
This work on the development of Mongolian ethnicity is the culmination of my own personal experience growing up as a Mongol, as well as of my more recent anthropological field research in Inner Mongolia. This dissertation is based on two major theoretical constructs: the existen…
The purpose of this research project was to compare the degree of multicultural representation among illustrations of foreign language textbooks from different types of educational systems (central, decentralized, or partially centralized). The study also investigated whether di…
This study examined the question of whether there was a difference in the general school experiences of children who move to a new country with an entirely different culture and language and children who immigrate to a country with a language and culture that is similar to their…
This study begins by identifying the relations between American and Middle-Eastern Arab societies as characterized by conflict. It then identifies the potential positive impact that teacher exchange programs can have on improving these strained diplomatic relations. This is reco…
The need for classroom instruction and materials that reflect students who come from different cultural and linguistic background is important in a country with a multiethnic population. The purpose of this study is to investigate how student teachers respond to literary texts t…
This study explores the educational experiences at home and in school in relation to the ethnic identity development of the Indonesian-Dutch, a biracial minority group that emerged from the colonial situation in the Dutch East-Indies. Comparisons were made across the three major…
There is an ever present and growing population of continental African immigrants in the United States. The recorded numbers of legal immigrants from Africa increased 58.9 percent by 1995 (INS 1996). African immigrants bring their own languages and often must learn English as a …
This study examines the relationship between Islamic education and multicultural education. This process of educational development is described by prominent Islamic scholars, such as Mulana Muhammmad Ali and multicultural scholars such as Jawaza Kunjufu. An argument is made tha…
This case study described certain characteristics of the American overseas school experience as perceived by Bahraini graduates of Bahrain School. Bahrain School, located on the island of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf, is a kindergarten through grade twelve school, operated by the…
Mainstreaming bilingual children while providing them with in-class language support is a language policy which aims to provide for the needs of children in multicultural British schools. In classes where there are substantial numbers of pupils for whom English is not their firs…
International development organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the G8, and USAID have launched initiatives to provide developing nations with access to information technology. Education and training are major components of these initiatives. As these organiz…
Immigrant communities, particularly small ones, often face pressures to adjust their behavioral archetypes to a new context. This study examines this issue within the Christian Arab Canadian community in Edmonton. In order to conform to contemporary peers, teenagers and young ad…
This study applies ethnographic methods using the Epistemic Triangle as a lens for investigating teachers' appropriation of a bilingual educational reform policy (i.e., making it their own) in first and second grade Hausa-French classrooms in Niger. The Epistemic Triangle highli…
The purpose of the present dissertation is to derive the criteria/dimensions underlying learners' second language (L2) oral ability scores across three tasks: an oral interview, a narration, and a read-aloud. A stimulus tape of 18 speech samples was presented to three native spe…
This study investigated the language loss factors that plagued two Mexican-American families and the language maintenance strategies that they used to preserve Spanish in their lives. Six subjects participated in the study. A representative of each family for each of three gener…