The purpose of this research was to identify best practices in ESL ministry and evaluate whether ESL teachers are following these practices as they evangelize unbelievers through various ESL programs. The aim of this research was to find out how effective the trained teachers ar…
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Remote teaching has become the mainstream teaching method during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Under such circumstances, teachers encountered great difficulty to transfer the entire classroom to cyberspace. Teachers found it is a great challenge to implement all the tea…
In this dissertation, I examined the educational and life experiences of 13 first-generation Hmong women and how their lived experiences impacted their earlier education experiences as well as their post-secondary educational choices and their children’s educational pathways. Dr…
Having taught for about thirty years, I have seen the changes in education focused on students´ success. However, there is always space to grow in the same direction and one of the strategies that is being used throughout the world is translanguaging, a strategy that gives the i…
Educational systems reinforce hegemonic ideas, so students can be citizens that adapt to the socio-economic system of the dominant classes (Apple, 200), and this is the case of Mexico and the United States. With the objective of promoting effective intercultural understanding, t…
This dissertation contributes to the fields of applied linguistics and literacy studies by considering the complex meaning-making processes of adults from refugee backgrounds as they navigate new textual, linguistic, and educational landscapes. Meaning-making as it is understood…
Immediately following the 2016 election, teachers reported a previously-unseen level of animosity from their students mimicking the rhetoric of President Trump, often verbatim. The combination of racial, ethnic, religious, and bias-motivated bullying and language has been referr…
The purpose of this qualitative case study was two-fold: to determine if professional learning that blends cultural competencies and second language acquisitions helped teachers in helping ELL students achieve academic success and the development of the Second Language Acquisiti…
This thesis focuses on how adult English language learners exploit and experience gesture while communicating with one another via mobile technologies. Mobiles create opportunities for multimodal language learning beyond the classroom (Kukulska-Hulme et al., 2017), however, mode…
The Computer Scientists/Programming Language Developers have the intention of harmonising human/English language with computer language, this is to enable non computer experts to go into programming, but the hindrance they have is the electronic nature of computer’s hardware whi…
This qualitative dissertation, positioned within a critical consciousness conceptual framework examined the shared experiences of eight Southeast Asian youth, as they engaged in an activism internship at a movement-based youth program. It documented the internship, within the co…
This thesis intends to analyze English language teaching materials used in Bangladeshi setting with a goal to see how gender roles are presented in them. One of the widely used materials in English language teaching scenario of Bangladesh is the textbook series titled English fo…
Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) is a professional development framework that informs participating teachers regarding research-based knowledge of elementary arithmetic-problem types and children’s developmental strategies for solving them. A classroom taught led by CGI part…
The purpose of this study was to determine which sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) model strategies best meet the needs of Arab English language learners (ELLs). Additional research was necessary to determine necessary modifications when using the SIOP model with…
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),…
The purpose of this phenomenological study is to discover factors that motivate male Emirati ESL students studying in a higher education Foundation program to read extensively in English. Research questions seek to discern motivational factors, underlying motivational constructs…
California has a history of bilingual education, but once that was eliminated with Proposition 227 in 1998, dual language education programs took its place. Dual Language Education programs are the teaching of academic content in two different languages. They have been expanding…
A class in a church-based ESL program consists of a Christian Caucasian woman instructor and three students who are Muslim women from Yemen. Through observation and interviews, this ethnographic study sought to examine the cultural, religious, and linguistic dynamics of these pa…
This narrative study explored the perspectives of six Francophone African-born family members who have pre-school aged children attending early childhood care and education settings in the Little Senegal section of Harlem in New York City. It examined the personal experiences th…
The purpose of this study is to examine the roles, actions, knowledge, and perceptions of EFL teachers that employ CALL in EFL teaching form acts. The survey was conducted at 5 higher-education institutions in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. The intent of the study is to discover the ext…