This dissertation is a historical case study that focused on the founding and continuation of the GSSch to define the term, academic resilience and to determine how the GSSch had impacted academic resilience. I examined qualitative data from interviews alongside research publish…
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Schools are becoming more linguistically and racially diverse in K-12 settings, yet there is relatively little research that explores how language teachers incorporate student and community diversities in their pedagogies. Situated at one, northeastern public secondary school in…
Chinese characters are very unique. As one of the most widely used scripts in the world, its complex forms and large volume of characters make it always daunting for beginners, which is related to the long history of Chinese characters. This paper is divided into five parts, bas…
As a social construct, education fulfills the necessary elements, ideologies, and rituals required to construct social norms for society. What a society deems as a norm determines the sentiments and direction that a nation will take. These normative tendencies lead to national i…
The past three decades have witnessed a rapid growth in the number of international teaching assistants (ITAs) in U.S. colleges and universities. Since the early 1980s, the dominant line of ITA research has focused on ITAs’ instructional discourse with the goal of developing eff…
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…
Purpose : The purpose of this study is to explore the phonological development of Spanish-speaking preschoolers who are acquiring African American English (AAE) in North Carolina (NC). Understanding the phonological structure of the Spanish-AAE language combination will improve …
Bu araştırmanın genel amacı, Türkiye'deki yabancı dil öğretmen eğitimi programlarını kültürlerarası yaklaşım ve özellikle de erken yaşta kültürlerarası dil öğretiminin yeri açısından inceleyerek yabancı dil öğretim üyelerinin görüşleri ve sınıf içi uygulamaları doğrultusunda mev…
Bu çalışmanın amacı; çocuklara Arapçayı sevdirerek öğretmek için yaşlarına uygun etkinliklerle, eğlenceli bir dil eğitimi sunmanın yollarını araştırmaktır. Çalışma, küçük yaştaki öğrencilerin yabancı dile karşı çekincelerini gidermek, kendilerini özgüvenle ifade edebilecekleri e…
Bu araştırmada, yabancı dil öğretiminde kullanılan başlıca multimedya araç-gereçlerini tanıtmak, Fransızca öğretiminde kullanılan, multimedya araç ve materyalleri ile geliştirilmiş Alter Ego + A1 ders kitabındaki teknolojik ögeleri inceleyerek farkındalık yaratmak, bahsi geçen d…
The term ‘voice’ has been a pivotal metaphor in the fields of composition studies and applied linguistics, and it still has a strong implicit and/or explicit presence in the U.S. classroom. This critical case study examines 6 Saudi graduate student writers’ voices in various U.S…
In recent decades, a plethora of empirical work has indicated that collaborative writing (CW) affords more opportunities for collective scaffolding and language negotiation (Li & Kim, 2016; Li & Zhu, 2013; Storch, 2019) and promotes the development of second language (L2) writin…
Situated in China and under the context of curriculum reform, this project is an effort to combine long-time separate research streams in language teaching and learning studies: the history-in-person perspective (Holland & Lave, 2001) and the discourse analysis perspective (Cazd…
Osmanlı Devleti’nin son zamanlarında, özellikle batılılaşma hareketlerinin ön plana çıktığı, ıslahatların gerçekleştiği dönemde, sözlükçülük alanında da çok önemli eserler ortaya konmuştur. Söz konusu dönemde özellikle Fransa ile kurulan ikili ilişkilerle birlikte, Osmanlı Devle…
This study explored how the rural working contexts of Costa Rican adult educators teaching in postsecondary education interact with their condition as non-native English-speaking instructors to inform their professional agency. In this study, professional agency refers to the en…
This study focuses on the political history of the teaching of Spanish in the United States during the first half of 20th century. Drawing from the history of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish–AATS (1926) as a normative agent, along with key linguistic instruments …
This qualitative research explored the issues and challenges in teaching English as Foreign Language (EFL) in Gorontalo, Indonesia, from two main cases. First is the implementation of the Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP) in EFL Instructions; second is the integration o…
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),…
Driven by the critical period hypothesis (CPH), Kachru’s (1985) World Englishes paradigm, and Krashen’s (1982) theory of second language acquisition (SLA), this study examined instructors and learners’ attitudes toward English as an International Language (EIL) speaking instruct…