Children exposed to adversity (e.g., chronic poverty, traumatic events, child maltreatment) are at increased risk for performing below age-expectations on norm-referenced language assessments, but it is unknown whether the risk is higher for specific language impairment. Previou…
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A perennial problem for many first-year composition (FYC) instructors is deciding what curricular materials to use to teach their students about rhetoric and composition and how to use those resources to enable their students to practice and hone their writing skills. This disse…
In the landscape of writing instruction in higher education, there has been a longstanding critique of the efficacy of Generalized Writing Skills Instruction (GWSI) for preparing students to write in the genres of their majors, disciplines and workplaces (Petraglia, et al 1995).…
Training tutors has historically been and continues to be one of the most important, as well as the most labor- and time-intensive needs that directors of writing centers are called to address. As technological advancements have been made, those needs have continued to grow into…
Scholars have recognized the significance of typology for the classification of biblical poetry and the development of measurable indicators for doing so. Yet no one has systematically classified biblical poetry with these indicators. The aim of the current study is to demonstra…
Through a qualitative case study (Merriam, 1998; Yin, 2009), this inquiry examined how eight African American adolescent girls wrote representations of themselves and which contextual factors contributed to their writings. The girls, ages 12-17 years old, participated in a four-…
Pressure to standardize curriculum, assessment, and instruction is rapidly whittling perceptions of what counts as literacy in public schools. Educators risk fostering compliance and cementing preconceived categorization of students, rather than critical thinking when orderlines…
The purpose of this study is to examine the schooling process at an Islamic school. The study focuses on how one teacher, Sister Rehan, manipulated reading/language arts lessons from the Ginn Series (a textbook series written primarily for mainstream USA classrooms) to help her …
Learning software for children has been proven through several studies by researchers and educators to bring motivational and educational benefits in learning. However, there are no comprehensive or proper learning software systems that are designed to be used to learn creative …
This study investigates the importance of the Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP) in helping Afghan women gain high level literacy skills. Their skills are developed through their participation in the AWWP which enables them to move into the workforce of their country independ…
Although they are both accounts of events, the history and the novel are not commensurate; the novel’s content is usually considered as opposed to that of history. It is assumed that history relates real things whereas the novel excels in dealing with the imagination (fiction). …
This study examines biases against the use of Nigerian Pidgin English in social settings. It also compares the usage between those who speak the preferred Standard English versus those who speak the Nonstandard English, Nigerian Pidgin English by analyzing the conversations betw…
The initial proposal for this thesis was to examine non-formal teacher training in Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee's Non-formal Primary Education (NFPE) program for its 'participatory' and 'liberatory' characteristics especially as they impacted women. However, the writer…
This is a study about the meanings of silence in multi-ethnic classrooms of older adults, as well as a study of signs and signals for breaking silence which are used by participants in classroom contexts when they wish to speak. A search of the literature revealed minimal inform…
This study provides an account of how a speaker's first language (L1) influences his/her second language (L2) speech, an effect also known as cross-language transfer. The account of transfer proposed here relies on theoretical constructs and techniques from linguistics, psycholi…
The purpose of this study was to investigate, analyze and classify the writing errors of Palestinian EFL university students and find out if these students and their instructors are aware of these errors. There were three sources of data: first, data were collected from written …
Research shows that L2 learners' communicative problems are often pragmatic in nature. Pragmatic competence has been defined as the ability to recognize the force and the intended meaning of an utterance by making judgments about its appropriateness (Thomas 1983). Studies on int…
This study used narrative inquiry to investigate the construction of self-identity by fifteen incarcerated female adolescents involved in a story-telling program in a Midwestern state juvenile detention facility. A combination of critical theory, feminism, and the Islamic religi…
This study grew out of a concern for the messages transmitted by Nigerian children's literature. Critical discourse analysis was chosen as a means to reach this goal. Critical discourse claims that language (1) transmits social and cultural messages, (2) is written in the intere…