Teachers have a strong impact on their students’ learning such that a student receiving instruction by an incompetent teacher, even for one school year, might endure long-term negative consequences. Several studies found how teacher knowledge and instructional practices are stro…
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La presente investigación analiza los factores que influyeron en la implementación del “Programa de la mañana” o “Bloque de la mañana” para mejorar el nivel educativo de los alumnos del nivel de inicial del colegio San Juan Apóstol. El centro de estudios se ubica en el pueblo jo…
Poor reading levels is a pervasive problem in the US. For example, two of every three eigth grade students in the US are estimated to demonstrate insufficient reading comprehension skills. Early use of decontextualized language, in which the language expressed is removed from th…
This research examined how six female native Arabic-speaking English as a second language (ESL) graduate students at universities in the United States use cognitive strategies to understand unfamiliar academic vocabulary in texts from their own (either statistics or education), …
There are thousands of people from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds in institutions of higher education in the United States, but we know little about the actual linguistic abilities in English needed to do well in academic programs. The purpose of this investigation …
With the emphasis now on the use of the national language, schools and other institutions of higher learning in Malaysia are conducting almost all courses in Bahasa Malaysia. However, English is still the main language used for other special purposes, e. g., trade and industry, …
This study was designed to investigate linguistic variables which greatly affect the reading difficulty of non-textbook reading materials for Arab alien adults and to develop a method by which the reading difficulty of these reading materials written in English by Arab adults wh…
The purpose of this study was to study the reading strategies of selected adult Spanish and Arabic speakers in their first language and in English. The frequency of usage of these strategies, their success level, the amount of transfer from L1 to L2, and sensitivity to cohesion …
A correlational study to assess the degree of association between Reading Comprehension (RC) and a number of other language abilities, such as knowledge of: Vocabulary (VOC), Sentence Structure (SS), Usage (U), and Logical Relationships (LR) was conducted on a sample of 100 coll…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of visual perception in learning to read two languages with different alphabets and opposite directionality, English and Hebrew. The relationships that exist between visual-perceptual ability and Hebrew reading, between Hebre…
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationships among students' reading attitudes, reading abilities, adult/peer reading models, and home/school reading environments. More specifically, the study asks: (1) What is the strength of the relationships between stud…
Language and culture have been identified as important factors when one is considering school-based literacy. They become more important when issues relating to multicultural classrooms are discussed. In this situation, teachers are faced with the challenge of teaching linguisti…
The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of sensitivity of preservice elementary teachers to the language differences of Mexican American children in an oral reading task. The review of related research dealing with language attitudes toward nonstandard speech revea…
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of two different methods of teaching vocabulary to ESL college freshmen in Puerto Rico. The Grammar Translation method emphasized vocabulary through the application of dictionary definitions to a specific written conte…
This study sought to identify and analyze the perceived nature and causes of the English language-based problems and the coping strategies of the Indonesian and Malaysian students studying in Indiana University, Bloomington. It followed a multimethod design involving the use of …
This study investigated the applicability, the validity, and the reliability of Cloze Procedure as an index of readability of Arabic language reading materials. The Cloze tests consisted of nine passages randomly selected from Arabic reading textbooks written for grades five, se…
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine principals’ perceptions of the effectiveness of their professional development as instructional leaders and their implementation of culturally responsive leadership practices. The literature review in this study indicated ther…
This dissertation study investigates the complexities of the relationship between literacy and international development in Indonesia. I focus on the Literacy Boost program from the international non-governmental organization Save the Children, and I explore how the program was …