This longitudinal, mixed-method study relied on the assumption that international students as newcomers to the American culture experience conceptual socialization which enables them to gain competency in the target language through exposure to the target language culture. By co…
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Early teacher socialization research in the 1980s examined student-teachers during their transition from pre-service to in-service contexts, and argued for a limited effect of teacher education programs compared to students’ initial socialization into the profession of teaching …
This ethnographic study focuses on the language socialization processes of six Indonesian and Filipino nurses working in Japan; these nurses came to Japan under the country's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with Indonesia and the Philippines. After the establishment of the…
Moroccan Immigrant Children in a Time of Surveillance: Navigating Sameness and Rooted in twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork in Southwestern Spain, this dissertation analyzes the socio-cultural and linguistic lifeworlds of 8-11 year-old Moroccan immigrant children as they na…
The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct a sociocultural linguistic study on Ethiopian immigrants in the Denver metropolis. It specifically examined language practice of Ethiopian immigrants at home and in church. The study centered on three Ethiopian Orthodox parish chur…
The current study investigates the influence of learners' attitudes toward reading in their native language (L1) on reading in their second language (L2). Since attitude is one of the factors contributing to positive learning outcomes, an understanding of learners' attitudes to …
The present study examines academic, cultural, discipline-related challenges Emirati and Saudi students face at U.S. universities and investigates Emirati and Saudi students’ coping strategies to face their challenges. Based on a sample of 219, a mixed methods approach was used …
Children with autism are known to have severe atypical language use and communication impairments. It is also assumed that they are unable to appropriately participate in everyday family and social life activities. This dissertation examines the language socialization of three m…