This descriptive, exploratory study’s purpose is to determine the effects of labor-based grading contracts on students whose historical exclusion results in their current day underrepresentation in higher education. A key component of this study is the emphasis on the student’s …
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Research focused on educational language policy (ELP) within the United States has explored orientations, ideologies and outcomes for English Learners (ELs) (Wiley, 2002; Skutnabb-Kangas, 2000; Hornberger, 2005). This study seeks to intersect these variables in order to investig…
In the past ten years, the number of English cram schools has tripled in Taiwan and more than 70% of fifth and sixth graders claim they attended cram schools before receiving formal English education in primary schools. In response to pressures of both globalisation and localisa…
The amount of non-English information has proliferated rapidly in recent years. The broad diversity of the multilingual content presents a substantial research challenge in the field of knowledge discovery and information retrieval. Therefore there is an increased interest in th…
Named entities (NE), the noun or noun phrases referring to persons, locations and organizations, are among the most information-bearing linguistic structures. Extracting and translating named entities benefits many natural language processing problems such as cross-lingual infor…
The past several decades have witnessed the steady rise in the number of faith-based educational institutions in the United States. Among the proliferation of Christian and Muslim schools throughout the United States, Jewish day schools of various denominations have emerged as t…
Early work in the computational treatment of natural language focused on summarization, and machine translation. In my research I have concentrated on the area of summarization of documents in different languages. This thesis presents my work on multi-lingual text similarity. Th…
Digital document processing is becoming popular for applications to office and library automation, bank and postal services, publishing houses and communication management. In recent years, the demand for tools capable of searching written and spoken sources of multilingual info…
This ethnographic study explores the language choice decisions of female, working-class immigrants in an on-the-job training center specialized in industrial sewing in Montréal. It aims to describe how Arabic and Bengali speakers use language to maintain or cross cultural bounda…
This study examines the identity construction processes of multilingual undergraduate university students taking the Foundations of Academic Literacy (FAL) course at Simon Fraser University (SFU). I conducted an ethnographic study with an interpretative approach to highlight the…
A Hebrew play on words, an insult in Yiddish, and American indifference to suffering populate two notable German language Holocaust memoirs. Weiter leben: eine Jugend by Ruth Klüger and Ich trug den gelben Stern by Inge Deutschkron are prime examples of the complexities and bene…
This study explores the emotional perceptions, language practices, and language experiences of Palestinian multilinguals in Palestine, and the more under-studied population in the diaspora - focusing on Arabic, English, and Hebrew. A total of 47 participants filled out the adapt…
This capstone outlines my strategic project on advancing the work of opening a dual-language school, beginning at the elementary level, in Bellingham Public Schools. The school district currently has a well-defined support program for English-language learners, the largest numbe…