Browsing by Author "Lara-Alecio, Rafael"
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Spies, Tracy (2012-07-16)A path model of second language (L2; English) oral language and reading comprehension variables was tested on a sample of 100 Spanish-speaking English-language learners enrolled in a transitional bilingual program over a ...
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Tong, Fuhui; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Irby, Beverly; Mathes, Patricia; Kwok, Oi-man (2010-10-22)
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Walichowski, Miranda Fernande (2011-02-22)The data used in this study were secondary, kindergarten data from a longitudinal, five-year, federal experimental research project: English and Literacy Acquisition (ELLA) (R305P030032). The overall goal of ELLA was to ...
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Rodriguez, Linda; Irby, Beverly J.; Brown, Genevieve; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Galloway, Martha (2010-09-29)
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Jimenez, David Daniel (2017-05-09)In public education in Texas, administrators, educators, and policymakers struggle with decisions on how to improve overall quality instruction to meet the needs of English language learner (ELL) student populations. ...
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Abdelrahman, Nahed Aaed Mubarak (2018-04-18)Principal preparation and principal leadership programs has become crucial issue since the beginning of the past century. National and state policies have been enacted to improve the principal’s competence as well as to ...
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Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Galloway, Martha; Irby, Beverly J.; Brown, Genevieve (2010-10-22)
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Sutton-Jones, Kara (2020-04-19)In this journal-ready dissertation study, I completed (a) a scoping review of dual language policy studies, (b) a meta-analysis on English learner academic achievement in bilingual education programs, and (c) a state-by-state ...
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Irby, Beverly J.; Lara-Alecio, Rafael (2010-10-22)
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Duncan, Lucila Diaz (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Research data revealed that Mexican Americans have the highest dropout rate of any other Hispanic group. Since Hispanics are becoming the highest minority group in the U.S., the primary purpose of this qualitative study ...
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Lara, Alma Leticia (2014-04-30)The purpose of this study was to provide an understanding of the process Latino parents utilize to gain access to postsecondary education information during their children’s elementary schooling. Significantly, the support ...
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Cho, Eunhee (2014-11-12)This dissertation investigated two issues: cross-language transfer among three typologically distant languages—Korean, English, and Chinese—and the language learning motivation of Korean students as it relates to two foreign ...
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Ozfidan, Burhan (2017-07-05)Language is one of the most important problems for minority people in Turkey. Therefore, the main objective of the study is to illustrate the need for a language curriculum built on a base that acknowledges the developmental ...
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Chaney, Elizabeth Hensleigh (2009-05-15)In the past decade, there has been an enormous growth of distance education courses and programs in higher education. However, the potential of distance education is tempered by one overriding question: How do you ensure ...
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Guo, Wenhong (2020-11-05)English acquisition can be extremely difficult for EFL or ESL students because of the tedious experience of learning English words, which leads to less intrinsic learning motivation and poor learning outcomes. With widespread ...
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Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Irby, Beverly J. (2010-10-22)
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McNamara, James F.; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Hoyle, John; Irby, Beverly J. (2010-10-22)
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Esquierdo, Jennifer Joy (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)The exponential growth of the Hispanic student population and the controversial educational issue surrounding the assessment of English language learners are the two fundamental topics of this study. Due to the uncertainty ...
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Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Irby, Beverly J. (2010-09-29)
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Trevino, Elizabeth Pauline, 1978- (2012-11-16)English-language learners (ELLs) demonstrate lower levels of English reading proficiency than do native English-speaking students. Oral reading fluency (ORF), the number of words read correctly in 1 min, is one indicator ...