Browsing by Subject "ESL"
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(2019-10-01)This research synthesis describes, critiques, and synthesizes intervention studies related to the academic vocabulary acquisition of postsecondary English learners. Using the article matrix and constant-comparative methods ...
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(2012-10-19)Service-learning is the merging of academic work with real-life community service activities that encourages students to reflect and think critically about their experiences. Although service-learning has been used in ...
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(2013-07-31)ELLs are a growing community in the United States and their learning needs are significantly different from younger learners, collegiate ELLs or Adult Basic Education students. Additionally, adult female ELLs have their ...
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(2013-03-27)The content area of social studies has not been given as much attention as its counterparts despite its inclusion in the state wide TAKS exam in Texas. All students in grades 8, 10, and 11 are required to take the social ...
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(2019-07-19)Scores on state-mandated assessments indicate English Language Learner students (ELLs) at Happy Town High School (HTHS) are not performing as well as their non-ELL peers. During the 2014-18 school years, the ELL population ...
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(1985)The purpose of this study was to determine whether the reading and writing skills of low achieving students might be improved by enhancing the students' self-images. Many of the low achieving students in the fifth and sixth ...
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(2009-05-15)The primary purpose of this study was to explore conversational repair strategies employed by elementary level ESL students in their classroom. This study investigated repair strategies that were employed by ESL students ...
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(2009-05-15)Increasing numbers of English language learners (ELLs) and diminishing services for those students is resulting in mainstream teachers across the United States taking on the responsibility of teaching ELLs. This demands ...
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(2010-10-12)This dissertation investigated Taiwanese English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners' incidental noticing and their subsequent language learning in relation to learner proficiency level and dyadic type in a text-based ...
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(2009-05-15)This study examined the motivation for learning English, the amount of contact with English, and length of residence in the target language area that affects Korean graduate students’ English pragmatic skills studying at ...
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(2012-07-16)The purpose of this research was to examine the ways in which Korean families of English Language Learners (ELLs) and teachers supported literacy in young children, as well as the kinds of interactions between families and ...
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(2011-08-08)A growing body of literature has provided evidence of the contribution of various metalinguistic skills to children's English literacy development; however, most of the studies focused on reading outcomes while spelling ...
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(2020-02-11)Ritzer’s theory of the McDonaldization of society in general and of education in particular is firmly established in the field of sociology, but has not been used to inform research in ESL (English as a second language) ...