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Collateral Damage: How Expanding Public Charge Policy Influences Adult Esl Enrollment, Allison M. Eckert Dec 2021

Collateral Damage: How Expanding Public Charge Policy Influences Adult Esl Enrollment, Allison M. Eckert

Master's Theses

This study used statistical analysis of enrollment records for ESL programs at community colleges throughout California from 2015-2019 to determine whether adult immigrants’ participation in public ESL programs was reduced under President Donald Trump. Immigrant families’ lesser use of public education services and means-tested federal benefits has been widely documented in the wake of Trump’s expansion of the public charge rule, which counted immigrants’ use of a wider array of public benefits against their case for residency in the United States than had any previous iteration of the rule. Failing the public charge test can block an immigrant’s entry into …


Linguistic Discrimination In Higher Education In Vietnam, Y Dang Nhu Tran Jul 2021

Linguistic Discrimination In Higher Education In Vietnam, Y Dang Nhu Tran

University Honors Theses

Prof. John Baugh has remarked that "this greater linguistic unity will help us all as we move toward the future" (Baugh, 2019). This qualitative research paper addresses the causes of linguistic discrimination and the impacts on current college students in Vietnam via three students from different regions (North, Central, and South) at one university. The paper examines linguistic discrimination and how political and linguistic identity have shaped behavior and social interaction on the part of three young Vietnamese intellectuals. The literature examines a brief history of Vietnamese language and culture, research paradigms in linguistic discrimination, and learning culture.


Approaches To Narrative Instruction For Second Language Learners, Mathew Peters May 2021

Approaches To Narrative Instruction For Second Language Learners, Mathew Peters

MA TESOL Collection

Narratives have reemerged as a dominant form of rhetoric over the last fifty years. This dominant use of narrative discourse has only increased with the rise of social media. Walther Fisher (1987) proposed the narrative paradigm as a unifying theory of human communication. His major claim is that people are inherently storytellers and that people use a narrative rationality and a logic of good reasons to inform their beliefs, values, and actions. This paper utilizes his theories, along with recent findings in neuroscience, to establish an argument for greater inclusion of narratives into second language teaching. Narratives can have a …


Methods And Effects Of Shadowing Using Online Authentic Videos On L2 Acquisition Of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Ai-Ling Lu May 2021

Methods And Effects Of Shadowing Using Online Authentic Videos On L2 Acquisition Of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Ai-Ling Lu

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Mandarin Chinese tones are notoriously difficult for second language (L2) learners. Previous research focuses on tone training methods that can help learners produce monosyllabic lexical tones, and studies about the production of multisyllabic lexical tones at the sentence level in spontaneous speech are limited. This study applies shadowing—a method where the learners repeat what they heard with as little delay as possible—to tone training and compares the effects of using authentic videos and textbook audios as shadowing materials for beginner L2 Mandarin learners’ tone improvement at the sentence level. Fourteen students in elementary Chinese classes at an American university participated …


"C’Est Mieux Ensemble": Estrategia Didáctica Intercultural En Francés Como Lengua Extranjera Para Fomentar Los Saberes De La Competencia Comunicativa Intercultural En Estudiantes De 4º Y 5º De Primaria De Una Institución Educativa De Modelo Escuela Nueva., Cristian Camilo Reyes Galeano, María Camila Restrepo Neme Jan 2021

"C’Est Mieux Ensemble": Estrategia Didáctica Intercultural En Francés Como Lengua Extranjera Para Fomentar Los Saberes De La Competencia Comunicativa Intercultural En Estudiantes De 4º Y 5º De Primaria De Una Institución Educativa De Modelo Escuela Nueva., Cristian Camilo Reyes Galeano, María Camila Restrepo Neme

Maestría en Didáctica de las Lenguas

Los procesos de enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras deben replantearse y adecuarse a una formación intercultural invitando a los individuos, en cualquier contexto, a reflexionar de manera crítica en el reconocimiento de sus propias prácticas socioculturales y aquellas extranjeras. De acuerdo con lo anterior, esta investigación buscó fomentar los saberes de la Competencia Comunicativa Intercultural a partir de la implementación de una Estrategia Didáctica Intercultural en francés como Lengua Extranjera en estudiantes de grados 4° y 5° de primaria de una Institución Educativa de modelo Escuela Nueva, adoptando el paradigma sociocrítico, el enfoque cualitativo y un tipo de estudio de investigación …