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Student-Centered, Interaction-Based, Community-Driven Language Teaching, Sharon Lyman

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This portfolio is a compilation that highlights some of the author’s accomplished work while in the Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT) program at Utah State University (USU). Organized into sections that reflect the author’s teaching and research perspectives as a MSLT graduate student and instructor, who taught intensive English reading, writing, and conversation courses for the Intensive English Language Institute (IELI).

In the first section, teaching perspectives, the author describes her desired professional environment, shares her personal teaching philosophy statement, and accounts for her professional development through classroom observations. In the second section, research perspectives, two research papers and …

Me, Myself, And I: The Impact Of Metacognitive Strategies On Student Locus Of Control And Critical Thinking Skills, Danielle Kuchler

All Master's Theses

We live in an era when a college degree is essentially required for entry into good-paying careers, and yet achievement of a college degree is unacceptably low. Only 60% of students who enroll go on to graduate from 4-year colleges and universities in 6 years or fewer (National Center for Higher Education 2018). Why is this happening? What are the long-term intellectual and economic implications of ill-prepared students? We must ask ourselves if students are really prepared with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be successful in college and whether those attributes are developed while in college. Two of the …

El Uso De Canciones En Inglés Como Recurso Didáctico Para Facilitar El Aprendizaje De La Habilidad De Comprensión Oral En Los Estudiantes De Cuarto Grado De La Institución Educativa Distrital Jóse Felíx Restrepo, Liyin Lesson Cordoba Chala, Diego Andres Rocha Lara, Sandra Milena Vanegas Guardo

Maestría en Didáctica de las Lenguas

La presente investigación se planteó como objetivo formular una propuesta de intervención pedagógica que, mediante el uso de canciones como recurso didáctico, facilitara el aprendizaje de la habilidad de comprensión oral en inglés en estudiantes de grado cuarto del colegio José Félix Restrepo. Este objetivo implicó la adopción de un enfoque mixto, mediante un método de investigación exploratorio que involucró el desarrollo del diseño instruccional ADDIE (análisis, diseño, desarrollo, implementación y evaluación). Dichas fases contribuyeron a la consolidación de la propuesta y a la recolección de información durante su implementación, la cual se realizó a partir de una prueba diagnóstica, …