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Social Distance, Motivation And Other Factors Contributing To Success In Language Acquisition And Achievement Among Adolescent Mexican Immigrants, Alice Yvette Muniz-Cornejo
Social Distance, Motivation And Other Factors Contributing To Success In Language Acquisition And Achievement Among Adolescent Mexican Immigrants, Alice Yvette Muniz-Cornejo
Theses Digitization Project
Adolescent immigrant English learners who enter U.S. schools at the secondary level are faced with challenges that distinguish their experience in second language acquisition from that of children and adults. Some of the challenges they face include limited time to acquire academic English proficiencey in reading and writing, difficulty in assimilating into English speaking American culture, and limited programs and services at the secondary level.
Critical Thinking And Ideology: A Study Of Composition's Secondary Curricula, Jonathan Barney Anderson
Critical Thinking And Ideology: A Study Of Composition's Secondary Curricula, Jonathan Barney Anderson
Theses Digitization Project
In 1992 Maxine Hairston "Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing" claimed that instead of teaching writing and critical thinking skills, First year Composition (FYC) instructors were instead using their classrooms as coercive political platforms that were detrimental to students' educational needs.