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Development Of A Web Site For Korean Returning Students And Their Parents To Help Their Process Of Re-Adaptation, Hamila Song Jan 2005

Development Of A Web Site For Korean Returning Students And Their Parents To Help Their Process Of Re-Adaptation, Hamila Song

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to develop a website to relieve Korean returnees' reverse culture shock and help their re-adaptation process. A website can be an outstanding resource for returnees in terms of accessibility because the target audiences are scattered all over the world.


Creating Community Through Communication: The Case Of East Desert Unified School District, Michelle Elizabeth Shader Jan 2004

Creating Community Through Communication: The Case Of East Desert Unified School District, Michelle Elizabeth Shader

Theses Digitization Project

East Desert Unified School District (EDUSD) serves many immigrant, migrant, and first generation students. The objective of this thesis is to identify the community processes and channels used that it serves. Organizationally, the interractions between the district and its communities will be studied from a systems perspective. Intercultural communication theories and organizational communication theories provide lenses for examining the communication processes occuring between the communbity and organization within the district, the parents resource service center alone with children and Family Services are grant supported and provide outreach services to community members.


Autonomous Elementary English Learning In Korea Using Mediated Structures, Backyoung Kim Jan 2004

Autonomous Elementary English Learning In Korea Using Mediated Structures, Backyoung Kim

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to address the need for cultural awareness through mediated reading structures and dual language acquisition in the English as a foreign language (EFL) situation.


Academic Competence For Technical Reading In English As A Foreign Language, Mei-Fen Chen Jan 2003

Academic Competence For Technical Reading In English As A Foreign Language, Mei-Fen Chen

Theses Digitization Project

This project offers a strategy-based curriculum designed to increase academic competence in technical reading for Taiwanese students of English as a foreign language. Strategies include acquiring specialized vocabulary words, enhancing background knowledge, and increasing metacognitive awareness.