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You're A Genius All The Time: Analyzing The Effectiveness Of Kerouac's Spontaneous Prose On Empowering English Language Learners, Robert Casas
Theses and Dissertations
The engineer of the Beat Movement, Jack Kerouac, began his writing career as an ELL. Kerouac’s Spontaneous Prose helped him navigate through language acquisition to establish rhetoric in English, and empowered other Beat Writers to expressively develop their thoughts. Spontaneous Prose can also help other ELLs develop their own rhetorical agency. For ELL writers, writing in English often makes them feel disenfranchised, disempowered, and discouraged. However, Spontaneous Prose as a pedagogical tool empowers ELL writers to begin the process of transculturally repositioning themselves in using writing as a form of rhetorical expression. This study investigates the pedagogical effectiveness of Spontaneous …
A Testimonio Reclaiming Acceptance Of My Esl Experience: Trauma, Tex-Mex And Third Space, Cinthia E. Bernal
A Testimonio Reclaiming Acceptance Of My Esl Experience: Trauma, Tex-Mex And Third Space, Cinthia E. Bernal
Theses and Dissertations
Language is a tool that brings all of us together, yet at the same time it also sets us apart. For many of us, it is important to be bilingual and biliterate, but for others, bilingualism is something that is pulling this country apart. Many people, after all, view Spanish as a powerful language that can harm this country, a language that has motivated people to attempt to make English the only language. Ana Celia Zentella tell us “Latina/os, who also have a long history in the United States and became the largest minority in the nation in 2003, are …
El Desarrollo De La Escritura En Dos Idiomas En Niños De Kindergarten, Gloria S. Garcia
El Desarrollo De La Escritura En Dos Idiomas En Niños De Kindergarten, Gloria S. Garcia
Theses and Dissertations
El presente estudio se llevó a cabo en una clase de kindergarten bilingüe en un pequeño distrito escolar en el centro de Texas. El propósito de la investigación fue comparar las habilidades escritas de estudiantes bilingües que empiezan su desarrollo literario en sus primeros años de formación académica. Esto se realizó examinando las diferentes oportunidades de escritura que tenían los estudiantes en cada uno de los idiomas dentro del ámbito escolar. La investigación se concentró en tres estudiantes de enfoque, de los cuales se tomaron ejemplos escritos y se analizaron en base a las herramientas disponibles para su crecimiento en …