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Full-Text Articles in Education
What Information From Pisa Is Useful For Teachers? How Can Pisa Help Our Students To Become More Proficient?, Juliette Mendelovits, Dara Searle, Tom Lumley
What Information From Pisa Is Useful For Teachers? How Can Pisa Help Our Students To Become More Proficient?, Juliette Mendelovits, Dara Searle, Tom Lumley
Juliette Mendelovits
A frequent objection to large-scale testing programs, both national and international, is that they are used as an instrument of control, rather than as a means of providing information to effect change. Moreover, concerns about large-scale testing often take the form of objection to the specific characteristics of the assessments as being prescriptive and proscriptive, leading to a narrowing of the curriculum and the spectre of 'teaching to the test' to the exclusion of more important educational content. Taking PISA reading literacy as its focus, this paper proposes, on the contrary, that a coherent assessment system is valuable in so …
Kentucky Journal Of Excellence In College Teaching And Learning, Sherwood Thompson, Kristina Krampe, Samuel Hinton
Kentucky Journal Of Excellence In College Teaching And Learning, Sherwood Thompson, Kristina Krampe, Samuel Hinton
Samuel Hinton
No abstract provided.
What Code-Mixed Dps Can Tell Us About Gender, Elena Valenzuela, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, Ewelina Barski, Maria De Luna Villalón, Ana Faure, Yolanda Pangtay, Alma Ramírez Trujillo, Sonia Reis
What Code-Mixed Dps Can Tell Us About Gender, Elena Valenzuela, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, Ewelina Barski, Maria De Luna Villalón, Ana Faure, Yolanda Pangtay, Alma Ramírez Trujillo, Sonia Reis
Ewelina Barski, PhD
There has been a growing interest in the examination of the steady state of simultaneous bilinguals. An understanding of what leads to the possible weaknesses in the grammar of early bilinguals can contribute to our understanding of the possible causes of the apparent characteristic ‘failures’ in second language acquisition (Montrul 2008). Spanish has a gender feature for nouns (Carroll 1989) and gender agreement for determiners and adjectives. Problems with the acquisition of gender marking on the noun and/or with gender agreement are well-known in the L2 literature (Hawkins 1998; Fernández–Garcia 1999; Franceschina 2001; Bruhn de Garavito and White 2002; White …
What Code-Mixed Dps Can Tell Us About Gender, Elena Valenzuela, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, Ewelina Barski, Maria De Luna Villalón, Ana Faure, Yolanda Pangtay, Alma Ramírez Trujillo, Sonia Reis
What Code-Mixed Dps Can Tell Us About Gender, Elena Valenzuela, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito, Ewelina Barski, Maria De Luna Villalón, Ana Faure, Yolanda Pangtay, Alma Ramírez Trujillo, Sonia Reis
Joyce Bruhn de Garavito
There has been a growing interest in the examination of the steady state of simultaneous bilinguals. An understanding of what leads to the possible weaknesses in the grammar of early bilinguals can contribute to our understanding of the possible causes of the apparent characteristic ‘failures’ in second language acquisition (Montrul 2008). Spanish has a gender feature for nouns (Carroll 1989) and gender agreement for determiners and adjectives. Problems with the acquisition of gender marking on the noun and/or with gender agreement are well-known in the L2 literature (Hawkins 1998; Fernández–Garcia 1999; Franceschina 2001; Bruhn de Garavito and White 2002; White …
Challenging Esl Students To Avoid Plagiarism And Properly Summarize And Cite Articles, Sarah J. Hammill
Challenging Esl Students To Avoid Plagiarism And Properly Summarize And Cite Articles, Sarah J. Hammill
Works of the FIU Libraries
Research shows that plagiarism is a problem not only for English language learners but also for students whose first language is English. With the Internet and ease of copying and pasting information into a word document, plagiarism in on the rise (Maslen, 2003). Oftentimes, students are not aware they are doing something wrong. American students come into college with the cultural conditioning of knowing (perhaps not fully grasping) American academic standards (Gu & Brooks, 2007). International students have the additional disadvantage of not knowing the conventions, traditions, and values held in academic discourse (Gu & Brooks, 2007). Within American academic …
The Impact Of Multicultural Trade Books And An Intervention On Fourth Graders' Cultural Attitudes, Susan Herberger Whitcomb
The Impact Of Multicultural Trade Books And An Intervention On Fourth Graders' Cultural Attitudes, Susan Herberger Whitcomb
Dissertations
As the United States population has become more diverse and the civil rights movement of the 1960s increased attentiveness to the change in population, the need for multicultural awareness has grown (Perry & Fraser, 1993). This study examined if teacher read alouds of multicultural trade books and a scripted instructional intervention could impact 187 fourth graders' cultural attitudes. The 10-session, 5-week study involved six reading teacher volunteers participating in one of the three group levels (treatment one: multicultural trade book read alouds, treatment two: multicultural trade books and a scripted instructional intervention, and treatment three: a control group). The mixed …
Halting The Race To The Bottom: Urgent Interventions For The Improvement Of The Education Of English Language Learners In Massachusetts And Selected Districts, English Language Learners Sub-Committee, Massachusetts Board Of Elementary And Secondary Education
Halting The Race To The Bottom: Urgent Interventions For The Improvement Of The Education Of English Language Learners In Massachusetts And Selected Districts, English Language Learners Sub-Committee, Massachusetts Board Of Elementary And Secondary Education
Gastón Institute Publications
Massachusetts students of limited English proficiency do better academically than students of limited English proficiency in other states. But relative to other students in the state, students of limited English proficiency in Massachusetts face a disadvantage greater than that faced by their peers in most states. This suggests that while the overall higher levels of education in the state benefit LEPs in Massachusetts relative to LEPs who attend schools in states where the quality of education is lower, current policy and practice leads to significantly greater inequality in this state. As the state takes steps to improve performance for all …
Final Status Report [Thinkfinity Website Translation], Jing Zhao
Final Status Report [Thinkfinity Website Translation], Jing Zhao
Cornerstone 2 Reports : Community Outreach and Empowerment Through Service Learning and Volunteerism
Report and sample pages of the Thinkfinity Website in Chinese translation.
Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 20, Número 4, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited
Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 20, Número 4, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited
Amigos Revista Digital
Cover 1
Contenido 2
La Navidad 3
Las Hormigas Bondadosas por jesusina20 3
Mis Crismes by Michael Miller 4,5
Una Actividad: Hacer un Calendario 6
Literatura e Idioma 6
La Historia del Idioma Español 7
Palabras Curiosas 8
Where Does English Come From? 9
El Premio Nóbel: Mario Vargas Llosa 10
Citas de Mario Vargas Llosa 11
Chaucer: Middle and Modern English 12
Ancient Agriculture 13
Preguntas 14
Música 1
Gregorio Enríquez 15
Historic Women’s Marker Initiative 1
Mela Leger 16
Ciencia 4
Obesidad Entre Niños Hispanos 17
Prevenir la Obesidad Entre Niños Hispanos 18
Un Juego Físico: Tierra, Mar …
Comparing Indigenous And External Teachers: Beliefs, Origins Of Beliefs, And Expectations, Richard H. Fowler
Comparing Indigenous And External Teachers: Beliefs, Origins Of Beliefs, And Expectations, Richard H. Fowler
Dissertations
This phenomenology examines rural economically poor school teachers' beliefs, belief origins, and their expectations of and for their students. Data analysis employed two lenses. The proposed lens examined participants as either indigenous or external utilizing Banks' (2001) cross-cultural teaching experiences. In this study, the indigenous participants experienced childhoods in poor rural towns, while external participants experienced childhoods in urban/suburban areas. A second emergent lens examined participants as experiencing working-class or middle-class childhoods. Findings utilizing lens one were mixed and varied with no definitive pattern. The emergent lens utilizing economic class of participants' childhoods found a number of consistent differences between …
Navigating Similarity And Difference: A Lens Of Whiteness In Preparing White, Middle Class Preservice Teachers For Diverse Classrooms, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Presentation at the International Teacher Education and Social Justice Conference, Chicago, IL, December 2009.
Communiqué For Elders On Reconciliation, Reunification And Peace In Cyprus: An Inter-Communal Civic Initiative, Nicos Trimikliniotis
Communiqué For Elders On Reconciliation, Reunification And Peace In Cyprus: An Inter-Communal Civic Initiative, Nicos Trimikliniotis
Nicos Trimikliniotis
The visit of Elders in December 2009 is coinciding with a critical moment in the negotiation process, which is gradually entering into its final crucial phase. The two leaders appear determined to move forward with a settlement, despite the inherent difficulties; the Elders’ visit can assist the process by encouraging the leaders to show courage and boldness so as to press on with an agreement as soon as possible. Unlike in 2004, where both process and outcome were in the end delegitimized as ‘externally imposed’ and ‘not properly balanced’, this time the process is entirely owned and controlled by the …
Second Language Learners' Motivation And Their Perceptions Of Teachers' Motivation, Masanori Matsumoto
Second Language Learners' Motivation And Their Perceptions Of Teachers' Motivation, Masanori Matsumoto
Masanori Matsumoto
International students learning English as a second language in Australia were studied to find how their perception of teachers’ level of commitment to teach them English affects their own motivation to study English. A questionnaire survey was administered on the learners at three different levels of proficiency to also identify the relationship between the levels of study and the learners’ perception of teacher as a factor affecting the learners’ motivation. The results showed that there is a positive correlation between the learners’ motivation and their perception of teachers’ commitment to teach, and the intermediate level is the most problematic stage …
The Second Language Acquisition Of English Prepositions, Patricia J. Boquist
The Second Language Acquisition Of English Prepositions, Patricia J. Boquist
Senior Honors Theses
The acquisition of English prepositions is especially difficult for students learning English as a second language. This paper briefly discusses how prepositions are used in English and a few of the reasons prepositions cause problems for English language learners. It also analyzes the underlying system that governs prepositions and how this system might be represented to English language learners. Finally, it analyzes the current pedagogy and suggests a possible alternative to the status quo.
Konnichiwa From Australia, Masako Gavin, Masanori Matsumoto
Konnichiwa From Australia, Masako Gavin, Masanori Matsumoto
Masanori Matsumoto
Extract:
Although many Japanese grammar books are available to Australian students, we have found that there are only a few thorough workbooks which provide communicative and written activities to reinforce grammar elements covered in class.
Konnichiwa from Australia has been prepared to supplement this need and this is volume one to four. Although primarily designed for 1st and 2nd year university students leading to Intermediate Japanese, it is also suitable for a wider scope of other learners in the community- secondary schools, Japanese courses in language schools, colleges, technical institutes and other tertiary institutions.
Hybrid Teaching Strategies, Sherwood Thompson
Despacio, Tengo Prisa: Caminos De Concientización A El Alcance De Educadores, Roberto E. Bahruth
Despacio, Tengo Prisa: Caminos De Concientización A El Alcance De Educadores, Roberto E. Bahruth
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
En esta exposición, deseo expresar algunos criterios sobre el problema de la actual vida tecnológica acelerada y algunas respuestas pedagógicas para enfrentar a este mundo cada vez menos humano y más deshumanizante.
Humanizing Education In An Age Of Apathy And Greed, Roberto E. Bahruth
Humanizing Education In An Age Of Apathy And Greed, Roberto E. Bahruth
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
I want to begin by recognizing that the ideas I will address here may not be recognizable to most, but they are critical to all. I am aware of a long history of people who were persecuted, murdered, dismissed, or ignored because their declarations were not convenient to the power' structures of their day. Galileo was put in jail because his ideas were threatening to the status quo. His integrity required that he be an honest scientist despite the consequences and he would not be silent. I don't claim to be a Galileo, but I would say that a world …
Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 20, Número 3, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited
Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 20, Número 3, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited
Amigos Revista Digital
Cover 1
Contenido 2
El Día de Acción de Gracias 3
"Gracias a la Vida" por Violeta Parra 3
La Historia del Día de Acción de Gracias 4
Thanksgiving Recipes 5
Ancient Agriculture 6
Literatura e Idioma 8
La Historia del Idioma Español 7
Where Does English Come From? 8
Poetas Españoles 9
English Poets 10
John A. Aragón Collection 11
"Kissing Cousins" by Sabine Ulibarrí 12
Reseñas de Libros. "Rattling Chains/Ruido de Cadenas" por Nasario García 13
Citas de "Rattling Chains/Ruido de Cadenas" 14
Preguntas 15
Juego: María Blanca 16
Gobierno 1
Procesos Gubernamentales: Cómo Convertir Legislación en Ley. …
Working For And With Latino/Latina Immigrant Newcomers In The English Language Arts Classroom, Bernadette Musetti, Spencer Salas, Theresa Perez
Working For And With Latino/Latina Immigrant Newcomers In The English Language Arts Classroom, Bernadette Musetti, Spencer Salas, Theresa Perez
Faculty and Research Publications
The article discusses how the English language arts practitioners work with the Latin immigrants who are newcomers in learning English language in middle and high school in the U.S. Accordingly, practitioners provide more instructional time to contextualized learning and literacy on first and second language and advocate them to attain a high level of literacy. Moreover, it states that the literacy development of the newcomers must be anchored in patience, flexibility and conscientiousness.
Class And Categories: What Role Does Socioeconomic Status Play In Children's Lexical And Conceptual Development?, Jennifer Bloomquist
Class And Categories: What Role Does Socioeconomic Status Play In Children's Lexical And Conceptual Development?, Jennifer Bloomquist
Africana Studies Faculty Publications
At one time, academic inquiries into the relationship between socioeconomic class and language acquisition were commonplace, but the past 20 years have seen a decrease in work that focuses on the intersection between class and early language learning. Recently, however, against the backdrop of the No Child Left Behind legislation in the United States (which has been criticized as a culturally biased education policy that, through highstakes testing and broad-based, uniform curricula, discounts the value of non-standard home language varieties largely spoken by working-class children), there has been renewed interest in the relationship between class, language use, and the assessment …
La Efectividad De Un Modelo Metodológico Mixto Para La Enseñanza-Aprendizaje De Español Como Le, Kerwin A. Livingstone, Anita A. Ferreira Cabrera
La Efectividad De Un Modelo Metodológico Mixto Para La Enseñanza-Aprendizaje De Español Como Le, Kerwin A. Livingstone, Anita A. Ferreira Cabrera
Kerwin A. Livingstone
El presente artículo propone proveer un modelo metodológico mixto para el desarrollo e implementación de un Módulo de Enseñanza para el español como lengua extranjera en la modalidad presencial. El objetivo principal es evidenciar cómo los principios metodológicos provenientes de los enfoques didácticos (“nfoque por tareas”y “prendizaje cooperativo” pueden ser aplicados de manera efectiva en el diseño de contextos presenciales. Para ello, se explora evidencia empírica acerca de la efectividad de la metodología mixta en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de español como lengua extranjera en dichos ambientes, en un estudio basado en un diseño experimental longitudinal con pre-est y post-est, sin grupo …
Building Community Relationships Through Collaboration, Sherwood Thompson
Building Community Relationships Through Collaboration, Sherwood Thompson
Sherwood Thompson
No abstract provided.
The Power Of The Teacher: Integrating Latino-Themed Literature In The K-12 Classroom, Ruth Quiroa, Susan Mcmahon, Barbara Evans, Francisco X. Alarcon
The Power Of The Teacher: Integrating Latino-Themed Literature In The K-12 Classroom, Ruth Quiroa, Susan Mcmahon, Barbara Evans, Francisco X. Alarcon
Western Suburban Literacy Initiative (WSLI) Conference
High quality books with culturally specific themes offer wonderful opportunities to access the background knowledge and personal connections of students with similar cultural heritage. However, the simple addition of the “right” multicultural books in the classroom is not enough to ensure that students engage in deep level responses involving culture. The teacher’s role in such conversations is critical and the focus of this session. Presenters will share examples from their work with students of Mexican origin and Mexican American-themed books published in the U.S. Participants will also have opportunities to take part in Book Clubs using Latino-themed children’s literature, respond …
How To Develop A ‘Culturally Aware’ Classroom Environment, Karla Gajarka
How To Develop A ‘Culturally Aware’ Classroom Environment, Karla Gajarka
Western Suburban Literacy Initiative (WSLI) Conference
The student body in today’s school is becoming more diverse than ever before and the cultural and linguistic differences these students are bringing into the classrooms need to be carefully acknowledged and addressed! In this workshop participants will learn how they can make their classroom environment more ‘Culturally and Linguistically aware.’ Participants will benefit from this session by: (i) learning how to provide Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) students with a respectful and safe environment, and (ii) developing greater fluency on how to help ELL students feel more welcome.
Libros En Voz Alta/ Books Aloud, Patti Johanson
Libros En Voz Alta/ Books Aloud, Patti Johanson
Western Suburban Literacy Initiative (WSLI) Conference
This presentation describes a classroom-based homework project involving students of Mexican-origin, in a bilingual first grade classroom and a modification of the project by a reading specialist involving second language learners in Title I programs. Students were given backpacks to take home bi-weekly on a rotating basis filled with a tape recorder, their “Family Journal,” a picture book in Spanish (later in English), and a recording of the text. After listening to a book on tape (or CD) and to oral and written prompts, students and family members wrote or drew responses in their Family Journals. During home visits and …
Teaching Academic Content To English Language Learners (Ell): Strategies On How To Help Ells Succeed Academically, Karla Garjaka
Teaching Academic Content To English Language Learners (Ell): Strategies On How To Help Ells Succeed Academically, Karla Garjaka
Western Suburban Literacy Initiative (WSLI) Conference
This workshop will show how mainstream teachers can make academic content more comprehensible to English Language Learners (ELL) without diluting the curriculum. More specifically, it will expose participants to strategies on how to keep ELL students at grade level while developing their English language proficiency. Participants will benefit from this session by: (i) developing greater fluency on how educators can help ELL succeed academically; and (ii) becoming better prepared to face the challenges of working in a diverse school.
Learning From The Nlu "Americas" Library Collection: New Book Titles For Spanish-Language Ell Students, Barbara Evans, Ruth Quiroa
Learning From The Nlu "Americas" Library Collection: New Book Titles For Spanish-Language Ell Students, Barbara Evans, Ruth Quiroa
Western Suburban Literacy Initiative (WSLI) Conference
Come and hear about the Americas Collection of children's books located at the NLU campus in Lisle, and learn about venues for purchasing such books for your own classroom and school library. This collection consists of books originally written in Spanish by Latin American authors from many different countries, as well as bilingual books (Spanish and English), texts published in English with Latino themes, and some Spanish translations from recommended book lists. These books are appropriate for grades PreK-12, and represent a broad range of genres and formats. The presenters attended the Feria internacional del libro (FIL) in Guadalajara, Mexico …
Temporary Migrants: Coping With Language Barriers... Temporarily?, Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón
Temporary Migrants: Coping With Language Barriers... Temporarily?, Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón
Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón
No abstract provided.
Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 20, Número 2, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited
Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 20, Número 2, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited
Amigos Revista Digital
Cover 1
Contenido 2
La Llorona 1
Los de Aragón: Una Familia que Conoce Bien a La Llorona 3
Literatura e Idioma 9
Hechizo en Valdez 4,5
They That Laugh Win 6
Ejemplos de Rubén Cobos 7
Reseñas de Libros 8
La Historia del Idioma Español 9
Where Does English Come From? 10
Ejemplos de Idiomas 11
Examples of Types of English Poetry 12
Tipos de Poesía Española 13
Preguntas 14
Gobierno 3
Diane Denish y Brian Colón 15
Susana Martínez y John Sánchez 16
Governmental Processes: Register to Vote and Vote in the Primaries 17
Ancient Agriculture 18
La …