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A Corpus-Based Investigation Of Phrasal Complexity In L1, L2 Phd Students, And Expert Writers In Education Field, Hani Albelihi
A Corpus-Based Investigation Of Phrasal Complexity In L1, L2 Phd Students, And Expert Writers In Education Field, Hani Albelihi
Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs
This study compared 11 noun modifiers, adopted from Biber et al.’s (2011) index, in the writing of English native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) graduate students in Education field and compare them with the frequencies found in published writings. Also, it investigated how the language background influences NP complexity in academic writing. The findings showed compared to the expert writers, the student writers used different amounts of phrasal modifiers in their dissertations (e.g., premodifying nouns). Then, a Chi-square test and residual analysis were run to explore how language background influences the noun phrases. Four particular noun modifiers were influenced …
My Story To Tell: An Autoethnographic Exploration Of Instructional Coaching For Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Through Multicultural Literature In Elementary Classrooms, Annette Melissa Fiedler
My Story To Tell: An Autoethnographic Exploration Of Instructional Coaching For Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Through Multicultural Literature In Elementary Classrooms, Annette Melissa Fiedler
Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs
The purpose of this qualitative Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices was to explore and tell a personalized account of myself as an instructional coach striving for culturally responsive pedagogical practices through multicultural literature in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade classrooms. Two research questions were designed to address this autoethnographic exploration. Research Question 1 was: What tensions do I experience as a living contradiction in the work as an instructional coach for elementary teachers of diverse learners who need culturally responsive literacy instruction? Research Question 2 was: How do my personal understandings of these tensions honor my commitment to enlarging teachers’ culturally …