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Promoting Student Success: Bilingual Education Best Practices And Research Flaws, Lillian Fassero

Senior Honors Theses

This paper first determines the benefits which bilingual education offers and then compares transitional, dual-language, and heritage language maintenance programs. After exploring the outcomes, contexts, and practical implications of the various bilingual programs, this paper explores the oversight in most bilingual studies, which assess students’ syntax and semantics while neglecting their understanding of pragmatics and discourse structures (Maxwell-Reid, 2011). Incorporating information from recent studies which question traditional understandings of bilingualism and argue that biliteracy requires more than grammatical and vocabulary instruction, this paper proposes modifications in current research strategies and suggests best practices for transitional, dual-language, and heritage maintenance programs.

Justice Class Reflections, Amy Ferguson

Borders in Play Columbia Elementary Student Engagement Reflections

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Ferguson Class Reflections, Amy Ferguson

Borders in Play Columbia Elementary Student Engagement Reflections

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"Why Can’T We All Get Along:" An Analysis Of Baka Education, And The Application Of Picture Books In Baka, Kylie Richmond

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This research seeks to understand the implementation of mother tongue language education, specifically within the Baka community. Research was conducted in a Baka village called Mintoum over a three week period. By working with a non profit organization, information was gathered in hopes to improve the education of the Baka. Interviews were conducted to better understand, how these booklets affected not only the child’s education but also the parents’ reaction to books in their language. There was also an observation process conducted to see how the application of these booklets took place within a new Baka run preschool program “Chasing …

The Impact Of Program Structure On Language Acquisition And Intercultural Competence: A Comparative Study Of Study Abroad Programs In Kunming, China, Samantha Bergman

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

According to the Project Atlas study conducted by the Institute of International Education, China is the world’s third most popular study abroad location. With over 390,000 international students currently studying in China, there are more opportunities for cultural exchange and mutual understanding than ever before. However, there is still relatively little existing research on how different study abroad program structures impact students’ Chinese language skills and cultural literacy.

This study examined the impacts of experiential learning and intensive language study abroad program structures on students’ language acquisition and intercultural competence development. Two study abroad programs based in Kunming, SIT China: …

The Roles Of Digital Literacies And Critical Literacy For Black Adolescent Females, Jacqueline B. Koonce

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

The purpose of this conceptual thought paper is to argue for critical digital literacies instruction for all students, particularly students from marginalized populations. In this paper, the lived experiences of Black adolescent female avid readers were analyzed because of the complex nature of their discrimination due to their race and gender. Research questions included: What are the technologies and practices used by Black adolescent female avid readers? How and why do they use them? What are the implications for educators? To answer these questions, the voices of Black adolescent female readers from this author’s previous study were used to explore …

Positional Verbs In Colonial Valley Zapotec, John Foreman, Brooke D. Lillehaugen

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper describes the system of positional verbs (e.g., ‘be standing’ and ‘be lying’) in Colonial Valley Zapotec (CVZ), a historical form of Valley Zapotec preserved in archival documents written during the Mexican colonial period. We provide data showing that positional verbs in CVZ have unique morphological properties and participate in a defined set of syntactic constructions, showing that positional verbs formed a formal class of verbs in Valley Zapotec as early as the mid-1500s. This work contributes to the typological literature on positional verbs, demonstrating the type of morphosyntactic work that can be done with a corpus of CVZ …

Hebrew Typography: A Modern Progression Of Language Forms, Shayna Tova Blum

Faculty and Staff Publications

Influenced by studies in traditional Ashkenazi and Sephardi scripts. The typeface had been designed for the printing of the Koren Tanakh, a first edition printed Jewish Bible processed through an all-Jewish collaboration for the first time in centuries. Koren’s project was inspired by the revival of Hebrew initiated by Haskalah writers in the 18th century. Haskalah writers utilized the language and scripts of written and printed literary texts. Influenced by philosophical and political ideologies of the European Enlightenment, the Haskalah explored Jewish identity through language by defining the secular context through traditional Jewish symbolism and narratives. The Zionist movement of …

Eduardo Vargas Culture Quilt, Eduardo Ezequiel Vargas

Borders in Play Culture Quilts

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Implementing Vocabutoons In The English Language Arts Classroom: Drawing Their Way To Success, William Sewell

Research & Publications

Although vocabulary acquisition remains a critical to literacy development, teachers infrequently devote classroom time to vocabulary exercises. In this article, the author demonstrates the use of "vocabutoons" as an instructional activity which draws upon students’ multiple literacies—in particular, visual literacy—in order to foster vocabulary development. Tooning is based upon the belief that "[p]roficient readers visualize what they read as they construct meaning from a text" (Onofrey & Leikam 682). Representative artwork created by English Education majors enrolled in a young adult literature course at a university in the Midwest will be featured to highlight the tooning process.

Arab 202: A Peer Review Of Teaching Project Inquiry Portfolio, Abla Hasan

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

This project examines the impact of adopting a text book of teaching Arabic for nonnative speakers that doesn’t use any English. The project targets “ARAB 202”, second year Arabic, since this course has already used a text book that uses English for instructions and grammar for 3 semesters, ARAB 101 , ARAB102, ARAB 201 and before the new curriculum was available in the market. Students of ARAB 202 will be the first to experience the switch to the new curriculum and therefore can be the best to evaluate the experience. For the project, students were asked to complete a pre-course …

Daniel De Andrade Reflection 2, Daniel De Andrade

Borders in Play Reflections

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Grace Pilz Reflection 3, Grace Pilz

Borders in Play Reflections

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Daniel De Andrade Reflection 1, Daniel De Andrade

Borders in Play Reflections

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Nate Novak Lesson Plan 4, Nate Novak, Isabella Bird-Muñoz

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Claire Oxford Lesson Plan 2, Claire Oxford, Eric Thornton

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Grace Pilz Reflection 2, Grace Pilz

Borders in Play Reflections

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Scout Crowell Lesson Plan 4, Scout Crowell, Kat Ridley, Sabrina Serrano

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Scout Crowell Lesson Plan 2, Scout Crowell, Kat Ridley, Sabrina Serrano

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Scout Crowell Lesson Plan 1, Scout Crowell, Kat Ridley, Sabrina Serrano

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Samuel Canseco Lesson Plan 4, Samuel Canseco, Eduardo Vargas

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Samuel Canseco Lesson Plan 3, Samuel Canseco, Eduardo Vargas

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Samuel Canseco Lesson Plan 1, Samuel Canseco, Eduardo Vargas

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Nate Novak Lesson Plan 3, Nate Novak, Isabella Bird-Muñoz

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Nate Novak Lesson Plan 2, Nate Novak, Isabella Bird-Muñoz

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Nate Novak Lesson Plan 1, Nate Novak, Isabella Bird-Muñoz

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Grace Pilz Lesson Plan 3, Grace Pilz

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Eduardo Vargas Lesson Plan 1, Eduardo Vargas, Samuel Canseco

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Claire Oxford Lesson Plan 4, Claire Oxford, Eric Thornton

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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Claire Oxford Lesson Plan 3, Claire Oxford, Eric Thornton

Borders in Play Lesson Plans

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