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Communication-Based Teaching For Chinese Language Learners, Hsiao-Mei Tsai
Communication-Based Teaching For Chinese Language Learners, Hsiao-Mei Tsai
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This portfolio is founded on the author’s principles of communicative teaching for Chinese language learners, which were cultivated and developed in the Master of Second Language Teaching program. The initial part of the portfolio is the teaching philosophy, which contains the author’s beliefs of teacher and student roles and effective teaching approaches in the Chinese as a foreign language classroom. The teaching philosophy is supported by three artifacts, which further clarify how to associate culture, literacy, and linguistics with language learning. The literacy artifact explains the process of Chinese and English biliteracy acquisition. The culture artifact is a comparison of …
Does Teaching Narrative Structure To Children With Language Impairments Improve Comprehension Of Expository Text?, Brynne Cook Evans
Does Teaching Narrative Structure To Children With Language Impairments Improve Comprehension Of Expository Text?, Brynne Cook Evans
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Research has shown that knowledge of narrative text structure enhances students’ abilities to comprehend and produce narrative discourse. The current study was designed to determine if training in narrative text structure was associated with improved comprehension for expository passages that adhered to a narrative structure. Six children between the ages of 5:3 and 9:7 with language impairments participated. Children were matched by grade and randomly assigned to the intervention or control group. Participants in the intervention group received instruction 2 times a week for 45-minute sessions for a duration of 12 weeks from a graduate student in speech-language pathology with …
Communicative Language Teaching, Karina C. Mora
Communicative Language Teaching, Karina C. Mora
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This portfolio is a compilation of second language teaching research and
ideas put together during the author’s time as a MSLT student. It includes a
personal teaching philosophy supported by three related artifacts. It also contains
an annotated bibliography with an overview of some of the research examined
during her time in the program. Her personal teaching philosophy underscores
how communicative language teaching can help students learn language through
meaningful use. The artifacts suggest ways to implement communicative
language teaching by teaching language in content, using multimedia authentic
texts, and teaching sociolinguistics and pragmatics.