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The Role Of Native Target Cultures In The High School English-As-A-Foreign-Language Classroom, Gwendolyne Claudine Mamanua Jan 2005

The Role Of Native Target Cultures In The High School English-As-A-Foreign-Language Classroom, Gwendolyne Claudine Mamanua

Theses Digitization Project

The goal of this project is to provide a curriculum that allows EFL students to learn through various social settings. Learning English through various classroom activities also enables the learner to apply the knowledge outside of the classroom setting.


A Curriculum Guide For Teaching Business Planning, Dennis Patrick Larney Jan 2005

A Curriculum Guide For Teaching Business Planning, Dennis Patrick Larney

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the project is two-fold. First, to design a curriculum guideline for career and technical educators to teach the elements of business planning to a new population of graduates that need the material to manage their vocation successfully. Secondly, it can be used as a very practical way of integrating academic and occupational training program.


Creative, Imaginative English-As-A-Foreign-Language Using Storytelling And Drama, Man-Lin Rau Jan 2005

Creative, Imaginative English-As-A-Foreign-Language Using Storytelling And Drama, Man-Lin Rau

Theses Digitization Project

With a view to improve English teaching, this project provides creative teaching methods for English teachers of elementary schools in Taiwan. Storytelling, creative writing, and creative drama are interesting and lively activities that are used to motivate students to learn English.


The Intelligences Of Creative English-As-A-Foreign-Language Learning, Alvin Charles Yen Jan 2005

The Intelligences Of Creative English-As-A-Foreign-Language Learning, Alvin Charles Yen

Theses Digitization Project

This project provides a model for incorporating creativity in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). It includes an instructional unit comprised of six lessons followed by accompanying assessments. Culture and language cannot be separated as students learn a foreign language.


Tell Me A Story About Feathers: Teaching Discipline Through Literature, Carol Tripoli Rondeau Jan 2005

Tell Me A Story About Feathers: Teaching Discipline Through Literature, Carol Tripoli Rondeau

Theses Digitization Project

This project contends that the instructional time given to language arts is the appropriate time to teach discipline. Sample lesson plans incorporating the teaching of discipline into California's third grade curriculum are offered to inspire and inform educators to become teachers of self-discipline.


Using Music To Create Effective Curriculum For English Language Development, Steven John Schulz Jan 2005

Using Music To Create Effective Curriculum For English Language Development, Steven John Schulz

Theses Digitization Project

Research supporting the viability of music to promote language and literacy development as well as the theory of multiple intelligences suggests that any sound educational program employ a multifaceted approach to teaching and learning. This project created a thematically based multiple intelligence curriculum for first grade English language learners that emphasized the use of song.


Curriculum Integration Connecting Academic And Career And Technical Education, Crystal Yvette Clark Jan 2005

Curriculum Integration Connecting Academic And Career And Technical Education, Crystal Yvette Clark

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to develop a curriculum that will help integrate Academic, Career, and Technical Education. The basic purpose of curriculum integration is to help student make connections between academic and technical information, to help them discover the answer to "Why do I have to learn this?" In 1990, the federal government mandated the "integration" of Academic and Career and Technical Education through amendments to the Carl D. Perkins Vocation Education Act of 1984.


Why Are Those Computers Sitting Over There Gathering Dust, Bradford Ralph Austin Jan 2005

Why Are Those Computers Sitting Over There Gathering Dust, Bradford Ralph Austin

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to create electronic books (E-books) for kindergartens to read during their center time. The E-books are intended for kindergarten teachers to use to help their students learn to read while utilizing the technology resources in their classroom. These E-books are teacher created so the cost is minimal and they can be copied and distributed to each student without worrying about copyright laws. Teachers can customize them to fit the current thematic unit they are teaching and once created, they can be used repeadedly without being damaged like paper books.


Teaching Vocabulary Through Integrated Curriculum Improves Reading Comprehension, Linda Carol Cox Jan 2005

Teaching Vocabulary Through Integrated Curriculum Improves Reading Comprehension, Linda Carol Cox

Theses Digitization Project

This investigation was designed to determine if teaching vocabulary through integrating English and Social Studies curricula would provide tenth grade students who are poor readers with strategies to improve their reading comprehension. The strategies used were designed to support struggling readers and English language development students to connect denotative and connotative meanings of words found in the novel Animal Farm to their social studies class' content.