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Exploring Effective Reading Strategies That Promote Higher Level Thinking And Comprehension For A Chinese-Speaking College Student, Panyang Wu

Masters Theses/Capstone Projects

The purpose of the case study was to explore some effective literacy strategies that prompt higher-level thinking abilities to help one Chinese English as Foreign Language (EFL) student who struggles with academic reading in college classes at a small, liberal arts college. Only one participant named Cathy was involved in the study. Cathy is a Chinese student who studied at college as a regular undergraduate student and had poor performance in her college level literacy class, as indicated by her professors and Cathy herself. Cathy was expected to improve reading comprehension by receiving an intensive one-month reading development intervention, which …

El Sentido Que Los Estudiantes De Séptimo Grado Le Otorgan Al Acoso Escolar En El Ied Tibabuyes Universal En Suba, Bogotá, Colombia, Michelle Johanna Brijaldo Hurtado, Diego Armando Ramírez Infante

Licenciatura en Español y Lenguas Extranjeras

Este informe da cuenta de la investigación realizada en torno a la comprensión sobre el sentido que le otorgan al fenómeno del Acoso Escolar los estudiantes de grado séptimo del IED Tibabuyes Universal, en Suba, Bogotá, Colombia. Dicha investigación se inscribe dentro del paradigma comprensivo-interpretativo, el método cualitativo y el tipo de investigación etnográfica. El sentido que es objeto central de estudio es analizado a partir de la teoría ecológica del desarrollo humano de Urie Bronfenbrenner, de los postulados de Edmund Husserl (1990) sobre la fenomenología psicológica y las categorías asociadas al sentido, a saber: comprensión, percepción e intuición. Esta …

A Case Study Of Twelve Japanese Esl Students' Use Of Interaction Modifications, Darin Dooley

Dissertations and Theses

This case study examines Japanese ESL students' use of interaction modifications in a content based course. Twelve female subjects were observed and recorded during a nine week period. Their use of interaction modifications (clarification requests, confirmation checks, and comprehension checks) and responses to interaction modifications (single word, full or partial repetition, or reformulation), during teacher-fronted and small group situations, were recorded and coded using the COLT observation instrument.

The study found that the subjects used clarification requests over four times more often in small group or pair-work situations than in teacher-fronted classes. Also, the subjects used confirmation checks over five …