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Moving Elementary School English Learners Forward: Understanding How Covid-Era School Disruptions Impacted English Learner Education, Danielle Vissering Aug 2022

Moving Elementary School English Learners Forward: Understanding How Covid-Era School Disruptions Impacted English Learner Education, Danielle Vissering

Honors Program Theses and Projects

In the first semester of my honors thesis, I looked at how big events like COVID-19 affect non-heritage English speakers. Through my research, I was able to compile a literature review to see what challenges ELL students face, and how we could overcome those difficulties. This then led me this semester to look at what strategies could better assist ELL students in the classroom. To understand how teachers are working with students in classrooms now I interviewed teachers and observed classrooms to find out what strategies, technology, and resources could help ELL students.


Strategies For Increasing Long Term Language Comprehension In English Learners, Apryl Danwah Aug 2022

Strategies For Increasing Long Term Language Comprehension In English Learners, Apryl Danwah

Honors Program Theses and Projects

This website is meant to serve as a resource for educators to help inform their instruction of English language learners. The focus of the information included in this website is on long term language comprehension and retention of content in science, social studies, and math subject areas. A general overview of English learners is included. The need for differentiated instruction of English learners compared to monolingual students will be supported throughout each section. Suggestions for appropriate and effective long term comprehension strategies and teaching practices are provided based on the findings of recent research. In addition to a review of …


Giving Voices To Children Who Were Refugees, Maddison Louise Jacques Aug 2022

Giving Voices To Children Who Were Refugees, Maddison Louise Jacques

Honors Program Theses and Projects

This website provides an insight into children who were refugees. You will read about: (1) important organizations that play a key role in helping them when they arrive in America, (2) experts in the field who can speak directly from their experiences with refugees, (3) along with one expert who was personally a refugee herself, (4) there are also books that educators can use to help their students understand who refugees are and what they have been through, (5) lesson plans to along with those books for multiple grades.


La Carranga Como Identidad Cultural Local Y Regional Del Departamento De Cundinamarca Y Boyacá– Colombia, Karen L. López May 2021

La Carranga Como Identidad Cultural Local Y Regional Del Departamento De Cundinamarca Y Boyacá– Colombia, Karen L. López

Honors Program Theses and Projects

“Somos hablares, historias copla, canto y poesías, eso es lo que les traemos, eso es la carranguerita, sinfónicamente hablando, un canto hermoso a la vida”. Estas son las palabras con las que inicia algunas de sus presentaciones en público Jorge Velosa, el hombre más influyente y reconocido de la música carranguera. Este ritmo musical es muy importante porque por medio de su letra expresa ideas, valores, y lazos de identidad únicos de la comunidad campesina. También, es un estilo de música colombiana que busca la sonrisa de la gente, muestra cómo convivir en paz con la naturaleza, y es la …