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Full-Text Articles in Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education

Traveler's Lodestone, Olivia Blessing, Angela Blessing Dec 2013

Traveler's Lodestone, Olivia Blessing, Angela Blessing

Olivia L Blessing

A Universal Translator! The "Traveler's Lodestone" series is a point-to-speak book. It uses picture-based communications to cover the basic things a person would need when conversing in any foreign language. The idea is that when the words aren't at the tip of your tongue, the pictures are at the tip of your finger. Everything from groceries to clothes to hotel amenities to weather, directions, and more is available instantly with this easy to use book. It's quick and universal!

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Perspectivas Sobre La Enseñanza Del Español A Los Hablantes De Herencia, Kim Potowski, Andrew Lynch Dec 2013

Perspectivas Sobre La Enseñanza Del Español A Los Hablantes De Herencia, Kim Potowski, Andrew Lynch

Andrew Lynch

This article considers sociolinguistic and pedagogical underpinnings of teaching Spanish to bilinguals in the US, focusing on some of the challenges they present at various educational levels: (1) their sociolinguistic and cultural heterogeneity; (2) some of the linguistic phenomena present in their communicative repertoires and some of the linguistic, affective and academic aspects that influence their acquisition and use of Spanish; and (3) pedagogical approaches that are most appropriate for this population. [in Spanish]

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Project-Based Chinese As A Foreign Language Instruction: A Teacher Research Approach, Gulbahar Beckett Dec 2013

Project-Based Chinese As A Foreign Language Instruction: A Teacher Research Approach, Gulbahar Beckett

Gulbahar Beckett

This study implements and evaluates an action research project carried out by a teacher in a U.S. high school, where two classes of students studied Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) through project-based instruction (PBI) over an academic year. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of PBI in teaching CFL by eliciting students' and the teacher's experiences and perceptions of PBI. Data collected included student interviews, surveys, project products, classroom observations, and teacher journals. The findings suggest that PBI is an effective approach to teaching and learning of language, culture, and other skills simultaneously. PBI was …

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Reflections On The University Of Cincinnati And Salahaddin University Linkage Work, Gulbahar Beckett, Himdad Abdul-Qahhar Muhammad Dec 2013

Reflections On The University Of Cincinnati And Salahaddin University Linkage Work, Gulbahar Beckett, Himdad Abdul-Qahhar Muhammad

Gulbahar Beckett

This session shares experience of obtaining and implementing a highly successful University Linkages Program between the University of Cincinnati, USA and Salahaddin University, Kurdistan, Iraq. The authors will reflect on practices and make recommendations for setting and implementing achievable goals; negotiating and maintaining personal and institutional relationships; and strategies for addressing potential challenges during and beyond the linkage. This session should be of interest to administrators, faculty, and staff who are currently involved in and/or planning on working with international partners.

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Freirian Reflections On Social Justice Education: A Practitioner’S Perspective, D. Scott Tharp Dec 2013

Freirian Reflections On Social Justice Education: A Practitioner’S Perspective, D. Scott Tharp

D. Scott Tharp

This paper integrates Freirian ideas into reflections from one social justice educators’ practice within higher education. While the author originally learned about Freire in a limited fashion related to systems of oppression, dialogical approaches to education and the importance of praxis, Freire become reduced to a method for practice. Through an expanded reading of Freire’s broader works beyond Pedagogy of the Oppressed, “new” concepts related to class suicide, authority and freedom, political clarity, and epistemological circling complicate and illuminate a more robust reflection upon his own social justice education practice. These Freireian concepts bring additional value to social justice education …

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Keeping College Within Reach: Sharing Best Practices For Serving Low-Income And First Generation Students (Recommendations For Reauthorization Of The Higher Education Act), Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt Bryant, Amy-Ellen Duke-Benfield Dec 2013

Keeping College Within Reach: Sharing Best Practices For Serving Low-Income And First Generation Students (Recommendations For Reauthorization Of The Higher Education Act), Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt Bryant, Amy-Ellen Duke-Benfield

Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt Bryant

No abstract provided.

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Lapen-An Ki Te Renmen Pwa, Rebecca Saunders, Joel Theodat Dec 2013

Lapen-An Ki Te Renmen Pwa, Rebecca Saunders, Joel Theodat

Rebecca Saunders

This children's play is one I wrote in English but translated into Haitian Kreyol with the help of Joel Theodat. It's about a rabbit who loves peas and steals them from a little girl's garden; that is, until she captures him! We did a script-in-hand reading of the play at the Creole Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in July, 2014.

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Back To Basics: Rethinking Thematic Reading Instruction For English Language Learners, Amber Warren, Natalia A. Ward Dec 2013

Back To Basics: Rethinking Thematic Reading Instruction For English Language Learners, Amber Warren, Natalia A. Ward

Natalia A. Ward

Puzzled, Tan is watching his classmates who are laughing while trying to explain and demonstrate a word that is written on the board behind him. “What can it be?” And then the biggest grin appears on his usually reserved face. “Ancient!” he declares with pride. The boys put their thumbs up and Tan choses the next person to go. Playing Hot Seat with new vocabulary words was one of student favorites during the ESL Book Club conducted at their school.

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Engaging Students In Disaster Relief Training Exercises Dec 2013

Engaging Students In Disaster Relief Training Exercises

Dr. John R. Fisher

Incorporating National Incident Management System training and exercise principles into homeland security and emergency management learning can help university students develop emergency response capabilities through practical application of knowledge in simulated incidents. In addition, they gain team-building and leadership skills, establish relationships with professionals that will carry forward into their careers, and obtain confidence in their abilities to respond under pressure to simulated critical incidents. This case study describes student experience in disaster relief and humanitarian service exercises in the United States, Kosovo, and the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia. The DEAL approach to critical thinking is used to provide …

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