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Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 33, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Benito Juárez 1
Dichos de Mayo y Palabras de Juárez 2
Benito Juárez 3
Rattlesnakes 4
Las Culebras de Cascabel 5
La Formación de México 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 32, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Los Indios Incas 1
La Segunda Semilla de Cambio: Papas 2
The Inca Indians 3
Other Indians in South America 4
Otros Indios de Sudamérica 5
Un Poncho Inca 6

A Comparative Study Of High And Low Achieving Inner-City African-American Sophomore Males’ Expectations Of Self, In-School And Out-Of-School Support, John L. Jackson Sr.

Dissertations

Academic and personal successes and failures of young inner-city African- American males are invariably linked to the dynamics of family life, societal acceptance, economic and political opportunities and participation, and cultural expressions and peculiarities. Additionally, there may be other important factors, such as personal meanings, present and projected insecurities, differing values, hopes, and so forth, which may be highly contributive to determining the extent to which these youngsters perceive their chances of succeeding in the larger society. The implication here is that academic and other life successes are not only depended on individual responsibility and commitment, but also the supportive …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 31, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Los Moros en España 1
Palabras de Origen Arabe y Hebreo 2
The Moors in Spain 3
Three Cultures/Three Religions 4
Tres Culturas/Tres Religiones 5
Comidas Tradicionales 6

Working It Out: Esl Literacy Skills, Strategies, And Systems In The Workplace, Mary Louise Cohn

Dissertations and Theses

This study investigates the strategies and resources a group of non-native English speakers with limited reading ability use to fulfill literacy functions work. The nineteen study subjects are employed as production workers in a large electronics manufacturing company. Using in-depth interview data, limited testing and document analysis, the study addresses three major research questions: 1) For what functions are reading and writing actually used in the workplace? What level of reading and writing do these functions assume? 2) How do these literacy functions relate to the rest of the work system? 3) How do limited readers fulfill these literacy functions? …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 30, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Stephanie Gonzales. Secretaria del Estado 1
Cambios con los viajes de Colón 2
Stephanie Gonzales, Secretary of State 3
Mesilla 4
Mesilla 5
Practica para Registrarse para Votar 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 29, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

España-sus Principios 1
Mapa de España/España 1992 2
Spain: its Beginnings 3
The Romans in Spain 4
Los Romanos en España 5
Preguntas/Un Repaso 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 28, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Wagon Mound y Alrededores 1
Adivinanzas de Comidas 2
Wagon Mound and Surroundings 3
Bears in New Mexico 4
Osos en Nuevo México 5
El Condado de Mora 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 27, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Lagos de Nuevo Mexico 1
Nombres y sus Sentidos 2
Lakes of New Mexico 3
Land Grants 4
Las Mercedes 5
Actividades Sobre las Mercedes 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 26, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Deming 1
Un Corrido: Persecución de Villa 2
Deming 3
Luna County 4
El Condado Luna 5
Unas Casas de Abuelitos 6

Foreign Student Enrollment Planning In Five Oregon Institutions With English As A Second Language Programs, Maureen Denise Sprague

Dissertations and Theses

Planning for foreign students in institutions of higher education takes many forms. This study set out to find out how this planning takes place within and between three particular units in five universities and colleges in Oregon. The three units chosen as the focus of this study work closely with foreign students in the initial admissions process, in the orientation, visa status and services area of their stay, and thirdly in academic coursework in English as a second language programs. The titles of the units are, the admissions office, the international student services office and the English as a second …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 25, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Clovis 1
Un Poema: Los Botes de Aluminio 2
Clovis 3
Clovis and Folsom Man 4
El Hombre Clovis/Folsom 5
Preguntas/Calendario/Dichos de marzo 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 24, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Los Indios Aztecas 1
Un Glosario Azteca 2
Aztec Indians 3
Mexico Before 1492 4
México Antes de 1492 5
Un Mapa, Dibujar y Describir a Huitzilopochtli 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 23, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

El Padre Antonio José Martínez 1
Dichos de Amigos 2
Father Antonio José Martínez 3
The Martínez Hacienda 4
La Hacienda de Martínez 5
Esquema de la Hacienda de Martínez 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 22, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Ranchos de Taos 1
¿Qué Significa su Nombre? 2
Ranchos de Taos 3
National Bilingual Meeting in Albuquerque 4
Conferencia de Educación Bilingüe 5
Su Tarjeta de San Valentín 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 21, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Helen Lucero 1
El Tratado-Guadalupe Hidalgo y Calendario 2
Helen Lucero 3
The Legislative Session 4
La Sesión Legislativa 5
Los Abuelitos-dibujo y Descripción 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 20, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Socorro 1
Preguntas de la Ciencia 2
Socorro 3
Pre-Historic Animals 4
Los Animales Pre-Históricos 5
Un Baile: El Galope 6

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 2, Número 19, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Los Indios Pueblos 1
Trajes Ceremoniales de los Pueblos 2
The Pueblo Indians 3
The Creation of the Pueblo People 4
La Creación de la Gente Pueblo 5
Tintas Naturales y Papel Cortado 6

Communicating With Spanish-Speaking Parents: A Resource Handbook, Joni Lynn Britt

All Graduate Projects

This project presents the development of a teacher handbook to facilitate teacher/school communication with Spanish-speaking parents. The handbook contains letters to parents in Spanish. Research of school-parent communications, and parent involvement, as well as a survey of elementary teachers was conducted. It was found that although communication with Spanish-speaking parents is often difficult, effective communication efforts promoted parent involvement and increased student achievement. The findings supported the need and benefit of a handbook of this nature. Recommendations for the implementation of the handbook are discussed.

Help: A Holistic English Literacy Program For Multicultural Elementary Classrooms Of Students Acquiring English As A Second Language, Monica A. Ford

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

A Whole Language Approach Integrating Children's Songs In Spanish To Enhance Language Acquisition And Literacy In The Spanish Immersion Primary Grades, Homero R. Capetillo

All Graduate Projects

An alternative method for the development of second language acquisition and literacy in a second language program was explored. A collection of Spanish children's songs and lessons utilizing "whole language" teaching strategies were compiled to supplement the language arts cμrriculum. The premise for this study was that children's songs could be used to develop activities that would enhance second language acquisition and literacy skills. Implications for the integration of music to provide a cogent transitional vehicle from spoken to written language structures are discussed.

Experience-Based Dialogues In Secondary English-As-A-Second-Language Classrooms, Carlina V. Lobos

All Graduate Projects

An informal study was conducted to explore the effectiveness of experience-based dialogues in the promotion of oral language use in secondary-level English-As-A-Second-Language classrooms. The twenty-one dialogues field-tested in the project were developed interactively, by teacher and students, in the sociocognitive context of each of the learner's background knowledge, experience and immediate communication needs. Experience-based dialogues are a method of language teaching and learning that focuses on the communicative act rather than on isolated or discrete grammatical items. An overview of the results of the informal study was presented here. Strategies for teachers to develop and implement, using this approach, were …

Thematic Approach To Teaching Science In Kindergarten For Use With First And Second Language Students, Gerene Marie Sadberry

All Graduate Projects

Thematic Science units were established for the Wapato kindergarten in both Spanish and English. Approximately three hundred students are participants in the program for which this curriculum was designed. This study suggests how selected science objectives may be implemented using the thematic approach. Each theme contains a media resource list of Items available from the Wapato Primary Media Center and suggested activities which will help to integrate the science unit with other subject areas. The Intent of the curriculum design ls that children learn language and science naturally when they are developed in a meaningful context.

Are Today's Teachers Being Prepared For Diversity? An Analysis Of School Catalogues, James Jennings, Illene Carver

Trotter Review

A recent content analysis study shows that while leading educators in Massachusetts stress the importance of preparing teachers for an increasingly diverse world, most teacher preparation schools virtually ignore the issue of racial and ethnic diversity in catalogues recruiting new students. This not only discourages people from diverse backgrounds from becoming teachers, but could also create a lack of understanding in the classroom of the black, Latino, and Asian students being taught.

A summary of A Content Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Themes in Catalogues Distributed by Teacher Preparation Schools in Massachusetts, 1989 and 1990, a report issued by …

Thoughts On Black Conservativism: A Review Essay, Martin Kilson

Trotter Review

In Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, Stephen L. Carter, an Afro-American law professor at Yale University, has written a wide-ranging book on affirmative action policy. Like numerous other books on the subject, Carter covers the issues of its legitimacy as policy, white opposition, impact on black mobility, and contradictions faced by universities in administering affirmative action. Carter also offers a new area of discussion — namely, the evolving division among Afro-Americans regarding affirmative action, allocating six of eleven chapters to facets of this issue. Carter uses his own experiences to frame these discussions — a mode of discourse …

A Research And An Adaptation Of Methodologies To Develop Supplementary Materials And Activities For The Study Of Foreign Language, Melané Mildré

All Graduate Projects

The use of a typical textbook tor the instruction of the first year study of the Spanish language appears to be tedious as well as inadequate in its presentation of grammar drills, vocabulary selection, and its potential of allowing the student to develop fluency in the language. As a result, the writer researched a variety of methodologies currently being employed in the instruction of foreign language. Intending to improve upon the usage of a textbook as well as to add variety to the classroom procedure, the writer then developed or adapted supplementary materials to correlate to the textbook presently being …

Introduction, James Jennings

Trotter Review

This issue of the Trotter Institute Review is devoted to a two-part proposition. The first is that institutions, agencies, businesses, and schools must begin to reflect the increasingly diverse ethnic and racial characteristics of American society. America is in the midst of a demographic revolution. It is unfortunate that some educators have chosen to ignore the social, economic, and intellectual implications of this change and that others have even become angry and attacked efforts to create an appreciation of multiculturalism.

This unfortunate resistance to the implications of America's unfolding demography leads to the second proposition reflected in this issue of …

The Effect Of Word Processing On The Revising/Editing Strategies Of Primary Esl Writers, L. John Oliver

Theses : Honours

The focus of this study was on the effect of word processing on the revising and editing strategies of primary ESL writers. Six year 5/6 'intensive' ESL students completed a number of written tasks, using both computer and conventional 'pen and paper' methods. Their handwritten and word processed work was analysed and compared in terms of the frequency, nature and extent of changes made. Statistical analysis of these data, as well as audio-taped verbal protocols, interviews, and observational notes, was used to determine the effect(s) of word processing on the revising/editing strategies of these students. Of the four major revision …

Prose Fiction Preferences Of Lower Secondary Urban Aboriginal Boys, Stephen James White

Theses : Honours

The purpose of this study was to investigate the prose fiction preferences of lower secondary urban Aboriginal boys. The Likert scale scores from the 2 x 4 factorial design were analysed using an ANOVA test of significance. It was found that the research group significantly preferred action genres to non-action genres, Aboriginal characterisations to white Australian characterisations, and contemporary story extracts to traditional story extracts.

The Educational Aspirations Of Upper Primary Non English Speaking Background Students In A Mainstream Government School, Shirley Lienert

Theses : Honours

Researchers have described Non English Speaking Background (NESB) students as educationally disadvantaged but recent statistics show that some NESB students are actually outstripping their English Speaking Background (ESB) peers in educational achievement. In this study 121 students in upper primary classes in a Western Australian government school were surveyed so that NESB and ESB students could be identified and the proportion of NESB students within the sample group established. Information was gathered from both NESB and ESB students by administering a sociogram, the Lawseq test and a Likert scale questionnaire with variables of attitudes towards school, attitudes towards teachers1 influence …