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Training Teachers Of Slavic Lctls: Student Profiles And Program Design, Mark Richard Lauersdorf Jan 2000

Training Teachers Of Slavic Lctls: Student Profiles And Program Design, Mark Richard Lauersdorf

Linguistics Faculty Publications

This article focuses on the differences between Slavic LCTL and Russian "language teaching situations" in the specific areas of student constituency and basic program structure, and the importance of considering these differences in developing teacher training programs that include teachers of Slavic LCTLs. Emphasis is placed on how the realities of the typical Slavic LCTL program point to the need to train graduate student-teachers in the specific skills of course/program design and development in order to prepare them more adequately for their teaching tasks. The results of a Fall 1996 survey of second-year Polish and Czech students and instructors are …


Building Bridges : The Use Of Semantic Mapping To Enhance Reading Comprehension In A Form 6 English Language Class, Harbans Kaur Jan 2000

Building Bridges : The Use Of Semantic Mapping To Enhance Reading Comprehension In A Form 6 English Language Class, Harbans Kaur

Student Works (2000-2009)

This piece of action research study investigates if the use of semantic mapping enhances reading comprehension. The study was conducted in a Form 6 ESL class in Sckolah Menengah Kcbangsaan Taman S.E.A. The purpose of th is study was to probe into the effec ti veness of semantic mapping as a reading comprehension strategy. It aimed at making students aware that understanding each individual word in a text was not necessary to understand the whole text. In essence, this study highlights the effect of the use of semantic mapping as a strategy to activate prior knowledge and enable students to …


Satu Kajian Penguasaan Sebutan Bahasa Al-Quran Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama, Abdul Rahman Md. Hassan Jan 2000

Satu Kajian Penguasaan Sebutan Bahasa Al-Quran Di Kalangan Pelajar-Pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama, Abdul Rahman Md. Hassan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Disertasi ini ditulis berasaskan kajian yang dilakukan di Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama Tok Jiring, Kuala Terengganu. Fokus utama kajian yang dibuat adalah kepada guru-guru yang mengajar AI-Quran dan Pelajar-Pelajar Tingkatan Tiga Tahun 1997. Bab pertama merupakan pengenalan yang menerangkan tentang permasalahan pelajar-pelajar membaca AI-Quran secara umum. Kemudian dinyatakan secara ringkas tentang kepcntingan analisis kesilapan, kepentingan kajian ini , ruang lingkup kajian, responden, batasan kajian metodologi dan tinjauan awal kajian lepas. Bab kedua membicarakan tentang cara membunyikan bahasa Al-Quran yang melibatkan makhraj huruf, sifat-sifatnya yang lazim dan yang tidak lazim, mad, qasr, waqaf dan ibtida. Bab ketiga diisi dengan data-data yang …


Implementing A Context-Based Teaching Curriculum For French Learners At The Mtc, Stephanie Wallace Olsen Jan 2000

Implementing A Context-Based Teaching Curriculum For French Learners At The Mtc, Stephanie Wallace Olsen

Theses and Dissertations

Two control groups and two experimental groups of missionaries and teachers participated in a study comparing a grammar-based method of teaching to a context-based method. The study lasted for two weeks during June 1997. Each classroom was recorded using a timing-based observation system that captured 13 missionary and teacher language behaviors. The behaviors were recorded in real time and later evaluated to determine in which classroom setting the most real communication occurred. A second purpose was to determine the effectiveness of teacher training with respect to teachers in the experimental group. Findings revealed that missionaries in the context-based classroom received …


What's Up Wif Ebonics, Y'All?, Abha Gupta Jun 1999

What's Up Wif Ebonics, Y'All?, Abha Gupta

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

This paper examines the controversy surrounding the use of Ebonics among African American students in schools in the United States, with a twofold purpose: (1) to focus on the primary function of language as a tool of communication that varies in its use according to the social context; and (2) to provide suggestions to teachers of ways to support students' acquisition of standard English without devaluing the nonstandard variants they may have learned in their homes and communities. The discussion is highlighted in the paper with classroom stories, anecdotes, and vignettes. The paper contains the following sections: Introduction; The Ebonics …


The Transition To A Project-Based Curriculum, Cheryl Hoffman Jan 1999

The Transition To A Project-Based Curriculum, Cheryl Hoffman

MA TESOL Collection

This paper examines the initial stages in transforming a grammar-based English as a Second Language curriculum into a project-based one that aims to develop learners’ communicative competence. Included is a definition of project-based learning and communicative competence. The background and setting of the curriculum project are described. The emergence of project-based courses and the transition to these courses is also discussed. Implications for future curriculum projects are considered in terms of managing change within an English language program.


English Teachers In The Former G.D.R. Ten Years After The Wende: What’S New?, Renée Flibotte-Lüskow Jan 1999

English Teachers In The Former G.D.R. Ten Years After The Wende: What’S New?, Renée Flibotte-Lüskow

MA TESOL Collection

English teachers who work in public schools in the eastern part of Germany are doing a very different type of job than they were ten years ago. Although the physical setting and the subject matter is still the same, they are teaching in a new school system based on the West German model. Their personal and professional relationships with the people they work with are different now, and attitudes toward the language they teach have been altered by the political and social changes. This paper seeks to identify interviews conducted in a certain region during a short time span. It …


Adapting The C-L/Cll Approach To A Conventional Textbook Setting: A Novice Teacher’S Reality, Laura Fleher Jan 1999

Adapting The C-L/Cll Approach To A Conventional Textbook Setting: A Novice Teacher’S Reality, Laura Fleher

MA TESOL Collection

This paper is an analysis of the Counseling-Learning/Community Language Learning Approach’s adaptability in a conventional textbook setting. My second internship experience which takes place in a college summer ESL program is the testing ground for my development as a novice C-L/CLL teacher. Questions, doubts, and concerns about the value of a new and an old teaching method are discussed. The importance of distinguishing between approach, method, and technique is advocated. Utilizing the classic cycle of activities is necessary to a novice teacher’s internalization of the C-L philosophy. However, the conventional teaching method, the textbook, is familiar and valued by students …


Language Learning Strategies: A Primer, Carol Lindenbrock Fujii Jan 1999

Language Learning Strategies: A Primer, Carol Lindenbrock Fujii

MA TESOL Collection

The question of why some learners acquire a second language more quickly than others has long been a problem for language teachers. Even when students seem basically equal in terms of opportunity and intelligence, progress can vary greatly. Variations in the language learning strategies students employ could explain why some students do better than others. Students can profitably explore the areas of language learning strategies to become more aware and successful learners. This paper begins by defining language learning strategies as the tools learners use to plan, monitor, and evaluate their own learning and to make that learning more efficient. …


Toward Student-Led Reading Discussion In The Classroom: A Teacher’S Journey With Reader Response, Judy Davis Jan 1999

Toward Student-Led Reading Discussion In The Classroom: A Teacher’S Journey With Reader Response, Judy Davis

MA TESOL Collection

This paper traces an ESL teacher’s learning curve with student-based reading discussion, both teacher-guided and student-led. It comments on her pre-teaching experience with formalist and reader response theory as a reader, student, writer, editor, and then as teacher experimenting with student-led discussion in three consecutive terms. Special attention is given to the strategies that were used to build a reading community and to facilitate the release of students’ voices in the reading discussions. The taped, transcribed discussions are summarized for their intellectual content and examined to assess the social and linguistic benefits to the students. Also evaluated are the uses …


Timed Conversation: One Routine For Engaging Large Classes Of Non-Motivated Learners In Meaningful Oral Communication, Bradley J. Deacon Jan 1999

Timed Conversation: One Routine For Engaging Large Classes Of Non-Motivated Learners In Meaningful Oral Communication, Bradley J. Deacon

MA TESOL Collection

This paper will explore an activity called “Timed Conversation” that I use in large classes of relatively unmotivated first and second year non-language majors in a Japanese university setting. Timed Conversation is designed to help students to communicate in native-like and incrementally longer sustained dialogues in the target language. In the activity, the students interact with many partners and practice conversations while practicing various language expressions. In every lesson over the course of a semester they speak in conversations about a number of topics for a set limit of time. The goal is to be able to speak more fluently …


Expressive Writing And Academic Discourse: Bridging The Gap For High School Second Language Learners, Cynthia Katherine Case Jan 1999

Expressive Writing And Academic Discourse: Bridging The Gap For High School Second Language Learners, Cynthia Katherine Case

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


A Writer's Workshop Approach To Teaching The California English-Language Arts Standards In Writing, Katherine Anne Maloney Jan 1999

A Writer's Workshop Approach To Teaching The California English-Language Arts Standards In Writing, Katherine Anne Maloney

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Promoting Communicative Competence Through Drama In Elementary English As A Foreign Language, Chen-Yuan Yang Jan 1999

Promoting Communicative Competence Through Drama In Elementary English As A Foreign Language, Chen-Yuan Yang

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Applying English-As-A-Second-Language Methodologies To The Teaching Of Reading To Deaf Students, Cindy Michelle Walker Jan 1999

Applying English-As-A-Second-Language Methodologies To The Teaching Of Reading To Deaf Students, Cindy Michelle Walker

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Communicative Competence Through Music In Efl For Japanese Middle School Students, Yuko Koike Jan 1999

Communicative Competence Through Music In Efl For Japanese Middle School Students, Yuko Koike

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Promoting English Reading Comprehension In The Taiwanese English Classroom, Wen-Lin Chien Jan 1999

Promoting English Reading Comprehension In The Taiwanese English Classroom, Wen-Lin Chien

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Beyond Mystification: Reconnecting World-System Theory For Comparative Education, Thomas Clayton Nov 1998

Beyond Mystification: Reconnecting World-System Theory For Comparative Education, Thomas Clayton

Linguistics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


A Genre-Based Reading Process In English As A Foreign Language Reading Instruction, Hae-Lim Yoon Jan 1998

A Genre-Based Reading Process In English As A Foreign Language Reading Instruction, Hae-Lim Yoon

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Teacher Attitudes And Perceptions Of Limited English Proficient Students Toward Academic Achievement, Motivation And Ability, Silvia Viramontes Lagunas Jan 1998

Teacher Attitudes And Perceptions Of Limited English Proficient Students Toward Academic Achievement, Motivation And Ability, Silvia Viramontes Lagunas

Theses Digitization Project

This study, as well as others, have found that teachers have attitudes and perceptions about their students that could significantly impact the students' education.


Metacognition And Language Transfer For An English Language Development Transitional Program, Christina Panzeri-Alvarez Jan 1998

Metacognition And Language Transfer For An English Language Development Transitional Program, Christina Panzeri-Alvarez

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Applying Social Functional Theory To Business English As A Foreign Language Instruction In Taiwan, Weizhen Yang Jan 1998

Applying Social Functional Theory To Business English As A Foreign Language Instruction In Taiwan, Weizhen Yang

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Is It Lost Or Just Forgotten? The Use Of Age Regression In Recapturing A Second Language, Marlene J. Mowery Dec 1997

Is It Lost Or Just Forgotten? The Use Of Age Regression In Recapturing A Second Language, Marlene J. Mowery

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study addresses the question of whether a second language learned in early childhood and later forgotten is lost forever or is situationally unretrievable. The focus of this case study is the examination of hypnotic age regression as a means of retrieval and the use of posthypnotic suggestion in recapturing and maintaining a lost language. A multi-session single subject design was employed in this study. The participant was a nine-year-old American female who was exposed to Hungarian in a Budapest pre-school setting from age three years nine months to age four years seven months. The subject became as fluent as …


The Home-School Connection: Parental Influences On A Child's English Second Language Acquisition, Catharine Jauhiainen May 1997

The Home-School Connection: Parental Influences On A Child's English Second Language Acquisition, Catharine Jauhiainen

Dissertations and Theses

Few would dispute the tremendous impact that parents have on the intellectual, emotional, and social development of their children. An important issue in child second language acquisition is whether, or to what extent, parental attitudes and behaviors are associated with the success of language minority children in elementary ESL and mainstream classroom settings. The effects of parental educational values and expectations, and parental perception of ability to assist in the educational journey of their offspring, have been the focus of much research regarding majority language children. However, research exploring the beliefs and behaviors of language minority parents and their relationship …


Multiple Strategies For Vocabulary Development In English As A Foreign Language In Japan, Kunie Kaminaka Jan 1997

Multiple Strategies For Vocabulary Development In English As A Foreign Language In Japan, Kunie Kaminaka

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Curriculum Design For Strategy-Based Listening In English As A Foreign Language, Tia-Ying Hong Jan 1997

Curriculum Design For Strategy-Based Listening In English As A Foreign Language, Tia-Ying Hong

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Incorporating An Affective Ambiance And Authentic Language To Improve English Teaching In Japan, Ryuja Ra Jan 1997

Incorporating An Affective Ambiance And Authentic Language To Improve English Teaching In Japan, Ryuja Ra

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


A Model Of The Reading Process Applied In Efl Reading In Taiwan, I-Chen Wang Jan 1997

A Model Of The Reading Process Applied In Efl Reading In Taiwan, I-Chen Wang

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Sociocultural Factors In The Loss Of One's Mother Tongue: The Case Of Korean Immigrant Children, Cheong Rhie Huh Jan 1997

Sociocultural Factors In The Loss Of One's Mother Tongue: The Case Of Korean Immigrant Children, Cheong Rhie Huh

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Potential Technology Application In English Instruction In The People's Republic Of China, Ping Gao Jan 1997

Potential Technology Application In English Instruction In The People's Republic Of China, Ping Gao

Graduate Research Papers

The primary purpose of this paper is to present a vision of potential technology application as an effective teaching aid for English instruction in the People's Republic of China (hereafter referred to as China). In order to provide a clear picture of why technology should be applied in English teaching situations in China, major factors influencing the current English teaching methodologies – grammar translation and audiolingual method – have been analyzed. A theoretical analysis of modern Western teaching pedagogy, the communicative approach, has been explored to offer an in-depth understanding of foreign language learning and teaching processes. The close relationship …