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Integrating Technology Into The English As A Second Language Curriculum: Computer-Assisted English Language Learning, Ibrahem Rotha Pen Jan 2002

Integrating Technology Into The English As A Second Language Curriculum: Computer-Assisted English Language Learning, Ibrahem Rotha Pen

Theses Digitization Project

The project integrates computer technology with English as a second language curriculum and instruction. It utilizes the World Wide Web to deliver computer-assisted instruction in English grammar, reading and conversation. Moreover, the project shows the impact of computer technology in helping students develop critical thinking skills, problem-solving skills, and meaningful and applicable skills for employment.


English Language Institute In Greece: A Business Proposal, Roumpini Alkaterini Papadomichelaki, Lash Keith Vance Jan 2002

English Language Institute In Greece: A Business Proposal, Roumpini Alkaterini Papadomichelaki, Lash Keith Vance

Theses Digitization Project

The aim of this project is to propose a model for a private English language school in Greece with an emphasis on English for business purposes.


Business English For Special Purposes As A Negotiated, Strategic Competence, Chi-Chieh Liu Jan 2001

Business English For Special Purposes As A Negotiated, Strategic Competence, Chi-Chieh Liu

Theses Digitization Project

The aim of this project is to provide a curriculum designed specifically on the basis of negotiated and strategic competence, which will meet the needs of the business world.


Strategy-Based Listening Comprehension For Junior High School Students Of English In Taiwan, Yu-Chi Yang Jan 2001

Strategy-Based Listening Comprehension For Junior High School Students Of English In Taiwan, Yu-Chi Yang

Theses Digitization Project

This project provides research on listening-process pedagogies for teachers and learning strategies that can assist learners' listening comprehhension. Based on these perspectives, a theorectical model of strategy-based listening process instruction is offered for the purpose of promoting listening comprehension.


An Analysis Of Interactive Dialogue Journals Of English Language Learners In First Grade, Norma Castro Zavala Jan 2001

An Analysis Of Interactive Dialogue Journals Of English Language Learners In First Grade, Norma Castro Zavala

Theses Digitization Project

This project analyzes interactive dialogue journals of first grade students who have been identified at different levels of English language proficiency.


Achieving Interaction In Listening And Speaking Within A Chinese Cultural Context, Qingquan Shi Jan 2001

Achieving Interaction In Listening And Speaking Within A Chinese Cultural Context, Qingquan Shi

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to develop heuristics and guidelines for English teachers to design appropriate courses. The exploration begins with a review of relevant literature in order to provide principles to comprise a pedagogical model. Based on that model, an instructional unit is presented that incorporates the model in a real-world context.


Promoting Listening Strategies Use In Elementary English As A Foreign Language Computer-Assisted Learning Environment, Makiko Kojima Jan 2001

Promoting Listening Strategies Use In Elementary English As A Foreign Language Computer-Assisted Learning Environment, Makiko Kojima

Theses Digitization Project

In Japan, English education in elementary schools is still in the process of innovation. The purpose of this project is to seek the most appropriate and effective way for elementary-level students to acquire listening skills in a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) environment.


Computer-Assisted Project-Based Learning In English For Specific Purposes, Chanmi Moon Jan 2001

Computer-Assisted Project-Based Learning In English For Specific Purposes, Chanmi Moon

Theses Digitization Project

The aim of this project is to address the need for effective English learning and develop an English curriculum which practically meets learners' needs. The project is for students who study business English in Korean community college. This project presents effectiveness of English learning in the content concerning with English for specific purposes, project-based learning, cooperative learning, computer-assisted language learning, and technological literacy. These ideas are incorporated into the project to develop the unit, Creating a Company, which consists of six lesson plans.


Competence In Communication For Esl/Efl Speaking Curriculum, Somi Shin Jan 2001

Competence In Communication For Esl/Efl Speaking Curriculum, Somi Shin

Theses Digitization Project

This project provides a background on English instruction in Korea and features a literature review that builds theoretical aspects of this project. This project also presents a model of communicative competence applied to the speaking process which incorporates the application of speaking strategies.


The Development Of Computer Assisted Instruction On The World Wide Web To Enhance English Learning For Thai Non-Formal Education Students, Vittaya Pongmussaya Jan 2001

The Development Of Computer Assisted Instruction On The World Wide Web To Enhance English Learning For Thai Non-Formal Education Students, Vittaya Pongmussaya

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to develop computer-assisted instruction (CAI) software on the world wide web (WWW). This project was an interactive English learning environment for Thai adult students at the Warin Chumrab District Non-Formal Education Center, Thailand. This project software followed the recommendation of a recent study by the center of education technology (CET) indicating that the favorite types of CAI among Thai adult students were tutorial and drill and practice. In this project students chose to learn from two types of lessons, either a tutorial or a drill and practice. The lessons were made interesting by the …


Achieving English Competence In Korea Through Computer-Assisted Language Learning And Crosscultural Understanding, Jue Yeun Nam Jan 2001

Achieving English Competence In Korea Through Computer-Assisted Language Learning And Crosscultural Understanding, Jue Yeun Nam

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to address the problems and improve English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning for the students of Korea by contrasting cultural similarities and differences and the same time utilizing computer-based instruction learning.


Professional English Communication Training For English For Specific Purposes, Galon Anthony Melendy Jan 2001

Professional English Communication Training For English For Specific Purposes, Galon Anthony Melendy

Theses Digitization Project

This project addresses the need for effective English training for speakers of other languages who are engaged in professional careers.


Promoting Creative English Teaching Using Chinese Culture For Elementary Schooling In Taiwan, Ya-Chi Lee Jan 2001

Promoting Creative English Teaching Using Chinese Culture For Elementary Schooling In Taiwan, Ya-Chi Lee

Theses Digitization Project

To make English an interesting subject for elementary school students, teachers need to know what material attracts students, how to motivate students, and how to release students' creativity. Therefore, This project incorporates the concepts of multiple intelligences, motivation, culture and language, and development of creativity to provide a model for promoting creative English teaching in the elementary schools of Taiwan. In addition, the content of the unit, based on Chinese culture and the comparison of Chinese and American cultures, is an innovative curriculum designed to motivate students to learn English.


Enhancing Academic Competence In English As A Foreign Language Through Multiple Strategies, Mei-Hwa Yeh Jan 2001

Enhancing Academic Competence In English As A Foreign Language Through Multiple Strategies, Mei-Hwa Yeh

Theses Digitization Project

In Taiwan, English has always been taught mostly by the grammar t ransalation method. Learning strategies and metacognitive strategies are seldom introduced during classroom instruction. Therefore, students learn a lot of gragmented knowledge but do not know how to apply the knowledge in their learning process. For my target teaching level, secondary school, the ability to utilize different strategies with in the learning process is critically important in order for the students to integrate their knowledge and use language effectively. This project is designed to address the problems of teaching English in Taiwan employing a strategy-based curriculum.


Social Cognition-Based Content Instruction For Communicative Competence In Japanese Middle School English, Wakana Kitamura Jan 2001

Social Cognition-Based Content Instruction For Communicative Competence In Japanese Middle School English, Wakana Kitamura

Theses Digitization Project

This project demonstrates how English teachers in Japan can conduct purposeful and meaningful lessons for middle school low-intermediate students. The teaching approach used for this project is based on Content-Based Instruction (CBI).


The Role Of Universal Grammar In Second Language Acquisition: An Experimental Study Of Spanish Esl Students' Interpretation Of Lexical Pronouns, Mary Kathleen Kevari Jan 2000

The Role Of Universal Grammar In Second Language Acquisition: An Experimental Study Of Spanish Esl Students' Interpretation Of Lexical Pronouns, Mary Kathleen Kevari

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Writing, Computers, And Rhetorical Situations: A Composition Odyssey, Kristine Louise Potter Jan 2000

Writing, Computers, And Rhetorical Situations: A Composition Odyssey, Kristine Louise Potter

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis, an autoethnography, explores my own, personal experiences using technology in various writing situations: my writing process, collaborative publishing, my M.A. internship, online tutoring, and my first experience teaching college English composition in a computer classroom.


Using An Imaginative Literature-Based Approach To English-As-A-Foreign-Language Reading Instruction, Changqing Liu Jan 2000

Using An Imaginative Literature-Based Approach To English-As-A-Foreign-Language Reading Instruction, Changqing Liu

Theses Digitization Project

This project provides a background on English instruction in Taiwan, and presents a literature review that builds a theoretical foundation for this project. It also introduces a model of teaching instruction based on an integrated literature approach, and offers a curriculum design which includes plans for instructional lessons.


Improving Interactional Competence In A Teaching-English-To-Speakers-Of-Other-Languages Training Program, Marguerite Faye Jackson Jan 2000

Improving Interactional Competence In A Teaching-English-To-Speakers-Of-Other-Languages Training Program, Marguerite Faye Jackson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Culture Teaching In Efl Through Computer/Critical Thinking, Jung-Im Woo Jan 2000

Culture Teaching In Efl Through Computer/Critical Thinking, Jung-Im Woo

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to develop computer-assisted language learning (CALL) lesson plans using the Internet and to offer an example for academic senior high school teachers in South Korea of exemplary treatment of cultural topics that promote critical thinking and incorporate crosscultural understanding based on cooperative learning.


Building Written Language: A Program For Second Language Literacy In English, Gerda Ann Packard Randolph Jan 2000

Building Written Language: A Program For Second Language Literacy In English, Gerda Ann Packard Randolph

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to provide an instructional program for students learning English as a second language that will meet their academic needs and facilitate full literacy.


Readers Theatre For Critical/Creative/Cooperative English Language Learning, Xiangqing Huang Jan 2000

Readers Theatre For Critical/Creative/Cooperative English Language Learning, Xiangqing Huang

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis was written in hope that it will serve as a stimulant to spur innovative ideas in EFL teaching and learning in Taiwan.


Strategic Reading For English As A Foreign Language, Phill Jo Jan 1999

Strategic Reading For English As A Foreign Language, Phill Jo

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


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.


Exploring Alternative Methods For Teaching English As A Second Language In Korea, Songhui Faulk Jan 1999

Exploring Alternative Methods For Teaching English As A Second Language In Korea, Songhui Faulk

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.


The Use Of Modals In Esl Academic Writing, Natsuki Yamamoto Jan 1999

The Use Of Modals In Esl Academic Writing, Natsuki Yamamoto

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.