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Frances Benavidez – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2024
For decades, the O'odham language has been in decline. But like many tribal nations, the Tohono O'odham are working to reclaim their language. Located on the campus of Tohono O'odham Community College (TOCC), the center was founded in 2020 and is for all O'odham, including those from other O'odham speaking nations. Creating opportunities where the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Tribally Controlled Education, Native Language, Native Language Instruction
Silver, Patrice – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined the differences and similarities among the writing of three types of developmental English and advanced ESL United States community college students, comparing the writing of resident English learners (RL2), whose home language was not English but who attended United States public schools for five years or more, to that of…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays
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Parmegiani, Andrea – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
This paper reports on a writing programme I started at Bronx Community College to improve academic success among recently immigrated Spanish-speaking students by linking ESL courses to Spanish academic literacy courses within the framework of a learning community. My reflection begins by articulating the pedagogical rationale for looking beyond…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Writing Instruction, Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language)
Alexis McBride – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Within the context of postsecondary education, this study explores translation as a model activity for developing a translanguaging approach to remedial writing instruction for linguistically minoritized (LM) learners. Using qualitative methods grounded in discourse analysis and translation studies, bi/multilingual participants (N=5) enrolled in…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Writing Instruction, Metacognition, Community College Students
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Yeldham, Michael; Choy, Vincent – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
The main purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness for L2 English learners of a new direct approach to segmental pronunciation instruction that combined articulatory instruction with abdominal enhancement techniques. The participants were Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong, where the school curriculum relies chiefly on indirect…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Feller, Daniel P.; Kopatich, Ryan D.; Lech, Iwona; Higgs, Karyn – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Research comparing the reading strategy use of native and second language (L2) readers has often relied on self-report measures and has, at times, been conducted without measures of reading proficiency. In the present study we used regression and Bayes' factors to explore how L2 reader status and reading proficiency relate to self-report reading…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning, Reading Skills, Native Language
Feller, Daniel P.; Kopatich, Ryan D.; Lech, Iwona; Higgs, Karyn – Grantee Submission, 2020
Research comparing the reading strategy use of native and second language (L2) readers has often relied on self-report measures and has, at times, been conducted without measures of reading proficiency. In the present study, we used regression and Bayes' factors to explore how L2 reader status and reading proficiency relate to self-report reading…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Debra Hills – ProQuest LLC, 2020
English language learners represent one of the fastest growing, and diverse, group of students in California community colleges. The successful adoption of translanguaging to English as a second language (ESL) classrooms may provide an equitable way for teachers to ensure students reach their academic goals and foster bilingual identity…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Debra Hills – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University: 2020 English language learners represent one of the fastest growing, and diverse, group of students in California community colleges. The successful adoption of translanguaging to English as a second language (ESL) classrooms may provide an equitable way for teachers to ensure students…
Descriptors: English Learners, Code Switching (Language), Community College Students, Native Language
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Maloy, Jennifer – Journal of Basic Writing, 2019
This article argues the importance of designing writing placement procedures that support linguistic diversity at community colleges. Using data on community college writing programs and student demographics at an urban community college, it examines prevailing structures of ESL and developmental writing programs at two-year schools and identifies…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Language Usage, Student Diversity, Student Placement
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Chen, Hsiu-Chuan – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2019
This study aimed to examine junior college students' group dialogues on the use of high-level comprehension features in an EFL reading class. The participants were one high-ability group and one low-ability group in terms of discussion proficiency. Eight representative discussions conducted in the students' first language served as the major data…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Community Colleges, College Students, Second Language Learning
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Devos, Nathan J. – BC TEAL Journal, 2019
Canadian post-secondary classrooms are linguistically diverse. This diversity comes from immigration, more access to higher education for marginalized and minority groups, and international student recruitment. An institute's language prerequisites serve as tools to help admissions decide who is linguistically prepared for study in English.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Language Proficiency, English
Melguizo, Tatiana; Flores, Stella; Velasquez, David; Carroll, Tim – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2021
Most English Learners (ELs)care reclassified as English proficient well before graduating from high school based on meeting multiple district-identified proficiency standards, an important achievement on the path to college access, completion, and success in the labor market. Many former ELs also meet separate benchmarks indicating readiness for…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Classification
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Khan, Muhammad Saleem – English Language Teaching, 2016
This paper strives to explore the impact of Native Language use on Foreign Language vocabulary learning on the basis of empirical and available data. The study is carried out with special reference to the English Language Programme students in Buraydah Community College, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. The Native Language of these students is…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hansen, Hardaye R.; Shneyderman, Yuliya; McNamara, Gloria S.; Grace, Lisa – Journal of International Students, 2018
Research shows that international college students experience high levels of acculturative stress, which can adversely impact their health and college success. The levels of immersion in one's native culture and the culture of the U.S. may impact levels of acculturative stress in international students. This cross-sectional study examined…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Foreign Students, Acculturation
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