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Lisa Sue Nitschke Fultz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The increasing diversity in American public schools presents challenges to teachers and administrators. Current methods of reading instruction for English language learners (ELLs) have been ineffective to meet their needs in acquiring vocabulary. Meanwhile, the amount of time afforded ELLs to become proficient with grade-level vocabulary presents…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English Learners, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Martin, Melissa Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Latinx students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE; ages 18-20), not enrolled in school, often do not fully employ mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) strategies to acquire English and may experience barriers to using MALL strategies. The purpose of this study was to explore what MALL strategies Latinx SLIFE (ages 18-20), not…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Yang, Fan – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Large class size as a growing phenomenon in developing countries is closely related to two reasons: initiatives to achieve universal education and rapid population growth (Bendow, Mizrachi, Oliver, & Said-Moshiro, 2007; Shehu & Tafida, 2016). Given the fact that the large class phenomenon cannot be eliminated within a reasonable amount of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chametzky, Barry – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With the Internet, foreign language learners can interact more easily with native speakers from other countries than in previous generations. For learners to develop the ability to function in foreign environments, it is vital to understand their experiences in postsecondary online foreign language classes. If educators and educational theorists…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grounded Theory, Behavior Patterns, Adult Learning
Monoi-Yamaga, Naoko – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study was an investigation of public elementary school students' affective changes through English Activities of international understanding lessons at Japanese public elementary school. The learners' expected affective changes were regarded as "International Posture", "Self-esteem", "Collective Self-esteem", and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, International Education
Manuel, Carlos J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study assesses reading processes and/or strategies needed to deploy deep processing that could push learners towards syntactic-based constructions in L2 classrooms. Research has found L2 acquisition to present varying degrees of success and/or fossilization (Bley-Vroman 1989, Birdsong 1992 and Sharwood Smith 1994). For example, learners have…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Semantics, Reading Processes, Psychometrics