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Douglas Wayne Bridges – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the discourses surrounding remote learning during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic through Twitter conversations. Employing a Critical Discourse Analysis informed by Michel Foucault's theories of discourse and power, this study explores how the pandemic has transformed educational interactions over social…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Social Media, COVID-19, Pandemics
Ivan K. Banov – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This work examines how social media users learn language alongside their progression of becoming active participants in online social spaces. Using an ecolinguistic view, it explores how the process of posting and commenting on Reddit (one of the world's most popular social sites) is both afforded and constrained by the unique sociocultural…
Descriptors: Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Media
Xiaorong Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study examines learners' experiences in the development of written complexities during Discussion Board (DB) assignments in an Advanced university level Chinese class. Discussion Board was chosen as the avenue for written complexity development because it provides learners a supplementary space with additional time and…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Nesfield, Francesca L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The U.S. economy receives consistent and increasing benefits from international students in higher education, an estimated $41 billion during the 2018-2019 academic year. However, the existing research literature has failed to determine whether Intensive English Language Programs (IELP) adequately prepare these students for college-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Rui Li – ProQuest LLC, 2020
With the rise of modern technology, sites of knowledge have shifted from page to screen, offering hybrid spaces for 21st century learning across borders, modalities, semiotic resources, time and space (Jewitt, 2006; Kress, 2000) However, few empirical studies have been conducted from a critical lens to investigate how digitally mediated social…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multiple Literacies, Civil Rights, Computer Mediated Communication
Laura Enriqueta Mendoza-Fierro – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation aims to contribute knowledge to the literature about ESOL students' digital literacy practices related to educational purposes. I studied the varied digital literacy practices the students used as mediating tools to perform their university activities (e.g., crossing to come to school, communicate with classmates/instructors…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Thompson, Tara Aline – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation study explores the relationship between Ladson-Billings' (1992, 1994, 2006) early scholarship and work with Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP) frameworks and the literacy practices of the multilingual students in my community college classroom. This qualitative, interpretive case study draws upon CRP and sociocultural frameworks…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Visual Literacy, Technological Literacy
Language, Learning, and Identity in Social Networking Sites for Language Learning: The Case of Busuu
Alvarez Valencia, Jose Aldemar – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Recent progress in the discipline of computer applications such as the advent of web-based communication, afforded by the Web 2.0, has paved the way for novel applications in language learning, namely, social networking. Social networking has challenged the area of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) to expand its research palette in order to…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Socialization
Teng, Xuan – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Despite the growing interest in examining the link between peer-peer collaborative dialogue and second language (L2) development in recent years (Swain, Brooks, & Tocalli-Beller, 2002), much of the empirical work in this regard focused on face-to-face communication, leaving the operationalization of collaborative dialogue in text-based…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Peer Relationship
Dumas, Nathaniel William – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Using the Practice Theory Approach to Language, this dissertation examines how social actors use communicative practices within activities to constitute a communicative context that I call the American English Stuttering Speech Community (AESSC). Building on previous linguistic research on stuttering and sociological research on collectives of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Discourse Analysis, Stuttering, Linguistic Theory
Nogueron, Silvia Cecilia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In this study, I investigate the digital literacy practices of adult immigrants, and their relationship with transnational processes and practices. Specifically, I focus on their conditions of access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their life trajectories, their conditions of learning in a community center, and their…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Multilingualism, Adult Education, Access to Information