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James Malamut – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Joint activity, or interaction, can be the basis for understanding how language use organizes both social activity as well as individual thought. These interactions can be a useful unit of analysis for studying how students use language to make sense of mathematical concepts and how students learn to appropriate specific mathematical language…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Opportunities, Interaction, Language Usage
Lori TeeGarden – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Academic language is the key that promotes disciplinary reading, writing, speaking, and thinking. The novice teacher may not be prepared with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to effectively plan, teach, and assess for academic language achievement. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to understand the novice teacher's experiences…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Academic Language, Language Usage
Margaret Osgood Opatz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine the extent to which preservice teachers could identify various academic language markers (general academic and discipline-specific vocabulary, passive voice, nominalization, logical connections, and referents--pronouns and synonyms) in complex texts and describe the language that make texts…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Academic Language, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
Sherry Light – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation investigates the potential of sustained use of academic vocabulary in reciprocal dialogue to improve educational equity for fifth-grade students with specific reading disabilities. Students with reading disabilities often struggle with acquiring academic vocabulary, which can hinder their overall academic performance and limit…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Students with Disabilities, Reading Difficulties, Reciprocal Teaching
Thomas, Leon C., III – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A growing body of research has focused on Black and Latino males in community colleges, but the research has stopped short of exploring how they experience the academic language of the community college. The purpose of this qualitative, narrative study was to explore the stories of Black and Latino males at a community college in Maryland to…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Community College Students, Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students
Weejeong Jeong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study is an investigation of the effects of linguistic features on quality of second language (L2) writers' essays for writing course placement at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB), and by implication at other universities and colleges. This study addresses the following research questions: (1) To what extent do selected linguistic…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, College Students
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
Joshua Daniel Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In a district where only 5% of ELLs were deemed language proficient, the problem was the need to understand teacher perceptions of best practices to increase English language learner (ELL) achievement in reading and writing. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine teacher perceptions of best practices to support ELLs in improving…
Descriptors: Best Practices, English Language Learners, Teaching Methods, High School Teachers
Marco Antonio Martinez Leandro – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This phenomenological study research presents an option to use both discourse in the native language and technology as an alternative to improve the understanding of mathematics in secondary education. 13 students whose native language is Spanish attended a high school in a large urban school district in the Southwest of the United States,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Peer Teaching, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction
Tulay Orucu Dixon – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Standards of academic writing are documented in style guides adopted by academic disciplines, style guides such as the "Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and Scientific Style and Format." Some of the standards in these style guides are expressed as prescriptive or proscriptive rules that provide academic…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Classification, Academic Standards, Writing (Composition)
Obaid, Naji – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Transitioning into civilian life after military service is a challenging prospect. It can be difficult to find employment and maintain good mental health, and up to 70 percent of veterans experience homelessness or alcoholism. Upon discharge, many veterans pursue higher education as a way to reintegrate into civilian society. However, many studies…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Veterans, Barriers, Military Service
Ester Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Individuals with lower proficiency in a second language tend to produce more disfluent speech patterns in the second language. Speech disfluencies refer to interruptions in the forward flow of speech and are distinct from the colloquial use of "fluency," to characterize knowledge of a language. Prior research indicates that some speech…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Mohammed, Rania – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Multi-word sequences are important components of language because they are building blocks that can be used to create long stretches of discourse. They are word combinations that have particular importance because of their co-occurrence and function in discourse that suggest that they are stored and retrieved from memory as a whole rather than as…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Phrase Structure, Discourse Analysis
Buyi Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The current research set out to explore how Chinese-English bilingual scholars utilize their linguistic and cultural resources in teaching and academic inquiry. Adopting the theoretical lenses of translanguaging and multilingual perspective on creativity, I explored the teaching, research, and academic writing practices of three bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Researchers, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Valerie C. Meier – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Given the increasing number of multilingual learners enrolled in U.S. secondary schools and persistent disparities in access to quality STEM education for these students, teacher education programs must prepare secondary science teachers capable of teaching multilingual learners in equitable ways. There is a consensus in science education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Secondary School Teachers, Literacy Education
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