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Stahley-Cummings, Melissa – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The foci of this doctoral research were whether community college students in homogenous, rural community colleges are being educated in intercultural acceptance, diversity, and alternative perspectives and, if so, how the community colleges are assessing these items. These two statements are conceptually different but are intertwined from an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Rural Schools, Cultural Awareness
Vargas Blanco, Edgar Mauricio – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The following study explores the attitudes of 40 Hispanic families towards Spanish and their ethnic community in Houston and its suburbs. The research participants included 20 Colombian families and 20 Mexican families. A mixed methodology using quantitative and qualitative methods was used. Through family's observation, surveys and interviews to…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Spanish Speaking, Ethnic Groups, Neighborhoods
Oh, Sae Rhim – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Advancements in technology have greatly influenced how students write, the ways they interact with readers, and the genres they create. In order to reflect real-world writing behaviors in the assessment setting and to be able to generalize test-takers' performance from the assessment to their true writing ability, the current study investigated…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Task Analysis, Academic Discourse
Saith, Shivanie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
At a community college in Florida, the associate of science in nursing (ASN) program has experienced low persistence rates especially after the first semester of study. Framed by Jeffreys's nursing undergraduate retention and success model, a mixed-method approach was used to investigate first-semester and final-year ASN students' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Persistence, Student Attitudes
Montes, Amanda Lira Gordenstein – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study investigates the uses of English in advertising in Brazil and the attitudes of Brazilians towards the use of different difficulty levels of English in advertising. Using a two part, mixed-methods approach, drawing from quantitative and qualitative methods, I utilized a corpus study to examine English uses in Brazilian magazines and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, English, Advertising
Romero, Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the age of high stakes accountability, districts are being asked to provide and demonstrate academic achievement for all students including English Learners(ELs), who maybe also be identified as Emergent Bilinguals (EBs), or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD). This becomes increasingly challenging especially for small rural districts…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Interviews, Pretests Posttests, Observation
Janssen Sanchez, Brianna – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Using both quantitative and qualitative methods of inquiry, this dissertation study undertakes an exploration of the dynamics of the social interaction in discourse co-constructed by pairs of college students in telecollaborative tandem exchanges. Two groups of participants, Mexican learners of English as a foreign language and American learners…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship, College Students
Iddings, Joshua Glenn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate twelfth grade writing instruction at one high school in the Northeastern Kentucky Appalachian region. At the time of the study, Kentucky schools were in a pivotal transitional period as they were adopting the Common Core State Standards while also removing the mandatory portfolio-based writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Grade 12, High Schools, Mixed Methods Research
Yamazaki, Kasumi – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The proliferation of online simulation games across the globe in many different languages offers Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) researchers an opportunity to examine how language learning occurs in such virtual environments. While there has recently been an increase in the number of exploratory studies involving learning experiences of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Japanese, Computer Games
Musyoka, Millicent Malinda – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The focus of this mixed method study was to investigate the play behaviors, play interactions, and language use--within a bilingual AS L/English classroom--of a Deaf child who is a native user of American Sign Language (ASL). Play is an essential element in all children's development. Previous research suggests that there is a strong relationship…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education, Deafness
Lippincott, Dianna – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This mixed methods classroom research examined if accountability groups in the lower proficiency levels of a university intensive English program would improve students' language acquisition. Students were assigned partners for the study period with whom they completed assignments inside and outside of class, as well as set goals for use of…
Descriptors: Accountability, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Oda Nuske, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Study abroad is an under-researched domain of language learning. Moreover, most investigations of this phenomenon adopt traditional structuralist approaches, wherein outcomes of study abroad are assessed solely in terms of proficiency gains as measured through conventional exams. The present study builds upon an emerging body of poststructuralist…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, College Students, Self Concept, English (Second Language)
Nadeau, Melody Hallenbeck – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This mixed-methods study examined the lived experience of adult English Language Learners (ELLs) in classrooms led by native speaking teachers, compared with their experience in classrooms led by non-native teachers. The socio-cognitive approach to language and emergent common ground framed the development of the English classroom as a Community…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Adult Learning, English Language Learners, Native Speakers
Meacham, Sohyun – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Preschool teachers' language use has been described in recent research, as preschoolers' language development is found to be an important preparation for later reading development. Based on existing research on teachers' language use in sociodramatic play, however, it is still unclear how teachers use their language specifically in sociodramatic…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Reading Skills, Language Usage
Shaffer, Christopher A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which three academic libraries in the Southeastern United States could be considered diverse. This was a multi-site, mixed methods study. It examined the climate and culture of the libraries, which was assessed through two methods; the first, through survey responses from full-time faculty…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Mixed Methods Research, Organizational Climate, Organizational Culture
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