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Nayereh Nouri – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Integrating emergent bilingual students into K-12 mainstream classrooms where linguistic support is not provided has the potential to lead to their academic underperformance. This is because the content is delivered in English, which may not be understandable to immigrant students with limited English proficiency, possibly leading to psychological…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Immigrants, Teacher Attitudes
Motunrayo Adeosun – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this qualitative study, the experiences, training, and challenges of teachers in primary schools in a community in southwest Nigeria were explored. The purpose of this study was to identify the experiences of teachers about their training for mother tongue instruction and how they teach pupils with the mother tongue or local language of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, STEM Education, Native Language
Dyalma Bracero – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study aimed to better understand elementary school educators' experiences and perceptions concerning the availability of professional development opportunities and their ability to apply the learned information. The problem addressed in this study was the lack of professional development training educators…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development
Vivian Pratts – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teaching and learning for emergent bilinguals is often based on monolingual instructional assumptions which ignore how emergent bilinguals use their entire linguistic repertoire to communicate and make meaning. Bilingual pedagogies such as Preview-View-Review have the potential to support the development of biliteracy and meaning-making of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingual Education, Small Group Instruction
Yismelle Duran – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Heritage language speakers, those who have or claim a connection with the language of their ancestors, have become a group of interest in the United States, especially since programs to serve this population were initiated four decades ago thanks to the advocacy of grassroots organizations. Still, the reach of those programs is minimal and the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Educational Policy, Language Usage
Ei Thin Zar – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation focuses on the consequences of exclusionary ethnic nationalisms by examining historical and contemporary language practices regarding educational systems in Burma. Despite its long presence, Burmanisation has recently gained heightened attention as it is central to the political discourses that emerged in response to the military…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Language Usage, Nationalism, Ethnography
Rowe, Lindsey Wells – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Emergent bilingual students in the U.S. often attend English-medium schools where their bilingual language resources are ignored and dismissed. Research suggests this is harmful for students, but little empirical work has examined how teachers in English-dominant schools can support students' biliteracy. To address this problem, this qualitative…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes
Susan Thomas Davison – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The rate of autism continues to increase globally across cultures and languages. Inequities exist in early access to an autism diagnosis and necessary evidence-based education and related services for dual-language children in the U.S. This qualitative dissertation study investigated the perspectives and practices of 10 educators and therapists…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Children, English Language Learners
Rebecca Robertson Konz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
For high school science teachers working with students who are in the beginning stages of English learning, it can be difficult to engage English learner (EL) students in using language that is accessible to understand complex scientific concepts. Improving EL students' access to science education is an important component of diversifying…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Science Teachers, English Language Learners, Longitudinal Studies
Lin, Li Li – ProQuest LLC, 2022
China's rising economy has increased the popularity of learning the Chinese language. Chinese immersion programs have gained popularity in K-12 education, particularly for younger learners. However, research on the optimal instruction design for Chinese and English biliteracy development in one-way Chinese immersion programs is scarce. This…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingualism, Accountability, English (Second Language)
Bettney, Esther – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The promotion of language ideologies, policies and pedagogies that treat languages as separate and hierarchical has become a central concern for critical education scholars. In this case study, I explore how school actors at Colegio Colombiano (CC), an international school in Colombia, engaged with critical approaches to bi/multilingual education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alfarhan, Ibrahim – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study is threefold: (a) to investigate to what extent EFL teachers use L1 for teaching EFL classrooms (TU), (b) to investigate the attitudes of EFL teachers towards using L1 in EFL classrooms (TA), and (c) the correlation between (TA) and (TA), if any. Finally, the Arabic literature does not have valid and reliable scales to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
St. Clair, Carolyne Francis – ProQuest LLC, 2019
There have been numerous studies about the instructional delivery models utilized for meeting the needs of ELLs, and particularly for ELLs with LD, but no specific studies were discovered that identify the instructional delivery models available for ELLs with LD from Latin America. Therefore, the problem that was addressed in this study was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, English Language Learners, Learning Disabilities
Balderston, Genevieve – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study investigated the correlation between oral English language proficiency, primary language use, and sense of efficacy by Chinese-speaking teachers using English medium of instruction (EMI) in Chinese university courses. Twenty-one Chinese EMI university teachers participated in the study by completing an online survey to find how these…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, College Faculty
David, Samuel S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Due to demographic changes, teachers in mainstream U.S. classrooms now work with English language learners (ELLs) in larger numbers than ever before (Sheng, Sheng, & Anderson, 2011). US schools have been diversifying for decades, and students whose first language is not English are the fastest growing population of students in US schools…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Needs, Student Diversity, Minority Group Students
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