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Andreina Isabel Colina-Marin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The objective of the present study is to analyze word-initial voice onset time (VOT) in the context of code-switching (CS). More specifically, this study combines research methods from sociolinguistics and phonetics to investigate how 32 heritage Spanish speakers (HSSs) of Mexican descent, living in Indiana, produce VOT for /p t k/ in word-initial…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Mexican Americans, Bilingual Students, Spanish Speaking
Min Chuan Jasmine Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to comprehend the motivations and learning experiences of Chinese Heritage Language Learners (CHLLs) who study in Chinese programs in California public high schools where Chinese American students are under-studied and their voices are not heard. The study used Gardner's Socio-educational Model, Fishman's Reversing…
Descriptors: Native Language, Public Schools, High Schools, Learning Experience
Susan Hua – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study fills a gap in the literature by exploring how Teochew graduates experience language maintenance while enrolled in higher education. Teochew is both an identity and less commonly spoken language that falls within the Chinese umbrella, and little is known about the Teochew population in the U.S as Asian American data is seldom…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Chinese, Native Language, Language Maintenance
Litchock-Morellato, Faith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Persistence and retention of international, non-native-English-speaking students represent continual and important issues that leaders of higher education institutions consistently consider, especially after the global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of this research was to highlight the lived experiences of international,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Barriers, Foreign Students, English (Second Language)
Sagna, Safietou – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The research focuses on Black Francophone African international (BFAI) students in the United States. Research on international students is dominated by studies focused on Asian international students. Moreover, the participants in several major studies related to African international students are primarily from Anglophone countries. As a result,…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Experience, Student Attitudes, Case Studies
Amr Rabie-Ahmed – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Within the past few decades, notable contributions have been made in heritage language education research that continued to gain ground in language pedagogy and teaching practices (e.g., Davila, 2017; Valdes, 2000; Fishman, 2001; Kelleher, 2010; Polinsky & Kagan 2007). This dissertation is guided by translanguaging and social identity, two…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Stephanie Eller – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative multi-case study examined the co-construction of elementary dual language students' language use and identity to understand how five individual students positioned themselves as bilingual individuals as well as how this relates to their investment in the language-learning process. This study also investigated the influence of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Steven Lowell Peris – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation explored students' digital reading in a high school German level three classroom. The initial problem of practice was situated around what is done instructionally to support digital reading, the actual digital German texts, and the student perceptions, attitudes, and experiences reading digitally. The research questioned how…
Descriptors: High School Students, Second Language Instruction, German, Reading
Iten Ezz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed in this study was that second language learners have difficulties pronouncing some English consonants that are not part of their language. Such errors occur because of first-language interference. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceived effectiveness of using minimal pair training to…
Descriptors: Arabs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Hwang, Jihye – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The number of multilingual international students in post-secondary mathematics classrooms in the United States is increasing. As language is related to students' access to mathematics learning and their (mathematics) identities, it shapes their experiences as a doer of mathematics. However, as multilingual international students move to the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Benjamin Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines heritage language learners of Spanish enrolled in university Spanish courses, focusing on their strategic use of suprasegmental speech features in two speaking tasks. The research investigates attitudes' influence on heritage language learners' speech production in different task types. Participants engaged in two…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Intonation, Spanish, Oral Language
Brenda Sarmiento Quezada – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a multi-sited ethnographic case study of three displaced Syrian students living in Mexico who were undergoing their university studies. Drawing upon "thirdspace" and language ideology theories this study examined how three Syrian displaced students in Mexico created spaces where they used language to construct and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Refugees, Language Usage
Jennifer A. Arcila – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Preservice teachers need to be prepared to meet the diverse linguistic and cultural needs of their students in terms of both their content and language learning. One way they can support multilingual students is using students' home language in the classroom, regardless of whether the preservice teacher speaks the language or not. Biliteracy and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Bilingualism, Language Attitudes
Lorraine Marie Ramos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Critical pedagogy surrounding Spanish as a heritage language (SHL) has focused on the student's attitudes regarding their language and culture, specifically as it relates to Spanish and Latinxs in the United States. These heritage language (HL) learners, who were exposed to Spanish in the home, enroll in Spanish classes to further a sense of…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rodriguez-Reed, Lisette – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Latino English Language Learner population continues to rise each year in our schools, currently accounting for over 10% of all K-12 students in the United States (Cheung, 2019). Even with this growth in population, Latinos continue to lag behind other races in academic attainment and advancement in postsecondary success (NCES, 2019). This…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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