Browsing by Subject "Education, Language and Literature."
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The Learner Varieties of the Chikasha Academy: Chickasaw Adult Language Acquisition, Change, and Revitalization
(2017-05)This dissertation focuses on a specific language revitalization method used by the Chickasaw Nation, currently located in Oklahoma. Language revitalization refers to any effort intended to increase the use of a language, ... -
Learning Chinese characters: A comparative study of the learning strategies of students whose native language is alphabet-based and students whose native language is character-based.
(2004)The study revealed that both groups used memory and cognitive strategies approximately equally, but that the groups emphasized different subcomponents of those strategies. Both groups reported usage of metacognitive ... -
Learning to Live a Rhetorical Life: A New Strategy for Teaching First-Year Composition
(2022-12-16)Finding a Pedagogical Path to a Rhetorical Life: The received history of first-year composition (FYC) pedagogy seems to present itself in almost Darwinian evolutionary terms, first emerging from the swamp of Susan Miller’s ... -
Listening to our grandmothers' stories: An historical analysis of the literacy curricula at Bloomfield Academy/Carter Seminary for Chickasaw Females, Indian Territory/Oklahoma, 1852-1949.
(1997)This project examines the literacy curriculum of the Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, a boarding academy established by the Chickasaw tribe in conjunction with missionaries. The school is unique in that the Chickasaw ... -
“ME NO MORE COME”: PERSISTENCE AND QUITTING AMONG ADULT SPANISH-SPEAKING ENGLISH LEARNERS
(2018-08)The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore what makes adult Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) stay or drop out of English class in a non-profit English literacy center in a city in a southwestern state ... -
One hundred nineteen phonograms: an analysis of pronunciability / by Elton Grant Stetson.
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Out of the Box
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Purism, Prescriptivism, and Privilege: Choctaw Language Ideologies and Their Impact on Teaching and Learning
(2015-12)Oklahoma Choctaw, a Muskogean language originally spoken in the American southeast, is currently the focus of language revitalization efforts by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The School of Choctaw Language, which has ... -
Reading readers: An examination of the aesthetic reading events of four experienced readers of narrative fiction reading self-selected novels.
(1997)This investigation focused on (1) transactions between the readers and the novels they had chosen, (2) the readers' purposes and processes, (3) and the contexts, experiential and socio-cultural, that influence these readers ... -
Red Scare rhetoric and composition: Early Cold War effects on university writing instruction, 1934--1954.
(2004)This dissertation investigates composition and communication philosophies and practices from the years 1934--1954. Generally speaking, writing instruction suffered during the Cold War because the political climate reduced ... -
The relationship between understanding grammatical conjunction and reading comprehension in Native American children.
(1982)Findings paralleled a previous large scale study of fourth grade children in an urban setting of mixed socio-economic levels and heterogeneous classes. -
The relationships among written feedback, motivation, and changes in written performance.
(1997)These results support Bandura's contention that self-efficacy is malleable and positively related to improvements in performance. The results concerning student goals are more ambiguous. Consistent with Butler's research ... -
A study of the effects of professional development related to foreign language and culture instruction in elementary classrooms.
(2003)Acceptance and understanding emerged as a finding related to the impact attending the foreign language institutes had on elementary teachers. This acceptance and understanding included the teacher's acceptance of the ... -
A study on the effects of situated cognition on the study of foreign language.
(1997)This study examined situated cognition and anchored instruction in the context of foreign language learning. Based upon situated learning models proposed by McLellan (1996) and Thurman (1993), a situated lesson was adapted ... -
A teacher's perspective of the effectiveness of the Shurley Method of Language Arts Instruction.
(1998)Research methods included observations of the language arts teacher in fifth-grade classrooms, interviews, and stimulated recall interviews. Administrators were also interviewed to assist in determining the context of the ... -
Teaching in the 21st century: Merging critical theory and practice for the writing and rhetoric class.
(2006)This dissertation seeks to assist teachers of first-year composition as they move into the 21st century. Focusing on the two-year institution, but also asking for the assistance of University Writing Program Administrators ... -
Teaching what we know: Perspectives on the teaching practices and writing habits of freshman composition instructors.
(1998)I found that each participant defined the word "writer" in a different way. They also established individual criteria for whether they were writers; for example, the participant who wrote prolifically did not consider ... -
Two directors performing the work of directing: An ethnographic and conversation analytic inquiry in the direction of pedagogical influence.
(2004)The data for this study are ethnographic participant/observation and conversation analytic collections from two theatre production processes in an educational theatre program. The intent of the study is to investigate how ...