Browsing by Author "Borden, Rebecca"
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Citizenship Education Curriculum for Adult ESL Students: Critical Discourse Analysis on What Is Untold
Kim, Josephine (2022-05)This research aimed (1) to examine a citizenship education curriculum for beginning-level adult ESL students designed to help them pass the U.S. citizenship test and (2) to explore students' lived experiences of taking a ... -
Courage and Connection in Teaching
Austin Becker, Amanda (2019)Social-emotional learning has been shown to have a positive impact on student outcomes, but too little attention has been placed on how the social-emotional competence of teachers is integral to this process. This study ... -
Developing Comprehensive Training on LGBT Issues in the Classroom
Ladd, Grace (2021-05-16)Social studies educators hold an important role in shaping the ideas their students have about society and what we owe to each other. Because of this, it is crucial that we model how to treat LGBT individuals with respect ... -
"Like, Right Now We Don't Really Have a Voice": Stories of Secondary Social Studies Teachers Working with ELLs
DeWitt, Sarah (2020-05-08)Students for whom English is a second or additional language are a significant and growing population within public schools. Notions of inclusion and citizenship are uniquely and distinctly a part of social studies. In ... -
Need-Based Professional Development for Secondary Math Teachers with English Language Learners
Neill, Crystal (2020-05-08)As the number of English Language Learners in the U.S. continues to grow, all teachers, even high school math teachers, need to be prepared to scaffold both content and language for these students. However, current research ... -
Prioritizing Engagement and Movement in the World Language Classroom: An Action Research Study on Deskless Seating in Secondary, Novice-Level Spanish Classes
Cox, Erin (2020-05-08)Deskless seating is a seating trend that has grown in popularity in recent years, particularly among world language educators of students of all ages. In deskless seating, the desks in the classroom are removed and the ... -
Re-Framing Failure: Mindsets in Foreign Language Learners
Rodriguez, Andrea (2018-12-14)Abstract In recent years, Carol Dweck, Ph.D’s mindset research has influenced and shaped educational practice. However, Dweck’s research has received little attention in foreign language pedagogy and classroom discourse. ... -
Scaffolded Writing to Improve Reading Comprehension for English Learners
Morgan, Jaymie (2019-08-01)The objective of this study was to determine effective strategies for using scaffolded writing to improve or expand reading comprehension for newcomer and intermediate level English Language Learners in the English ... -
“We’re out in the deep,” but “This is the life. We should fight for the life.”: A Study of L2 International Students In Their First University Semester During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Robertson, Keely (2023-12-15)This study sought to explore L2 international students’ perspectives about what challenges and accomplishments impact their academic acculturation process and success while studying in a bridge program during their first ... -
What sustains Chinese language learning motivation: a case study of southwestern American high school students
Liu, Bo (2023-05-12)This holistic single-case study aims to investigate the sustained Chinese language learning motivation of American high school students who learn Chinese as a foreign language. The study is guided by the following questions: ... -
WING-WING OR WIN-WIN: A CASE STUDY OF THE INFLUENCES OF CHINESE SOUTHWESTERN DIALECTS IN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
Wu, Kexuan (2019-05-10)This case study investigated the influence of Chinese speakers’ Southwestern dialects, which do not distinguish alveolar nasal sounds /an/, /en/, /in/ and velar nasal /ang/, /eng/, /ing/ sounds in Pinyin, on their English ...