The purpose of this study is to explore attitudes and practices regarding their heritage language and the dominant English language among Korean American immigrant families. Using the framework of Language Ideology ...

Overall, repair sequences in ESL tutoring provide important clues in understanding the distinctive organization of ESL tutoring as a specific speech event. They constitute critical sequential environments in which the ...

This study is concerned with gaining a better understanding of the way that language is being used in social media and in digitally mediated discourse. More specifically, the study examines how Thai high school students ...

Coaching often rests upon a “causal cascade” (Atteberry, Bryk, Walker & Biancarosa,2008) that posits that collaboration with a coach leads to a change in the attitude, beliefs and practices of teachers and therefore improves ...

This qualitative study, featuring one American high school English department, analyzed why a secondary school chose certain literature for its English curriculum. The featured school had experienced a significant demographic ...

Emotions find their meanings within human relationships that permit emotions to be experienced, expressed, and explored. Social and emotional competence, marked by an understanding, expression, and control of emotion, is ...

Many look to digital technologies to promote more equitable literacy learning. Even potentially transformative technologies, however, are neither created nor used within a vacuum. Instead, a range of mediators influences ...

The purpose of this qualitative research was to investigate the processes teachers went through as they integrated play with their kindergarten curriculum by studying their individual and collaborative processes of ...

This is a time when teachers are not treated as professionals and often are blamed for the state of today’s public education system. Although, there are deep complexities (i.e., race, class, language, funding) that contribute ...

This dissertation study seeks to understand how teachers who work in an ASL/English bilingual educational program for preschool children conceptualize and utilize phonological instruction of American Sign Language (ASL). ...