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Socializing in Another Culture: Collaborative Improvisation in Evolving Contexts in East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Yawei Li – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research is about the underlying process language learners rely on to be able to engage effectively in unscripted conversations without premeditation, or "improvisation." To engage in improvisation in another language, one needs to recognize those elements of the evolving cultural context that are significant at the moment. By…
Descriptors: Languages, Asian Culture, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
Institutional Linguistic Responsiveness in Higher Education: A Pracademic Appeal for University Wide Support for Multilingual Students
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Debbie Rozner – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Internationalization at institutions of higher education in the United States results in greater linguistic diversity of the student body. Admission policies for international students include English proficiency standards which are meant to ensure that multilingual students for whom English is an additional language can function linguistically in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
The Impact of the STARTALK Language Program on the Internationalization of Higher Education in the United States
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Mwangi, Peter N. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the STARTALK language programs on the internationalization of higher education in the United States. The study focused on the 11 STARTALK language programs offered to high school students in the summers of 2013, 2014, and 2015 on various university campuses in the U.S. Such programs enabled…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Program Effectiveness, International Education
Chinese Placement Procedures at U.S. Postsecondary Institutions
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Wei, Miaochun – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quant-QUAL sequential explanatory mixed methods study describes a framework for evaluating the communicative competence (Canale & Swain, 1980; Canale, 1983) of non-beginner students of Chinese for placement purposes at U.S. four-year postsecondary institutions. A pragmatic lens was used to collect and analyze data that generated a…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Online Learning Communities: Enhancing the Acquisition of Information Skills by Undergraduate Students of the University of Puerto Rico at Carolina
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Dominguez Flores, Noraida – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Despite the efforts that have been made to develop the information skills of undergraduate students, there are still limitations that one shot sessions of face-to-face library instruction or online tutorials present when they are the only options used to develop specific information skills in students. The purpose of this study was to investigate…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, Focus Groups
Foreign Language Instructed Programs in Public Universities in Egypt: Implications for Resource Diversification, Quality and Equity in Higher Education
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Sabry, Manar A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study seeks to assess the impact of tuition fees of the Foreign language Instructed Programs (FLIP) at Cairo University on increasing other-than-governmental resources for these programs as well as for the university, increasing student satisfaction with the quality of education, and maintaining equitable access. The study uses a theoretical…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Higher Education, Financial Audits, Political Science