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Romero, Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the age of high stakes accountability, districts are being asked to provide and demonstrate academic achievement for all students including English Learners(ELs), who maybe also be identified as Emergent Bilinguals (EBs), or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD). This becomes increasingly challenging especially for small rural districts…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Interviews, Pretests Posttests, Observation
Collister, Lauren Brittany – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This work explores the use of multimodal communication in a community of expert "World of Warcraft"® players and its impact on politeness, identity, and relationships. Players in the community regularly communicated using three linguistic modes quasi-simultaneously: text chat, voice chat, and face-to-face interaction. Using the…
Descriptors: Intermode Differences, Discourse Modes, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship
Camuti, Alice Kerlin – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this interpretivist qualitative study is to discover what factors influence first-year college students as they construct their text messages. Using grounded theory methodology, 11 first-year college students at a university in the Southeast were interviewed one-on-one and through text messaging in order to gain insight into…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Written Language, Telecommunications, Interpersonal Communication
Duenas, Gilbert – ProQuest LLC, 2011
There is limited research on bilingual classroom teachers who conduct household visits of non-English speaking Hispanic families. The author and teacher explored (a) ways that three migrant, Hispanic families were involved with their children's school to promote mathematics and language literacy learning and communication; and (b) how these…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Hispanic Americans, Limited English Speaking, Bilingual Teachers
Lopez Leiva, Carlos Alfonso – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study explores social interaction and mathematics performance, especially regarding how bilingual Latino/a students' positioning and participation evolved as they interacted with others in mathematics problem solving. Historically, Latinas/os have faced segregation in different ways that affect the quality of their social interactions…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Mathematics Instruction, Small Group Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
Nam, Hyun Ha – ProQuest LLC, 2010
As English progressively becomes the global language, many native English speakers move to foreign countries to work as English teachers. However a review of the literature reveals that there is little research on their actual performance compared to the non-native local English teachers. This comparative case study examines pedagogic practices of…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Video Technology, Instructional Effectiveness, Class Size