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Teaching Practice Analysis

in small groups of four students each where they brainstormed what the main ideas of a story were and what led them to that conclu...

An Interdisciplinary Unit for Science and Health: Part II, Adaptations

the support of the peer-tutor in the writing piece of the assignment and to promote understanding through the use of diagrams, pic...

Learning Environment and Communication Strategies

However, this is not simply a matter if a subject that interests the student making a different; it is also in the way it is prese...

ELL and NCLB's Implications

No Child Left Behind Act, it is hard to dismiss the problems it has brought for some populations. For example, it seems that child...

English Language Learners, Learning Disabilities and One School Setting

population of zip code $ 50,000 - $59,999 11.0% $ 60,000 - $74,999 12.3% $ 75,000 - $99,999 11.5% Source: (Income and Housing,...

ELL Programs

working in this program must have ESL certification. They need professional development in instructional methods (Idaho State Boa...

Teacher Made Test Assessments

on the testing outcomes as a whole. Both questions 16 and 20 include grammatical errors or language that appears faulty, again i...

English as a Second Language Learner Assessments

was placed in third grade in her local public school, where there were four other children between 2-4th grades who had relocated ...

Early Childhood Education and Major Concepts

private, in order to reach their full potential (Harbin, et al, 2004). The current incarnation of this legislation is the Individu...

English Language Learning and Lau v. Nichols

for some native language maintenance (Texas Education Agency Bilingual/ESL Unit, 2004). * 1988: More amendments to Title VII impos...

Case Study of the ELL Program

Other 615 1.2% Total other language 4,258 8.4% (Source: San Juan Unified School District, District, 2004). All 4,258 students wh...

High School English Classes and Motivation Increases

in the modern day is to gain an understanding of the individual differences in cognitive processing and the implications for curri...

Analysis of textbook using discourse theory

we acquire knowledge not through a straightforward one-way transmission of information, but through a complicated interplay betwee...

Writing Curriculum Adaptation Outline for Second Language Learners

of six steps: preview and identify; transfer of major concepts into graphic organizers; share organizers to generate oral interact...

Transtheoretical Behavior Change Model

near future, e.g., six months (Velicer et al., 1998). They moved along the path because they have received information or have bec...

Comprehensible Input

want students to learn accurate language. Communication needs to be grammatically correct with proper syntax and so on (Kagan, 199...

Teaching English As A Foreign Language - TEFL

arouse student interest and also to engage their emotions (Zorro and Castillo, n.d.). Many different stimuli could be used to enga...

Learning Styles And The Mature Learner

themes relative to the mature students first year in higher education degree courses that lent themselves to success, including: a...

The Bilingual Education Debate

There is also evidence that bilingualism actually provides benefit to culturally diverse students. Sheng, McGregor and Marian cond...

SCHOLARLY ARTICLE REVIEW: ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

instruction tended to help ELL students, and Brooks and Thurstons results werent much different. Basically, throwing ELL students ...

Managing Change: Transition to the Use of Portfolios as an Assessment

The objectives include the following: 1. To ensure that each educator has an understanding of the value of the change initiative ...

A Literature Review on Developing Respect for Diversity

Brown and Forde (2006), who maintained that there is a growing need for culturally responsive pedagogy in the educational setting....

Speech and Language: Working with At-Risk Patients

experiences (Chapter 2). Behaviorists like B.F. Skinner further developed the concept of conditioning in what Skinner deemed oper...

A Literacy Initiative

to address early intervention services and literacy at the Pre-K level in order to improve performance outcomes. Standards ...

P.E. Curriculum

learned the body of skills needed to perform a variety of physical activities? 3. Does the student demonstrate a willingness to m...

Water Quality Lesson

river and classroom activities. The first activity has the teacher explaining to students what macro-invertebrates are. They can s...

Obstacles to Correct Pronunciation for Japanese Learners of English

with a fixed pronunciation. For instance, the letter "a" in English can be pronounced many different ways, such as in the words "a...

Creating Self-Directed Learners

inspiration, but students who chose to work with historians, research through speaking with participants in history (e.g. people p...

Relationship between School Culture and Curriculum

with what they already understand on an academic subject (Brown, 2003). A constructivist approach to pedagogy emphasizes that the ...

ESL ELL Teaching Methods

lessons, classmates and the concept of learning in general) -- influences teaching, organization and response to students by givin...