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Direct linkEkaterina Tabenkina – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present project is a research-based and practice-tested online synchronous curriculum for English language learners with the Russian language mother tongue. The curriculum's theoretical component is grounded in Vygotsky's, Leont'ev', and Engestrom's "Cultural Historical Activity Theory" as well as in scholarly papers on the influence…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Dombrowski, Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is focused on analyzing phonological contact between Slavic and non-Slavic languages in southeastern and northeastern Europe, with the particular goal of describing how the social context of language contact interacts with linguistic factors to shape the outcome of contact-induced change. On the basis of case studies drawn from…
Descriptors: Language Research, Slavic Languages, Phonology, Social Status
Grishchenko, Svetlana – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore word problems as a subject matter in mathematics textbook curricula. The motivation for the study derived from the following evidence: (a) American students find some word problems are more difficult than others (Garcia, Jimenez, & Hess, 2006; Riley & Green, 1988; Stern, 2001), and (b) one of the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Textbooks, Comparative Analysis, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Ignatieva, Raisa P. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of the study was to uncover the cultural beliefs and values that underlie American and Russian teachers' representations of their professional identities and their understanding of power in education in the context of globally disseminated education reforms and current educational mandates--the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Schnepf, Candy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The system of education developed by Maria Montessori, noted Italian feminist, anthropologist and physician, is the single largest pedagogy in the world with over 22,000 public, private, parochial, and charter schools on six continents, enduring even as other teaching methods have waxed and waned. Despite its international diffusion and longevity,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Montessori Schools, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
Brua, Charles R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Health-care access for immigrants in the United States is often problematic because of language barriers, lack of health insurance, or differing expectations based on divergent medical systems in the U.S. and the immigrants' home countries. Such difficulties are exacerbated when a linguistic-minority population lives in a rural community that has…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Socialization, Speech Communication, Access to Health Care
