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Communicate Globally, Teach Locally: An Action Research Project Analyzing Self-Efficacy Competence of African American Native English Speakers (NESs) Teaching in a Foreign Placement
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Brown, Wayne Erwin – ProQuest LLC, 2018
"Communicate Globally, Teach Locally" observers that the English language has evolved to be the predominant language of business and for communication globally, which allows thousands of NESs to go abroad and work as English teachers in foreign countries. This study assessed how self-efficacy competence of the African American NESs…
Descriptors: Action Research, Self Efficacy, Black Dialects, African American Teachers
A Comparative Study of the Grammatical Structures of Crucian Creole and West African Languages
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Vergne Vargas, Aida M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This thesis examines the role of the African substrate languages in the emergence of Atlantic Creole grammatical structures. Alleyne (1980) and Faraclas (1990) have convincingly demonstrated that a survey of the grammatical features that typify the Colonial Era English-Lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic reveals remarkable similarities with those…
Descriptors: Grammar, Creoles, African Languages, Contrastive Linguistics