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Direct linkKovats Sanchez, Gabriela – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to provide a deeper understanding of the lived experiences and identity formation of Indigenous Mexican students in U.S. higher education. Latinx critical race theory and critical Latinx Indigeneity served as conceptual frameworks for this study, and a decolonial lens was employed to distinguish the unique educational…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Grounded Theory, Self Concept, Mexican Americans
Farrell, Gryselle M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore if by integrating Brain-based learning principles with a constructivist approach to English oral communication at a higher education institution, ESL participants would develop their English oral communication fluency. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.) [The dissertation citations contained here are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
Larson, Jay B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As China increasingly internationalizes its higher education system, growing numbers of Chinese learners and expatriate instructors meet in the classroom, engaging one another from their disparate cultural and pedagogical standpoints. Despite its widespread occurrence, the phenomenon of Chinese learners and Western instructors engaging one another…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Nationals, College Faculty, Phenomenology
Abd Elkader, Nermine Medhat – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research study investigates the challenges and opportunities of dialogic pedagogy in multicultural education within a conventional higher education institution. The study findings suggest that in spite of the several challenges that dialogic pedagogy faced in the context of conventional education, dialogic pedagogy also experienced several…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Higher Education
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
Serafini, Ellen Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the second language (L2) development of adult learners of Spanish at three levels of proficiency during and after a semester of instruction. A fundamental goal was to identify cognitive and psychosocial individual differences (IDs) that can explain between-learner variation over time in order to expand our understanding of the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Aptitude, Language Processing
