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Bachelor, Jeremy W.; Barnard Bachelor, Robin – Online Submission, 2019
The "NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements for Intercultural Communication" (2017) task educators with helping students better recognize "obviously inappropriate behaviors in familiar everyday situations" (p.15), yet today's L2 classroom rarely includes pragmatic speech acts in curriculum, especially with regard to online language…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Community Colleges
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Hromalik, Christopher D.; Koszalka, Tiffany A. – Distance Education, 2018
This study investigated how community college students in an online introductory-level language course self-regulated their learning while using digital learning resources. An analysis of reflective journals revealed that learners reported engaging with resources in ways consistent with the six dimensions of self-regulated learning. Only learners…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Online Courses, Second Language Learning
Bush, Malcolm; Lansing, Jennifer; Zapata-Gietl, Claudia; Thomas, Kathryn; Escobar, Carolina – Online Submission, 2018
This article describes process and outcome evaluations of a blended Cyber ESL program for native Spanish speakers in Chicago who could not use regular ESL classes. The outcomes measured against before and after scores and several comparison groups showed large gains in English language proficiency. 58% percent of students from the cohorts which…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Electronic Learning, English (Second Language), English Instruction
Harris, Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Understanding the way humans communicate linguistically helps to define what proficiency in a particular language is. The general problem is scholars' assumption that the implementation of technology in the language learning environment acts a substitute for the human dynamic in achieving language proficiency. The purpose of this quantitative…
Descriptors: Spanish, Community Colleges, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Melguizo, Tatiana; Flores, Stella; Velasquez, David; Carroll, Tim – Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Using linked, individual-level data from a large metropolitan K-12 district and a large urban community college district in California, we examine whether indicators of college-readiness for graduating high school students who were initially classified as English Learners (ELs) are honored in community college course placement. In particular, we…
Descriptors: College Readiness, High School Students, High School Graduates, English Language Learners
Rodriguez, Astrid Sussette – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Developing literacy and language proficiency in English is essential to thrive in school and in the workforce in American society. Research on cross-linguistic influences on text-level skills is scant, especially studies investigating reading comprehension among language-minority adults. The present study investigated the effects of…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Spanish Speaking