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Cortés, Jimy Alexander; Arellano, Iván Darío – English Language Teaching, 2017
Even though the majority of Colombian professors are also involved in research, they have limitations in their English language skills that separate them from the rest of the scientific society. Evidently, these limitations have become an obstacle in the awareness of professors' modest, but no less important, research work. In order to carry out…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Role, Scientific Research, College Faculty
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Browne, Raffie A.; Shen, Hong – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Higher education is considered as one of the most essential factors in influencing societal changes, due to its ability to help formulate good decision making in every sphere of modern society, in businesses, education, politics and science. Higher education over the years has significantly increased, thus given rise to many opportunities for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Change, Economic Development, Databases
Figueroa, Nicholas James – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation investigated the speech productions of the implosive -r consonant by U.S.-born Puerto Rican and Dominican Heritage Language Spanish speakers in New York. The following main research questions were addressed: 1) Do heritage language Caribbean Spanish speakers evidence the same variation with the /?/ consonant in the implosive…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Speech Communication, Phonemes, Puerto Ricans
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Busey, Christopher L.; Cruz, Bárbara C. – Social Studies, 2015
As the Latin@ population continues to grow in the United States, it is imperative that social studies teachers are aware of the rich history and sociocultural complexities of Latin@ identity. In particular, there is a large population of Latin@s of African descent throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America. However, Afro-Latin@s…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Black Studies, Social Studies, Latin American History
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VanPatten, Bill; Smith, Megan – Second Language Research, 2019
This article reports the findings of a study in which we investigated the possible effects of word order on the acquisition of case marking. In linguistic typology (e.g. Greenberg, 1963) a very strong correlation has been shown between dominant SOV (subject object verb) word order and case marking. No such correlation exists for SVO (subject verb…
Descriptors: Word Order, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Language Classification
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Osa-Melero, Lucía; Fernández, Vanessa; Quiñones, Sandra – Hispania, 2019
Detailing the integration of Spanish language teaching in an authentic setting, this article contributes to empirical research on the positive value of community-engaged learning in foreign language pedagogy. "Reading to Play, Playing to Read" is an innovative model for community-engaged teaching that combines learning goals from…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mexicans, History Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education
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Villasana, Marcia; Alcaraz-Rodríguez, Rafael; Alvarez, Mario Moisés – Gender and Education, 2016
The phenomenon of women engaging in entrepreneurship is expanding and becoming acknowledged as a valuable resource that must be institutionally and socially supported. Through entrepreneurship education, female students, as potential entrepreneurs, can develop and strengthen those skills and behaviours identified as characteristic of successful…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Females, Creativity, Risk Management
Newton, Joanna A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Academic vocabulary knowledge is central to reading achievement, particularly for students who have limited experiences with academic discourse outside of school. Yet many teachers devote little time to focused instruction in this area, because they may lack critical meta-linguistic and pedagogical knowledge. The purpose of this longitudinal…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Academic Discourse
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Matthew Casey; Rebecca Tuuri – History Teacher, 2018
Although geographically rooted in the Southern United States, the U.S. poultry industry is best understood in a transnational, or even global, perspective that can be difficult to address in regionally bounded courses. In intellectual terms, the topic straddles a number of historiographic subfields that have steadily grown in recent decades. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African American History, Latin American History, Class Activities
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Fajardo, Oliver – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2015
An international Latin American student fraternity movement preceded the current Latino Greeks that are seen on college campuses today. This document provides new information that has not been published. The movement lasted 86 years and primarily served wealthy international Latin American students who came to the United States to study and, once…
Descriptors: Fraternities, Student Organizations, Educational History, Latin Americans
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Skaffari, Janne – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
In the multilingual history of England, the period following the Norman Conquest in 1066 is a particularly intriguing phase, but its code-switching patterns have so far received little attention. The present article describes and analyses the multilingual practices evinced in London, British Library, MS Stowe 34, containing one instructional prose…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Latin, Teaching Methods, Multilingualism
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Crosson, Amy C.; Moore, Debra – Reading Psychology, 2017
A majority of the challenging words that adolescent readers encounter in school texts are morphologically complex and from the Latinate layer of English. For these words, bound roots carry important meaning, such as the relation between innovative and its bound root, nov, meaning "new." This study investigated the effects of instruction…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, High School Students, Intervention
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King Miller, Beverly A. – SAGE Open, 2017
This article explores issues related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), participation and underrepresentation specifically in regard to women of African descent. Drawing from a larger qualitative, grounded case study, the article examines the experiences of Panamanian Afro Caribbean women in STEM and their successful…
Descriptors: Females, Barriers, STEM Education, Latin Americans
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Dentzau, Michael W. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2013
As a supporter of informal and alternative learning environments for science learning I am pleased to add to the discussion generated by Adriana Briseno-Garzon's article, "More than science: family learning in a Mexican science museum". I am keenly aware of the value of active family involvement in education in general, and science education in…
Descriptors: Science Education, Informal Education, Family Involvement, Family Role
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Luo, Rufan; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Children's book-sharing and oral storytelling experiences were examined in 264 4-year-olds from low-income African-American, Dominican, Mexican, and Chinese families in the United States. Mothers reported on children's book-sharing and oral storytelling experiences with mothers, fathers, and other people (siblings, grandparents, relatives, and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Minority Groups, African Americans, Hispanic Americans
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