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Creator:: McNaught, Susan C.
Abstract:: The research analyzed the relationship between the preferred cognitive learning style of field independence/field dependence and success in learning English as a second language (ESL) among post-secondary Japanese students. The study provided a review of literature in the field and developed a methodology including identification of appropriate measurement instruments. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Akobundu, Regina E.
Abstract:: The major purpose of this study was to explore changes in language proficiency and self-concept of Japanese college students participating in an intensive English language program at Tokyo International University of America (TIUA). Another purpose of the study was to determine if there was a relationship between change in English...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Graber-Wilson, Gerri
Abstract:: This study examined the reading-writing relationship for 99 exclusively international students, and used narrative, and timed and untimed expository writing samples. The reading comprehension test was the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP), a test appropriate for use with English as a second language (ESL) learners. Results of the study indicated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Davis, Kay Mathews
Abstract:: This study was an ethnographic case study of a Vietnamese unaccompanied minor in a post secondary setting. There were two guiding questions for the study: (1) How does the subject perceive language as it relates to educational experience? (2) What kinds of observable personality, cognitive, or affective factors have contributed...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: current study addresses the language, issues and perspectives of English as a second language learners

Creator:: Yusuf, Qismullah
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to apply instructional system theory to the process of developing authentic English as a foreign language (ESL) materials for Indonesian pre-departure scholars. The researcher established a theoretical framework for the process through an intensive review of instructional system literature and selected an applied process...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Vilcii7 and Wilbur (1992) conduded that English language instructors teaching English to pre-departure

Creator:: Dantas-Whitney, Maria
Abstract:: No research to date has involved ESL students as researchers in investigations of community language practices. This study examined the research processes of 23 international college students in an advanced ESL course. The students worked on an original curriculum, the Language Research Project, through which they performed ethnographic and discourse...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: experiences. Finally, this study reveals an urgent need to sensitize faculty and students in higher education

Creator:: Takahashi, Hiroshi, 1937-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to develop and test a model in which video materials are effectively used to develop students' listening communication ability. In order to reach this goal, the researcher designed the study procedure. In phase one, literature was reviewed to establish the theoretical framework for the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: for Japanese students who study the language in English-speaking environments. The focus of the

Creator:: Wimberly, Elizabeth Summer
Abstract:: In this thesis, Elizabeth Summer Wimberly details the profile of generation 1.5 students as a group of students who can need extra support in higher education. Generation 1.5 students stand distinct from both international students and native, monolingual students. As such, placing generation 1.5 students in either a mainstream or...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: between native, monolingual English speakers and non-native students whose main language is something

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