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Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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A robust vocabulary approach with a music component, Juan Rigoberto Figueroa García

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Passive voice and participial adjective development in English language learners, Michell Fuller

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Academic writing strategies for secondary ELLs in social studies, Sara Grace Kaler George

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Rural content area teachers' attitudes and perceptions of non-native English speakers in secondary classrooms, Nicole Clara Louise Hedrick

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ESL and mainstream co-teaching practices in one elementary school, Daria V Hendrickson

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"We're good friends": out-of-class relationships between teachers of ESL and their adult students, Erica Jacobson

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Determining the effectiveness of ongoing, intentional reflection on teaching and learning in the development of volunteer adult ESL teachers, Minda Johnson Gomez

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A dropout dilemma: the dynamics of newly arrived high school English language learner retention and graduation in a large midwest urban school district, Calvin D. P Keasling

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Methods to improve student ability in solving math word problems, Jennifer Langeness

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Vocabulary analysis of word problems on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment of mathematics, Ariane Lanier

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Preserving immigrant languages: parent perspectives on the benefits of three heritage language schools, Tara Elizabeth Larsen

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Language learning strategies of older Somali and Oromo English learners, Ahri Lee

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The role of bi-weekly phone calls in supporting adult English language learners in distance learning, Erica Lynn Lehner

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Home language use: a case study of a mother and her daughter, Laura Lenz

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Low-literacy adult English language learners: oral recall and recasts, Celia Martin-Mejía

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The effect of two types of text modification on English language learners' reading comprehension: simplification versus elaboration, Suzanne Maxwell

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How ESL support shapes students: perceptions of the K-12 ESL experience by Hmong undergraduate students, Erin Elizabeth Myhrer

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Using poetry to teach reading comprehension strategies to English language learners, Jennifer M Norris

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Implementing writers workshop: an attempt to increase grammar skills and motivation among middle school English learners, Jessica Perez

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The comparison of robust vocabulary instruction and incidental vocabulary acquisition in advanced adult, international, academically-oriented, English language learners, Adrienne Pond

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Language objectives: clear as mud helping intermediate language learners meet and exceed grade level standards, Alicia Reyes Johnson

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Analyzing the effectiveness of expository writing instruction with South Korean middle school students: a bounded case study approach, James J Riley

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Oral language instruction in Spanish: a study of first-grade Spanish speakers in a dual immersion program, Gloria Adriana Rosso White

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Advocacy or apathy?: American Indian parent involvement in an off-reservation middle school, Wendy Lee Sanderson

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Personal Narrative: from story to science, Dena Thorson

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Does the use of dialogue journals affect the writing fluency of low-literacy adult Somali students?, Marlese Alden VanderMolen

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How does reader's theater affect English language learners' reading fluency and reading comprehension, Kirsten S Winter

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

Exploring language attitudes of fourth-grade learners toward accented voices, Michelle Beck

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The role of cultural awareness on L2 comprehension and retention of culture-specific idioms, Kathleen Bjornson

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Evaluating word problems using Polya's problem-solving strategy: determining its effects on an English language learner's written and oral communication, Erin McCarthy Bowman

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The impact of immigrant life experiences on collegiate critical thinking skills: a mixed methods case study, Kristyn Clark

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Using music in a senior high level 1 ESL classroom to teach the two modal auxiliaries: Can' and 'Will', Crystal M DeVore

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ELL instructional concerns of a low incidence school district: a case study, Laurie M Dirnberger

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Implicit and explicit corrective feedback for middle school ESL learners, Ben Fawbush

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Reading inference and aspect instruction, Kerry M Feyder

Barriers that non-native speakers of English face in a nursing program, Mairi Hansen

What difference does an imposed literacy block program make on student achievement in reading?: a preliminary study, Alyssa Haugen

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A study using literature and reflective journals to connect cultural identity to future goals, Sandra Roth Hisakuni

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Improving phonemic awareness using whole-part-whole reading instruction and the language experience approach with semi-literate and non-literate Karen-speaking adults, Andrea P Hokeness

Immediate and reflective dictionary use on vocabulary learning and affect, Ryan Jude

The perceptions of Pakistani English language teahers [sic] of the barriers to promoting English lanague [sic] acquisition using student-centered communicative language teahcing [sic] with the students of their ESL classrooms, Amna Kiran

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A study of how to effectively prepare Latino parents for supporting their children's literacy, Veronica Kremer

Critical self-reflection and cultural competency, Amy E Laboe

Using cooperative learning to enhance the classroom social skills of ELLs, Kristy Majcin

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Summarizing strategies for newcomers: explicit strategy instruction in an American history class, Jeanette Marr

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Focus-on-form in elementary ESL: experimenting with the error correction techniques of repetition and metalinguistic clue, Corey Mattson

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Hmong learners' deletion and replacement of syllable-final consonants in English, Suzanne McCurdy

Improving recognition and production of emphatic and contrastive stress with electronic visual feedback as a means to focus on form, Carlynn Miller-Gore

Parent, student and teacher attitudes about L1 maintenance, Stephanie E Munch

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Cooperative learning and ESL students' participation, Angela Nguyen

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Using electronic whiteboards to teach phonemic segmentation to kindergarten English language learners, Rebecca Olson

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Student motivation towards foreign language learning: why do high school students take two or four years of Spanish?, Amy M Peters

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How native Spanish and native Somali speakers label inanimate nouns vis-à-vis gender, Anna Rau

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Perceptions of silent sustained reading held by middle school English language learners, Dean T Reasoner

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Adapting reader's workshop for upper elementary language academy students, Claire Roberts

Latino/Hispanic perceptions of factors that helped them graduate from a four year college/university in the USA, Rocío Saldaña-Reyes

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Exploring self-efficacy in reading, Cynthia D Shellberg

Integrating language learning strategies and academic language functions: teaching beginning ELLs to question, Angela Tessier

The use of English in Dutch magazine advertising: a sociolinguistic study, Duygu Van Nellen

How an audiobook library program influences book interactions of three ESL kindergarteners, Molly Wellner

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Attitudinal reactions of standard American English speakers to foreign-accented Speech, Elizabeth Bailly Will

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Sing, sing a song: how using songs affect productive vocabulary acquisition of English language learners, Nicole D Winter

Hmomglish [sic] in urban high school classes: a code mixing case study of four Hmong high school students, Pang Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Self advocacy, medical interpreting and the LEP patient, Stacey E Achterhoff

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Pronouncing three-segment final consonant clusters: a case study with Arabic speakers learning English, Anjanette Arnold

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A case study of the noticing-reformulation technique, Stephanie J Bertram

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Increasing vocabulary production through explicit vocabulary instruction, Jennifer Blake

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Teaching prosody through readers theatre, Ann Daly

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Metaphonological ability in low-literate adult Somali English language learners, Sarah Elaine Davis

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Factors affecting Latino students' attendance at free adult English classes, Stephanie A Guza

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For a better life: a case study of a high school Latina learning English in a rural community, Wendy Joy Louwagie Hall

Writing strategies used and not used by sixth grade ELLs as they write personal essays in the mainstream class, Julie A Hoostal

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Raising Muslim adolescents: Somali parents perceived challenges in raising their children in the public schools, Gale Husom

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Listening to learn: using focus group interviews in cross-cultural settings, Gail A Koski

Writer's workshop in a rural low incidence setting, Rachele Ann Kreuser

Improving ELLs' writing skills through action research, Jennifer Larsen

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Computer-based phonological awareness training for adolescent English language learners, Kimberly Laska

Using reading recovery strategies with small groups of kindergarten English language learners, Krista Michaelis

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Affecting L2 attitude and motivation through drama, Jonell Pacyga

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Pre-teaching math language lessons for the success of English language learners, Michelle Vanden Plas

A computer based tool that will help to teach ELL kindergartners to read, Carrie Podgorski

The role of play in second language acquisition: a bilingual grandmother and a preschool child, Joyces C Robles

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Meeting learning objectives: using an alternative text, Joseph Rothstein

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Impacts of student autobiographies on mainstream teachers' perceptions, attitudes, and instruction of English language learners, Emily Schmidt

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Effect of modifications to the pop-up grammar strategy in the TPRS method in teaching the Japanese direct object marking particle WO(O) to middle school students, Ayumi Stockman

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Do dialogue journals with recasts improve the writing skills for adult learners with limited literacy skills?, Michelle Henry Voit

The effects of interactive writing on second grade ELLs' learning of science vocabulary, Rebecca Weldon Fisher

The use of signed English in sight word instruction with elementary English language learners, Kari Lynn Wiltse

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What effects does language anxiety have on ESL students' decisions to speak English in a middle school classroom?, Ryan Zgutowicz

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Children's literature and math: how ELLs benefit, Antoinette Azad

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A method of supplemental science vocabulary instruction for second-grade English language learners, Hanni Baugh-Thomas

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An analysis of Somali pronunciation errors, Elizabeth A Conway

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Using AlphaSmarts to improve the quantity and quality of writing of fifth grade English language learners, Patricia Gail Matthias Davis

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Onset and rime instruction in a low level ABE ESOL reading classroom, Erin G Evans

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Comprehension of aspect in English by Spanish-speaking students in an adult basic education program, Andrea Feshbach

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After school clubs and ELLs self-esteem, Marilyn Gleason

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Journaling through the challenge of change, Dereck L Grosskurth

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Increasing oral reading fluency with elementary English language learners, Judith A Hacker

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Grade two ESL writers: teacher-modeled writing and oral rehearsal, Kristine B Heim

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Adult Sudanese students in transitional English classes: factors that may contribute to academic writing readiness, Kathleen Ann Jensen