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Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Supervisor perceptions of workplace ESL instruction, Laura Lund

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Maestra, ¿qué es un alfabeto? = Teacher what is an alphabet? : teaching Spanish literacy as a tool for ESL literacy, Katharine Málaga

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The development of map-reading skills in the adult English as a second language classroom, Lisa McCallum

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Noticing and grammatical aspect in ESL, Jonna Meidal

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Spanglish: identifying some motivations a group of bilingual adolescents had to code-switch in informal social interactions, Liliana Orsi

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Text talk as a vocabulary teaching tool: does it meet the needs of English language learners, Jessica A Rooney

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The power of coteaching: predictors of attitudes on elementary ESL/general education coteaching, Stephanie DeFrance Schmidt

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The effect of reading fluency practice on overall comprehension of non-fiction content-area texts in grade four English language learners, Karn Michelle Schwartzhoff

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

Enriching or entangling?: ELL vocabulary mapping strategies in the intermediate ESL classroom, Shery Anderson

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An exploration of the role of grammatical feedback by peers on essay writing in the advanced English language learners' classroom, Angela Birk

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Identity negotiation and construction: a case study of two Costa Rican women learning English, Jessica J Buch

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Using the language experience approach as a part of differentiated literacy instruction, Shannon E Curran

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Implementing the rich and intensive method of vocabulary instruction for English language learners, Mary Ellen Elliott

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Action Research Study of a Child From a Chinese Cultural Background, Tatyana Fridman

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Raising awareness of self-efficacy through self-regulated learning strategies for reading in a secondary ESL classroom, Amanda Koehler

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Exploring the teaching of inference skills, Michela Kopitski

The Somali and secondary school choice, Jillane L Krause

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Teaching bilingual students with specific language impairment, Gretchen Lund

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Using pre-reading learning strategies to better prepare ELLs for texts in guided reading, Valissa Maas

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The adequacy of developmental reading assessment (DRA) scores to measure reading ability of English as a second language (ESL) students, Kathleen Miller

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The effects of pre-reading strategies on the comprehension of culturally unfamiliar texts for adolescent English language learners, Kristie O'Brien

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Nonverbal communication between peaceworkers in training: an integral and cross-cultural perspective, Jennifer Ouellette

The perception of four Latina women: what they say about their lives and learning English, Rebecca R Timmins

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Exploring ESL family involvement in schools, Renee M Turner

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Moving towards ESL co-teaching: a case study, Kerry A W Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

Evaluating the effectiveness of math placement tests, Mary T Campbell

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Selected factors determining language choice in young bilingual children, Angela Dorn De Samudio

The connection between learning/teaching styles and their effect on EFL writing, Hong Duan

Using music and story to increase English as a second language students' motivation to read and retell, Yina Ha

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Writer's workshop in the inclusive classroom: does it meet the needs of newcomer English language learners?, Anne Josephson

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Investigation of L1 influence on avoidance of relative clauses by Japanese learners of English: do the learners transfer the use of Japanese relative clauses into English?, Sanae Kano

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What factors influence the academic success of Liberian high school students?, Jane Lang

English learners respond to tag questions: how eight adult English learners from six first languages interpret form, meaning, and use, Sylvia E Lovett

Mutual intelligibility between speakers of Liberian and American standard English in the school setting, Jonathan Luknic

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Pursuing academic literacy for English language learners in the community college setting, Jan McFall

Teacher perception and support of student native language use in the classroom, Ruth-Hazel Mueller

Uncovering factors that influence English pronunciation of native Somali speakers, Jill Myers

English language learners (ELLs) previewing literature on digital curriculum to improve reading comprehension and motivation on accelerated reader tests, Doreen M Nelson

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Focused topic dialogue journaling in ESL workplace instruction, Nancy Bjorn Nordeen

ESL education for elementary mainstream teachers, Janine Bea Pung

Identity factors that contribute to a highly acculturated Latino's preference for English or Spanish language ads in the United States, Janelle Rudie

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Code switching in an ESL classroom: a case study with four Hmong middle school students, R. Anne Strupeck

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I wrote it like this 'cause that's just how he said it: finding space for African American vernacular English in a sixth grade classroom, Mary Wurl

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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The Thomson method of study for second language acquisition: a diary study, Heidi Caasi

ELLs and the math measures of academic progress test: a study of potential cultural and linguistic bias, Andrea Erichsrud

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The rap on stress: instruction of word and sentence stress through rap music, Janelle Fischler

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The instruction of language learning strategies for low-proficiency ESL learners, Kimberly J E Iverson

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A study of the /O/ phoneme as pronounced by women in Morrison, Carver, and Le Sueur counties in Minnesota, Gretchen Leach

The effect of a reading program with focused fluency instruction on reading comprehension and fluency of adult ESL learners, Celeste Mazur

Using vocabulary pre-teaching strategies to motivate and enable Korean EFL kindergartners to comprehend English storybooks, Eunyoung Park Oh

Math stories for ELLs: a factor in learning to multiply and divide, Julie Ostlund

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Teaching email skills in the adult basic education English as a second language classroom, Susan Ryan

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Perceptions of academic progress and acculturation: a case study of two Somali women in college, Kari Smalkoski

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Using Inspiration software to facilitate information transfer for English language learners, Mary Warpeha

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Adjectival participles as emotion words, Inna Wolfson

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

Factors affecting participation of Japanese adult learners in the ESL classroom, Alicia Florence Brasch

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Mainstream and ELL collaboration: a case study of a mathematics classroom, Cathryn M Burrell

The effectiveness of a Hmong translation on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment, Tracy Renee Dolan

Using manual signs to teach decoding to English language learners, Amber Erickson

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ESL secondary students reading-while-listening: improving academic reading comprehension with recorded texts, Nancy Ericson

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Pull-out to collaboration: becoming an effective ESL co-teacher, Nancy Martinsen Holt

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The effect of pronoun reference drill and practice on the reading comprehension scores of middle school ELLs, Julia Marie Kral

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Factors influencing the syntactical tense/aspect features of Indian world English: the simple present tense, Sue Ann Rawlins

Attitudes toward native Spanish speakers' use of English in the workplace, Teresa G Schweitzer

Stages of the beginning child writer: comparing native speakers to English language learners, Amber Berglin Sterns

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Using scaffolding to teach phonological/phonemic awareness skills to English language learners, Britta Wicklund

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

Language anxiety and elementary age English language learners, Susan Mondale Day

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Cooperative learning in an English as a second language classroom, Judith Grundman

Teaching the strategy of putting self-written lyrics to music in order to enhance a second language learner's retention, Jacquelyn Hafiz

Perception and production of North American English question intonation: a case study of a Mandarin Chinese speaking student, Kelly S Kentfield

Comparison of an urban district's policy and best practices in assessing junior high school English language learners for a learning disability, Cory Litzow

Focus on English language learners in a standards-based system, Maria Malone

Using drama-based instruction to teach sentence stress patterns to second language learners, Amy Lynne McCarty

Prereferral: increasing the accuracy of placements of ESL students in special education, Polly Pampusch

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Differentiating/Modifying Mainstream Expository Texts for Third & Fourth Grade English as a Second Language Students, Lynn Sedivy

An action research project: helping adult non-native speakers improve pronunciation, Rosemary Sharkey

Resiliency and the role it plays in preventing Hispanic girls from dropping out of school, Rebecca K. Sutton

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Understanding eligibility practices of specific learning disability special education services for underachieving immersion students, Kristine Marie-Widness Woelber