Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Maestra, ¿qué es un alfabeto? = Teacher what is an alphabet? : teaching Spanish literacy as a tool for ESL literacy, Katharine Málaga
The development of map-reading skills in the adult English as a second language classroom, Lisa McCallum
Noticing and grammatical aspect in ESL, Jonna Meidal
Spanglish: identifying some motivations a group of bilingual adolescents had to code-switch in informal social interactions, Liliana Orsi
Text talk as a vocabulary teaching tool: does it meet the needs of English language learners, Jessica A Rooney
The power of coteaching: predictors of attitudes on elementary ESL/general education coteaching, Stephanie DeFrance Schmidt
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
Identity negotiation and construction: a case study of two Costa Rican women learning English, Jessica J Buch
Using the language experience approach as a part of differentiated literacy instruction, Shannon E Curran
Implementing the rich and intensive method of vocabulary instruction for English language learners, Mary Ellen Elliott
Action Research Study of a Child From a Chinese Cultural Background, Tatyana Fridman
Raising awareness of self-efficacy through self-regulated learning strategies for reading in a secondary ESL classroom, Amanda Koehler
Exploring the teaching of inference skills, Michela Kopitski
The Somali and secondary school choice, Jillane L Krause
Teaching bilingual students with specific language impairment, Gretchen Lund
Using pre-reading learning strategies to better prepare ELLs for texts in guided reading, Valissa Maas
The adequacy of developmental reading assessment (DRA) scores to measure reading ability of English as a second language (ESL) students, Kathleen Miller
The effects of pre-reading strategies on the comprehension of culturally unfamiliar texts for adolescent English language learners, Kristie O'Brien
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
Exploring ESL family involvement in schools, Renee M Turner
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
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
Writer's workshop in the inclusive classroom: does it meet the needs of newcomer English language learners?, Anne Josephson
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
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
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
Code switching in an ESL classroom: a case study with four Hmong middle school students, R. Anne Strupeck
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
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
The rap on stress: instruction of word and sentence stress through rap music, Janelle Fischler
The instruction of language learning strategies for low-proficiency ESL learners, Kimberly J E Iverson
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
Teaching email skills in the adult basic education English as a second language classroom, Susan Ryan
Perceptions of academic progress and acculturation: a case study of two Somali women in college, Kari Smalkoski
Using Inspiration software to facilitate information transfer for English language learners, Mary Warpeha
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
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
ESL secondary students reading-while-listening: improving academic reading comprehension with recorded texts, Nancy Ericson
Pull-out to collaboration: becoming an effective ESL co-teacher, Nancy Martinsen Holt
The effect of pronoun reference drill and practice on the reading comprehension scores of middle school ELLs, Julia Marie Kral
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
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
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
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
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
Understanding eligibility practices of specific learning disability special education services for underachieving immersion students, Kristine Marie-Widness Woelber