<p> Given that reading at the third-grade level by the end of third grade is a predictor of future academic success, the purpose of this study was to determine if receiving or revoking English Language (EL) services had an impact on students&rsquo; ability to read at a third-grade level by the end of third grade. In this quantitative study, the scores of students (N= 258) from a suburban school district were examined to determine if EL service status, gender, ethnicity, and family income significantly impacted students&rsquo; reading fluency scores.</p><p> Results of the study indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in reading achievement scores between students who accepted and who revoked EL services. The study also found that gender, ethnicity, and family income did not affect the relationship between EL service status and students&rsquo; ability to read at third-grade level by the end of third grade. </p><p> Results of this study indicated that the use of pull-out EL instruction did not have a statistically significant impact on students&rsquo; ability to read at a third-grade level by the end of third grade. Although the results were not statistically significant, there was a pattern wherein proportionally more students who accepted EL services met the third-grade target (81 %) in comparison to those students who revoked EL services (76%), suggesting that EL services do have some impact on students&rsquo; ability to meet reading achievement goals.</p><p> Results of this study indicated that pull-out EL instruction, which is one of the many types of instruction commonly used for EL instruction, should be examined more closely in order to determine its effectiveness in helping EL students reach reading achievement goals.</p>

<p> Given the disproportionate numbers of English Language Learners (ELLs) in Special Education, the method by which students are being assessed for Special Education must be examined further. Because these practices have real consequences for students&rsquo; educational placements in schools, it is necessary to understand what factors are important in conduction a non-discriminatory assessment.</p><p> Currently, there is literature on how to conduct a non-discriminatory assessment; however, there is very little information known about how these practices are or are not being implemented in the schools. As such, the purpose of this study is to utilize a survey study to gain an understanding of what is the school psychologist&rsquo;s role in the evaluation of Spanish speaking English Language Learners for Special Education in the schools.</p><p> Based on the findings of this study, there is a need for a formal training for school psychologist once they are out in the field. Currently, the majority of the training received was through their graduate program. Furthermore, there is a need for a formal training or certification for bilingual school psychologists. Due to the limited number of bilingual school psychologist in the field, formal training must also be developed for interpreters working with monolingual school psychologists on non-discriminatory assessments.</p>

<p> This study examined the effectiveness of an evidenced-based reading intervention, Word Sort, with bilingual students receiving dual immersion education. This study expands upon the existing research on Word Sort by examining its impact on bilingual students&rsquo; reading fluency. The following research questions was proposed: Is Word Sort an effective intervention with bilingual (dual immersion) students who are struggling early readers? A visual analysis and effect size of participants&rsquo; data across baseline and treatment conditions found that all three participants&rsquo; Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) improved. This suggests that Word Sort is a promising intervention for bilingual, dual immersion students with reading delays.</p>

Submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters in Educational Psychology At the: University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg / South Africa is a multicultural and multilingual country. The majority of learners (90%) speak a mother tongue that is not English. The language of instruction is however English. English has become the dominant language in education, commerce and industry and therefore proficiency in the language is imperative. In order to help learners learn more efficiently, and to inform education policy making, an exploration of what language learning strategies learners from divergent mother tongue backgrounds employ, is beneficial. This study was conducted in a high school, in a township area of Gauteng, South Africa in order to investigate whether there is a relationship between the mother tongue of South African high school learners and English second language learning strategies employed by these learners. The sample consisted of 107 Grade 8-Grade 12 participants who were receiving instruction in English, with their mother tongue specified as one of the 9 African languages. Learners were asked to complete a 50 item questionnaire, as well as a demographical information form. The results showed that although there was no significant relationship between mother tongue and English second language learning strategies used by high school learners, other variables such as number of years of English language instruction and age were significant variables that influenced choice of English language learning strategy use. It was also found that metacognitive strategies were the most commonly used English language learning strategies. Research on the relationship between mother tongue and language learning strategy use is imperative given the significant number of learners that would benefit from this research and subsequent interventions implemented. / AC2018

Submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters in Educational Psychology At the: University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg January 2016 / South Africa is a multicultural and multilingual country. The majority of learners (90%) speak a mother tongue that is not English. The language of instruction is however English. English has become the dominant language in education, commerce and industry and therefore proficiency in the language is imperative. In order to help learners learn more efficiently, and to inform education policy making, an exploration of what language learning strategies learners from divergent mother tongue backgrounds employ, is beneficial. This study was conducted in a high school, in a township area of Gauteng, South Africa in order to investigate whether there is a relationship between the mother tongue of South African high school learners and English second language learning strategies employed by these learners. The sample consisted of 107 Grade 8-Grade 12 participants who were receiving instruction in English, with their mother tongue specified as one of the 9 African languages. Learners were asked to complete a 50 item questionnaire, as well as a demographical information form. The results showed that although there was no significant relationship between mother tongue and English second language learning strategies used by high school learners, other variables such as number of years of English language instruction and age were significant variables that influenced choice of English language learning strategy use. It was also found that metacognitive strategies were the most commonly used English language learning strategies. Research on the relationship between mother tongue and language learning strategy use is imperative given the significant number of learners that would benefit from this research and subsequent interventions implemented

submitted by Chong King Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [76-84]). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter {A} --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter {B} --- Research Questions --- p.2 / Chapter {C} --- Contribution --- p.4 / Chapter {D} --- Issues in Politics and Language --- p.7 / Chapter [1] --- Colonialism and importation of languages --- p.10 / Chapter [2] --- Nationhood and language --- p.18 / Chapter [3] --- Decolonization and language policy in education --- p.27 / Chapter [4] --- Summary --- p.35 / Chapter {E} --- Research Methodology --- p.37 / Chapter {F} --- Outline of Thesis --- p.41 / Chapter Chapter II. --- Contending Explanations and Framework of Analysis --- p.43 / Chapter {A} --- "Contending Explanations, Models, and Theories" --- p.44 / Chapter [1] --- Conspiracy explanation I: to exacerbate the gap between English and mother-tongue trained students --- p.44 / Chapter [2] --- Conspiracy explanation II: to confuse Hong Kong people's identity and add a language-divisive factor in China --- p.47 / Chapter [3] --- Pluralist explanation: local societal pressures --- p.50 / Chapter [4] --- Muddling-through model --- p.53 / Chapter [5] --- Institutionalism --- p.55 / Chapter [6] --- China's pressure --- p.57 / Chapter {B} --- Policy Window Approach --- p.59 / Chapter [1] --- Problem stream --- p.64 / Chapter [2] --- Political stream --- p.67 / Chapter [3] --- Policy stream --- p.74 / Chapter [4] --- Coupling of streams and policy windows --- p.78 / Chapter Chapter III. --- Language-in-Education Policy in Hong Kong: The Colonial Setting --- p.82 / Chapter {A} --- English Language as Prestige --- p.82 / Chapter {B} --- Colonial Language Policy in Education-a brief review from the establishment of the colony to the early 1970s --- p.84 / Chapter {C} --- Language Medium Policy from the 1970s to the early 1980s --- p.94 / Chapter Chapter IV. --- Teaching medium policy during decolonization (mid-1980s to 1997) --- p.106 / Chapter {A} --- Evolution of Teaching Medium Policy from mid-1980s to1990 --- p.106 / Chapter [1] --- Problem stream --- p.106 / Chapter [2] --- Political stream --- p.108 / Chapter [3] --- Policy stream --- p.115 / Chapter [4] --- Coupling of streams-mother-tongue education from the mid-1980s to1990 --- p.123 / Chapter {B} --- Evolution of Teaching Medium Policy in the early 1990s --- p.127 / Chapter [1] --- Problem stream --- p.127 / Chapter [3] --- Political stream --- p.130 / Chapter [3] --- Policy stream --- p.136 / Chapter [4] --- Coupling of streams: mother-tongue education in the early 1990s --- p.143 / Chapter {C} --- Medium of Instruction-Firm Guidance for Secondary Schoolsin March1997 --- p.146 / Chapter Chapter IV. --- Conclusion --- p.158 / Chapter {A} --- Summary of Findings --- p.158 / Chapter {B} --- Reflections: Policy Window Approach and Other Issues --- p.169 / Chapter {C} --- Further Research Areas --- p.173 / References / Appendix / Appendix A. Medium of instruction-Firm Guidance for Secondary Schools (1997) / "Appendix B. Tracing study on students performance (S1-S3), HKCEE results by Band of students, HKCEE results by teaching medium used" / Appendix C. Preparatory notes on mother-tongue education by education officials / Appendix D. The policy-making and administrative bodies of education (colonial period) / Appendix E. Objectives of Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (HKPTU) / Appendix F. Research on medium of instruction conducted by the Education Department and other bodies / Appendix G. Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers Limited on mother-tongue education / Appendix H. Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong on mother-tongue education

<p>Applying Kramsch?s (2012) notion of the multilingual learner as a subjective being, this study explores how South Korean elementary students construct their investment (Norton Peirce, 1995) in EFL learning in relation to their economic, social, and cultural capital (Bourdieu, 1986; Bourdieu and Passeron, 1977) as these emerge in their interactional patterns in their EFL classroom. Also, it explores how students perceive the introduction of student-centered instructional strategies and how they construct their investment in EFL learning before and after the introduction of these strategies. The setting for the study was a sixth-grade classroom in a public elementary school located in the central district of a major South Korean metropolitan area. Of the twenty-two EFL learners in the class, ten were selected as participants in the study, and of these, three were chosen as focal students on the basis of their status as low-achieving learners. Data collection methods included ethnographic classroom observations, non-structured interviews with the learners, and their writing and drawing artifacts. For data analysis, thematic coding was employed to generate codes based on two interviews with each learner, which were then categorized to generate themes (Salda?a, 2016). Three principal findings emerged: 1) learners? EFL proficiency, peer relations, parental linguistic support, and linguistic support outside of the school provided significant forms of economic, social, and cultural capital in the EFL classroom; 2) the learners? economic, social, and cultural capital played important roles in their linguistic achievement, but were not as relevant to their perceptions of and attitudes toward their EFL learning; and 3) the students reported that student-centered instructional strategies helped them to acquire self-confidence, strong resolve to learn English, and positive attitudes towards EFL learning. The instructional strategies appeared to be particularly effective in promoting the construction of investment by students with relatively low levels of social, economic and cultural capital. The study concludes that short-term applications of student-centered instructional strategies appear to provide some benefits to students who struggle with EFL learning. Implications include recommendations for further research into short-term and long-term applications of student-centered instructional strategies and their relationship to elementary students? construction of investment.

黃美美. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2001. / 附參考文獻. / 中英文摘要. / Available also through the Internet via Dissertations & theses @ Chinese University of Hong Kong. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Huang Meimei. / Lun wen (Zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2001. / Fu can kao wen xian. / Zhong Ying wen zhai yao.

Thesis (M.Ed.) -- University of the North, 1992 / Refer to the document

Thesis (M.A. (Translation Studies and Linguistics)) --University of Limpopo, 2013 / Refer to the document