SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Self Directed Learners Characteristics

Essays 211 - 240

English as a Second Language Learner Assessments

was placed in third grade in her local public school, where there were four other children between 2-4th grades who had relocated ...

English Language Learning and Lau v. Nichols

for some native language maintenance (Texas Education Agency Bilingual/ESL Unit, 2004). * 1988: More amendments to Title VII impos...

Case Study of the ELL Program

Other 615 1.2% Total other language 4,258 8.4% (Source: San Juan Unified School District, District, 2004). All 4,258 students wh...

High School English Classes and Motivation Increases

in the modern day is to gain an understanding of the individual differences in cognitive processing and the implications for curri...

Piaget/Elementary & Middle-School

symbols, such as numbers in more complex ways; however, their thinking is, as yet, not entirely logical. The full development of c...

Counselors: Skills And Characteristics

perspective speaks to the need for counselors to be significantly more in tuned with their clients holistic attributes. Cou...

An Interdisciplinary Unit for Science and Health: Part II, Adaptations

the support of the peer-tutor in the writing piece of the assignment and to promote understanding through the use of diagrams, pic...

The Influence of Change on Adult Learners

themselves, "such changes become ... the framework for new beliefs and actions" (Taylor, Marienau and Fiddler). Clearly this is an...

Indian Cultural Conflict

have taken service jobs in motels or restaurants, today, Indians are managing Fortune 500 companies, such as United Airlines and U...

English Language Learners, Learning Disabilities and One School Setting

population of zip code $ 50,000 - $59,999 11.0% $ 60,000 - $74,999 12.3% $ 75,000 - $99,999 11.5% Source: (Income and Housing,...

Research Into the Literacy Needs of Adult Students A Research Proposal

way to help in terms of recommending what should be a part of the adult education core curriculum. In some way, the idea seems to ...

Bilingual Education/Issue Pro & Con

associated with bilingual education, evaluating what works and what does not, is not an easy task (Gilroy 50). Both supporters an...

Teaching Practice Analysis

in small groups of four students each where they brainstormed what the main ideas of a story were and what led them to that conclu...

ELL Programs

working in this program must have ESL certification. They need professional development in instructional methods (Idaho State Boa...

Literature Review on Paralinguistic Features of English Language Skills

will come to being able to communicate effectively" (Gassin, 1990, 437). Like Adams, Gassin (1990) also believed that the achieve...

Adult Learner Curriculum Design

a theorist who suggests that adult learners call on different experiences they might have had in the learning process (Merriam & C...

Assessment of English Language Learning

this manner (Assessment of ELL Students, 2004). The Woodcock-Munoz Language Survey basically provides a measure of a students lan...

Techniques for ELL Students

(Ghaith, 2003). Cooperative learning encourages meaningful, real-life conversations between students, regardless of age. Researc...

Teaching Using the SEI Approach

ELLs receive a minimum of four hours of daily instruction in English language development, that is, not simply instruction in Engl...

SCHOLARLY ARTICLE REVIEW: ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

instruction tended to help ELL students, and Brooks and Thurstons results werent much different. Basically, throwing ELL students ...

Obstacles to Correct Pronunciation for Japanese Learners of English

with a fixed pronunciation. For instance, the letter "a" in English can be pronounced many different ways, such as in the words "a...

A Literature Review on Developing Respect for Diversity

Brown and Forde (2006), who maintained that there is a growing need for culturally responsive pedagogy in the educational setting....

Speech and Language: Working with At-Risk Patients

experiences (Chapter 2). Behaviorists like B.F. Skinner further developed the concept of conditioning in what Skinner deemed oper...

The Bilingual Education Debate

There is also evidence that bilingualism actually provides benefit to culturally diverse students. Sheng, McGregor and Marian cond...

A Literacy Initiative

to address early intervention services and literacy at the Pre-K level in order to improve performance outcomes. Standards ...

P.E. Curriculum

learned the body of skills needed to perform a variety of physical activities? 3. Does the student demonstrate a willingness to m...

Managing Change: Transition to the Use of Portfolios as an Assessment

The objectives include the following: 1. To ensure that each educator has an understanding of the value of the change initiative ...

Literacy in Specific Areas of Study

programming, students are generally in a transitional period in terms of language learning and the vocabulary that is introduced i...

Values of a Nurse Educator

This essay describes traits and values that are associated with being a nursing educator, learner responsibilities and the profess...

Adapting Lesson Plans for Use with Special Needs Learners

In a paper of six pages, the author reflects on modifications that have to be made for special education learners in general educa...