Codeship: Financing growth: Case study and Teaching note

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Accommodating College ESL Learner Communication Needs: Perceptions, Policies, and Practices

The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to determine how the Practical Nursing and Pharmacy Technician programs in one southern Ontario community college could more effectively accommodate ESL learners' communication needs. The literature review examined (a) linguistic issues, such as language testing and second-language learning theories, (b) organizational matters, such as ESL curriculum and teacher training, and (c) affective issues, such as motivation for second-language learning, learning styles, and the student-teacher relationship. I gathered perceptual data from the programs' administrators, faculty members, and ESL learners. Eleven participants took part in individual interviews or a focus group session. The results suggest that ESL learners need assistance with discipline-specific vocabulary and cultural nuances. College ESL learners' weak communicative competence, together with misleading acceptance standards for ESL learners and limited support available to faculty members and to students, decrease opportunities for successful completion of the programs. The results point to re-assessment of the college's admission policies and procedures, program evaluation practices that consider the needs of ESL learners, discipline-specific language support, and strategies to enhance the ESL student-teacher relationship. The study highlights theory relating to ESL learners' self-perception and engagement, as well as the importance of including the voice of college ESL learners in educational research. The results suggest that despite ESL learners' perseverance in completing their studies, power imbalances remain. The college has yet to implement organizational strategies such as discipline-specific communications and ESL courses and extended language support that could meet the communication needs of ESL learners in the two programs.

Response to instruction, English language learners and disproportionate representation : The role of assessment

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A study of students' metacognitive beliefs about foreign language study and their impact on learning

This article reports on an investigation into the language learning beliefs of students of French in England, aged 16 to 18. It focuses on qualitative data from two groups of learners (10 in total). While both groups had broadly similar levels of achievement in French in terns of examination success, they dffered greatly in the self-image they had of themselves as language learners, with one group displaying low levels of self-eficacy beliefs regarding the possibility of future success. The implica tions of such beliefs for students' levels of motivation and persistence are discussed, together with their possible causes. The article concludes by suggesting changes in classroom practice that might help students develop a more positive image of them selves as language learners.

English Language Skills and Socioeconomic Segregation of UK Immigrants

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The new American encyclopedic dictionary : an exhaustive dictionary of the English language, practical and comprehensive; giving the fullest definition (encyclopedic in detail), the origin, pronunciation and use of words ...

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A practical grammar of the English language, synthetic and analytic : adapted to the wants of public schools, academies, and private learners /

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A practical grammar of the English language, synthetic and analytic : adapted to the wants of public schools, academies, and private learners /

Mode of access: Internet.

Dialogue journal writing: a tool for critical reflection in the adult ESL learner

This study attempted to determine whether or not dialogue journal writing encouraged critical reflection in the adult ESL (English as a Second Language) learner. According to research in adult education and anecdotal evidence, the process ofdialogue journal writing can facilitate critical reflection in the adult learner. However, little research has been conducted to examine whether or not journal writing can facilitate critical reflection in the second language learner. As a result, ten low-intermediate level adult ESL students from Brock University's Intensive English Language Programme participated in a dialogue journal writing programme in their writing class. The participants wrote journal entries over a 10-week period, and were interviewed once throughout the process to determine their perceptions ofthe journal writing experience. They also were observed by the researcher throughout the journal writing sessions to establish whether any behaviours or intrusions might affect the participants' writing processes. After the content ofthe journals and the interviews, and the observations made by the researcher were analysed, it was confirmed that, for these participants, dialogue journal writing did not necessarily encourage critical reflection. Moreover, the participants' perceptions ofjournal writing were that it helped them to practise the syntax, vocabulary, and rhetorical patterns ofEnglish; nevertheless, it did not foster critical reflection or thinking.

Aprendre anglès a Nicaragua amb imatges: consolidant nous llenguatges i xarxes interculturals

El present estudi parteix d’una premissa complicada: el context en el qual es produeix l’estudi de cas. Com ensenyar una llengua estrangera en àrees rurals de l’Amèrica Central quan les aules escolars d’aquest entorn a penes disposen de pissarres i pupitres, i molt menys de llibres de text, gravadores o ordinadors? És més, els mestres que es veuen obligats a impartir la matèria de llengua anglesa sovint tenen un coneixement de la mateixa de nivell elemental (això si hi ha sort), i molt poca metodologia pràctica de l’ensenyament. Sense coneixements, sense materials didàctics disponibles ni adequats, com podem aconseguir que l’alumnat arribi a adquirir competències bàsiques en la matèria? Com podem afavorir l’adquisició d’una competència comunicativa mínima? Com podem introduir l’ús dels nous llenguatges digitals en unes aules que encara no disposen de la tecnologia adequada?