Capping Projects (Teaching English as a Second Language)
Students in the Master's of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) program in the Department of Educational Psychology complete capstone projects in their final year. These projects integrate the skills and concepts that students have learned during their tenure in the program and may be based on surveys or interviews, materials development or analysis, or the conduct of experiments. They are designed to address issues of relevance to teachers of ESL/EFL or the wider ESL community.
Items in this Collection
- 2Language acquisition
- 1English as a Second Language
- 1English as a second language
- 1English-language instruction
- 1Film
- 1Language proficiency
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4/21/2014
The objective of this paper is to examine how language acquisition can be most effectively maximized through film as the visual medium. This project explores ways of using modern Hollywood movies in the ESL classroom as a means of developing the writing skills of ESL learners. To my knowledge, no...
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2014-04-22
The question, ‘How does video captioning improve listening comprehension (LC)?’ is discussed from the perspective of the value captioned video brings to the adult English as a second language (ESL) learner and from how they can be effectively used in the ESL classroom. Listening comprehension is...