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A journey towards professional integration – experiences of immigrant Ph. D. students in breaking down barriers to enter Canadian academia
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This dissertation investigates the internal and external barriers and successes in career preparation of a small group of immigrant doctoral students. Through three cycles of a four-year action research investigation that integrates interviews, surveys, participant reflections and...
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Spring 2022
Most immigrants and refugees lose their Heritage Language (HL) within one to three generations of moving to Canada. This study addresses a major gap in language education research about the potential of arts-based curricula to support the HL development and maintenance (HLDM) of multilingual...
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Spring 2024
This study aims to examine the linguistic vitality of the Gorontalo language, which was assessed as a threatened language by Ethnologue in 2020 (Eberhard, et al., 2020). Based on an extensive literature review, two research questions emerged: 1) What is the current language vitality of the...
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Fall 2020
This qualitative study investigated the extant English as a foreign language (EFL) faculty mentorship programs at four higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Mekong River Delta (MRD) of Vietnam. The findings were interpreted through a social constructivist research paradigm drawing on three...
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English Foreign Language Teachers’ Perceptions of the Implementation of Task Based Language Teaching in Chile
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Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been widely studied in several foreignlanguage contexts, but little research has been conducted in Latin American countries and noneabout teachers’ perceptions of TBLT implementation in Chile. Thus, this qualitative interpretivestudy seeks to explore the...
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Fall 2015
This thesis is written in two phases. Phase 1 is a critical-historical description of a widely perceived crisis in (South) Korean mothering practices, especially with respect to English as a foreign language (EFL) learning and its implications in the broader spectrum of Korean education. Phase...
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Mentoring Beginning Second Language Teachers: Perceptions of Challenges and Expectations of Support
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Today’s beginning teachers are confronted with a variety of challenges and issues as they develop their professional identities. Their needs and challenges in specific subject areas are further misunderstood or unrecognized. This qualitative research study focuses on the perceptions and...
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Potential Factors (De)Motivating English Majors’ Autonomous Language Learning beyond the Classroom at a Public Higher Education Institution in Vietnam
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This study explores factors that might motivate or demotivate English majors' autonomous language learning beyond the classroom (ALLBC) at a Vietnamese public higher education institution (HEI) from the perspectives of both students and their instructors. Purposive sampling was used, and data...
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Socio-cultural and Ecological Factors Influencing the Acquisition of English of Khmer Students in Vietnam
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This qualitative study explores socio-cultural and ecological factors influencing the acquisition of English of Khmer students in Vietnam. Its objective is to assist the Khmer ethnic minority in learning English, thus helping teachers of English, Khmer students and their parents, the Soc Trang...
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Fall 2012
This dissertation presents an investigation of the place of ‘culture’ in teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Korea. Emerging from the researcher’s direct and indirect cross-cultural conflict while studying and living abroad, the investigation aims to understand the...