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Fall 2024

Cui, Jing

This study explores the experiences of Chinese international doctoral students as they navigate the development of social support networks within a Canadian university, framed through an Ecological Perspective. The research involved six graduate students from China who participated in this...

Fall 2024

Ye, Qian

The limited scholarship available on the incorporation of Shakespeare’s plays into an intercultural curriculum has led me to contemplate the prospects of fostering dialogue between Shakespeare and the wisdom traditions of Chinese Daoism in higher education within a globalized context. This...

Fall 2012

Cui, Jing

Task basked language teaching (TBLT) is an innovative second language teaching approach that has gained abundant theoretical support from second language acquisition (SLA) research. However, there is evidence that the conceptions formed by teachers can differ from the descriptions and criteria...

Spring 2019

Xiaodong Yang

With the globalization and internationalization of higher education, an increasing number of international students choose to come to Canada to pursue their education. Coming from different social, cultural and educational backgrounds, these international students encounter in Canadian academia...

Spring 2016

Ogilvie, Gregory S

Second language education is well suited to promote transformative outcomes due to its unique character (the importance of both declarative and procedural knowledge), the close connection between language and culture, and the entrenched humanistic tradition within the field (Musumeci, 1997;...

Fall 2024

Ahn, Sung Kyung

While diverse classrooms are an inevitable reality in educational settings today, our knowledge of literacy learning and development in a new language during the adolescent years is limited (Fitzerald, 2017; Uccelli, 2023; Wilcox & Jeffrey, 2018). As there is a close relationship between...

Fall 2018

Sweileh, Belal

Parents often show disempowerment in relation to supporting their children with schoolwork (Hoover-Dempsey et al., 2005; Hornby & Lafaele, 2011; Peña, 2000; Thomsen, 2011). In the case of Arabic learning, parents typically cannot involve themselves in their children’s Arabic learning due to...

Spring 2010

Breckenridge, Yvonne Marie

This study explores the ways that native speakers are represented in different discourses. It combines the personal with the empirical by starting with narratives of professional development, followed by a corpus analysis of how native speakers are defined, and ending with a critical discourse...

Spring 2022

Siyaka, Rekiyat Omeneke

Global occurrences in recent times have highlighted the degeneration of conversation and relationships at all levels, and the ways that education might disrupt such harmful grammars of engagement have been explored by scholars writing in the field of intercultural communicative competence and...

Spring 2013

Wu, Wenhua

The new English Curriculum Standard reform in China is based on Western curriculum theories with an emphasis on a student-centered, communication-oriented, and activities-based approach to teaching rather than on the traditional Confucian heritage culture with the emphasis on a teacher-centered,...