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Predicting university student achievement in mathematics and English through validated instruments

The development phase entails initiating the constructs to be covered in this study, so as to answer the primary and perhaps secondary research questions. The constructs include the demographic factors, cognitive factors, behavioral and affective factors, and achievement.

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Cohesion and linking adverbials in English writing by Saudi students

Learning a foreign language and using it to enhance a traveling experience is one thing, but using a second language for studies in higher education is truly difficult.

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The adversarial principle and sentencing in English criminal law

England and Wales work on an adversarial principle when it comes to law enforcement.

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TESOL standards and authentic assessment for English language learners

Journal of Gottleib, Katz & Ernst-Slavit (2009) and Colorin Colorado Blog. The Colorin Colorado Blog is unique in that it provides a bilingual web resource for teachers of all age groups, and offers basic information about ELLs and ELL teaching strategies, as well as school and family support…

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Linguicism and disproportionate representation of English language learners in special education

Linguicism and Its Implications for Assessing English Language Learners (ELL) For Suspected Disabilities Throughout the 1980s, a period of language conservatism resurfaced, with federal officials giving up their proactive position and advocating more decision making be moved to local control.

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Selecting picture books for kindergarten English language learners

It is the classic story of Barenstain Bears. Lots of children love it. They particularly pick out the little bear that creeps into a box.

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ESL curriculum implementation and academic outcomes for English language learners

What do you see as the value of the IRB? Why would one be needed for informal research, such as a class assignment?

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Higher order thinking skills in History and English instruction

My interest is in the issue that subject matter instruction in History and English ought not to strive for breadth, but for depth. For processing what text I read critically and with insight, I have to regard it in general, and try to grasp what idea its writer is attempting to convey.

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SIOP model lesson plan for teaching emotions to pre-kindergarten English learners

Objective of this project is to develop a lesson plan for pre-school English learners using the annotated lesson plan. The paper uses the SIOP model to teach children English language because young children have not yet developmentally ready to learn abstract concepts.

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Web-based vocabulary platforms and English language learners in middle school

What the past research or approaches on language acquisition (either through technology or through some other form) has focused on. Also, what research has there been in the state of Maryland's school district Prince George's county, if any.

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