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Overview

Balanced literacy involves language arts acquisition using a program consisting of word study, small strategy groups, and interactive read aloud, along with shared, independent, and guided reading. These essential components help a learner to understand written and spoken communication by emphasizing on reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing. Literacy is an important aspect everyday activities and modern social networks emphasize this, people cannot “Tweet” and comment if they do not write.
Yet even with increasing trends in globalization some children are more advanced, and some need to learn solutions to their education challenges. Balanced literacy instruction supports students’ need by ...

Candidate: Ian Keith Sinnott

Degree: E900‐Doctor Of Philosophy
CRICOS code: 006244J
Campus: Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus
Finish Date: 25/032016
Enrolment Category:Off‐Campus / Full‐Time
Associate Supervisor(s): Dr. Rod Nielsen and Dr Alex Kostogriz
Thesis Title: Evaluating the impact of Instruction of English through the use of the iPad on the English Foundations Studies Program at Abu Dhabi Men’s College [ADMC], Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates.

Colloquia: First year confirmation

Ethics: This project will require ethics clearance
Chapter One
Context of the Research
1.1 Background of the study
Technology has augmented ...

- Instruction of English foundation programme using the Ipad at Abu Dhabi Men's College [ADMC]
- Evaluating the impact of Instruction of English through the use of the Ipad at Abu Dhabi Men’s College
- Teaching English Foundations Programme using the IPad at Abu Dhabi Men's College [ADMC]

Background of the study

Technology has augmented learning in the classroom setup in terms of coming up with innovative teaching tools and strategies that have subsequently dealt with emerging challenges in the profession. As such, there exists an extensive body of research on the impacts of traditional computers, laptops and notebooks on ...

Context of the research and reflections

Context of the research
The Abu Dhabi Men’s College is located in the United Arab Emirates and its students are mostly native Arab speakers. English is used in almost every context in UAE including shops, the streets and school. The use of English has particularly become important to the citizens of the UAE as they seek to communicate with the rest of the world.
The Foundation Studies program is designed to equip students with English reading and writing skills and arithmetic skills prior to commencement of their university education. The English programs is made up of ...

INTRODUCTION

Overcrowded jails filled with violent inmates. Prisons segregated by race. (deliberate fragment). The California prison system currently holds approximately 316,000 inmates across 33 state prisons and dozens of other facilities of varying levels of security (CDCR,gov, 2012). More than 30,000 of these inmates have life sentences. 93% of inmates are male, 7% female; 11.7% of the prison population of California are parole violators. Almost 39% of the prison population of California is Hispanic, 29% black, 27% white and 6% other (CDCR.gov, 2012).

Parole and sentencing legislation in the state of California is far from unique in ...

The research problem

Introduction
Balanced literacy approach to reading is a program involving language art acquisition. The program has every component that a learner needs to understand written and spoken communication. The program puts more emphasize on reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing. Literacy is a very vital aspect in the modern society because almost every activity is guided by education. However, even with the high rate of globalization and as more people become more advanced, some people are yet to get solutions to education challenges they face. Literacy courses are integrate in the school curriculum because if two main reasons. Firstly, they are ...

A Quantitative Study of Preschool Teachers' Beliefs and Attitudes toward Diversity, Diversity Experiences, Ideal Vision of a Diversity Curriculum and Implementation of a Diversity Curriculum in their Classroom

ABSTRACT

This quantitative study with forty respondents, examined preschool teachers’ beliefs towardsdiversity, diversity experiences, ideal vision of a diversity curriculum, and implementation of a diversity curriculum in their classrooms. The study examined the kinds of curriculum (traditional or multicultural) that preschool teachers use throughout the year and what are the factors that serve as barriers to their use of a diversity curriculum with a focus on
race/ethnicity, if any. This study will show the impact of cultural ...

Pitrik, 2013). On the other hand, in socio-cognitive teaching, teachers offer scenarios whereby the students enter into the kinds of social discourse situations and societies that they (students) would encounter outside the traditional classroom. For example, students connect to various contexts for social interaction through the internet. In these contexts, they (students) meet and interact with native English speakers (Strambi & Bouvet, 2003), which allow them (students) to learn the English culture, and therefore, learning the language becomes easier. Therefore, socio-cognitive teaching explains the role of social interaction in the creation of an environment to learn a language, learn about the ...

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The effects of bilingualism in a minority language on third language acquisition

Abstract
In the area of language acquisition, bilinguals differ from monolinguals in several ways. It is accepted that previous language knowledge is facilitative in developing proficiency in a new language and both the learner’s native and non-native languages can be sources of influence in acquiring a new language. Given the evidence that in some social situations knowledge of a second language is facilitative in learning a third, the paper investigates to what extent knowledge of a widely-spoken but non-official local language can be shown to be facilitative in this way. The students in this study are ...