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Me siento como un héroe: Fostering Global Citizenry through an Integrated Unit of Study on Water
(Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, 2013-12)In this article, we uphold diversity and 21st century skills as central to literacy pedagogy and use a cosmopolitan lens to present the integrated curriculum of a fourth grade bilingual teacher and the experiences of her ... -
Unvoicing a field's expertise: A two-pronged citation and language analysis
(University of Borås, 2022-07)The field of Developmental Education (DE) draws from a distinct and multidisciplinary body of research and scholarship to facilitate students' transitions to college and to support their postsecondary academic success. ... -
Don’t Judge a Boy by His Face: Creating Space for Empathy, Engagement, and Skill Building through Interactive Read Alouds
(Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, 2019)In the past few decades, research has shown interactive read alouds to have enormous benefits for developing readers and should be included as an important component of reading instruction. Yet many teachers do not utilize ... -
“We teach reading this way because it is the model we’ve adopted”: Asymmetries in language and literacy policies in a Two-Way Immersion programme
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-06)In the USA there has been widespread growth in Two‐Way Immersion (TWI) programmes in all states, including those who have outlawed bilingual education. The model offers language majority students the opportunity to become ... -
Mothers Choose: Reasons for Enrolling Their Children in a Two-Way Immersion Program
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-09)This article reports a qualitative study of the reasons mothers chose a Spanish/English Two-Way Immersion Program for their children in Central Texas. Some of the mothers’ reasons varied and others overlap. All mothers ... -
Problematizing the Taken-For-Granted: Talking Across Differences in Teacher Education
(Sage, 2022-05)No abstract prepared. -
A Catalyst of Change: A Graduate Student’s Perspectives on Transformational Teaching.
(Forum of International Research in Education, 2019-11)This article interprets teachers as change agents in light of the Transformational Teaching (TT) framework (Slavich & Zimbardo, 2012). Contributing to the understanding of teachers’ transformation, we report on a case study ... -
Funds of Identity and Education: The Journey of a Latina Educator from Linguistic Erasure to Linguistic Empowerment
(OpenED Network, 2020-12)This study had three aims: to present a case study and explain the funds of identity of a Latina educator; to use this as an opportunity to connect heritage language to ideological clarity and humanizing pedagogies in ... -
From Fake News to Racism: A Study of Change in a Reading Intervention Class
(John Wiley & Sons, 2022-02)This qualitative study investigated how teaching an historical unit through a critical lens might empower students to evaluate sources, challenge fake news, and make informed decisions. The reading intervention teacher in ... -
Supporting Success: Learning Assistance for Adult-Arrival Immigrant Students
(Appalachian State University, 2020-05)Generation 1 learners are multilingual, adult-arrival, immigrant students who begin their U.S. education in adult ESL. With their nontraditional academic backgrounds, these learners often require support when beginning ... -
A "Literacy Awakening": The Role of Study Abroad and International Service Learning for Preservice Teachers' Literacy Engagement
(Forum for International Research in Education, 2019-11-05)The purpose of this study was to explore how preservice teachers (PST) became aware of literacies in global and local contexts and to understand how PST conceive of literacy after experiencing an international service ... -
Interventions for improving employment outcomes for persons with autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review update
(John Wiley & Sons, 2021-07-03)Background: The incidence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is on the rise. Currently, 1 in 59 children are identified with ASD in the United States. ASD refers to a range of neurological disorders that involve some degree ... -
Investigating College-Text Readiness: Literacy Curriculum Audits to Research Practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-09)Recent reform efforts in developmental education have led to model-development of college literacy instruction without being informed by institution-specific investigations of whether, how, and to what extent new models ... -
Promising Practices in Developmental Education
(Texas State University, The Education Institute, 2017)No abstract prepared. -
Student-Perceived Interferences to College and Mathematics Success
(National Center for Developmental Education, 2017-12)Nationally, developmental mathematics courses have some of the highest failure and withdrawal rates of post-secondary courses. A wide range of factors may be contributing to students’ struggles in these courses. In order ... -
A Comparative Analysis of EFL and ESL Programs Regarding Curriculum Mandates and Program Directors’ and Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions: The Case of Turkey and the US
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2014-06)In researching the comparison of ESL and EFL programs regarding curriculum mandates and perceptions of program directors and Teacher candidates, this study addresses the following research questions: How different are the ... -
Mandates, needs, equitable resources, and current research in English language teacher education: The case of Turkey
(Consortia Academia Publishing, 2014-02)Improving the quality of English language teacher education (ELTE) programs has become a major point of consideration; however, such programmatic evaluations are markedly rare. This study utilizes both numeric and interpretive ... -
Indigenous Graduate and Professional Students Decolonizing, Reconciling, and Indigenizing Belongingness in Higher Education
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020-11)Although belongingness has been conceptualized by higher education institutions in marginalizing ways, we reclaim the construct as authentic relationships characterized by humanization, mutuality, and respect for students' ... -
College Reading and Studying: The Complexity of Academic Literacy Task Demands
(Wiley, 2019-04-24)Over a century of research on postsecondary learning has documented that students often struggle with the academic literacy demands of college. Academic literacy tasks are the subset of all academic tasks that involve ... -
Teaching Academically Underprepared Postsecondary Students
(Sage, 2019-05-22)Only 25% to 38% of secondary education graduates in the United States are proficient readers or writers but many continue to postsecondary education, where they take developmental education courses designed to help them ...
