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APSA Presidential Task Force Report on New Partnerships
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-10-16)Several principles guide the task force’s work. In the area of research, it seeks to promote opportunities for political science research to break out of the confines of professional specialization; show that here is a ... -
Awareness, Analysis, and Action: Curricular Alignment for Student Success in General Chemistry
(ACS Publications, 2018)This article examines the ways that a shared faculty experience across five partner institutions led to a deep awareness of the curriculum and pedagogy of general chemistry coursework, and ultimately, to a collaborative ... -
Bilingual language acquisition by Korean schoolchildren in New York City
(Cambridge University Press, 1999-08-01)This paper examines the bilingual language development of young Korean–American children with respect to their acquisition of English grammatical morphemes and the different plural marking systems of Korean and English. ... -
Cell-free protein synthesis: advances on production process for biopharmaceuticals and immunobiological products
(Future Science Group, 2021-01-20)Biopharmaceutical products are of great importance in the treatment or prevention of many diseases and represent a growing share of the global pharmaceutical market. The usual technology for protein synthesis (cell-based ... -
Conversational code-switching among Korean-English bilingual children
(SAGE Journals, 2000-09-01)Using the sequential analysis developed by Auer(1984,1995), this paper attempts to show how young Korean-English bilingual schoolchildren employ code-switching to organize their conversation. Auer's distinction between ... -
Cross-language speech perception in adults: Discrimination of Korean voiceless stops by English speakers
(University of Illinois, 2001-09)This study examines the ways in which three classes of alveolar stops in Korean (voiceless 'tense' unaspirated /t*/, voiceless 'lax' slightly aspirated /t/, and voiceless heavily aspirated /th/) present different degrees ... -
Differentiating language contact phenomena: Evidence from Korean–English bilingual children
(Cambridge University Press, 2002-09-11)This paper attempts to provide a reliable description of the characteristics of intrasentential language mixing produced by a group a Korean–English bilingual children, with a special focus on the distinction between code ... -
An exploratory study of the use of a Thai politeness marker by Thai-English bilingual adolescents
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009-01-01)This study examines the use of a Thai politeness marker, khráb (ครับ), by two Thai-English bilingual brothers, aged 11 and 15, during their 3-year stay in the U.S. By examining spontaneous speech data collected over eleven ... -
For Immigrant Students, the ESOL Glass is Half-Full
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Language Learning as Culture Keeping: Family Language Policies of Transnational Adoptive Parents
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-07-18)This study investigates how parents of international adoptees explain their decision to pursue birth-language education for their children and how they go about achieving their goals. It focuses on the perspectives of 16 ... -
Learning to teach writing through tutoring and journal writing
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-08-22)Structured reflection on practical teaching experiences may help pre‐service teachers to integrate their learning and analyze their actions to become more effective learners and teachers. This study reports on 12 pre‐service ... -
A Long-term View of Bilingualism: Lessons from a Summer Abroad
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Meet Societal Challenges by Changing the Culture on Campus
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Negotiating grammatical choices: Academic language learning by secondary ESL students
(Elsevier B.V., 2009-06-02)This paper reports on a part of a year-long investigation into high school ESL students’ academic language development. Eight participants were pulled out of their intermediate ESL class for weekly 50-minute sessions with ... -
Participant- and discourse-related code-switching by Thai—English bilingual adolescents
(De Gruyter, 2009-02-10)This paper attempts to show ways in which two Thai brothers (aged 9 and 13) living temporarily in the United States, employ bilingual code-switching to organize their conversation. Using the sequential analysis developed ... -
Preparing non‐native English‐speaking ESL teachers
(Taylor & Francis, 2008-05-01)This article addresses the challenges that non‐native English‐speaking teacher trainees face as they begin teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) in Western, English‐speaking countries. Despite a great deal of training, ... -
The reflective L2 writing teacher
(Oxford University Press, 2003-01-01)This article reports on the use of journals by prospective ESOL teachers who were asked, as one of the requirements of a writing methods course in a MATESOL program, to conduct student–teacher conferences in writing. Writing ... -
The Role of Parents' Knowledge about Bilingualism in the Transmission of Heritage Languages
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Sharing Peace Engineering with US-based Minority Students, through the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, in Peru
(2018)The University System of Maryland’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) shares the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with underrepresented minority (URM) STEM students. In July ...