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Title: A CASE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAMS OF A NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Author: Harris, Letitia
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: As the United States struggles with issues regarding the rapidly increasing immigrant population, so do public schools struggle with providing the youth of this non-English speaking population a quality education. Because of the requirements and s...

Title: A Case Study of Hispanic Middle School Students In An ESL Classroom: Discourses In Academic Reading Instruction
Author: Andrews, Horace
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: This case study examined student teacher interaction that took place in one ESL middle school classroom with 29 Latino/a students learning to read in English. Observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers were conducted over a ten month ...

Title: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHER AGENCY IN PROMOTING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PEDAGOGY
Author: Sanczyk, Anna
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: With an increasing immigrant population in the United States, there is a growing number of English as a Second Language (ESL) classes in adult education institutions. Given that English language learners (ELLs) come from various backgrounds, they ...

Title: AN EXPLORATION INTO TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS AND OPERATIONALIZATION OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE AND EXPLICIT READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGY INSTRUCTION FOR SECONDARY ENGLISH LEARNERS
Author: Lenis-Sucerquia, Elkin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: ABSTRACTAn exploration into teachers’ understandings and operationalization of Academic Language and Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for secondary English learners.It has been established that language is at the heart of teachi...

Title: Barbara Ledford oral history interview, 1999 July 17
Creator: Ledford, Barbara, 1940-
Date Created: 1999-07-17
Subjects--Topical: Public schools, School integration, Multicultural education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Students, School management and organization
Description: Barbara Ledford describes her experiences as a teacher and administrator within the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, where she was employed in several schools including East Charlotte High School, Northeast Junior High School, and West Charlot...

Title: Culturally and Linguistically Complex Classrooms, In-Service Professional Development, and the Mediation of Mainstream Elementary School Teachers' Professional Subjectivities in the North Carolina Piedmont
Author: Siefert, Barbara
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Career development
Description: This dissertation study employed participatory methods of qualitative inquiry to understand how, in the setting of the North Carolina piedmont, a district-initiated multi-tiered professional development program mediated mainstream elementary schoo...

Title: Daniela Recabarren oral history interview 2021, November 1
Creator: Recabarren, Daniela
Date Created: 2021-11-01
Subjects--Topical: Immigrants, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Psychology, Social workers, College students
Description: Dr. Daniela Recabarren, Assistant Director for Multicultural and Equity Initiatives for the Center of Counseling and Psychological Services at UNC Charlotte, discusses how being an immigrant has affected her life and worldview. She was born in Cal...

Title: EMPOWERING YOUTH: HOW ENGAGEMENT AS YOUNG ACTIVIST INTERNS DEVELOPS THE CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN YOUTH
Author: Wagner, Kathryn
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: This qualitative dissertation, positioned within a critical consciousness conceptual framework examined the shared experiences of eight Southeast Asian youth, as they engaged in an activism internship at a movement-based youth program. It document...

Title: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP IN IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT ONE URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Author: Morgan, Jonimay
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: Beginning with the Lau decision (Sugarman & Widess, 1974), it has been the responsibility of schools to provide educational support to English Language Learners (ELL). However, as elucidated by Hakuta (2017), educators continually struggle to supp...

Title: Evelyn Van Hecke oral history interview, 1999 July 15
Creator: Van Hecke, Evelyn, 1958-
Date Created: 1999-07-15
Subjects--Topical: Art--Study and teaching, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, School integration, Race relations, Public schools, High school students, High school students--Societies and clubs
Description: Evelyn Van Hecke recounts her experience as an art teacher at West Charlotte High School in the 1980s and 1990s. Topics discussed include the role fine arts classes played in bringing students of all backgrounds together, her experiences working w...

Title: Four Women: Saudi Scholarship, Intensive English Programs and Self-Authoring
Author: Malcolm, Jeanne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: This participatory qualitative inquiry explored the shifting subjectivities of three women from Saudi Arabia, as they pursued tertiary education in the United States through benefit of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program. Informed by a Vygotskia...

Title: Hernaldo Raymond Murillo oral history interview, 2002 September 25
Creator: Murillo, Hernaldo, 1966-
Date Created: 2002-09-25
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Emigration and immigration, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Latin Americans--Social life and customs, Latin Americans--Religion, Immigrants--Economic conditions
Description: A native of Nicaragua, Hernaldo "Raymond" Murillo discusses his experiences as an immigrant during the last seven years in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Murillo talks about the pushes and pulls driving his migration to the region, including work ...

Title: Into the Figured Worlds of First Grade Teachers: Perceptions and Enactments of Instructional Grouping and Differentiation for English Learners in New South Classroom Contexts
Author: Plaisance, Michelle
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Reading, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: The seven-month participatory qualitative inquiry (Emerson, Fretz, & Shaw, 2011) explored how a first grade team in a metro Charlotte elementary school perceived and enacted instructional grouping and differentiation for English Learners within a ...

Title: Joseph Camp oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Camp, Joseph, 1916-
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Diplomatic and consular service, American
Description: Joseph Camp discusses his education in America and the twenty-five years he spent working in Europe and Africa after World War II. Topics examined include his brief time in the Army, teaching in segregated Alabama, the perception of America abroad...

Title: José Luis Garcia oral history interview, 2002 September 26
Creator: Garcia, José, 1973-
Date Created: 2002-09-26
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Emigration and immigration, Immigrants--Economic conditions, Immigrants--Social conditions, Latin Americans--Social conditions, Hispanic Americans--Social life and customs, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, All Souls' Day, Sex role
Description: A native of Mexico City, Jose Luis Garcia talks about his experiences as an immigrant to the North Carolina Piedmont. Mr. Garcia discusses the factors that propelled him to move to the United States and vividly recalls his entree into the country ...

Title: Linda Bellamy oral history interview, 2005 October 25
Creator: Bellamy, Linda, 1952-
Date Created: 2005-10-25
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Open plan schools, Teachers, Multiculturalism
Description: Linda Bellamy talks about her career at Irwin Elementary and her work in developing the English as a second language (ESL) program in the school. Ms. Bellamy reflects on the challenges she faced in developing this program and in teaching ESL stude...

Title: Meeting the Literacy Needs of English Language Learners: A Case Study of the Responsiveness of District and School Reform Efforts in a North Carolina School District
Author: Sims, Timothy
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: In response to increased focus on English Language Learners (ELLs), districts and schools have attempted to impact the academic performance of this group by engaging in improvement processes intended to increase achievement. The purpose of this st...

Title: Mildred Wright oral history interview 1, 2006 February 14
Creator: Wright, Mildred, 1933-
Date Created: 2006-02-14
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, School children--Education (Elementary), Educational assessment, School management and organization, Total quality management in education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Cultural pluralism
Description: Mildred Wright recounts her career as an educator and administrator working with open plan schools in North Carolina, particularly her experiences helping to open, teach at, and manage Irwin Avenue Open School, the second functioning open plan sch...

Title: Poverty, English, and Evangelism: A qualitative study of young adults in a church-based English language program in Cambodia
Author: Krzeszewski, Lori
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Language and languages--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative case study explored the motivations and experiences of thirty young adults enrolled in a free church-based English program in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Data include the researcher's field notes from six months of participant observati...

Title: THE FIGURED WORLD OF ADVOCACY IN A HIGH IMMIGRANT POPULATION URBAN SCHOOL IN THE NEW SOUTH
Author: King, Elena
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: This participatory qualitative inquiry explored the fluctuating subjectivities of, and advocacy performed, by three content area teachers in a high-immigrant population, urban high school in the New South. Using a neo-Vygotskian theoretical framew...