CHILD, FAMILY, AND SCHOOL CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO ENGLISH PROFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT AMONG FOUR-YEAR-OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (ELLS) IN MIAMI Yoon Kyong Kim, Ph.D George Mason University, 2011 Dissertation Director: Dr. Adam Winsler English Language Learners (ELLs), in addition to increased risk for living in poverty, experience the extra challenge of learning a second language while tryin...

When I visited Canadian elementary and secondary schools over the past 10 years, many teachers told me that it was difficult to get English-as-a-second language (ESL) parents involved in K-12 education. I was often asked by teachers, “Why don’t they show up at school?” The absence of ESL parents from school is often misinterpreted as parents’ lack of concern about their children’s education. Ho...

Government leaders, educators and the general public in most countries in the world, especially those less economically developed, believe that combining English language proficiency with skills in information technology will facilitate success in life (Warschauer, 2000, as cited in Fang & Warschauer, 2004) and provide the potential for that country’s population to connect to the rest of the wo...

Using formative assessment to analyze tasks in the textbook is uncommonly used. Textbooks as primary resources should follow latest curriculum version teaching-learning processes. This study aimed at investigating implementation of on speaking and writing activities "English for Nusantara" textbook. Qualitative research was used approach collect research. Types were analyzed using assessing ski...