My study participants were Chinese heritage language learners of Taiwanese ethnicity. The participants enrolled in Chinese language courses at a large R1 university in th[...]

This design-based research (DBR) study investigates how a professional learning workshop (PLW) focused on developing teacher participants’ disciplinary literacy instructi[...]

This dissertation presents case studies of early career teachers’ experiences within their teacher communities. Given that nearly half of all teachers decide to leave the[...]

Informed by queer theory (Sullivan, 2003) and taking place in the southeastern United States, this qualitative study explores the following questions: 1) What themes, if [...]

Speech perception is a multimodal process that involves both auditory and visual cues. Visual elements, such as lip and jaw movements, can significantly enhance comprehen[...]

As the mandates in education and demands placed on teachers increase, it is important that educators continue to utilize ways to teach children that encourage opening up [...]

This interview study investigated academic readers reading practices using Deleuze and Guattaris concept assemblage to produce language and images of reading that recogni[...]

In the three article manuscripts that comprise this dissertation, I analyze data sets comprised of transcriptions of audio-recordings of three groups of high school stude[...]

In order to investigate the positive influence of implementing arts-based creativity in a foreign language classroom, an after school English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachi[...]

Traditional school measures and norms often fail to validate giftedness in culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners, which causes them to have limited access [...]

This is a one year multiple case study investigating the high school to college transition of three bilingual language minority students and their understandings of acade[...]

This research was designed and conducted regarding particularities of beliefs about English teachers, English education fever, English educational policy, and English tea[...]

In this dissertation, I explore a methodological combination of critical discourse analysis and linguistic ethnography to explore critical multilingual and multiliterate [...]

In this study, I inquire into the tensions experienced by pre-service teachers (PSTs) as they develop conceptions of teaching during their formal teacher education and as[...]

The purpose of this qualitative multi case study was to understand the relationships elementary teachers have with the technology they use as part of their literacy instr[...]

Researchers have shown that the rapid influx of technology is greatly influencing the requirements and resources available for those considered literate within contempora[...]

This qualitative research study took a grounded theory approach (Charmaz, 2014) to examine adolescents multimodal literate identities through social media, and teachers p[...]

This dissertation presents three articles on an ethnographic case study exploring what teachers do with immigration policy they learn about in professional development. I[...]

International graduate students studying in American universities must meet the challenge of producing high-level academic writing that may differ considerably from the [...]

This study, a poststructural ethnography, used rhizoanalysis to deconstruct the literacy practices of four students in an urban middle school self-contained classroom for[...]

This is a qualitative study of a small subset of Japanese as a Foreign Language (JFL) students who are interested in Japanese popular culture and language, focusing on la[...]

A post-qualitative dissertation, this self-study follows the five-year career of a new teacher as she balances competing stresses in, around, and outside the classroom. S[...]

This qualitative study highlights data collected over a four-month period with a focus group of ten high school students in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. The study was desi[...]

Poet, Toi Derricotte (1997) wrote, eventually every identity breaks down tosome self that has to learn to live between loneliness and connection (p. 78). Public school te[...]

For most of the past two centuries, the rural South has been home to a population almost entirely composed of European and African Americans. However, during the last dec[...]