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Browsing by Subject "Strategies"

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    Instructional Strategies for Supporting Oral Language Development in a Navajo Immersion Classroom: A Case Study.
    (2020-10) McKenzie, James
    This descriptive case study identifies instructional strategies for supporting oral language development in a Grade 1 Indigenous (Navajo) immersion classroom. While immersion education is seen as one way to help reverse language shift, immersion students sometimes exhibit lower-than-expected speaking abilities (Cummins, 2014, Tedick & Lyster, 2020). To contribute to understating what instructional strategies may affect language development in Indigenous immersion contexts, this study uses classroom observation, video and audio recordings, field notes, pictures and interviews to examine pedagogical strategies used by a teacher. Findings reveal that an Indigenous (Navajo) teacher uses strategies common to world language and immersion education, as well as strategies related to distinctly Indigenous ways of being, to support oral language development. The study addresses implications for Indigenous immersion education, teacher education, and future research, and calls for more attention to strategies that promote oral language development in ways that align with Indigenous concepts of language.
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    Internationalization rationales, obstacles and drivers: a multiple case study of Spanish higher education institutions
    (2013-04) Grasset, Cristina
    This research examined the cases of three diverse Spanish universities, making inferences about the factors influencing the internationalization processes of higher education institutions in response to the broader forces of globalization. Data were collected from a panel of experts and multiple public and institutional sources utilizing a mixed methods approach to build portraits of international engagement, produce internationalization indexes and analyze rationales, obstacles and drivers. The Horn, Hendel and Fry (2007) method was adapted and used to assess the international dimension of universities in the Spanish context. A comparison and contrast of themes from the three cases provides evidence of universal institutional internationalization rationales, coinciding with those identified by Knight (2006) as of emerging importance; and unveils six factors, or categories of obstacles and drivers, influencing the internationalization of Spanish higher education institutions, including: governance, cultural traits, the economic scenario, applicable legislation, human resources, and branding.