Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Words Flying on the Wind: Buriat Mongolian Children in a Chinese Bilingual School, Valerie Sartor
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
PREPAREDNESS OF MUSLIM ESL STUDENTS TO MEET THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS-BASED ASSESSMENT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY IN AN ISLAMIC PRIVATE SCHOOL, Radi Abouelhassan
Add+VantageMR® Assessments: A Case Study of Teacher and Student Gains, Cathy Briand
Korean American Students' Language and Literacy Practices at a Korean Language School, Mihye Han
Quiet on the Set!: Writing Socially in an Elementary After-School Video Club, Charles Jurich
STORYBOOK TO ENGAGE IN LITERACY PRACTICES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN KOREA, Hyo-Jin Lee
An Investigation of the Role of Guided Reading in Proficient First Grade Reader's In-School Writing, Jolene Reed
(RE)MAKING MESTIZAJE: THE ROLE OF RACE AND GENDER NORMS IN LATINA COLLEGE STUDENTS DISCOURSE, Sarah Leah Santillanes
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Politics of Play: A Sociocultural Analysis of Play in the Context of State Preschool Standards, Michelle Croasdell
PEDAGOGY OF POST 9/11 UNITED STATES: MUSLIM AMERICAN STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES, TEACHERS' PEDAGOGIES, AND TEXTBOOKS' ANALYSIS, Randa Nabil Elbih
Dual Language Teachers' Changing Views of Spanish Literacy Teaching and Learning as Influenced by Critical Dialogue, Susana Ibarra Johnson
The Experiences of Panamanian Afro-Caribbean Women in STEM: Voices to Inform Work with Black Females in STEM Education., Beverly King Miller
Teacher Perceptions about Diversity and the Achievement Gap: Understanding the Discursive Construction of Whiteness, Virginia Padilla Vigil
INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART, INDIGENOUS AESTHETICS AND REPRESENTATION, John Paul Rangel
Principals' Perceptions of Their Responsibilities and Practices Related to English Language Learners, Connie Yaqub
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Students' perceptions of the use of peer-to-peer ESL text chat: An introductory study, Dale Arthur Garratt
I felt like the enemy and the savior all at once': English teacher identity in a methods course wiki, Michelle Jewett
The Complex Journey of Biracial (Korean plus Other Racial/Ethnic Backgrounds) Youth in the Southwest, Kwang-Jong Park
What we can learn when we teach Retrospective Miscue Analysis to young, adult, incarcerated males, Gwen Patriarca
EFL TO ESL: A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH L2 STUDENTS IN TRANSITION, Michael W. Schwartz
DOES IT COMPUTE?: A STUDY OF THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Frederick Smith
Teacher Responses to Participation in Hawaii's Kahua Induction Program, Rebecca Thigpen
Examining the Indigenous Relationship Between Education and the United States' Military from 2001-2009, Leola Tsinnajinnie
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Experiencias de vida de mujeres líderes en universidades mexicanas, Jose Humberto Alanis Alanis
Ritos personales que señalan la transición de las mujeres a la segunda mitad de la vida, Angélica González Leal
Black in the Non-Black Imagination: How Anti-Black Ideology Shapes Non-Black Racial Discourse, Natasha Howard
Evoking Visual Imagination in Teaching Writing: ESL Students' Perspectives, Izabella Kovarzina
First-person singular pronouns in Japanese: How do they work in conversation?, Mami McCraw
Being Raced, Acting Racially: Multiracial Tribal College Students' Representations of Their Racial Identity Choices, Michelle Montgomery
The Racialization of Dine (Youth) in Education, Vincent Werito
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
EXPLORING THE ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: LEXICAL BORROWING FROM CISTERCIAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND FRENCH SIGN LANGUAGE, Keith Martin Cagle
ADOLESCENT GEOGRAPHIES IN THE CLASSROOM: INTERACTIONS WITH PLACE- AND COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION, Anna Gahl Cole
TEACHING FINANCIAL LITERACY IN K-12 SCHOOLS: A SURVEY OF TEACHER BELIEFS AND KNOWLEDGE, Dan Otter
A Feminist Approach to Understanding ESL Identity Development: A Case Study of Korean Women in U.S. Universities, Seonsook Park
Spaña, New Mexico: Santos, Sonic and Second Cousins, Maria Elena C. Salazar
Conceptions of First-Year Secondary Mathematics Intern Teachers, Alan Tennison
Challenges and Possibilities of Emigrante Epistemology: Mexican Immigrants Caught in the Crossfire of Neo-liberalism within Post 9/11 United States, Elisabeth Valenzuela
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Negotiating Power, Identity and Mutuality: Graduate Students in Relation with Faculty, Administrators and Each Other, Donald Halquist
Exploring the Mathematical Thinking of Bilingual Primary-Grade Students: CGI Problem Solving From Kindergarten Through 2nd Grade, Mary Elisabeth Marshall
How do Teachers Understand and Act on policy Directives to Close the Gender Achievement Gap in Writing Present in State Test Scores?, Michael Stanley
Empowering the Invisible Child: A Narrative Case Study of the Northwestern Michigan Migrant Program, Jessica Torrez
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Christianity in the Lives of Highly Educated African American Women, Cecelia J. Travick-Jackson
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
A Feminist Inquiry into the Nature of Creativity: A Case Study of Alice Bartlett Woolf, Susan Lucinda Woolf Schulte
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
The Effect of Intercultural Training on Ethnocentrism, Victor Pedro Padilla
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Structure of the Chinese Self as Being, Hongyin Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Decisions of Correctness in New Mexico Spanish, Leslie Merryl Kravitz
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
A Sociolinguistic Study of Crow Language Maintenance, John Arthur Stanley Read
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
A Sociolinguistic Study of Language Maintenance in the Northern New Mexico Community of Arroyo Seco, Leroy I. Ortiz
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The Feasibility of Test Translation -- English to Navajo, Annabelle R. Scoon
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Towards Becoming Bilingual -- Cognitive and Semantic Considerations on Language Acquisition, Gnaneswaran ThiruRaj Perinpanayagam
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
The Effect of a Bilingual Program Used in Nine First Grade Classrooms with Spanish Surnamed Students in the East and West Las Vegas Schools, Juanita D. Montoya
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
The Nicaraguan Ministry Of Education As A Social System., Raul E. Quintanilla
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
A History of Presbyterian Church Schools in New Mexico, Lois Edith Huebert
Sex Differences in Outside Information in Science and Social Studies, Katherine Deonier Stewart
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
A Study of the Effect of Adjunctive Use of Programed Instructional Materials on Student Achievement in Selected Language Arts Areas, Ronald A. Ruble
Theses/Dissertations from 1960
The Efficiency of Bilingual Children in Understanding Analogies in the English Language, Veta Walker Mercer
Theses/Dissertations from 1957
The Relationship Between Bilingualism and Verbal Test Performance, Donald Fred Mead
Theses/Dissertations from 1953
The History and Trends of Indian Education in New Mexico Under the Administration of Federal and State Governments, William Moyer Hemsing