Despite a lot of research has been conducted on issues surrounding class size, there is still no conclusive statement about class size. Most of the research about large classes indicates that large class setting has a negative influence on learning an . . .

Last year, the enrollment of international students in American universities hit an all-time high. Unable to find a book specifically targeting academic English for finance, this need has been met by designing material for students and language instru . . .

This project facilitates and encourages the teaching of Basque culture in the secondary Spanish classroom by providing teachers with easily accessible materials that they can use to plan lessons to incorporate this important regional culture of Spain. . . .

This project suggests an integration of English composition and ESL writing research and developments, in order to come closer to meeting the needs of multilingual learners in the first-year academic writing classroom. ESL writing research has provide . . .

The Japanese language is often described as subtle and vague by non-native Japanese speakers. Even simple Japanese sentences can cause difficulty for non-native Japanese speakers. One reason for this difficulty may be differences in the cognitive proc . . .

As a high school foreign language teacher in California, I am a first-hand witness to the rapid transformation the traditional teaching environment is undergoing. After experiencing classroom size increases, certified and classified staff reductions, . . .

Online learning is still emerging in Saudi Arabian universities. The literature review in this study showed the educational and cultural backgrounds that Saudi students have. The literature review also showed the seven generally used components of onl . . .

Given the current demographic profile for Hispanics in the United States, academic underachievement is of increasing concern. This study investigates factors that promote and impede academic achievement of Hispanic students of Mexican ancestry in post . . .

This study analyzed the Voice Onset Time (VOT) production of six early sequential Spanish-English bilinguals. In this study, the VOT values for Spanish and English word-initial stops /b d g/ are compared to monolingual ranges for Spanish and English. . . .

The Japanese language has an abundance of onomatopoeic and mimetic expressions. Native speakers use this unique feature of the language frequently. However, in the reading of Japanese authentic materials, such as literature, newspapers and advertiseme . . .