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Effects of a formal mentoring program on teacher retention and benefits to proteges and mentors
(2001)This thesis is an evaluation research study into the effects of a formal mentoring program on teacher retention and the benefits to mentors and protégés. The program studied took place in the Keewatin-Patricia District ... -
Language learning environment of the senior kindergarten child
(1990)The study describes the language learning environment of children in senior kindergarten. It focuses firstly, on the child and the contexts in which s/he uses language in the classroom, secondly, on the teaching-learning ... -
Native student traditional tribal values and secondary school retention
(1997)This qualitative study examined the relationship between Native student traditional tribal values and beliefs and the secondary school retention of seven Amerindian secondary school graduates. It is a departure from ... -
Perceptions of education : voices from an isolated reserve community in Northern Canada
(2001)This qualitative study describes the perceptions held by the stakeholders of education in a self-governed northern isolated community of the goals of education and curriculum for Aboriginal children. The study recognizes ... -
Reader response as a focal practice in foreign language acquisition
(2006)This study describes the implementation of the reader response as a focal practice approach (Sumara, 1995) in a third year, Spanish as a foreign language class in a university setting, the nature of engagement and response ... -
Recent Chinese immigrants' perceptions of English language and culture learning in Canada
(2007)Study participants : 6 Chinese immigrations in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. -
Shared response and young adolescent readers' comprehension and re-interpretation of picture books
(1999)This study describes the relationship between shared response and the comprehension and re-interpretation of picture books with four members of a response group of students in a grade 7/8 class during the implementation ... -
Sino-Canadian parents' perceptions of their children's Chinese literacy development
(2004)This qualitative study was conducted in a Northwestern Ontario urban community where the population of Sino-Canadian people is approximately 300 members. The purpose of the study was to describe Sino-Canadian parents’ ... -
Six grade 6 students' perceptions of the Ontario Province-wide reading and writing assessments
(2004)This qualitative study investigated Grade Six Students' Perceptions of the Ontario Province-wide Reading and Writing Assessments. The participants in the study were six Grade 6 students attending a rural school in ... -
Transfer of learning in the field of recreation
(1992)The intent of the study Transfer of Learning in the Field of Recreation was to determine if the students in the Recreation Leadership program at Confederation College could transfer the skills and principles learned in ... -
Using TV programs as a source of input to acquire idioms/idiomatic expressions for intermediate learners of English as a second language
(1994)For intermediate and advanced learners of English as a second language (ESL), language improvement lies mainly in the expansion of vocabulary (Alexander, 1984). The command of idioms/idiomatic expressions is an important ... -
Young adolescents' comprehension of literary texts as mediated by the reinterpretation - representation of literary texts through drama : a literary unit on humane and environmental education
(2003)This qualitative study describes the relationship between young adolescent readers’ comprehension of environmentally-themed literary texts and the representation and reinterpretation of those texts through drama. The ...