عنوان

Academic Achievement for ESL Learners in a Teaching Hospital's Training Program

Number

TL48499

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Academic Achievement for ESL Learners in a Teaching Hospital's Training Program

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Abdul Fattah Rachdan

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Spaulding, Carol C.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Walden University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

296

Text of Note

Committee members: Karet, Joanna; Morton, Mary Lou

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-22750-4

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ed.D.

Discipline of degree

Education

Body granting the degree

Walden University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

Many students in an allied health program at a Middle Eastern Arab university were experiencing difficulties with courses taught in English, resulting in poor academic achievement, low grade point averages, a high failure rate amongst its first year students, and an adverse impact upon a future skilled and educated work force for the region. Tinto's theory of institutional action for students' success served as the conceptual framework for the inquiry that used a qualitative explanatory case study method to examine the experiences of those students who were facing difficulties with their studies. To address questions about why students were failing and leaving the school and how the institution might remedy this educational problem, the study employed initial and follow-up interviews and reviews of academic records and portfolios of 6 currently enrolled or recently graduated students over age 21, who volunteered to participate. Content and thematic analysis of the collected qualitative data produced findings indicative of lack of college readiness among students and gaps in institutional practices such as remedial methods for the unprepared students. Based on the study findings, a policy recommendation for improving the educational practices was introduced to support building a better educational environment at the school. The positive social change implications of this study are not only limited to establishing programs to support the students' success and improve retention rates at the institution but also may include the establishment of more effective approaches to the reform measures of the educational system in the country.

Linguistics; English as a Second Language; Educational evaluation; Health education; Qualitative research; Academic achievement; College students; Elementary school students; Education policy; Social change; English as a second language instruction; Portfolios

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Education;English as Second Language learners;Second language learning

Abi Najem, Pamela

Spaulding, Carol C.

Subdivision

Education

Walden University

Call Number

1732390258; 3734187

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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