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The Current State of Specialized Bilingual Public Schools in Puerto Rico: Teacher and Administrator Perspectives
(2020-05-01)
Puerto Rico's geographic, political and social characteristics have sculpted an unparalleled linguistic exchange for professional, educational, and personal pursuits resulting in a vested interest in promoting bilingualism. ...
Students’ perceptions on the effectiveness of online interaction strategies in English as a second language teaching: Study on higher education Puerto Rican students during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2021-05-03)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the year 2020, educational practices changed from face-to-face classes to distance education classes. As universities were faced with the challenge of adapting their courses to the distance ...
Puerto Rican English teachers' perceptions of distance reading lessons in times of COVID 19
(2021-07-19)
The purpose of this study was to document the perceptions of five Puerto Rican English teachers from one private school regarding the implementation of distance reading lessons. The focus of this phenomenological research ...
Gender, curriculum and young adult literature in Puerto Rico: A content and critical discourse analysis
(2021-12-16)
This qualitative study implemented a Critical Discourse Analysis using the PRDE English Program Gender Equity Manual (2015). In addition, this study compared the narrative literature from PRDE’s English 9th textbook- ...
Multimodal semiotics in higher education: meaning-making in the study of biology
(2022-04-22)
This qualitative study examines the semiotic meanings communicated through multiple representations in the teaching of an advanced undergraduate course in biology. Scientific discourse is intrinsically multimodal in nature; ...
Exploring language ideologies in the transition to an international baccalaureate curriculum : a case study of an executive elite school in Puerto Rico
(2022-05-23)
The purpose of this study was to investigate how language ideologies shifted after 2014 when the International Baccalaureate program was implemented in an executive elite school in Puerto Rico. The research investigates ...
Information literacy in pre-service English teachers: How to integrate it in teaching English as a second language
(2022-12-16)
This research explored the knowledge of information literacy of pre-service English teachers in Puerto Rico in terms of its definition, implementation, and application in teaching English as a second language, as well as ...
The linguistic reality of medicine and nursing students in Puerto Rico: A qualitative exploratory study
(2023-05-09)
The purpose of this qualitative exploratory research was to examine the linguistic realities, specifically the role of Spanish and English, of six physicians and six nurses who obtained their degrees in a school of medicine ...