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An ESL Learning Center: A Critical Case Study
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Chen, Ku-Yun
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Year and Degree
2013, Doctor of Education, Ashland University, College of Education.
Abstract
This study explored a triangular relationship among teachers, students, and administrators at an English as Second Language (ESL) learning center in a mid-sized, private, non-profit university in the Midwest in the United States. Through the use of critical theory, this study simultaneously gave the three groups of stakeholders voices, interwove their comments, and emerged a system thinking: a whole picture of an ESL learning center. The result from this study revealed administrators' pressure, five teachers' frustration, and nine students' learning agonies. In terms of the findings, this study grounded a leadership theory of an ESL learning center management.
Committee
James Olive, PhD (Committee Chair)
Harold Wilson, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
James Rycik, PhD (Committee Member)
Carla Abreu-Ellis, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
226 p.
Subject Headings
English As A Second Language
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Higher Education
Keywords
ESL
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critical theory
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grounded theory
;
triangular relationship
;
educational psychology
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SLA theory
;
organization culture and leadership
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educational leadership
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Chen, K.-Y. (2013).
An ESL Learning Center: A Critical Case Study
[Doctoral dissertation, Ashland University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1374848356
APA Style (7th edition)
Chen, Ku-Yun.
An ESL Learning Center: A Critical Case Study .
2013. Ashland University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1374848356.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Chen, Ku-Yun. "An ESL Learning Center: A Critical Case Study ." Doctoral dissertation, Ashland University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1374848356
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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