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Curriculum Evaluation of HELP

Johnstun, Ann

This project focuses on evaluating the existing curriculum and assisting in the rational building of the structure of goals and objectives of HELP. Specifically, the project seeks to answer the following questions: How did ...
Developing a task-based assessment of EAP pragmatics

Youn, Soo Jung (2009)

The purpose of the present study is to identify L2 speakers’ pragmatic needs in a university EAP program. Based on the needs analysis, target tasks and pragmatic assessment tasks were identified with a specification of ...
The Differential Effects of Corrective Feedback Before and After Explicit Instruction

Noda, Kazuyo (2010)

This study investigates the effect of prompts and recasts, according to two learning stages: One before explicit instruction, and the other after explicit instruction. On two occasions, individual students participated in ...
An Evaluation of Laulima and Its Potential for Use at the Hawaii English Language Program

Kletzien, Jacob (2009)

This evaluative study investigates the usefulness of Laulima, the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) of the University of Hawai’i, at the Hawai’i English Language Program (HELP). After identifying the needs of internet use ...
Evaluation Report for: The Spring 2010 Evaluation of the Teacher Induction Process at H.E.L.P.

Kletzien, Jacob (2010)

The present paper reports evaluation of teacher induction processes of HELP. After interviews of former and current HELP teachers were conducted, survey questionnaires additionally administered to the same participants. ...
Grammar Instruction in Content-Based Classes at the Hawai‘i English Language Program

Miyao, Mari (2009)

The present curriculum-development project primarily focuses on needs analysis and evaluation of teaching conducted at the Hawai‘i English Language Program (HELP). Based on the lack of clear course objective or guideline ...
HELP Evaluation Project, Spring 2008: Evaluation Report

Brown, Dan; Davis, John; Nguyen, Ky (2008)

The Hawaii English Language Program (HELP) Evaluation Project has endeavored to gather information regarding (1) why students generally choose to come to HELP; (2) why students specifically choose to come to HELP relative ...
HELP: The First Step toward Accreditation

Johnstun, Ann; Long, Wenpei; Guo, Yue

With the intention of the Hawai’i English Language Program’s (HELP) being accredited to the American Association of Intensive English Programs (AAIEP), this project takes a first step toward the membership, which is ...
Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of Hawai’i Pidgin English to Japanese Learners of English: Is Pidgin Easier to Understand than Standard English?

Sano, Yuko (2010)

This pilot study aims to investigate the degrees of Pidgin comprehension by Japanese learners of English, and find out whether Pidgin is easier to listen to and understand than Standard English. Also, it intends to examine ...
Interactionist Dynamic Assessment in L2 Learning: A Case Study of Tutoring L2 English Oral Communication

Orikasa, Mami (2010)

Interactionist Dynamic Assessment (DA) is a language pedagogical approach that dialectically integrates assessment and instruction to co-construct a future between the learner and the mediator. Interactionist DA, based on ...
On the Merits of Mixing Methods: A Language Program Evaluation

Kletzien, Jacob (2010)

The current evaluation study on a university-level language program intends to determine the viability of using a specific Virtual Learning Environment in all classes at the program. The evaluation that ensued followed a ...
The Revision and Development of the HELP Placement Test

Long, Wenpei; Johnstun, Ann (2009)

This project intends to reform HELP’s placement test by observing its strengths and weaknesses. This project, contrary to the classical Item Response Theory (IRT), employed the Rasch model (Bond & Fox, 2007) for measurement. ...
Transfer from the Task-based Classroom to the Real World: How Do ESL Students Reflect on their Learning by Doing Daily Survival Tasks?

Ogawa, Chie (2009)

This study intends to examine to what extent Task-based classroom learning is applicable to the real world. To examine this, it first examines daily struggles of ESL learners and how they manage to survive in ESL context. ...