An ESL Learning Center: A Critical Case Study

By Ku-Yun Chen (陳谷鋆)

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 two administrators' pressure and policies, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3639518810
• ISBN13: 9783639518818
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Scholars' Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"