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Present	Assistant Dean, Zayed University ‐ College of Education
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English Medium Instruction and the potential of translanguaging practices in ...

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts (2021)

Anna Dillon, Geraldine Chell, Jase Moussa-Inaty, Kay Gallagher, et al.

Abstract In the UAE, although Arabic is the first and official language (L1), English has become the medium of instruction ...

A comparative study of academic literacy in English medium instruction ...

Issues in Educational Research (2021)

Geraldine Chell, Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann, Tuike Iiskala and Anna Dillon

Graduate students in English medium instruction (EMI) programs face challenges with academic literacy, the fundamental tool for thesis writing. Therefore, ...

Mothers’ accounts of attending to educational and everyday needs of ...

Social Sciences (2021)

Fatma F.S. Said, Nadine Jaafarawi and Anna Dillon

From March 2020 until July 2020, the UAE implemented mandatory distance learning due to COVID-19, which meant that children had ...

Examining the text quality of English/Arabic dual language children ...

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (2020)

Anna Marie Dillon, Zeina Hojeij, Alecia Perkins and Rima Malkawi

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Children’s literature plays an essential role in the development ...

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Innovation and Transformation in Early Childhood Education in the UAE

Education in the United Arab Emirates (2019)

This chapter explores the development of Early Childhood Education in the UAE, focusing on the period between birth and compulsory ...

Global nomads, cultural chameleons, strange ones or immigrants? An exploration ...

Journal of Research in International Education (2019)

Anna Dillon and Tabassim Ali

© The Author(s) 2019. The term ‘Third Culture Kid’ (TCK) is commonly used to denote children living in a host ...

Using songs to improve literacy in a dual-language kindergarten in ...

TESOL Journal (2019)

Anna Dillon, Hanan Aguleh and Nadia Al Seyabi

Selecting high quality dual language texts for young children in ...

Issues in Educational Research (2019)

Zeina Hojeij, Anna Marie Dillon, Alecia Perkins and Ian Grey

© 2019, Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc.. All rights reserved. Bilingual literature for children is valuable in encouraging ...

The experience of co-teaching for emergent Arabic-English literacy

Qualitative Report (2019)

Anna M. Dillon and Kay Gallagher

© 2019: Anna M. Dillon, Kay Gallagher, and Nova Southeastern University. In this paper we explore teachers' experiences of co-teaching ...

Finding innovation and imagination in a bag of loose parts

Childhood Education (2018)

© 2018, Routledge. All rights reserved. Classroom-based research encourages teachers' creative thinking as they seek ways to stimulate children's exploration. ...

Action research as professional development: Its role in education reform ...

Issues in Educational Research (2018)

Conley Hathorn and Anna Marie Dillon

© 2018, Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc. All rights reserved. This paper is concerned with exploring the microsystem ...

Analyzing students’ performance using multi-criteria classification

Cluster Computing (2017)

Feras Al-Obeidat, Abdallah Tubaishat, Anna Dillon and Babar Shah

© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2018. Education is a key factor for achieving long-term economic progress. During the last ...

An exploration of linguistic Neo-Colonialism through educational language Policy-An Irish ...

Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (2016)

Anna Marie Dillon

© 2016, Institute for Education Policy Studies. All Right Reserved. In this paper, educational language policy is explored through the ...