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Estok Simon C. Curriculum Vitae, Simon C. Estok
Purdue University
Pedagogía De Hablantes De Herencia: Implicaciones Para El Entrenamiento De Instructores Al Nivel Universitario, Lina M. Reznicek-Parrado
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Pedagogía De Hablantes De Herencia: Implicaciones Para El Entrenamiento De Instructores Al Nivel Universitario, Lina M. Reznicek-Parrado
Theses, Dissertations, Student Research: Modern Languages and Literatures
This study researches the differences in pedagogical needs between learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language (FL learners) and learners of Spanish as a Heritage Language (HL learners) at the university level. By using the UNL Modern Languages and Literatures Department as an illustrative case and based on an analysis of the Heritage Language student profile in the context of the United States, this study seeks to explore arguments in favor of providing training for university-level instructors of Spanish that responds to the specific pedagogical needs of Heritage Language Learners.
The relevancy of this study is not only based on ...
Entretien Avec Fabienne Kanor, Jason Herbeck
Boise State University
Entretien Avec Fabienne Kanor, Jason Herbeck
World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations
D’origine martiniquaise, Fabienne Kanor est devenue romancière etréalisatrice après une première carrière dans le journalisme. Dans cet entretien, elle parle surtout de son deuxième roman, Humus(2007), qui raconte à voix multiples les récits de quatorze femmes qui se trouvent à bord d’un bateau négrier à destination des Antilles et décident de se jeter à l’eau. Kanor se penche surl’histoire de la traite négrière et surl’acte d’écriture, ainsi que sur sa propre identité en tant qu’écrivain de la “diaspora”, ayant grandi en Métropole dans une famille d’origine antillaise.
How Do You Build A Discipline From The Ground Up?, Robert H. Ellison
Marshall University
How Do You Build A Discipline From The Ground Up?, Robert H. Ellison
English Faculty Research
This is the keynote address delivered to the 21st Annual WV undergraduate literary symposium, hosted by Marshall University on March 2, 2013. It presents a kind of "wish list" for scholars in sermon studies: we still need "a clear sense of the canon," places to "interact and network" with colleagues, and a dedicated journal "where scholars can publish their work." People working in other fields are fortunate in that they can usually take these things for granted, but sermon scholars still have some work to do to bring them to fruition.
La Barbe: Feminine Beards And Other Mysteries Of French Grammatical Gender, Robin F. Keller
University of Rhode Island
La Barbe: Feminine Beards And Other Mysteries Of French Grammatical Gender, Robin F. Keller
Senior Honors Projects
Grammatical gender in French language is one of the biggest guessing games for a native English speaker. Why a table is feminine and a book is masculine is a question that plagues those learning French as a second language. In French, all nouns have gender, masculine and feminine. The complication: only a small percentage of the nouns are assigned gender semantically leaving the remaining which are assigned gender seemingly arbitrarily. For English native speakers, the distinction of these basic parts in a foreign language is not a natural skill. The simple fact that nouns are either feminine or masculine is ...
Las Cadenas Del Hombre: Las Restricciones En Los Papeles De La Mujer En La Literatura Hispana, Rachel Cohen
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Las Cadenas Del Hombre: Las Restricciones En Los Papeles De La Mujer En La Literatura Hispana, Rachel Cohen
University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects
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Blood In The Water: Salvadoran Rivers Of Testimony And Resistance, Adrian Taylor Kane
Boise State University
Blood In The Water: Salvadoran Rivers Of Testimony And Resistance, Adrian Taylor Kane
World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations
From the 1970s to the early 1990s the dominant forms of literary production in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua were testimonial literature and literature of resistance. During this time period, all three of these Central American countries were embroiled in bloody civil wars, and the written word was employed on the cultural front as a means of denouncing and resisting various forms of oppression. For both historical and artistic reasons, rivers frequently play an important role in cultural production from and about this era and have thus become embedded in the complex web of ideological signifiers that comprises the discursive ...
Beyond The Suffering Of Being: Desire In Giacomo Leopardi And Samuel Beckett, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
Western University
Beyond The Suffering Of Being: Desire In Giacomo Leopardi And Samuel Beckett, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
University of Western Ontario - Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
In this dissertation, I question critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Beckett quotes Leopardi when discussing the removal of desire in his monograph Proust, a context that has spurred pessimist and nihilist readings, whether the focus has been on one writer, the other, or both. I argue that the inappropriateness of the pessimist and nihilist label is, on the contrary, specifically exposed through the role of desire in the two thinkers. After tracing the notion of desire as it developed from Leopardi to key twentieth-century thinkers, I illustrate how, in contrast ...
La Enseñanza De La Gramática: Un Debate Pendiente En El Contexto De La Educación Argentina, María Cecilia Gaiser
Western University
La Enseñanza De La Gramática: Un Debate Pendiente En El Contexto De La Educación Argentina, María Cecilia Gaiser
Entrehojas: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
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En la primera mitad del siglo XX, la enseñanza de la gramática tradicional no se cuestiona y su límite oracional no es un eje de discusión puesto que todavía las líneas de orientación textual estaban en ciernes. Entre los 60 y 70 el estructuralismo eclipsa los estudios del lenguaje y sus herramientas de análisis gramatical ingresan en las aulas. Es en los últimos 20 años cuando aparecen las dos líneas que direccionarán el destino de la gramática en la escuela: no dar gramática o reemplazar la gramática oracional por una lingüística/gramática textual y/o análisis del discurso. En ...
Event-Related Potentials Reflect The Affective Priming Capacity Of Music On Speech, Jacob Morgan
McMaster University
Repurposed Narratives: The Battle Of Ṣiffīn And The Historical Memory Of The Umayyad Dynasty, Aaron M. Hagler
University of Iowa
Repurposed Narratives: The Battle Of Ṣiffīn And The Historical Memory Of The Umayyad Dynasty, Aaron M. Hagler
Mathal/Mashal
The Battle of Ṣiffīn (36/657) is the flash point in the emergence of sects within Islam. The presentation of the Ṣiffīn story in Arabic historical writing therefore changed over time as the sectarian split among Sunnīs and Shīʿites became increasingly defined. This paper will trace the development of the presentation of the Ṣiffīn story in Arabic histories across developing Sunnī and Shīʿite identity crystallization and the region of origin of their authors, as well as literary and stylistic developments in the field of Arabic historical writing.
The specific historians examined have been chosen in part because they demonstrate a ...
Making Connections: Applying The Ap French Langauage And Culture Scoring Guidelines To Student Samples, Brian Kennelly
California Polytechnic State University
Making Connections: Applying The Ap French Langauage And Culture Scoring Guidelines To Student Samples, Brian Kennelly
Modern Languages and Literatures
No abstract provided.
The Acquisition Of Tú And Usted By English Speakers: A Study Of Non-Native Knowledge And Usage Of Forms Of Address, Luke M. Smith
Georgia State University
The Acquisition Of Tú And Usted By English Speakers: A Study Of Non-Native Knowledge And Usage Of Forms Of Address, Luke M. Smith
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
No abstract provided.
Clickers-Ready Lessons For French., Valerie Hascoet
Dublin Institute of Technology
Clickers-Ready Lessons For French., Valerie Hascoet
Other Resources
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From Nizam To Nation: The Representation Of Partition In Literary Narratives About Hyderabad, Deccan, Nazia Akhtar
Western University
From Nizam To Nation: The Representation Of Partition In Literary Narratives About Hyderabad, Deccan, Nazia Akhtar
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This dissertation examines literary representations of the Partition of India in 1947 as it affected the southern princely state of Hyderabad, Deccan. Through my focus on Hyderabad, I interrogate and reject the assumption generally made in scholarly analyses of Partition that this momentous, life-changing event did not significantly affect South India. In doing so, I also question the origins of the self-professed secular, egalitarian, and democratic Indian nation by shedding light on the invasion of Hyderabad and the subsequent erasure of this event from Indian historiography and mainstream culture.
Different literary texts respond differently to this fraught, suppressed history. Engaging ...
Lesson 7: Wet Feet, Dry Feet, Kelly Stalnaker
University of South Florida
Lesson 7: Wet Feet, Dry Feet, Kelly Stalnaker
Hispanic Heritage of Florida Conference 2012
This lesson covers US immigration policies toward Cuba. It covers the “Wet Feet, Dry Feet” policy and the controversy surrounding the policy. Lesson Essential Question: What obligations does the US Government have, if any, to immigrants seeking asylum in the United States?
Contextos Y Prácticas En Las Humanidades Digitales, Joseba Moreno
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Contextos Y Prácticas En Las Humanidades Digitales, Joseba Moreno
Theses, Dissertations, Student Research: Modern Languages and Literatures
La aplicación de la tecnología a los trabajos enmarcados en el campo de las humanidades y la creación de un nuevo conjunto de prácticas denominado humanidades digitales, es el tema principal de este trabajo, que pretende servir de introducción a algunas de las prácticas y metodologías más recientes en el ámbito académico.
Ap French: Unpacking The Scoring Guidelines For Interpersonal Tasks, Davara Potel, Brian G. Kennelly
California Polytechnic State University
Ap French: Unpacking The Scoring Guidelines For Interpersonal Tasks, Davara Potel, Brian G. Kennelly
Modern Languages and Literatures
No abstract provided.
Designing Thematic Instruction With Authentic Resources: Alienation And Assimilation, Davara Potel, Brian G. Kennelly
California Polytechnic State University
Designing Thematic Instruction With Authentic Resources: Alienation And Assimilation, Davara Potel, Brian G. Kennelly
Modern Languages and Literatures
No abstract provided.
Dream Dinner Or Dinner Disaster? French And American Cultures Collide, Wendy W. Amato Ph.D.
E. H. Butler Library at Buffalo State College
Dream Dinner Or Dinner Disaster? French And American Cultures Collide, Wendy W. Amato Ph.D.
French Model Lesson Plans
Sociocultural Model Lesson Plan centered on a translinguistic and transcultural analysis of French and American dinner party conventions.
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From Nizam To Nation: The Representation Of Partition In Literary Narratives About Hyderabad, Deccan, Nazia Akhtar
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Beyond The Suffering Of Being: Desire In Giacomo Leopardi And Samuel Beckett, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
Architectures Of The Veil: The Representation Of The Veil And Zenanas In Pakistani Feminists' Texts, Amber Riaz
"Doulce Chose Est Que Mariage": Exemplarity And Advice In The Works Of Christine De Pizan
"Listen And Click": Enhancing Listening Comprehension Skills In The Language Classroom Through The Use Of Clickers, Valerie Hascoet
Translating Silence: Memory And Forgetting In Andrea Maturana's No Decir, Aaron Holmes
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