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Teaching Communication: Helping Students To Learn And To Love A New Language, Jacob Fredrickson
Teaching Communication: Helping Students To Learn And To Love A New Language, Jacob Fredrickson
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This portfolio represents many hours spent in classrooms (as a student and as a teacher), in the library reading and writing, and spent in quiet contemplation. My views on teaching languages and on education in general have grown and changed. What a tragedy it would be to pass through a graduate program and not to have one’s views evolve and grow. Most importantly, this portfolio represents that growth and the ideal that, as an educator and as a human being, time on this earth ought to be spent growing, learning, and striving for something better.
Alice's Adventure Through Second Language Acquisition: An Educator's Perspective, Jessica Pryor Lee
Alice's Adventure Through Second Language Acquisition: An Educator's Perspective, Jessica Pryor Lee
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
The author employs narrative writing to illustrate annotated bibliographies, classroom observations, research and research proposals, and self-reflections for second language learning. Elementary, secondary, adult, and college-level teachings are addressed. The author focuses on communicative language teaching, brain-based teaching, and dual language immersion with content based instruction. She addresses the importance of writing, authentic materials, task-based activities, communication, and the recognition of heritage learners. The main character is Alice and she travels through Argentina and Chile. Footnotes are used to keep the narrative style of the portfolio coherent. While the storyline is fictitious, all information included is based on the author’s …
Learning Two Languages: Maze Behaviors In Narrative Discourse For Spanish-English Bilinguals, Joel Hopper
Learning Two Languages: Maze Behaviors In Narrative Discourse For Spanish-English Bilinguals, Joel Hopper
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This study was designed to determine whether mazing behavior in narrative retells of bilingual English and Spanish speaking children was affected by language, complexity of sentence structure, and language development over time. Language transcripts were analyzed from English and Spanish narrative retells elicited from 216 children between the ages of 5 and 9 at the beginning and end of kindergarten, first, and second grade years. Findings revealed a statistically significant difference in the average maze scores and sentence types. A significant interaction was also found between time and language, with maze scores remaining nearly level over time in English and …
Oral Communication In Genre Theory And Software Development Workplaces, Jason L. Cootey
Oral Communication In Genre Theory And Software Development Workplaces, Jason L. Cootey
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
My dissertation defines how software developers have abandoned traditional documentation practices for other kinds of media that work better in their workplace practices. Ultimately, even though other media like white boards, sticky notes, and “oral communication” are vastly different than traditional, written software documentation, they match the fast paced, decision-making situations of contemporary developer communities. I focus particularly on oral communication because it is the most unacceptable means to “document,” according to traditional standards. I use North American Genre Theory to describe those decision-making situations contemporary developers and note how the theory does not account for all the documentation I …
Impact Of Resident Assistants And Community On Student Grades, Kayla Arrington
Impact Of Resident Assistants And Community On Student Grades, Kayla Arrington
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
On-campus student housing at any university has the opportunity to positively impact student experiences. This exploratory study looks at how frequency of interaction with the Resident Assistant (RA) and interaction with the residence hall community, sense of community, social self-efficacy, and academic self-concept correlate with academic success. This study is intended to show the effect the Resident Assistant has on students' academic and social experiences in apartment-style housing. Therefore, this study also looks at how variables are related to each other in order to give Resident Assistants a better understanding of their sphere of influence in a community. The relationships …
A Visually Determined Deutschland: Visual Rhetoric Analysis Of German Culture, Taylor Halversen
A Visually Determined Deutschland: Visual Rhetoric Analysis Of German Culture, Taylor Halversen
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Within the field of Communication Studies, researchers attempt to define culture and often explain it as shared meanings and values among a group of people. Another subsection of Communication Studies includes the study of how images communicate: the field of visual rhetoric. This paper combines concepts from intercultural communication and visual rhetoric in order to better understand German culture. By examining two culturally significant eras of German artwork through the lens of visual rhetoric analysis, this study seeks to better understand German culture and its values. By analyzing the visual communication of historically significant photographs, one can find common meanings …