Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- French and Francophone Language and Literature (4)
- History (4)
- Comparative Literature (3)
- Italian Language and Literature (3)
- Philosophy (3)
-
- Renaissance Studies (3)
- English Language and Literature (2)
- Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures (2)
- Digital Humanities (1)
- Diplomatic History (1)
- Education (1)
- Ethnic Studies (1)
- Geography (1)
- Human Geography (1)
- Immigration Law (1)
- International Relations (1)
- International and Area Studies (1)
- Islamic Studies (1)
- Islamic World and Near East History (1)
- Law (1)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (1)
- Music (1)
- Near and Middle Eastern Studies (1)
- Oral History (1)
- Photography (1)
- Political Science (1)
- Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies (1)
- Religion (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Publication Year
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 16 of 16
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Change For Women, Change The World, Kiana Stewart, Dr. Daryl Lee
Change For Women, Change The World, Kiana Stewart, Dr. Daryl Lee
Journal of Undergraduate Research
My project goal was to translate from French to English significant chapters of a study on gender-based violence (GBV) in Senegal documented by Dr. Fatou Diop Sall. Dr Sall is the head coordinator of GESTES, a Senegalese research group focused on gender equality. A previous group of BYU students and ORCA recipients translated sections of the document that focused on domestic violence, and published the translation with the WomanStats Project, which is the largest statistical database regarding the status of women in the world (Hudson, 2015). The chapters I translated deal with GBV in different spheres, specifically educational spaces (schools, …
Purposeful Integration Of Literacy And Science Instruction In A 4th Grade Immersion Program, Emily Nicole Overvliet
Purposeful Integration Of Literacy And Science Instruction In A 4th Grade Immersion Program, Emily Nicole Overvliet
Theses and Dissertations
Though learning content in a second language (L2) requires additional time, students in immersion classes are expected to keep up with the curricular pace of traditional classes. One possible way to secure sufficient time for both language and science content learning is to integrate language arts instruction with core curricular content. This action research study investigated the effectiveness of purposefully integrating literacy instruction with the Utah Core Standards for science with 53 fourth-grade French partial immersion students in Utah. The purpose of this study was to discover how such a model might affect students' French reading skills, science knowledge, and …
Momo, Momo, Tsos
Momo, Momo, Tsos
TSOS Interview Gallery
When Momo was only nine years old, he returned home to find his parents and his six sisters and four brothers had been killed in their own home. Sometime after that, he and his uncle left Somalia together to live in Yemen. He stayed in Yemen until he was sixteen, but when things became unsafe there, he moved to Libya. He had hoped to get on a boat in Libya to go somewhere for a new life, but he was thrown in prison instead. He was harassed and told to ask his family to send money so that he could …
Change For Women, Change The World, Kiana Stewart, Dr. Daryl Lee
Change For Women, Change The World, Kiana Stewart, Dr. Daryl Lee
Journal of Undergraduate Research
My project goal was to translate from French to English significant chapters of a study on gender-based violence (GBV) in Senegal documented by Dr. Fatou Diop Sall. Dr Sall is the head coordinator of GESTES, a Senegalese research group focused on gender equality. A previous group of BYU students and ORCA recipients translated sections of the document that focused on domestic violence, and published the translation with the WomanStats Project, which is the largest statistical database regarding the status of women in the world (Hudson, 2015). The chapters I translated deal with GBV in different spheres, specifically educational spaces (schools, …
Moving Beyond Corrective Feedback: (Re) Engaging With Student Writing In L2 Through Audio Response, Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Deborah Reisinger
Moving Beyond Corrective Feedback: (Re) Engaging With Student Writing In L2 Through Audio Response, Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Deborah Reisinger
Journal of Response to Writing
This article examines teacher feedback on student compositions in an Advanced French Composition course at a Research 1 institution. Our study suggests that when teachers combine written corrective feedback with audio comments, their engagement in grading compositions may rise significantly. As teachers bring renewed energy to familiar responding practices, they shift from “grader” to “reader.” These findings have important implications for teacher training and the role of feedback in L2 courses.
Better Speakers Make More Friends: Predictors Of Social Network Development Among Study-Abroad Students, J Wyatt Brockbank
Better Speakers Make More Friends: Predictors Of Social Network Development Among Study-Abroad Students, J Wyatt Brockbank
Theses and Dissertations
Social network development has been studied in the social sciences for the last several decades, but little work has applied social network theory to study-abroad research. This study seeks to quantitatively describe factors that predict social network formation among study-abroad students while in the host countries. Social networks were measured in terms of the number of friends the students made, the number of distinct social groups reported, and the number of friends within those groups. The Study Abroad Social Interaction Questionnaire was compared against these pre-trip factors: intercultural competence, target-language proficiency, prior missionary experience, gender, study-abroad program, neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, …
The Impact Of L2 Dialect On Learning French Vowels: Native English Speakers Learning Que´Be´Cois And European French, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Laura Catherine Smith
The Impact Of L2 Dialect On Learning French Vowels: Native English Speakers Learning Que´Be´Cois And European French, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Laura Catherine Smith
Faculty Publications
This article examines how a second language (L2) dialect affects how accurately the L2 is perceived and produced. Specifically, the study examined differences between the production and perception of French vowels /i/, /y/, and /u/ by learners of either Quebec French (QF) or European French (EF). These vowels differ across the two varieties, both acoustically and because of assibilation of /t-d/ before /i-y/ for QF versus EF. As a result of these differences, QF has an additional acoustic cue with which to contrast /u/ and /i-y/. Anglophone learners of QF or EF were asked to identify and discriminate both QF …
In The Company Of Cheaters (16th-Century Aristocrats And 20th-Century Gangsters), Mark Cammeron Murdock
In The Company Of Cheaters (16th-Century Aristocrats And 20th-Century Gangsters), Mark Cammeron Murdock
Theses and Dissertations
This document contains a meta-commentary on the article that I co-authored with Dr. Corry Cropper entitled Breaking the Duel's Rules: Brantôme, Mérimée, and Melville, that will be published in the next issue of Essays in French Literature and Culture, and an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources featuring summaries and important quotes dealing with duels, honor, honor codes, cheating, historical causality, chance, and sexuality. Also, several examples of film noir are cited with brief summaries and key events noted. The article we wrote studies two instances of cheating in duels: one found in Brantôme's Discours sur les duels and …
French Laïcité And The Popularity Of The Pacs, Ashley Gaylene Trupp Mattson
French Laïcité And The Popularity Of The Pacs, Ashley Gaylene Trupp Mattson
Theses and Dissertations
Civil unions are currently a divisive issues in the United States. Religion has historically influenced these debates. The French version of civil union, the Pacte Civil de Solidarité (Pacs,) was created in 1999 after seven years of debate. Many have written about the Pacs in the last decade. However, few have explored the direct correlations with France's relationship with Catholicism, her dominant religion that is doctrinally opposed to any sexual relationships outside of marriage. Laïcité has influenced a steady decrease in religiosity among French Catholics. This thesis explores the impact of this religious decline on the creation and surprising popularity …
The Classical Guitar: A Brief History And Introduction To The 20th Century, Curtis N. Smith
The Classical Guitar: A Brief History And Introduction To The 20th Century, Curtis N. Smith
Library Research Grants
No abstract provided.
Je Vis, Donc Je Vois, Donc Je Dis: Banlieue Violence In French Rap, Schyler B. Chennault
Je Vis, Donc Je Vois, Donc Je Dis: Banlieue Violence In French Rap, Schyler B. Chennault
Theses and Dissertations
Since its creation over two decades ago, French rap music has evolved to become both wildly popular and highly controversial. It has been the subject of legal debate because of its violent content, and accused of encouraging violent behavior. This thesis explores the French M.C.'s role as representative and reporter of the France's suburbs, la Banlieue, and contains analyses of French rap lyrics to determine the rappers' perception of Banlieue violence. Using the song lyrics, this work examines the conditions and causes of that violence as seen by the Banlieusard, and answers the critics' accusations that French rap is a …
Why Learning French First Is Better Than Learning German First, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Laura Catherine Smith
Why Learning French First Is Better Than Learning German First, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Laura Catherine Smith
Faculty Publications
This study investigated whether differences in cross-language similarity between English-French and English-German vowels would translate into differences in accurately identifying and discriminating French and German vowels (i.e., Iii, /y/, and /u/). In addition, this study investigated whether these same differences in cross-language perception would also translate into differences in accurately identifying and discriminating vowels in a novel third language. The results suggest that learners exposed to a language with a greater perceived difference with the LI are more able to generalize their perception of their L2 vowels to a novel L3.
The Effect Of Repeated Textual Encounters And Pictorial Glosses Upon Acquiring Additional Word Senses, Michael S. Hilmo
The Effect Of Repeated Textual Encounters And Pictorial Glosses Upon Acquiring Additional Word Senses, Michael S. Hilmo
Theses and Dissertations
This study investigated the effects of multiple textual encounters of words and textual encounters of words supplemented with pictorial glosses upon the ability of a learner of French to infer additional word senses—senses of target words that were not previously encountered. Twenty-nine participants were randomly divided into two groups, Groups A and B, and were subjected to two treatments, one in which the subjects encountered target words textually twice (Repeated Textual Encounters, RTE) and one in which the subjects encountered target words once textually and once pictorially (Pictorial Encounter, PE). Before the administration of the two vocabulary-learning treatments the participants …
Review Essay: Kaeuper, Richard W., And Elspeth Kennedy, Eds. The Book Of Chivalry Of Geoffroi De Charny: Text, Context, And Translation, Glyn S. Burgess
Review Essay: Kaeuper, Richard W., And Elspeth Kennedy, Eds. The Book Of Chivalry Of Geoffroi De Charny: Text, Context, And Translation, Glyn S. Burgess
Quidditas
Kaeuper, Richard W., and Elspeth Kennedy, eds. The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context, and Translation. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1996. ix + 236 pp. $34.95/$17.95.
Review Essay: Guillaume De Machaut, Le Jugement Du Roy De Brehaigne And Remède De Fortune, Josette Britte-Ashford
Review Essay: Guillaume De Machaut, Le Jugement Du Roy De Brehaigne And Remède De Fortune, Josette Britte-Ashford
Quidditas
Guillaume de Machaut, Le jugement du roy de Brehaigne and Remède de fortune, ed. James I. Wimsatt and William W. Kibler, The Chaucer Library, University of Georgia Press, 1988.
On The Syntax Of The Provençal Possessives, Frede Jensen
On The Syntax Of The Provençal Possessives, Frede Jensen
Quidditas
It is well-known to anyooone involved in the pursuit of foreign language study that possessive adjectives serve to express a variety of relationships which are often far removed from the basic notion of possession. A Frenchman calls "his" not only the things he owns (ma maison, ma voiture, mes livres, mon argent) and the ingredients that constitute the physical, mental or moral make-up of his personality (ma vigueur, ma bonté, mon intelligence, mon calme, etc.), but he also extends his ownership, as it were, to the circle of people he comes into contact with and to a variety of …