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Research Approaches And Student Surveys: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Beata Malczewska-Webb

Beata Webb

Extract: In the last 20 years, the nature of education worldwide has been undergoing a rapid change from the homogenous classes of students of similar backgrounds, to the ever-changing classroom populations of students of different nationalities, of diverse cultural, educational and linguistic backgrounds (AE12013). The increasing awareness of this diversity and the impact it has on education in many countries including Australia, has attracted much attention from researchers in the recent years (Creese et al. 2009; Dunn and Carroll 2005; Lo Bianco 2009; Malczewska-Webb 2011; Webb 2013, 2014). Although researchers from other fields such as social work or psychology (Suarez-Balcazar …

Global Culture Concerns, Korcel M. Price

Korcel M Price

The following proposal seeks to change hiring, promoting, and firing practices among global and trans-national companies. The changes are intended to fortify the organization through better management, a better employee contract, and by moving closer to a learning organization.

At the heart of the proposal is the desire to move hiring, promoting, and firing practices to an external or internal third party, as means of creating a global culture that consistently applies the values of supra system’s organization.

Narrative Assault In Laetitia Masson's À Vendre, Mariah Devereux Herbeck

Mariah E. Devereux Herbeck

What happens when a detective confuses following with being the object of his search? As the narrative of Laetitia Masson's 1998 film, À vendre, drifts from private investigator Luigi Primo's search for France Robert, a runaway bride, to his own sordid relationships with women, traditions of narrative continuity and authority are violated. In offering a necessarily new take on the adage "violence breeds violence," this article examines the extent to which Luigi's violent disposition, as he searches for France within the narrative, is ultimately expressed as violence to the narrative itself.

André Breton’S Nadja: A Vagabonde In A Femme Fatale’S Narrative, Mariah Devereux Herbeck

Mariah E. Devereux Herbeck

No abstract provided.

Socio-Institutional Neoliberalism, Securitisation And Australia's Aid Program, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley

Nichole Georgeou

This is Case Study Number 8 in the Hawksley and Georgeou edited book 'The Globalization of World Politics' (OUP, 2013).

Reinterpreting Cinematic Utopia In Coline Serreau's Chaos (2001), Mariah Devereux Herbeck

Mariah E. Devereux Herbeck

In French filmmaker Coline Serreau’s Chaos, female characters flee the urban status quo, live through (and thrive in) moments of chaos, and finally end their travels in a pastoral seaside home. In depicting a cinematic trip to a seemingly feminine utopia, the film addresses a societal problem that remains under-represented in mainstream cinema: gender inequality and, in particular, transcultural gender inequality. In analyzing Serreau’s gendered approach to utopian fiction, I demonstrate how Chaos manipulates seemingly classic Hollywood narrative form and style to question the gendered status quo of modern Parisian society.

A Journey Of Bread, Holly Butchyk

Holly Butchyk

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The Seven Spices: Pumpkins, Puritans, And Pathogens In Colonial New England, Michael Sharbaugh

Michael D Sharbaugh

Water sources in the United States' New England region are laden with arsenic. Particularly during North America's colonial period--prior to modern filtration processes--arsenic would make it into the colonists' drinking water. In this article, which evokes the biocultural evolution paradigm, it is argued that colonists offset health risks from the contaminant (arsenic poisoning) by ingesting copious amounts of seven spices--cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, allspice, vanilla, and ginger. The inclusion of these spices in fall and winter recipes that hail from New England would therefore explain why many Americans associate them not only with the region, but with Thanksgiving and Christmas, …

Persistence In Japanese Language Study In Universities In Australia: Why Do University Students Drop Out Of The Language Courses?, Masanori Matsumoto

Masanori Matsumoto

No abstract provided.

Pool Party, Holly Butchyk

Holly Butchyk

No abstract provided.

Bounty Chords: Music, Dance And Cultural Heritage On Norfolk And Pitcairn Islands, Philip Hayward

Professor Philip Hayward

Bounty Chords maps a rich and complex cultural history. Beginning with the Bounty mutiny in 1789, Philip Hayward analyses the establishment of the first Pitcairn Island settlement by mutineers and Tahitians in 1790, the mass relocation to Norfolk Island in 1855 and the subsequent development of the two island communities. Focusing on the central role of song and dance in forging local heritage and identity,Haywardprovides a vivid picture of the hybrid societies that developed on Pitcairn andNorfolk islands during the 19th and 20th centuries. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources and his own interactions with musicians and dancers, …

Age, Language, Culture, And Lexical Content: Influences On The Interpretation Of Novel Idioms, Ellen H. Courtney

Ellen H Courtney

This study investigates children’s developing abilities in interpreting novel idioms presented in isolation and in contexts that support figurative interpretations. In total, 137 children (aged 6;5 to 11;0) and 24 adults were tested in English or Spanish in both conditions. Participants included 101 children from Texas, and 36 from Mexico. Success in developing figurative interpretations in both conditions improved with age. The relative transparency of the individual idioms presented in isolation differed for adults and children. Although no differences were observed between English and Spanish speakers, the Mexican children outperformed their Texan counterparts in the no-context condition. Figurative-biasing contexts helped …

Conversational Borderlands: Language And Identity In An Alternative Urban High School, Betsy Rymes

Betsy Rymes

This groundbreaking study of an innovative charter school is the first to look closely at adolescent identity by analyzing the language of narratives told in school. The author helps us to understand why adolescents sometimes make choices that seem incomprehensible to the adults who work with them. This unique book links issues of school reform with close analysis of language and interaction within a school to help us understand the needs and desires of some of today’s diverse adolescent students. Both compelling and illuminating, this important book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the human effects (and not …

Formal Issues In Austronesian Linguistics, Ileana Paul, Vivianne Phillips, Lisa Travis

Ileana Paul

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Duplication In The L2 Spanish Produced By Quechua-Speaking Children: Transfer Of A Pragmatic Strategy, Ellen H. Courtney

Ellen H Courtney

Languages long in contact in the Andean countries, Quechua and Spanish are intriguing partners in bilingual speech because they exhibit very different word order patterns. In a study exploring the development of Spanish word order in Quechua-speaking children, Minaya & Luján (1982) reported that children frequently produced "hybrid" (S)VOV structures. They proposed that the children had a transitional grammar with a nonadult phrase structure rule.

This study presents a vigorous challenge to this claim. First, both adult and child speakers of Quechua duplicate not only verbs, but a variety of constituent types, presumably for emphatic effect. Second, the Minaya & …