Washback Effects Of Vstep.3-5 On Lecturers' Teaching Practices And Students' Learning Strategies At Tertiary Level In Vietnam,
2023
Graduate School
Washback Effects Of Vstep.3-5 On Lecturers' Teaching Practices And Students' Learning Strategies At Tertiary Level In Vietnam, Phuong Ai Ngoc Doan
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The study aimed to explore the washback effects of “Vietnamese Standardized Test of English Proficiency” (VSTEP.3-5) - a locally produced high-stakes test that fulfills the country’s specific requirements – on Vietnamese EFL lecturers’ teaching practices and undergraduate students’ learning strategies. The study utilized a mixed-method design, incorporating three primary research instruments: questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and classroom observation. Quantitative data were obtained through questionnaires delivered to 25 lecturers of English and 600 sophomores, Academic year 2022, at Hue University of Foreign Languages and International Studies (HUFLIS), Hue City, Central Vietnam. Qualitative data were collected thanks to in-depth interviews with 8 selected …
Effects Of Augmented Reality Hotel Situated-Learning Board Game On English Oral Communication Skills And Motivation Of Thai Efl Learners,
2023
Graduate School
Effects Of Augmented Reality Hotel Situated-Learning Board Game On English Oral Communication Skills And Motivation Of Thai Efl Learners, Wipada Sutthiroj
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
The purpose of the study was (1) to study the effects of Augmented Reality Hotel Situated-learning Board Game on Thai EFL learners' oral communication skills, (2) to study the effects of Augmented Reality Hotel Situated-learning Board Game on Thai EFL learners' motivation, and (3) to explore the perceptions of Thai EFL learners towards Augmented Reality Hotel Situated-learning Board Game. The study's participant group comprises 25 diverse mixes of students from Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep. The study employed a quasi-experimental design that used both qualitative and quantitative methods. The findings indicated that: (1) there was a significant improvement in the …
Exploring Communication Competence And The Attitudes Of Lower Secondary Efl Students Towards Communication Competence In An Online Project-Based Learning In Myanmar,
2023
Graduate School
Exploring Communication Competence And The Attitudes Of Lower Secondary Efl Students Towards Communication Competence In An Online Project-Based Learning In Myanmar, Khaing Thar Tun
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This study explored communication competence, small-group communication competence, and the attitudes of lower secondary EFL students towards communication competence in an online project-based learning approach in Myanmar. The study used a mixed-methods research design that integrated surveys, semi-structured interviews, and observations. The study discovered that lower secondary EFL students' online communication competence was slightly high, approaching sufficing competence, while their small-group communication competence in online PBL learning settings was moderately high, approaching maximizing competence. The study predicted slightly high online communication competence and moderately high small-group communication competence within the parameters of the population. In addition, approximately 30% of lower …
The Acceptance Of Womanhood: Gender Performance And Self-Actualization In L.M. Montgomery's Anne Of Green Gables, Anne Of Avonlea, And Anne Of The Island,
2023
Eastern Washington University
The Acceptance Of Womanhood: Gender Performance And Self-Actualization In L.M. Montgomery's Anne Of Green Gables, Anne Of Avonlea, And Anne Of The Island, Lauren M. Hinshaw
EWU Masters Thesis Collection
There is a pervasive cultural conception of what it is to be a woman, and in literary criticism that preconceived notion of womanhood becomes the basis for a majority of feminist critique; however, because of the particularities of human experience, gender is a highly variable aspect of identity that is reliant on both internal and external factors. According to Judith Butler, among these factors is the means by which a given individual performs their gender. Performances that portray gender are not consistent from one individual to the next; rather, various masculinities and femininities can simultaneously exist as accurate representations of …
Rather Than To Seem: Black And Indigenous Narratives In A Stormy, Swampy South,
2023
West Virginia University
Rather Than To Seem: Black And Indigenous Narratives In A Stormy, Swampy South, Jennifer Denise Peedin
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
I examine the narratives of the South that have been historically overlooked, ignored, or hidden in order to establish a dominant narrative of the region. The narratives examined here are by southern Black and Indigenous authors who restore lost knowledge and offer histories that help complete the South culturally and ecologically. The conceptual methodology develops from LeAnne Howe’s tribalography which explains that Indigenous people create stories and histories that transform the space around them and offer an understanding of the world around us. Another methodology used is Anthony Wilson’s ecocritical swamp studies; each chapter analyzes a narrative centered around a …
Writing Young Adult Fiction: Reflections On Narration And Theme In Young Adult Literature,
2023
South Dakota State University
Writing Young Adult Fiction: Reflections On Narration And Theme In Young Adult Literature, Kimberly Davidson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
According to Young Adult Library Services, “Young Adult Literature is a genre that is separate from Children's Literature. It emerged in the twentieth century when teenagers became a powerful force of the economy in the 1930s and gained prominence in the sixties.” Various sources list common elements that make YA literature a distinct category. 1) YA books appeal to the interests of readers from ages twelve to eighteen. 2) YA books typically explore a teenage character’s entry into an unfamiliar “world.” 3) YA books usually feature a protagonist’s self-reflection on events that influence their forays into the adult world. 4) …
Blood And Oil: How Vampiric Literature Bolsters Big Oil’S Power,
2023
University of Montana, Missoula
Blood And Oil: How Vampiric Literature Bolsters Big Oil’S Power, Sarah Marie Demond
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This thesis examines the relationship between blood and oil, that is, the multitude of ways in which the petromodernity industries harvests and threatens vitality. The introduction of this thesis is concerned tracking how petromodernity is a byproduct, offspring, or extension of colonialism. In this way, petromodernity can be thought about as “petro-colonialism.” Ursula K. LeGuin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” informs the argument that the way thay petro-colonialism came to be and also maintains itself is by utilizing the “killer story.” This thesis also employs autorheoretical techniques informed by Lauren Fournier to show how petro-colonialism or “oiliness” sticks to its …
Haunted Forms: Intermediality, Trauma, And Literary Memory,
2023
University of Montana
Haunted Forms: Intermediality, Trauma, And Literary Memory, Gabriella Graceffo
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This thesis considers contemporary literature’s use of intermediality as a method to heighten the affective embodiment of PTSD symptoms represented in text. Using the meaning-making structures of photography and film, the analysis examines how the writing of Georges Bataille, Annie Ernaux, Michael Ondaatje, and Bhanu Kapil use formal implicit reference—the type of intermediality in which the characteristics and semiotics of one medium are translated to another without direct reproduction—to represent both traumatic experiences themselves and the symptom domains of PTSD. Caroline Levine’s work on affordance theory from Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network provides a theoretical foundation as to how the …
"Variety": A Look At Several Genres,
2023
University of Northern Iowa
"Variety": A Look At Several Genres, Ryan Dean Carlin
Honors Program Theses
This thesis was made to both explore the impact on a writer’s mind and thoughts that writing different genres could cause, as well as stretch the limits of creativity that any one writer can bring about. The following stories are the result of a single writer’s efforts. Following them will be the writer’s own observations about his approach as he wrote each, as well as any ways that the restrictions of the genre stumped his attempts at writing. Each work is no fewer than ten pages, and each story attempts to stretch the boundaries of writing and imagination through unique …
Reporting At The Border: Translation In Periodicals At The Texas-Tamaulipas Border During The 19th Century,
2023
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Reporting At The Border: Translation In Periodicals At The Texas-Tamaulipas Border During The 19th Century, Gabriel Gonzalez Nunez
Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications
This paper addresses the historical relationship between journalism and translation. It approaches translation history by considering journalistic translation as found in newspapers published in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (the southernmost, easternmost stretch of the Mexico-US border) during the 19th century. Specifically, the paper will ask whether translation was a tool employed in journalistic activity in the region and, if so, what the role was of translation in such activity. It will review the presence of translation in available border periodicals from the 1840s to the end of the century. This review will show that regarding certain aspects, historical news …
Pedagogies Of Rhetorical Empathy-In-Action: Role Playing And Story Sharing In Healthcare Provider Education,
2023
Marquette University
Pedagogies Of Rhetorical Empathy-In-Action: Role Playing And Story Sharing In Healthcare Provider Education, Lillian Campbell, Elisabeth L. Miller
English Faculty Research and Publications
Since successful healthcare relies heavily on a practitioner’s ability to empathize with the patient, the allied health professions—like nursing and speech therapy—have long considered the possibilities and limitations of a pedagogical practice that centers empathy. In this essay, we analyze two such pedagogies: role playing with simulated patients in nursing and story sharing in a multimodal memoir group with aphasic clients in communicative sciences and disorders (CSD). Comparing theories of empathy in these fields as well as interviews with the future nurses and speech therapists participating in these experiences, we show how students engage in what we call “empathy-in-action” through …
Possibility Thinking In The Community-Engaged Classroom: Uniting Hope And Imagination Towards Anti-Racist Action,
2023
Fairfield University
Possibility Thinking In The Community-Engaged Classroom: Uniting Hope And Imagination Towards Anti-Racist Action, Betsy Bowen, Lillian Campbell, Jenna Green, Emily A. Phillips
English Faculty Research and Publications
Drawing on the work of Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J., this article examines the contribution that “possibility thinking” makes to community-engaged learning at three Jesuit universities. The article considers ways in which possibility thinking intersects both Jesuit and secular perspectives on hope and imagination, and their relationship to anti-racist praxis. We then describe three institutional contexts at different stages of enacting community-engaged learning in introductory and upper-level English classes. The article concludes by offering three praxis-oriented directions for community-engaged learning educators to take up in their own institutional contexts: developing faculty capacity and awareness; fostering solidarity not charity; and encouraging reflection not …
Feeling For Deaf Resonance In The Eighteenth Century And Beyond,
2023
Marquette University
Feeling For Deaf Resonance In The Eighteenth Century And Beyond, Jason S. Farr
English Faculty Research and Publications
The article examines how resonance has anchored deaf self-representation in the eighteenth century and the present. Through an interdisciplinary framework that foregrounds Deaf and sound studies in the context of the eighteenth century, the article conducts a close reading of writing from two of the first published deaf authors, Pierre Desloges and Charles Shirreff. The argument is that synchronous vibration figures centrally into their sentimental self-fashioning at a time when organized deaf education was first being implemented in Europe. The article also reveals personal stakes in examining resonance alongside John Bulwer's seventeenth-century multisensory model of perception in Philocophus: or the …
Review Of John Lydgate, "The Dance Of Death", And Its Model, The French "Danse Macabre",
2023
Marquette University
Review Of John Lydgate, "The Dance Of Death", And Its Model, The French "Danse Macabre", Elizaveta Strakhov
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Planets,
2023
Marquette University
Planets, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
This chapter considers the contested place of “the planet” in literary history, focusing on post-Copernican visions of the planets as spaces of possible human habitation. Fantasies about human colonization of outer space have an important place in the politics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a time when it becomes simultaneously understood both as a major spending priority of the US military-industrial complex and as the quasi-theological “destiny” of the human race. The conclusion of the chapter takes up a different sort of planetarity: the global cosmopolitan vision of the contemporary ecological movement, which seeks to understand the Earth as …
Disability (Book Chapter),
2023
Marquette University
Disability (Book Chapter), Jason S. Farr
English Faculty Research and Publications
This chapter illuminates the historical and literary contexts of disability in Defoe’s time. The essay argues that, though disability is a modern category, Defoe’s writing demonstrates trans-historical continuity by representing it as the product of social relations with political consequences. For instance, in A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), contracting disease transforms characters in highly visible ways, challenging Cartesian views of mind/body duality. At the same time, impairment and epidemic disease facilitate an imaginative reworking of kinship. All of this foregrounds Defoe’s political views about how England should confront the plague. Meanwhile, in The Dumb Philosopher: Or, Great Britain’s …
What’S Long About Long John Silver: Anormative Masculinities And Histories In Robert Louis Stevenson’S Treasure Island,
2023
West Virginia University
What’S Long About Long John Silver: Anormative Masculinities And Histories In Robert Louis Stevenson’S Treasure Island, David V. Riser
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Historical queer and transgender experiences have been obscured by the dominant narrative of history. However, these experiences surface in works of fiction. This thesis analyzes affective responses to constructions of queer masculinity in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Affects of disgust and desire in Treasure Island, and in the popular history of Treasure Island, reveal a proto-queer transgender experience found in 19th-century maritime fiction. These affects demonstrate a fear that there is no reproductive futurity in queer masculinity while producing narratives of queer masculinity. This production makes historical queer and transgender experiences legible, and allows contemporary queer readers to navigate …
Extranormal Sorcery In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon,
2023
Eastern Washington University
Extranormal Sorcery In Toni Morrison's Song Of Solomon, Harleyquinn Wahl
EWU Masters Thesis Collection
No abstract provided.
Looking Inward, Looking Back: John Le Carré And The Spy Narrative After The Cold War,
2023
West Virginia University
Looking Inward, Looking Back: John Le Carré And The Spy Narrative After The Cold War, Rachel Lynn Hoag
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
The genre of spy fiction confronts a paradigm-shifting event in the 1990s with the end of the Cold War. Despite critical speculation that the genre had outlived its usefulness, spy fiction writers navigate this period of transition, and the genre remains broadly popular with the reading public. This study examines how the work of Britain’s foremost espionage writer, John le Carré, navigates the changing geopolitical landscape of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. In mapping this terrain, one sees two distinct impulses emerge: a tendency to look inward and a tendency to look back. To look inward, the novels …
“I’Ll Tell You No Lies”: An Exploration Of Trauma, Memory, And Violence Against Women In North Carolina Murder Ballads,
2023
West Virginia University
“I’Ll Tell You No Lies”: An Exploration Of Trauma, Memory, And Violence Against Women In North Carolina Murder Ballads, Madison Ava Helman
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
This dissertation explores trauma, memory and violence against women in Western North Carolina murder ballads “Tom Dooley,” “Poor Omie Wise,” “Poor Ellen Smith,” “The Ballad of the Lawson Family,” and “Frankie Silver.” I posit that these ballads were influenced by prescriptive societal conceptions of femininity, which in turn influenced societal ideations of violence against women. Using folklore performance theory, I analyze the text and context of these ballads and their subsequent histories, eventually arriving at a template for polyvocality that incorporates multiple ballad variants and encourages diverse performances.
