Grammatical And Lexical Development During Short-Term Study Abroad: Exploring L2 Contact And Initial Proficiency,
2020
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Grammatical And Lexical Development During Short-Term Study Abroad: Exploring L2 Contact And Initial Proficiency, Bernard I. Issa, Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg, Harriet Wood Bowden
CISLL Publications
This study examined linguistic development among both intermediate and advanced college-level second language (L2) learners during short-term study abroad summer programs in Spain. Participants completed ameasure of overall proficiency, as well as assessments of receptive grammatical (morphosyntactic) and lexical (semantic) abilities at the beginning and end of their programs. They also reported their use of and exposure to the target language on a weekly basis while abroad. Analyses explored (a) whether learners in each group made gains in these receptive abilities, and (b) to what extent contact with the L2 and/or initial proficiency accounted for variability in linguistic development across …
On Angels’ Wings: Idolatry In Viktoria Tokareva’S “Five Figures On A Pedestal” And Lyudmila Ulitskaya’S “Angel”,
2020
University of Montana, Missoula
On Angels’ Wings: Idolatry In Viktoria Tokareva’S “Five Figures On A Pedestal” And Lyudmila Ulitskaya’S “Angel”, Courtney E. Bentz
Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts
In his essays on Greek deities, Ralph Waldo Emerson declared: “Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.” While the idea of gods taking a corporeal form or angels walking among humans is a common literary trope, seldom do mortal characters find themselves compared to the divine without negative repercussions. Select post-Soviet women writers, however, flip this trope to explore the opposite. They instead embrace the human as holy, restrained by little consequence, as a means to highlight its destructive qualities in the context of an intimate relationship. These contemporary authors, Viktoria Tokareva and Lyudmila Ulitskaya, …
Memory Bread,
2020
Ohio University
Memory Bread, Nisiqi
Art + Design Masters Theses
Memory Bread, constituting a daily performance ritual and the post-action objects, seeks to address the generational decline of mother language use in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a post-colonized province of China. I chose to eat sliced white bread in the performance and later casted concrete sculptures as the extension of the action for both substances’ capitalistic nature. Being an invasive material that took over the traditional architectural lifestyle, the use of concrete mirrors the pervasive cultural and ethnic assimilation in China. Meanwhile, the materiality of concrete being a mixture of various substances also metaphors the mixed culture that Chinese-Mongolians …
Becoming Transfronterizo Collaborators: A Transdisciplinary Framework For Developing Translingual Pedagogies In Wac/Wid,
2020
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Becoming Transfronterizo Collaborators: A Transdisciplinary Framework For Developing Translingual Pedagogies In Wac/Wid, Marcela Hebbard, Yanina Hernández
Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications
Given that pedagogical approaches that challenge dominant language ideologies are not yet well represented in WAC/WID scholarship, this chapter outlines a transdisciplinary framework for developing translingual pedagogies. The framework is built around the notion of transfronterizo/ a collaborators because before instructors can engage their students in exploring and challenging their views toward language, instructors must first critically interrogate their own. This interrogation must consider the unique political, social, economic, and linguistic exigencies of where an institution is located. The chapter concludes by showing that a transdisciplinary and translingual collaboration that is mutually transformative changes faculty collaborators in how they perceive …
Peace, Love, And (Soul)Cialism: Function Of Teacher- Student Love In Collectivist Societal Education And Its Relationship To The Elimination Of African American Educational Underachievement,
2020
Claremont Colleges
Peace, Love, And (Soul)Cialism: Function Of Teacher- Student Love In Collectivist Societal Education And Its Relationship To The Elimination Of African American Educational Underachievement, Nirel Jonesmitchell
CMC Senior Theses
Top researchers in the field of intimacy education signify that definitions of intimate connection—referring to a deep relationship with oneself, immediate circle, or humankind, more broadly—are identity dependent. Different countries and racial demographics, thus, conceptualize notions of solidarity, interdependence, and self-awareness distinctly. Without investigation, these discrepancies provoke division; attention, alternatively, has the power to induce the mitigation of educational achievement gaps in Latin America and domestically. Cuban notions of ‘legitimate’ relationships are contextualized by the political philosopher Jose Martí who delineated an ideological framework encouraging collectivism. This idea undergirds his contribution to the revolutionary Cuban literacy campaign: dialogical education. Despite …
El Guerrero Obsidiana,
2020
Claremont McKenna College
El Guerrero Obsidiana, Marvin P. Sarkar Bynoe
CMC Senior Theses
This work of creative writing explores the role of the maroons, or escaped Africans, in Caribbean plantation society. The novel pays homage the tradition of creole storytelling and asserts the importance of this practice in creating more complete historiographic narratives. Incorporating the themes of magic, rebellion, darkness/light, heroism, and brutality characteristic of Afro-latinx literature. The work attempts to continue the decolonizing work of disrupting the capitalist dichotomy between freedom and enslavement which threatens to erase the multiplicity of black existence in the colonial Caribbean.
Insight On Planning And Assessing The Teaching-Learning Process,
2020
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Insight On Planning And Assessing The Teaching-Learning Process, Khalid Aada
Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications
This article discusses the important relationship between two essential areas at Educational level: Planning and Assessment during the Teaching and the Learning process. The main purpose of this work is to present a pedagogical tool that could facilitate the organization and the establishment of a follow-up in an actual form, and thus contribute to the improvement of the study programs. Readers interested in this field of education will find in this article considerable ideas that would help them to understand the transcendence of a systematized planning and organized assessment under a complex process, to complement their didactic training and thus …
Una Vision Compleja Y Conflictiva: El Renacimiento De La Imagen De Isabel La Catolica Y La Experiencia Femenina Durante La Epoca De La Postguerra,
2020
Loyola University Chicago
Una Vision Compleja Y Conflictiva: El Renacimiento De La Imagen De Isabel La Catolica Y La Experiencia Femenina Durante La Epoca De La Postguerra, Sarah M. Obrist
Master's Theses
Esta investigacion analiza la experiencia de la mujer espanola durante la epoca de la postguerra y como se relaciona con el renacimiento de la imagen de la reina Isabel I (1451-1504) como un ejemplar de la feminidad. La revitalizacion de la Reina Catolica sirvio como propaganda politica falangista con el fin de inspirar la subyugacion, devocion abnegada y conformidad de la mujer espanola de aquel entonces. La imposicion de tales expectativas de genero sexual condujo a la privacion de varias libertades sociales, educativas y legales de la mujer espanola durante la dictadura de Francisco Franco (1936-1975) y por medio de …
Regional Variation On Loanword Adaptation In Japanese,
2020
West Virginia University
Regional Variation On Loanword Adaptation In Japanese, Yuki Hattori
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
This thesis examines the variations of loanword abbreviations in Japanese dialects. When adopting foreign words into Japanese, phonological grammar is applied creating loanwords. When loanwords are introduced, Japanese phonological rules determine how to pronounce the new words; Japanese truncation styles are applied to shorten and abbreviate loanwords. Much like native Japanese words, regional variations can be observed in loanword abbreviations. In order to discover how variations are created, this study compares two dialects: the eastern Japanese dialect (standard dialect) and the western Japanese dialect (Kansai dialect). Despite a recent decrease in popularity, the Kansai dialect is still one of the …
Use Of Eportfolios As A High-Impact Learning Practice For The B.A. In Arabic Program At Csusb,
2019
California State University, San Bernardino
Use Of Eportfolios As A High-Impact Learning Practice For The B.A. In Arabic Program At Csusb, Oraib Mango
Workshops & Institutes
This paper offers a description of how ePortfolios can be used in world language learning programs--specifically Arabic-- not only to assess the success of the program but also to provide students with a platform for reflection, self regulation and self assessment. ePortfolios allow students to set and review their goals, engage with and reflect upon their learning as they document and track the progress of their language proficiency and intercultural competence starting from first year courses and ending with a capstone Signature Work project.
“If It Hadn’T Been For Writing, I Think I Would Have Lost My Mind:” Resilient Dwelling And Rhetorical Agency In Prison Writing,
2019
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
“If It Hadn’T Been For Writing, I Think I Would Have Lost My Mind:” Resilient Dwelling And Rhetorical Agency In Prison Writing, Maggie Shelledy
Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Teaching In A Multicultural And Demanding Society,
2019
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Teaching In A Multicultural And Demanding Society, Khalid Aada
Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications
What does involve leading a new experience of teaching and learning under the new paradigm of a true knowledge society? Is it about mastering the teaching experience through critical reflection, or knowing the natural and social environment in its multiple interactions? Isn’t it about favoring an educational environment where students are not only limited to participate in a traditional way, but expect to find meaning to their learning experience and be able to build the acquired knowledge? This article allows to identify different stages in the new educational models within a multicultural environment. In other words, a field where teachers …
How To Promote Education For Sustainable Development? Vision Of The Educational Situation And Its Contribution To Sustainable Development.,
2019
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
How To Promote Education For Sustainable Development? Vision Of The Educational Situation And Its Contribution To Sustainable Development., Khalid Aada
Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications
During the last decade, the importance of leaving a rational paradigm, debtor of functionalist and utilitarian models, towards another more congruent with the preservation of natural resources, and therefore of life, has been widely discussed. In the same way, different voices have been raised, pointing out the urgency of inserting these precepts into the educational field, hoping to achieve the true cultural transformation that is needed to consolidate the change. Multiple International Entities promote sustainability in Education as an initiative that should be ambitious, complex and reforming character, given the global scope of the social, economic and environmental situation affecting …
Addendum: A Second Poem By Eduard Dorsch On The Occasion Of Humboldt's 100th Birthday,
2019
Loyola University Chicago
Addendum: A Second Poem By Eduard Dorsch On The Occasion Of Humboldt's 100th Birthday, Reinhard Andress
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In a previously published article in HIN under the title of “Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday,” I elaborated on Dorsch's poem that was read in Detroit in front of a German-American audience on Sept. 14, 1869, a day widely celebrated in the US in honor of Humboldt. Although it was not surprising that Dorsch wrote the occasional poem in the first place given his affinities with Humboldt's world of thought, a discovery of a second occasional poem upon further research in Dorsch's voluminous papers was indeed unexpected, in this case read on …
Notes On Contributors,
2019
Western Michigan University
A Selection From The Chieko Poems By Takamura Kōtarō,
2019
Western Michigan University
A Selection From The Chieko Poems By Takamura Kōtarō, Leanne Ogasawara
Transference
No abstract provided.
Four Poems From House Of Razor Blades By Linda Maria Baros,
2019
Western Michigan University
Four Poems From House Of Razor Blades By Linda Maria Baros, Kathryn Kimball
Transference
No abstract provided.
Four Poems By Dieurat Clervoyant,
2019
Kansas State University
Four Poems By Dieurat Clervoyant, Elizabeth Dodd
Transference
Poems by Haitian poet in exile Dieurat Clervoyant, translated from the French by Elizabeth Dodd.
An Axe Falling On A Blind Statue By Mohamed Fouad,
2019
University of Toronto
An Axe Falling On A Blind Statue By Mohamed Fouad, Nina Youkhanna
Transference
No abstract provided.
Three Poems From Flowing Toward Serenity By Tan Xiao,
2019
hobbyist
Three Poems From Flowing Toward Serenity By Tan Xiao, Xinlu Yan
Transference
Tan Xiao is a Chinese poet whose poetry examines the relationships between an individual and his or her family, traditions, and society as a whole. The language he uses is deceptively simple, but the poignant observations and insights ensure that his poetry is relevant and relatable. This article includes three poems by Tan and accompanying commentary.
