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Charge/Recharge: The Educator's Powerpack Installation, Adrienne J. Royo

Faculty Works

Have you been behind the desk, as an educator, for such an extended period of time that you need to re-charge your learning experience "batteries"? Do you need some "out-of-the-box" ideas to bring some new teaching strategies to the classroom?

Diseño De Un Curso De Español Para Principiantes Basado En Call, Kerwin A. Livingstone

Kerwin A. Livingstone

09. Sociology, Northeastern State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

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08. Political Science, Northeastern State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

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07. History, Northeastern State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

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05. Geography, Northeastern State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

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02. English, Northeastern State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

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The Frequency Of The Twelve Verb Tenses In Academic Papers Written By Native Speakers, Uthman Alzuhairy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Because of the significant and sensitive role of verb tenses in learning English, the current study examined the occurrence of the twelve verb tenses that native writers (NWs) utilized in their selected academic papers at the college level. In doing so, the study created a baseline of relative frequency of verb tense usage that may benefit further studies, especially those connected with the teaching grammar to English learners. The main linguistic items targeted for tabulation in this study were the 12 verb tenses, modals, perfect modals, and imperatives. These items were elicited from an original corpus of 31 research papers …

Dominant Discourses And Language Socialization In The Literacy Practices Of A Spanish-Speaking Church, Katherine Christoffersen

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Over the years, research has investigated language in communities, schools and homes, community programs and to a lesser degree research investigates language use in religious communities. In particular, there is a lack of research on religious language and literacy practices in Hispanic communities, especially those in the United States, although incipient work has revealed the importance of religious literacy among women Mexican immigrants (Farr, 2000) and for the socialization of children into a Mexican identity (Baquedano-López, 1997). Given the hostile local sociopolitical environment of Spanish in the state of Arizona in the Southwestern United States, the church is one of …

Carving Characters In The Mind. A Theoretical Approach To The Reception Of Characters In Audio Described Films, Nazaret Fresno

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

From early childhood on we are exposed to characters in books, cartoons, films, theatre plays, and video games. Through these media we enter fascinating fictional worlds that seduce our imagination with every page or scene. As the events unfold, we become captivated by the story and its protagonists, whose deeper feelings are outlined in a succession of words and/ or images that the audience needs to endow with meaning. In their search for comprehension, readers and spectators “picture” the situations described in their minds by creating multimodal representations (mental models) about the events taking place, the place and time in …

Spanish For Heritage Speakers: Instructional Module #3, Gabriela C. Zapata

Activities and Assignments Collection

This is the third instructional module for the teaching of Spanish to heritage speakers at the intermediate level. The outcomes for this module are as follows:

1. Students will be able to understand the way in which a descriptive essay is organized and written;

2. Students will be able to continue applying the rules for the accentuation of palabras esdrújulas and agudas to improve their spelling;

3. Students will be able to understand the rules that govern the use of adjectives in Spanish, including the exceptions that break these rules;

4. Students will review the rules that govern the accentuation …

Creating Knowledge, Volume 9, 2016

Creating Knowledge

Dear Students, Colleagues, Alumni and Friends,

Throughout my career as faculty and administrator in higher education I have been honored with the opportunity to introduce and celebrate the publication of scholarly work by colleagues and graduate students in many disciplines and institutions around the world. After more than three decades of doing so, this is the first time that I have the pleasure of introducing a formal publication of work created by a talented group of undergraduate scholars. This honor is further magnified by the fact that beyond its formal format, this is a reviewed publication of extraordinary rigor and …

Review Of Latin American Cinema, By Stephen M. Hart, Traci Roberts-Camps

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

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01. Communication, Northeastern State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

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Small Theology / You Here, Heike Henderson

World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations

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The Contribution Of Call To Advanced-Level Foreign/Second Language Instruction, Jack Burston, Kelly Arispe

World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper evaluates the contribution of instructional technology to advanced-level foreign/second language learning (AL2) over the past thirty years. It is shown that the most salient feature of AL2 practice and associated Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) research are their rarity and restricted nature. Based on an analysis of four leading CALL journals (CALICO, CALL, LL&T, ReCALL), less than 3% of all CALL publications deal with AL2. Moreover, within this body of research, the range of languages involved is very restricted. Three languages, English, German and French, account for nearly 87% of the studies. Likewise, in nearly 81% of …

La Escritura Como Lugar Para Vivir En La Obra Del Exilio De Martin Ugalde, Larraitz Ariznabarreta Garabieta

World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations

Para un hombre sin país,

escribir se convierte en un lugar donde vivir.

Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia

¿Quién soy yo sin exilio?

Mahmoud Darwish, El lecho de una extraña

El carácter excepcional de la «experiencia del exilio» resulta siempre revelador de una exégesis identitaria personal obligada. A través de un análisis crítico del discurso el presente trabajo incide en las huellas discursivas que el exilio dejó impresas en la obra del periodista e intelectual vasco Martin Ugalde, subrayando el carácter metonímico y representativo que a menudo adquieren los textos de los escritores exiliados con respecto a la construcción identitaria propia …

Imperial Incentives And Individual Allegiances In Juan Antonio Correa’S La Pérdida Y Restauración De Bahía De Todos Los Santos, Matthew D. Stroud

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

Juan Antonio Correa's La pérdida y restauración de Bahía de Todos los Santos, written primarily to celebrate the successful recapture in 1625 of an important American colony from the Dutch and their allies, invites an investigation into why and how human beings can be motivated to support people and institutions that not only do not directly benefit them but may in fact operate in ways that are unfavourable to their own lives and causes. Informed by the political writings of Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire and the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, this study explores the various reasons why …

The Dark Pastoral: Goethe And Atwood, Heather I. Sullivan

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

The Anthropocene challenges the humanities to find means of representing and analysing our fossil-fueled practices that have spread industrial particulates over the entire globe, changed the climate, and reshaped landscapes into a “new nature.” In this essay, I propose the “dark pastoral” as an analytical trope, examining two framing texts from the Anthropocene: Goethe’s landmark 1797 pastoral German epic, Hermann and Dorothea, and Margaret Atwood’s 2003 postapocalyptic novel Oryx and Crake, the first installment of her MaddAddam trilogy which ends with a surprisingly pastoral flourish. At the early phases of the Anthropocene (as it is defined by Paul …

The Cornelian Ethics Of Flight And The Case Of Horace, Nina Ekstein

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

Flight is a simple dramatic action, one that lends itself to any number of different  plots.  its  implied  movement  can  be  represented  on  stage  or  merely recounted. So common is it that the words fuite and fuir appear in every one of Corneille’s 32 plays, from as infrequently as twice to as many as 32 times.¹ The two terms belong to a broad semantic network including retraite, éviter, dérober, échapper, partir, quitter, abandoner, but differ in their suggestion of  abrupt,  precipitous  movement  as  well  as  the  element  of  fear  implied. furetière begins …