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Taking Another Look At Struggling Adolescent Readers, Melissa Brooks-Yip, Jacqueline B. Koonce 2010 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Taking Another Look At Struggling Adolescent Readers, Melissa Brooks-Yip, Jacqueline B. Koonce

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Blogs & Glogs: Revitalizing Class Projects, Krista Bittenbender Royal 2010 University of South Florida

Blogs & Glogs: Revitalizing Class Projects, Krista Bittenbender Royal

INTO Faculty and Staff Publications

This workshop looks at two technologies that can be used to energize traditional poster and writing assignments to bring them beyond text: Glogster and Blogger. Both are free, easy to use websites with which students can create web pages with images, text, and audio to share with their classmates and the world. In the workshop, intended for instructors and curriculum coordinators, we will look at each of these platforms, discuss examples of project assignment guides using each of the sites, and talk about other ways they could be integrated into courses. I will also share some student feedback and some …


Cine E Inmigración: Espacios De Inclusión Y Exclusión, Ana M. López-Aguilera 2010 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Cine E Inmigración: Espacios De Inclusión Y Exclusión, Ana M. López-Aguilera

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

El tema de la inmigración representa una novedad para la sociedad española. Aunque habituada a las visitas de turistas extranjeros, la llegada de personas cuya estancia responde a motivos económicos y laborales (no ociosos) y que se prevé más prolongada, ha creado una nueva situación social. El cine ha respondido a este cambio incluyendo personajes inmigrantes en las obras y planteando en las mismas cuestiones relacionadas con el tema. Este tipo de cine se denomina “de inmigración” o “de inmigrantes” y muestra una preocupación de los directores por tratar contenidos sociales en sus obras. No obstante, existe una tendencia a …


Charlotte Elizabeth Grace Roche: Feuchtgebiete [Wetlands], Amy Kepple Strawser 2010 Otterbein University

Charlotte Elizabeth Grace Roche: Feuchtgebiete [Wetlands], Amy Kepple Strawser

Modern Languages & Cultures Faculty Scholarship

This article provides information and literary criticism on the novel Feuchtgebiete [Wetlands] which was written by Charlotte Roche and published in 2008. It is the story of a sexually obsessed eighteen year old women who has serious problems with low self-esteem and is struggling to understand her female body.


Designing Thematic Instruction With Authentic Resources: Science And Technology, Brian G. Kennelly 2010 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Designing Thematic Instruction With Authentic Resources: Science And Technology, Brian G. Kennelly

World Languages and Cultures

No abstract provided.


Ap® French Language, Brian G. Kennelly 2010 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Ap® French Language, Brian G. Kennelly

World Languages and Cultures

No abstract provided.


‘Young Boys, No Trouble, Very Safe’?: Frédéric Mitterrand’S La Mauvaise Vie As Text And Pretext, Brian G. Kennelly 2010 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

‘Young Boys, No Trouble, Very Safe’?: Frédéric Mitterrand’S La Mauvaise Vie As Text And Pretext, Brian G. Kennelly

World Languages and Cultures

No abstract provided.


Using Ning For Conversation Partner Networks, Krista Bittenbender Royal 2010 University of South Florida

Using Ning For Conversation Partner Networks, Krista Bittenbender Royal

INTO Faculty and Staff Publications

Providing opportunities for conversation practice is one way that an IEP can help students improve their English as well as enhance their engagement in the language learning process. However, matching individual language learners to fluent English speakers can be difficult and time consuming. This workshop will introduce participants involved in setting up such interactions to Ning, a free online social networking platform which can facilitate the creation of individualized networks. Participants will gain insights into how one IEP used Ning to connect ELLs to university students interested in having conversation partners.


Masculinities In Conflict: Representations Of The Other In Narrative During The Spanish Civil War, Iker González-Allende 2010 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Masculinities In Conflict: Representations Of The Other In Narrative During The Spanish Civil War, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

In this article, I analyze the representation of the Other in three texts that were published during the Spanish Civil War: El infierno azul (1938?), by Republican Isidro R. Mendieta, and two closely related works by Falangist Jacinto Miquelarena: Cómo fui ejecutado en Madrid (1937) and El otro mundo: La vida en las embajadas de Madrid (1938). Although these texts adhere to different political ideologies and are stylistically very divergent, they are similar in their constant criticisms of the enemy. Furthermore, both Republicans and rebels tend to depict the enemy as possessing an inadequate masculinity. He is described, on one …


Failure Is Not An Option: A Look At The Dropout Crisis In America, Aida Mogos 2010 Syracuse University

Failure Is Not An Option: A Look At The Dropout Crisis In America, Aida Mogos

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Perbandingan Bahasa Kiasan Dalam Cerpen Arab Dan Melayu., Mohamad Yazid Abdul Majid 2010 Universiti Malaya

Perbandingan Bahasa Kiasan Dalam Cerpen Arab Dan Melayu., Mohamad Yazid Abdul Majid

Student Works (2010-2019)

This dissertation study compares the language metaphor in Arabic and Malay short stories by two eminent authors namely Zakaria Tamer and Azizi Hj. Abdullah. The focus of the study is in the aspect of styles from figurative language in Arabic and Malay as well as examine the similarities and differences. Hence, the objective of this study is to identify the concept of figurative language and position in the science of Balaghah and Rhetoric Malay language other than making a terminology comparison both figuratively and analyze its use in both authors short story texts. In addition, the selection of the two …


"Soy Un Ciego Empeñado En Leer Blancos": Liminaridad Y Posmemoria En La Fiesta Vigilada De Antonio José Ponte, Isabel Alvarez-Borland 2010 College of the Holy Cross

"Soy Un Ciego Empeñado En Leer Blancos": Liminaridad Y Posmemoria En La Fiesta Vigilada De Antonio José Ponte, Isabel Alvarez-Borland

Spanish Department Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Re-Membering Lesbian Desire In Belle Epoque, Soldados De Salamina, And Las Trece Rosas, Debra J. Ochoa 2010 Trinity University

Re-Membering Lesbian Desire In Belle Epoque, Soldados De Salamina, And Las Trece Rosas, Debra J. Ochoa

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

The presidency of Jose Luis Zapatero Rodriguez has seen significant legisla tion in Spain that includes the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2005 and La ley de la memoria historica in 2007.1 Upon consideration of the changes in Spain during the first decade of the twenty-first century, we as critics must pause to consider how literature and film respond to the topics of homosexuality and history. Since the death of Franco in 1975, writers and directors have created a significant body of films and literature that uncovers previously prohibited topics in order to make, "the once hidden visible" (Creekmur …


De La Biblia Hebrea A La Comedia Española: El Clavo De Jael De Mira De Amescua, Matthew D. Stroud 2010 Trinity University

De La Biblia Hebrea A La Comedia Española: El Clavo De Jael De Mira De Amescua, Matthew D. Stroud

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

Abundan en la comedia española del Siglo de Oro las mujeres protagonistas que no se contentan con las restricciones y limitaciones impuestas sobre ellas por la sociedad patriarcal. De Rosaura en La vida es sueño de Calderón a La monja alférez de Juan Pérez de Montalbán, es frecuentemente la mujer la que promueve la acción y determina los perfiles del drama.


Cartografías Urbanas Y Marítimas: Género Y Modernismo En Concha Méndez, Iker González-Allende 2010 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Cartografías Urbanas Y Marítimas: Género Y Modernismo En Concha Méndez, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

Concha Méndez encarnó la modernidad tanto en su producción literaria como en su participación cultural y trayectoria vital. Ella misma lo afirma al comienzo de sus memorias: "Yo he visto nacer todos los inventos del siglo. Nací en medio de la modernidad, del canto a los medios de transporte, a la velocidad, al vuelo" (29). Fue poeta, dramaturga, guionista de cine, editora, campeona de natación, y en todas estas actividades siempre la impulsó el deseo de aventuras y de nuevas experiencias. A través de su amistad con Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti y Maruja Mallo, entre otros, incursionó en los …


Emotional Intelligence, Motivational Orientations, And Motivational Learning Effort And Achievement In Spanish As A Foreign Language, Juan Rodríguez Prieto 2010 Butler University

Emotional Intelligence, Motivational Orientations, And Motivational Learning Effort And Achievement In Spanish As A Foreign Language, Juan Rodríguez Prieto

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract provided.


U.S. Latinos’ Use Of Written Spanish: Realities And Aspirations, Laura Callahan 2010 Santa Clara University

U.S. Latinos’ Use Of Written Spanish: Realities And Aspirations, Laura Callahan

Modern Languages & Literature

This paper reports on an investigation of writing in Spanish in the lives of U.S. Latinos. Twenty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted with informants recruited from among students and former students of high school and college Spanish courses. The interviews were transcribed and coded for concepts and emergent themes (Rubin & Rubin, 2005; Bogdan & Biklen, 1992). Some themes that emerged relate to what U.S. Latinos do with written Spanish and what they would like to be able to do; other themes include classroom experiences, extra-academic avenues of acquisition, the social position of varieties of Spanish, language maintenance, and intergenerational loss. …


The Illusion Of Transparency At An Hsi: Rethinking Service And Public Identity In A South Texas Writing Program, Jonikka Charlton, Colin Charlton 2010 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

The Illusion Of Transparency At An Hsi: Rethinking Service And Public Identity In A South Texas Writing Program, Jonikka Charlton, Colin Charlton

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


La Voz 2010, Loyola Marymount University, Modern Languages & Literatures Department 2010 Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School

La Voz 2010, Loyola Marymount University, Modern Languages & Literatures Department

La Voz Student Journal

LA VOZ is published by the Modern Languages & Literatures Department, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.


Technology Integration In Teaching Action Research, Alcione N. Ostorga 2010 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Technology Integration In Teaching Action Research, Alcione N. Ostorga

Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications

This article describes an instructional model designed to teach action research to undergraduate preservice teachers, which uses technology integration to facilitate the learning process that incorporates face to face and distance learning methods. First, a theoretical overview of the instructional design is provided then the instructional model is described. The course design is analyzed through the use of Moore's levels of interaction. Finally, the author discusses the conclusions and implications for future research.


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