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Engaging The Needs Of Young Refugees In The Language Classroom, Mia-Shalom N. Hayes

Selected Honors Theses

As the number of refugee students increase each year, many language teachers find themselves uninformed and ill-equipped to effectively engage refugee students in the classroom. Thus, through a survey and synthesis of the current body of research, the following literature review seeks to present the specific needs of refugee students and suggest practical ways in which language teachers can effectively meet those needs and engage refugees in the language classroom. The findings suggest that though the pre-migration, trans-migration, and post-migration experiences present numerous physical, emotional, behavioral, cultural, social, and academic challenges to refugee students in the classroom, teachers can combat …

“This Damned Act”: Walt Whitman And The Fugitive Slave Law Of 1850, Kevin Mcmullen

Department of English: Faculty Publications

“THERE IS A SIN OF OMISSION often laid at [Walt] Whitman’s door by ardent humanitarians,” Clifton Furness wrote in 1928; “‘How is it,’ they say, ‘that a poet of democracy and humanitarianism did not express himself on the subjects of abolition, ill-treatment of slaves, the Missouri Compromise, and the national issues leading up to the Civil War?’”1 For all his expansiveness of both form and content, Whitman was indeed, on certain key matters, a poet of omission. As Kenneth M. Price, Martin Klammer, Ed Folsom, and others have demonstrated, the poet repeatedly grappled with issues of slavery and race in …

Still Writing At The Master’S Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric In Legal Writing For A “Woke” Legal Academy, Teri A. Mcmurtry-Chubb

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

When the author wrote Writing At the Master’s Table: Reflections on Theft, Criminality, and Otherness in the Legal Writing Profession almost 10 years ago, her aim was to bring a Critical Race Theory/Feminism (CRTF) analysis to scholarship about the marginalization of White women law professors of legal writing. She focused on the convergence of race, gender, and status to highlight the distinct inequities women of color face in entering their ranks. The author's concern was that barriers to entry for women of color made it less likely that the existing legal writing professorate, predominantly White and female, would problematize the …

The Prevalence And Importance Of Ethnic Diversity In Children’S Literature, Rose Schewe

Senior Honors Theses

Despite the complicated past of ethnic censorship, ethnic diversity has a prominent role in children’s literature published in the United States because diversity is accurately representative of the culture in which today’s young readers live. Children’s literature has advanced in terms of ethnic diversity in recent decades, but obstacles that prevent the stories of various minority groups from being told continue to exist. In order for all children to feel properly included in the literary world, children must be given the opportunity to see both people who are different from them as well as people who bear similarities to themselves …

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New Approaches In The Investigation Of Stylistic Devices And Their Typology, Rusana Sinjapova Teacher

Philology Matters

The author of the article defines different approaches of traditional and cognitive stylistics to the notion of a stylistic device and classification of stylistic devices; from the position of traditional stylistics different classifications of stylistic devices introduced by I.A. Galperin, V.A. Kuharenko, Y. M. Screbnev, I. V. Arnold are presented. In addition, the problem of analysis of stylistic devices is considered from the position of cognitive linguistics which enables to present a stylistic device as a cognitive structure. From the cognitive perspective, two principles of classification of stylistic devices are analyzed: the principle of knowledge structures and the principle of …

Supervision Method In Training A Specialist Or The Role Of Methodical Cooperation (On The Example Of Foreign Language And Literature Specialty), Nilufar Isakulova Doctor Of Pedagogical Sciences

Philology Matters

The article discusses the usage of supervision methods in training the English language experts.Supervision is one of the general training methods, which means collaboration between two experts who can privately describe and analyze the work with a specialist. Its aim is to assist the specialist to respond to client’s needs. Methods of teaching a foreign language include the study of the method of supervision, the analysis of the concept, purpose, types and functions of supervision, the study of the supervision’s degree, analysis of the forms, methods and means of learning English during observation, as well as the recommendations on individual, …

Developing Communicative Competence By Implementing Project Based-Learning In Esp Classes, Hayotkhon Shernazarova Teacher Of Western European Languages Department

Philology Matters

Higher education plays an important role indeveloping communicative skills of ESP learners. ESP is oriented towards mastering the skills for professional communication. However, most of the students find themselves incompetent in the course of their work. The article discusses the benefits of using a project work to history students to improve their speaking skills as well as professional communication. The topicality of the articleis determined by the fact that the projects proposed have not been actively introduced into curriculum designed for history students.
The article is aimed at analyzing the problems the teachers face in teaching process. It proposessix methods …

Expressing Speech Act Of Disagreement At Different Language Levels, Shokhista Nusratullaeva Teacher Of English Faculty Ii

Philology Matters

The problem of revealing and systematizingthe features of expressing disagreement repeatedly is still at the center of linguistic research.The current article investigates the speech act of disagreement in the framework of Speech Act Theory and its realization with the help of linguistic means (lexical, grammatical, phraseologicaland stylistic). Speech act of disagreement is act which combines all types of negative reaction:refutation, objection, judgment, disapproval, and dissatisfaction. It is an informative, imperative orevaluative statement and has a certain realization through various means of expression. Using these means in a particular communication dependson the intentions of the speaker, on the nature of the …

Gender Based Problems In Translation Of Literary Texts, Toshtemir Alimov Teacher Of Foreign Languages Faculty

Philology Matters

The study focuses on the investigation of the impact of gender on translation of literary texts.To be more specific, the article is aimed to explore the distinctive features of translated work by male and female translators. Previous researches and studies in this area of investigation have been gathered and analyzed. The aim of the following paper is to identify gender-specific language and the influence of the translator’s gender identity on the translation result, at the morphological, lexicaland syntactic levels, on the basis of a comparative analysis of the original and translated texts.Studies of gender differences on the material of the …

Health-Promoting Activities Of Teachers Is An Important Factor Of Quality Assurance Of Education, Dilyaram Sharipova Dsc., Prof

Philology Matters

Currently, the main goal of the participants of educational institutions is the formation of a fully developed, healthy personality. One of the effective ways to achieve this goal is to ensure the quality of education, ensuring the effectiveness, transparency and efficiency of the educational process, as the main factor determining the future of each person and the country as a whole. It is established that the guarantee of the quality of education largely depends on the participants of the educational process of the training and student, as well as the creation of a health-saving learning environment with the maximum exclusion …

Childhood, Womanhood And Family Perspectives On The Example Of Khaled Hoisseini’S Works, Dilnoza Ruzmatova Phd Student

Philology Matters

The present research focuses on the analysis of the novels “The Kite Runner”, “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, “And the Mountains Echoed” by Afghan-born American writer Khaled Hosseini in line with the major characteristics of childhood, womanhood and family perspectives. Considering those perspectives found in this research, it is obvious that Hosseini globally demonstrates the real outlook of his nation and country, and moreover establishes that having peace and wealth is the life meaning for Afghan people the same as other, human beings. There are different literary perspectives in the studies of literature as archetypal, formalist, psychoanalytical, social-class, gender, feministic and …

The Use Of The Translation Method In Mastering The Terms, Feruza Abdullaeva Phd

Philology Matters

The article is devoted to the role of Tourism terminology in linguistics and the issue of general classification, peculiarities in the expression and translation of terms related to tourism in English into Uzbek and Russian, as well as the choice of the most optimal methods for translating terms in accordance with the requirements of this professional sphere. The terminology of the English language tourism is distinguished by its brightness, versatility. Tourism terms are formed under the influence of a generalized lexical layer of language and perform a specific functional function.Tourism terms are formed through the affixation method (prefixation, suffixation, circumphixation) …

Analysis Of Lingvocultural Phrases In The Mediatext, Navruza Yaxyayeva Teacher

Philology Matters

The article deals with the analysis of cultural linguistic phrases in the media text. Mass information plays an important role in the continuation of language operations. This is determined by the qualitative changes in the general linguistic culture, and not only by the changes that have occurred due to the introduction of new information technologies. One of the most important issues facing modern linguistics is the study of functional methods of speech, the definition of their language features, the disclosure of the functional features of language units in the style of speech and their division into language facts. It is …

Lexical Paradigmatics And Its Variants, Baxram Kurbanov Phd Student

Philology Matters

The article deals with the issues of lexical paradigms from the point of view of their application in various layers of vocabulary. The term “paradigm” has been analysed from different viewpoints. The works of Ferdinand de Saussure, L. Elmslev, A. S. Pardaev and other authors are considered. Special attention is paid to syntagmatic and associative (paradigmatic) relations between language units. Paradigmatic relations,unlike syntagmatic relations, are considered as non-linear and non-simultaneous in a stream of speech or text, they are represented as relations between elements of a language that are united in the mind or memory of a person by some …

On The Na’T Ghazals Of Abdurahman Jami And Alisher Navai, Karomat Mullakhujayeva Phd

Philology Matters

The article deals with a comparative study of na’t ghazals of the great figures of the Persian and Turkic poetry – Abdurahman Jami and Alisher Navois’ Devans. The ghasals play an important role for the evaluation of the XV century’s religious-philosophical and artistic thinking.
In Alisher Navoi's ‘Khazoyin ul-maoni’, which consists of four devan and n’at ghazals of A. Jami’s three devans, which deals with the subject-matters about Muhammad (s.a.v)’s lifestyle , khadises, miracles sent to him and his role in the life of a human being have been stated.
Author analyzes the na’ts by both poets’ ghazals, in particular …

Important Trends In The Application Of Digital Technologies In Higher Education, Lola Nazarova Senior Teacher Of The Department Of Humanities And Economics

Philology Matters

These days information technology has held a firm place in all aspects of human life and activity. These tendencies are leading to positive changes, such as the development of various fields, professional and personal growth of people. Likewise, information and communication technologies have already been able to find important place in education as well.On this occasion, there have been adopted several Presidential and higher education ministry decrees in our country. The introduction of Moodle Electronic Education System, the organization of online courses, the introduction of blended courses, the open-source (MOOC-Massive Open Online Course) courses in higher education institutions are examples …

The Means Of Revealing The Significance Of Speech Acts, Vazira Kholmatovа Researcher

Philology Matters

The article is devoted to the scientific and theoretical analysis of the devices actualizing the content of the speech statements, since any speaker tries to fulfill his/her speech motions appropriately to the expected result.The practice of reaching a pragmatic effect in the communication, at the time of fulfilling the speech statements with special emphasis and precision, may have some specific nuances. In such process the speaker creates a speech statement delivering the information directly to the listener. This speech statement is neither lexical or grammatical phenomenon, but a pragmatic unit.
Social role of interlocutors is of concern in choosing particular …

Khamza Poetry: Sources And Text Research, Shermuhammad Amonov Phd Philological Sciences

Philology Matters

Khamza was one of the active organizers of the methods of Jadid schools. As a playwriter Khamza wrote “Zaharli hayot yohud ishq qurbonlari”(1916), “Tuhmatchilar jazosi” (1919), “Burungi qozilar yoki Maysaraning ishi” (1926), “Paranji sirlaridan bir lavha yoki Yallachilar ishi” (1927). He was interested in the world literature and mass media. He read Russian, Tatar, Azar­baijon, Turkish and Arabic literature. He was interested in education of those countries. Lyrical heritage of Khamza Hakimzade Niyazi consists of Divan of a poet (“Divani Nihani”), collection “National poems for national songs” and “Documents of Khamza’s archive”, saved in the State literature museum of the …

Some Problems Of News Editing, Halim Saidov Phd, Associate Professor Of The Theory And Practice Of Journalism

Philology Matters

The article deals with the problems of news editing, common errors, shortcomings and the reasons of this kind of mistakes.
Use of an incorrect word in a text demonstrates that journalists need to know the meaning of every word they use. If this occurs because a journalist is inexperienced or young, the editor has to shoulder all the responsibility. An incorrect word, a phrase or a sign has been found to be confusing for readers in many circumstances. It is recommended that using words that can cause arguments or change the meaning of the text should be avoided.
The phrases …