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The Intelligences Of Creative English-As-A-Foreign-Language Learning, Alvin Charles Yen Jan 2005

The Intelligences Of Creative English-As-A-Foreign-Language Learning, Alvin Charles Yen

Theses Digitization Project

This project provides a model for incorporating creativity in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). It includes an instructional unit comprised of six lessons followed by accompanying assessments. Culture and language cannot be separated as students learn a foreign language.

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Translingual Literature: The Bone People And Borderlands, Jill Marie Murphy Jan 2005

Translingual Literature: The Bone People And Borderlands, Jill Marie Murphy

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis proposes that by producing and existing within a translingual text, the ethnofeminist has found a way to subvert others' construction of her and redefine her identity. In particular, the ethnofeminist uses code switching to select and reinvent meaning from the language system of the dominant culture while maintaining the language system of the "marginal" group. In combining two (or more) language systems within a literature she has created her own language.

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Career And Technical Education: General Office Occupations, Joyce Johnson Fairman Jan 2005

Career And Technical Education: General Office Occupations, Joyce Johnson Fairman

Theses Digitization Project

Develops a culturally and linguistically sensitive curriculum that provides unskilled and underemployed African Americans living in San Bernardino County with vocational education for technical and office occupations. This project will operate as a resource for teachers, counselors, and trainers who assist unskilled African Americans entering the workplace and that are in need of career and professional development in office protocol, computer software applications, and verbal and written communication skills.

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Korean Americans And Barriers To The Use Of Mental Health Services, Kimberly Joy Steiner Jan 2005

Korean Americans And Barriers To The Use Of Mental Health Services, Kimberly Joy Steiner

Theses Digitization Project

Based on data concerning Korean Americans affected by mental health problems, it is apparent that current methods of providing mental health services are not adequate. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of various mental disorders and barriers keeping Korean Americans from utilizing mental health services.

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Promoting Metalinguistic Awareness Through Peer Response In Writing In Elementary English As A Foreign Language, Kuan-Ting Liu Jan 2005

Promoting Metalinguistic Awareness Through Peer Response In Writing In Elementary English As A Foreign Language, Kuan-Ting Liu

Theses Digitization Project

This project serves as a resource to help teachers understand and meet the educational needs of second-language learners by promoting their metalinguistic awareness through peer response in writing in elementary English as a foreign language.

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The Effects Of Mexican Americans, Chicanos Parental Involvement On Schooling, Maria Guadalupe Ramirez Jan 2005

The Effects Of Mexican Americans, Chicanos Parental Involvement On Schooling, Maria Guadalupe Ramirez

Theses Digitization Project

This project examines the impact factors such as parent involvement and teacher support have on Mexican American students' decisions about higher education.

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Coordinated Compliance Review: Guidebook For The English Language Learner Coordinator, Dilma Cordeiro Bonzer Jan 2005

Coordinated Compliance Review: Guidebook For The English Language Learner Coordinator, Dilma Cordeiro Bonzer

Theses Digitization Project

The author has designed a guidebook to accompany the State of California Department of Education's Coordinated Compliance Review Manual. The purpose of the guidebook is to provide English language learners' (ELL) coordinators the information needed to facilitate and achieve compliance with the State of California's rules, regulations and policies that will insure that ELL students' needs are being addressed and met. The design and method of the project are discussed.

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Working With Ethnic-Minority Families: Evaluating The Need For Cross-Cultural Training Within Riverside County Child Protective Services, Kathleen Fromayan Nebo, Darlena Allen Jan 2005

Working With Ethnic-Minority Families: Evaluating The Need For Cross-Cultural Training Within Riverside County Child Protective Services, Kathleen Fromayan Nebo, Darlena Allen

Theses Digitization Project

This work examined social workers at the Riverside County Child Protective Services and their need for cross-cultural training specifically when working with ethnic minority families.

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Do Educators Value School Social Workers?, Keynasia Kami Daniels Jan 2005

Do Educators Value School Social Workers?, Keynasia Kami Daniels

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to examine educators' (teachers and school administrators) level of knowledge about the professional role of school social workers and the value that educators place on the functions carried out by social workers as pupil support personnel.

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Prevalence Of Type 2 Diabetes Among Minority Groups, Patricia Elizabeth Sanchez Jan 2005

Prevalence Of Type 2 Diabetes Among Minority Groups, Patricia Elizabeth Sanchez

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was twofold. First, the study evaluated Loma Linda University Medical Center's (LLUMC) Diabetes Treatment Center's (DTC) effectiveness in providing diabetes education and services to high risk minority populations. Second, the results of the study helped the DTC determine the need for expanding its present efforts in the form of community health prevention services to San Bernardino County residents.

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A Descriptive Study Of Orange County Latinas' Breast Cancer Knowledge Levels, Venus Zamarripa Valencia Jan 2005

A Descriptive Study Of Orange County Latinas' Breast Cancer Knowledge Levels, Venus Zamarripa Valencia

Theses Digitization Project

This study utilized a self-reported survey design to obtain information from 47 Latinas to determine their breast cancer knowledge levels and compliance with early detection methods.

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Extroversion And Introversion As Factors Affecting Adult English-As-A-Second-Language Learners, David Augustine Baptiste Jan 2005

Extroversion And Introversion As Factors Affecting Adult English-As-A-Second-Language Learners, David Augustine Baptiste

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this research is to investigate if there is a significant difference in literacy skills between Level-Two extroverts and introverts after three years of English instruction at the community-college level.

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Reading Fluency Instruction In Upper Elementary International School Classrooms, Jinky Lunaspe Dagoon Jan 2005

Reading Fluency Instruction In Upper Elementary International School Classrooms, Jinky Lunaspe Dagoon

Theses Digitization Project

This project focuses on the importance of reading fluency, emphasizing its role in the construction of meaning and aiding in the overall comprehension process. Its components: accuracy, automaticity, and prosody are examined in relation to various activities that enhance each component. A sample curriculum is discussed.

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Creating An Intimate Partner Violence Against Women Legal Theory, Jenny Rivera Jan 2005

Creating An Intimate Partner Violence Against Women Legal Theory, Jenny Rivera

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

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Tr-2005012: Propositional Games With Explicit Strategies, Bryan Renne Jan 2005

Tr-2005012: Propositional Games With Explicit Strategies, Bryan Renne

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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Same-Sex Marriage, Slippery Slope Rhetoric, And The Politics Of Disgust: A Critical Perspective On Contemporary Family Discourse And The Incest Taboo, Courtney Megan Cahill Jan 2005

Same-Sex Marriage, Slippery Slope Rhetoric, And The Politics Of Disgust: A Critical Perspective On Contemporary Family Discourse And The Incest Taboo, Courtney Megan Cahill

Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

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Infallible Texts And Righteous Interpretations: Don Quijote And Religious Fundamentalism, Matthew D. Stroud Jan 2005

Infallible Texts And Righteous Interpretations: Don Quijote And Religious Fundamentalism, Matthew D. Stroud

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

Religion in Don Quijote has been a frequent subject of inquiry over the past century. As a "vehicle for religious expression," to use Ziolkowski's terminology (1), Cervantes's masterpiece has been studied as an analogy of the relationship between religious faith and the world around it (Ziolkowski 8), as a manifestation of the historic clash between the secularization of the modern era and the waning medieval domination by "religious institutions and symbols" (Ziolkowski 9, citing Berger 107), as a vessel of both the spirit and the letter of selected pronouncements of the Council of Trent (Descouzis 479), as a text that …

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Un Nuovo Dato Per La Cronologia Della Versione Cinematografica Della Nuova Colonia Di Luigi Pirandello, Stefano Giannini Jan 2005

Un Nuovo Dato Per La Cronologia Della Versione Cinematografica Della Nuova Colonia Di Luigi Pirandello, Stefano Giannini

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote numerous film-treatments inspired by his short-stories and plays that were not completed as films. Among the never completed films there is La Nuova Colonia. The history of the film-project La Nuova Colonia [The New Colony] is important for the further understanding of Pirandello’s poetics. Nestled in the plot of Pirandello’s novel Suo marito [Her Husband], La Nuova Colonia took on independent life in 1926 as the play of the same name that premiered in Rome in March 1928. The two dates indicated for the play are not the chronological limits for the La Nuova Colonia …

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Acceptance Of Wireless Internet Via Mobile Technology In China, June Lu, Chang Liu, Chun-Sheng Yu, James E. Yao Jan 2005

Acceptance Of Wireless Internet Via Mobile Technology In China, June Lu, Chang Liu, Chun-Sheng Yu, James E. Yao

Journal of International Information Management

This study explores factors associated with the acceptance of Wireless Internet via Mobile Technology (WIMT) in China. The results indicate that the acceptance of WIMT is related to the factors of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social influences, wireless trust environment, and facilitating conditions. It provides diagnostic insight into how different factors influence user intention to accept WIMT in China, and thus help business develop strategy to prompt WIMT communications and mobile commerce there.

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Concept Attainment In Mathematics Within Content-Based Instruction For Secondary English As A Second Language, Kwang-Sug Lee Jan 2005

Concept Attainment In Mathematics Within Content-Based Instruction For Secondary English As A Second Language, Kwang-Sug Lee

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to provide a useful model, the Concept Attainment Model in Mathematics, which implicates the concept attainment teaching method based on adjunct content-based instruction by using visuals and manipulatives in order to help ESL students be successful for both substantive content areas.

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Empowering Pre-Adolescent Second-Language Learners In The Middle School Years, Robert Charles Quintana Jan 2005

Empowering Pre-Adolescent Second-Language Learners In The Middle School Years, Robert Charles Quintana

Theses Digitization Project

The thesis explores sociolinguistic issues facing pre-adolescent English-as-second-language learners. Topics covered include literacy issues, communicative competence issues at the intermediate and advanced English language development (ELD) levels, language and power relationships that affect pre-adolescent English language learners, politeness as a sociolinguistic tool, and the benefits of students acquiring the language of cooperative learning. The implications of these topics culminate in the development of a social studies curriculum unit designed for the middle-school classroom.

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Tr-2005003: Making Knowledge Explicit: How Hard It Is, Vladimir Brezhnev, Roman Kuznets Jan 2005

Tr-2005003: Making Knowledge Explicit: How Hard It Is, Vladimir Brezhnev, Roman Kuznets

Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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In A Creative Voice: Talking Back To Lawyers' Texts, In Notes From A Difficult Case, Andrea Mcardle Jan 2005

In A Creative Voice: Talking Back To Lawyers' Texts, In Notes From A Difficult Case, Andrea Mcardle

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

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[Edited With An Introduction] The Use And Abuse Of Books, Michael J. Paulus Jr., Archibald Alexander Jan 2005

[Edited With An Introduction] The Use And Abuse Of Books, Michael J. Paulus Jr., Archibald Alexander

SPU Works

No abstract provided.

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From Dyad To Triad: Reconceptualizing The Lawyer-Client Relationship For Litigation In Regional Human Rights Commissions, Melissa E. Crow Jan 2005

From Dyad To Triad: Reconceptualizing The Lawyer-Client Relationship For Litigation In Regional Human Rights Commissions, Melissa E. Crow

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article analyzes the standing requirements for NGO petitions to the Inter-American and African Commissions and explores the ways which they may undermine the legitimacy and effectiveness of each of these for a, especially in the context of litigation on behalf of groups. The author evaluates various proposals for addressing these problems based on princeiples of class action and client-centered lawyering and concludes that they are inadequate.

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Gene Discovery In Developmental Neuropsychiatric Disorders : Clues From Chromosomal Rearrangements, Thomas V. Fernandez Jan 2005

Gene Discovery In Developmental Neuropsychiatric Disorders : Clues From Chromosomal Rearrangements, Thomas V. Fernandez

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

No abstract provided.

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Highly Qualified Minority Teachers: Do High-Stakes Teacher Tests Weed Out Those We Need Most?, Julie Esparza Brown Jan 2005

Highly Qualified Minority Teachers: Do High-Stakes Teacher Tests Weed Out Those We Need Most?, Julie Esparza Brown

Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of standardized teacher tests as demonstration of licensure competencies for diverse candidates in Oregon and nationally. The following four areas and their accompanying questions guide the development of this paper: (1) Why would a diverse teacher workforce help close the achievement gap?; (2) What are the barriers that exist to meeting the need for diverse educators?; (3) What type of research will be needed to validate alternative assessments as viable options?; and (4) What qualities in leaders produce policies for equity? At the conclusion of this paper, the author provides …

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A Comparative Study Of The Latino Discourse In The United States, Héctor Manuel Ramos Romero Jan 2005

A Comparative Study Of The Latino Discourse In The United States, Héctor Manuel Ramos Romero

Hipertexto

No abstract provided.

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Below The Surface: An Introduction To The Commission's Recommendations On The Management Of Groundwater Resources, Karen D. Bettencourt Jan 2005

Below The Surface: An Introduction To The Commission's Recommendations On The Management Of Groundwater Resources, Karen D. Bettencourt

McGeorge Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Guidelines For Establishing Interactivity In Online Courses, Mark Mabrito Jan 2005

Guidelines For Establishing Interactivity In Online Courses, Mark Mabrito

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

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