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A Correlation Of Pronunciation Learning Strategies With Spontaneous English Pronunciation Of Adult Esl Learners, Grant Taylor Eckstein Jul 2007

A Correlation Of Pronunciation Learning Strategies With Spontaneous English Pronunciation Of Adult Esl Learners, Grant Taylor Eckstein

Theses and Dissertations

In the last thirty years, language learning strategies have been used in the field of English as a Second Language (ESL) to help learners autonomously improve their English listening, speaking, reading, and writing. However, language learning strategies have not been applied to pronunciation learning in a large scale manner. This study attempted to bridge this gap by investigating the usage of pronunciation learning strategies among adult ESL learners. A strategic pronunciation learning scale (SPLS) was administered to 183 adult ESL learners in an Intensive English Program. Their scores on the SPLS were compared with their scores of spontaneous pronunciation on …

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Probing For Reasons: Presentations, Questions, Phases, Kellyn Nicole Farlow Jul 2007

Probing For Reasons: Presentations, Questions, Phases, Kellyn Nicole Farlow

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reports on a research study based on data from experimental teaching. Students were invited, through real-world problem tasks that raised central conceptual issues, to invent major ideas of calculus. This research focuses on work and thinking of the students, as they sought to build key ideas, representations and compelling lines of reasoning. This focus on the students' and their agency as learners has brought about a new development of the psychological and logical perspectives, as well as, highlighted students' choices in academic and social roles. Such choices facilitated continued learning among these students.

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In Defense Of Ugly Women, Sara Deborah Nyffenegger Jul 2007

In Defense Of Ugly Women, Sara Deborah Nyffenegger

Theses and Dissertations

My thesis explores why beauty became so much more important in nineteenth-century Britain, especially for marriageable young women in the upper and middle class. My argument addresses the consequences of that change in the status of beauty for plain or ugly women, how this social shift is reflected in the novel, and how authors respond to the issue of plainer women and issues of their marriageability. I look at how these authorial attitudes shifted over the century, observing that the issue of plain women and their marriageability was dramatized by nineteenth-century authors, whose efforts to heighten the audience's awareness of …

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Parent Derogation And Family Bonding Among African American And Non-Hispanic White Males During Middle School Jul 2007

Parent Derogation And Family Bonding Among African American And Non-Hispanic White Males During Middle School

Florida Public Health Review

The purpose of this study was to explore longitudinal relationships between parent derogation and family bonding in a sample of African American and non-Hispanic White males during middle school. While statistically controlling race, regression analyses indicated that parent derogation levels reported in sixth, seventh and eighth grades were statistically highly significant predictors of eighth grade family bonding. However, sixth grade parent derogation was not as strong a predictor as seventh grade parent derogation, and seventh grade was not as strong a predictor as eighth grade parent derogation. These results suggest that improving parent-child communication patterns at any point during middle …

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Florida Sentinel Bulletin, July 13, 2007, Gwen Hayes Jul 2007

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, July 13, 2007, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The July 13, 2007, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

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Stereotyped Seniors: The Portrayal Of Older Characters In Teen Movies From 1980-2006, Dawn Leah Magoffin Jul 2007

Stereotyped Seniors: The Portrayal Of Older Characters In Teen Movies From 1980-2006, Dawn Leah Magoffin

Theses and Dissertations

This content analysis examined the 60 most popular teen movies from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s to determine how older people (those over 55) are portrayed. This study found that some portrayals of older people in teen movies were favorable. For example, the most positive finding of the current study was the physical portrayal of older characters. The overwhelming majority of older characters were portrayed as active and healthy and rarely portrayed as sick or ugly. The negative physical stereotypes associated with children's media, such as “toothless/missing teeth" and older characters' reliance on physical aids were mostly absent from teen …

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The Prisoners’ (Plea Bargain) Dilemma, Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar Jul 2007

The Prisoners’ (Plea Bargain) Dilemma, Oren Bar-Gill, Omri Ben-Shahar

Law & Economics Working Papers Archive: 2003-2009

How can a prosecutor, who has only limited resources, credibly threaten so many defendants with costly and risky trials and extract plea bargains involving harsh sentences? Had defendants refused to settle, many of them would not have been charged or would have escaped with lenient sanctions. But such collective stonewalling requires coordination among defendants, which is difficult if not impossible to attain. Moreover, the prosecutor, by strategically timing and targeting her plea offers, can create conflicts of interest among defendants, frustrating any attempt at coordination. The substantial bargaining power of the resource-constrained prosecutor is therefore the product of the collective …

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Usa V. Clarke Jul 2007

Usa V. Clarke

2007 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

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The Plot Thickens: The Appellate Brief As Story, Kenneth D. Chestek Jul 2007

The Plot Thickens: The Appellate Brief As Story, Kenneth D. Chestek

Faculty Articles

Why are appellate briefs boring Does overreliance on structural paradigms like IRAC lead to formulaic and overly legalistic writing The author suggests that by conceiving of briefs as stories and consciously using the elements of narrative character conflict setting theme and plot among others the brief writer can make the clients story come to life for the reader hopefully producing a more interesting and therefore compelling brief The author has written a brief in a mock case Rubin v Old York Department of Social Services and then deconstructs the brief in the article to show how the author intentionally used …

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Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 01, July 12, 2007, Grand Valley State University Jul 2007

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 01, July 12, 2007, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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The Weekly Challenger, July 12, 2007, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Jul 2007

The Weekly Challenger, July 12, 2007, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The July 12, 2007, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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The Development Of Ready-A (Ready For Adolescents): An Adolescent Premarital Education Inventory, Lorinda A. Gutierrez Jul 2007

The Development Of Ready-A (Ready For Adolescents): An Adolescent Premarital Education Inventory, Lorinda A. Gutierrez

Theses and Dissertations

Learning about romantic relationships can be one of the central features of adolescence. However, there are not many useful and scholarly tools for adolescents to evaluate themselves and their relationship competence. Such tools can be helpful in the premarital education process. READY is a premarital assessment questionnaire instrument that is used for such purposes but it was designed for use with adults ages 18 and over. In this study READY for Adolescents (READY-A) was developed as a revision and extension of READY with age-appropriate questions to be used with adolescents. A review of literature on adolescent romantic relationships and factors …

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Campus Chronicle (Vol. 10, No. 1), Valparaiso University Jul 2007

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 10, No. 1), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

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The Impact Of Video Self-Modeling On Conversational Skills With Adolescent Students With Severe Disabilities, Megan Elizabeth Sangster Jul 2007

The Impact Of Video Self-Modeling On Conversational Skills With Adolescent Students With Severe Disabilities, Megan Elizabeth Sangster

Theses and Dissertations

Video self-modeling has been found to be effective in increasing appropriate behaviors, increasing task fluency, and decreasing inappropriate behaviors. During video self-modeling, a student is filmed completing a task and then mistakes, prompts, and negative behaviors are edited from the video. When the edited video is viewed by the subject student, the student views a perfect model of him or herself successfully completing the given task. Video self-modeling has been used predominately with participants with autism spectrum disorder. This study is a replication of a previous study in which the effectiveness of video self-modeling and video peer modeling was compared …

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Loneliness And Use Of Coping Mechanisms Among U.S. Military Personnel Deployed To The Middle East, David Abraham Shwalb Jul 2007

Loneliness And Use Of Coping Mechanisms Among U.S. Military Personnel Deployed To The Middle East, David Abraham Shwalb

Theses and Dissertations

Considering that the greatest fear of deploying military personnel is separation from family, an obvious and overlooked psychological phenomenon that merits further investigation is loneliness. In this study, 131 US troops completed the UCLA Loneliness Scale, Anxiety Control Questionnaire, and a leisurely activity participation scale to predict loneliness with participation in non-work activities in the presence of another moderator (locus of control) and various demographic factors. As hypothesized, the results indicated that 1) the best non-work activity predictors of loneliness were emailing friends and listening to music, 2) external locus of control was positively correlated with loneliness and internal locus …

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The Effect Of Language Ability Of Internalizing Students On Improvement In Strong Kids: A Social And Emotional Learning Curriculum For Students In Grades 4-8, Shelby Carrera Hansen Jul 2007

The Effect Of Language Ability Of Internalizing Students On Improvement In Strong Kids: A Social And Emotional Learning Curriculum For Students In Grades 4-8, Shelby Carrera Hansen

Theses and Dissertations

This study assessed the influence of language on the ability of children identified as being at risk for internalizing behavior disorders to successfully participate in a social skills intervention program. Fourth and fifth grade students participated in Strong Kids: A Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum in Grades 4-8, a program which promotes emotional resiliency. The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Fourth Edition (CELF-4) and Children's Communication Checklist-Second Edition (CCC-2) were both completed to obtain a global language score and pragmatic language score. The Teacher's Report Form (TRF), a shortened 10-item version of the Internalizing Student Symptom Scale (ISSC), and a 20-item …

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Volume 44, Number 81: July 11, 2007, University Of North Dakota Jul 2007

Volume 44, Number 81: July 11, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

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Parenting Style, Home-Based Involvement, And Educational Expectations Of Black Parents: Their Roles In The Development Of Pre-Literacy Readiness Of Black Children, Iravonia Rawls Jul 2007

Parenting Style, Home-Based Involvement, And Educational Expectations Of Black Parents: Their Roles In The Development Of Pre-Literacy Readiness Of Black Children, Iravonia Rawls

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of parenting style, home-based involvement, parents’ educational expectations and pre-literacy readiness. Sixty-two preschool children and his or her parent or guardian participated in this study of: 1) The relationship between parenting style and pre-literacy readiness of Black children enrolled in Head Start programs; 2) The relationship between parents’ educational expectations of Black children enrolled in Head Start programs and preliteracy readiness; 3) The relationship between home-based involvement of Black parents and levels of pre-literacy readiness of their children enrolled in Head Start programs; and 4) The relationship between the predictor …

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The Impact Of Vocal Function Exercises On Normal Voice Production, Karen Hart Thomas Jul 2007

The Impact Of Vocal Function Exercises On Normal Voice Production, Karen Hart Thomas

Theses and Dissertations

This study attempted to replicate and expand previously published research in order to increase our understanding of how Vocal Function Exercises (VFE) might improve vocal function in normal voices. Measures were made to reflect potential post-treatment changes in acoustic and aerodynamic variables, including a measure of vocal efficiency. The participants of the study included 35 adults with normal voices. Each completed a series of speech tasks (sustained vowels, maximum phonation time, reading of a standardized passage, and repetition of syllable strings) before and after a four-week treatment period. Testing of pre- and post-treatment data revealed no clear improvement in acoustic …

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Most Popular Downloads -- June 2007 Jul 2007

Most Popular Downloads -- June 2007

Institutional Repository Information

The 240 most-downloaded documents for June from the UNL Digital Commons(downloaded at least 20 times).
Total downloads for June 2007 were 35,965.

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Mexico To Extradite Ex-Quinana Roo Governor To U.S. To Face Drug Charges, Ladb Staff Jul 2007

Mexico To Extradite Ex-Quinana Roo Governor To U.S. To Face Drug Charges, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

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Identity Politics: Postcolonial Theory And Writing Instruction, Toni P. Francis Jul 2007

Identity Politics: Postcolonial Theory And Writing Instruction, Toni P. Francis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation I intend to apply postcolonial theory to primary pedagogical and administrative concerns of the writing program administrator. Writing Program Administrators, or WPAs, take their responsibilities seriously, remaining cognizant of both the negative and positive repercussions of the pedagogical decisions that take shape in the scores of composition classrooms they administer. This dissertation intends to infuse the WPA position with the ethos of scholarly praxis by historicizing and contextualizing the field of composition, and by placing the teaching of writing within the historical memory of slavery and colonialism. Sound WPA research is theoretically informed, systematic, principled inquiry that …

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Monitor Newsletter July 09, 2007, Bowling Green State University Jul 2007

Monitor Newsletter July 09, 2007, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

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July 9, 2007 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Jul 2007

July 9, 2007 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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Does Alcohol Inhibit Posttraumatic Stress Symptomology In Victims Of Sexual Assault?, Sandra Hargesheimer Jul 2007

Does Alcohol Inhibit Posttraumatic Stress Symptomology In Victims Of Sexual Assault?, Sandra Hargesheimer

Theses and Dissertations

The current study examines whether or not alcohol consumption during a sexual assault suppresses PTSD symptomology as well as the subjective impact of the assault. One hundred and fifty-one women participated in the study. The first hypothesis was that women in the alcohol condition would endorse less PTSD symptoms on a PTSD measure than women who were not consuming alcohol at the time of their assault experience. The second hypothesis was that women who were consuming alcohol at the time of their assault would subjectively rate the impact of the assault as having less of an impact than women who …

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Prediction Of English And Spanish Early Literacy Skills Of English Language Learners In The Primary Grades, Giselle Sanchez Jul 2007

Prediction Of English And Spanish Early Literacy Skills Of English Language Learners In The Primary Grades, Giselle Sanchez

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study explored how language, emergent literacy, and reading skills in both English and Spanish develop with a group of English language learners (ELLs) (n = 267). Specifically, the researcher investigated what early language and literacy skills were the most important predictors of reading abilities as indicated by the Book Task in prekindergarten through first grade. Early language and literacy skills were assessed utilizing subtest from the Woodcock Language Proficiency Batter - Revised, the Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery - Revised - Spanish Form and the Phonological Awareness Task. Participants came from households where Spanish was one of the languages spoken. …

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 8, 2007, Barry Strassler Jul 2007

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 8, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2007

No abstract provided.

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Addressing Sexual Violence Against Youth In Custody, Brenda V. Smith Jul 2007

Addressing Sexual Violence Against Youth In Custody, Brenda V. Smith

Presentations

No abstract provided.

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Maximizing Large Organization Performance By Uncovering Engaged Employees, Michael W. Bowling Jul 2007

Maximizing Large Organization Performance By Uncovering Engaged Employees, Michael W. Bowling

Student Scholarship

Organizations face a daunting challenge as they grow. Multiple studies and theories have been developed defining the challenge of large firms including loss of control, loss of task visibility, increasing agency and monitoring costs and misalignment of incentives between the owners and managers of large firms. Examining the theories of Propensity to Withhold Effort, Organizational Commitment Behavior and Employee Engagement this paper seeks to explore the factors that inhibit employees to give the rational level of effort versus the environments where employees to go beyond expectations.

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Factors Influencing A Divorced Father’S Involvement With His Children, David W. Appleby, Rob Palkovitz Jul 2007

Factors Influencing A Divorced Father’S Involvement With His Children, David W. Appleby, Rob Palkovitz

Faculty Publications and Presentations

One of the outcomes of divorce that has appeared consistently over the years has been a lessening of contact between divorced noncustodial fathers and their children. This review synthesizes empirical evidence to portray the formidable obstacles that men face in maintaining contact with their children after dissolution of their co-residential relationship with the child’s mother. Its goal is to bring new understanding to observed behavior patterns of divorced fathers. We will briefly examine what the research tells us takes place in many fathers who have been divorced from their wives and have lost physical custody of their children.

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