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Examining Principled L1 Use In The Foreign Language Classroom, Isabel. Osswald Jan 2010

Examining Principled L1 Use In The Foreign Language Classroom, Isabel. Osswald

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study examines the potential benefits of using the native language of learners in a principled way by reviewing research that represents the dominant view of using only the second or target language (L2) against a growing body of literature that argues for principled L1 use. The development of the direct and monolingual method and its key aspects are discussed, and bilingual methods and arguments for implementing the first language (L1) in a foreign language classroom are reviewed and evaluated. An attitudinal case study investigating learners' attitudes towards L1 use in the classroom showed that students prefer a mixture of …

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Gender And The Abject In The Symbolic Landscapes Of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde And Olive Schreiner's The Story Of An African Farm, Janine. Mcadams Jan 2010

Gender And The Abject In The Symbolic Landscapes Of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde And Olive Schreiner's The Story Of An African Farm, Janine. Mcadams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The literature of the fin de siáecle challenged established societal norms through its use of avant-garde literary forms and controversial subject matter. This study will examine the use of landscape metaphors in two major works of fin de siáecle literature, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm, in order to reveal how these texts critique and re-vision the social dualities of gender. A wide range of literary theories-including, feminist theory, semiotics, and ecocriticism-are used to interpret these authors' influential narratives. This thesis will also apply Julia Kristeva's …

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Gesture And Learning About Objects, Robert R. Freund Jan 2010

Gesture And Learning About Objects, Robert R. Freund

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The role of gestures in determining the use of familiar and novel tools was explored. In the first study, participants were shown gestures for tools corresponding either to tool design, or to the physical affordances of a puzzle designed for each tool. In the second study, two additional conditions were added. In the first, gestures were used that did not correspond to tool design or the puzzle affordances. The second was a control condition in which no gestures were shown. Results indicate that the demonstration of gestures appropriate to a novel problem situation facilitate creative use of tools. Additionally, attention …

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Neural And Behavioral Correlates Of Song Prosody, Reyna Leigh Gordon Jan 2010

Neural And Behavioral Correlates Of Song Prosody, Reyna Leigh Gordon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This dissertation studies the neural basis of song, a universal human behavior. The relationship of words and melodies in the perception of song at phonological, semantic, melodic, and rhythmic levels of processing was investigated using the fine temporal resolution of Electroencephalography (EEG). The observations reported here may shed light on a ubiquitous human experience and also inform the discussion of whether language and music share neural resources or recruit domain-specific neural mechanisms. Experiment 1 was designed to determine whether words and melody in song are processed interactively or independently. Participants listened to sung words in which the melodies and/or the …

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Of Offal, Corpses, And Others, Robert William Jones Jan 2010

Of Offal, Corpses, And Others, Robert William Jones

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This thesis examines two works (My Journey to Lhasa and Magic and Mystery in Tibet) by Alexandra David-Neel. These works subvert the self/other dichotomies both necessary to and critiqued by postcolonial theory. Central to this study is an examination of a claim by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama that David-Neel creates an "authentic" picture of Tibet. In order to do this the first chapter establishes a working definition of authenticity based on both Western philosophy and Vajrayana Buddhism. This project argues that the advanced meditation techniques practiced by Alexandra David-Neel allow her to access a transcendent self that is …

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Outreach Communication By Grassroots Environmental Organizations, Kimberly L. Estep Jan 2010

Outreach Communication By Grassroots Environmental Organizations, Kimberly L. Estep

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The negative impact of human activities on the Earth's ecosystems has gained more attention in the last few decades; in turn interest and scholarship in the area of environmental rhetoric has also grown. This case study provides an in-depth examination of outreach material generated by Tampa Bay Watch to determine if grassroots environmental organizations are using rhetorical appeals that recent scholarly literature argues are ineffective. Alternative rhetorical appeals are also examined for their persuasiveness. Using an open coding approach, the analysis finds that the organization used persuasive appeals which varied from those predicted by the literature, and that a combination …

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Phonological Memory And The Development Of Vocabulary And Grammar In Young Spanish-English Bilinguals, Marisol. Parra Jan 2010

Phonological Memory And The Development Of Vocabulary And Grammar In Young Spanish-English Bilinguals, Marisol. Parra

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study tested the hypotheses that phonological memory contributes to vocabulary and grammatical development in young Spanish-English bilinguals, and that the relation between phonological memory and both vocabulary and grammar is language-specific. Phonological memory skill was the percentage of consonants correctly repeated (PCC) in English, and Spanish Nonword Repetition (NWR) tasks at 22 months. Vocabulary size and grammatical complexity were measured at 25 months using the English and Spanish versions for the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories. Nonword repetition accuracy was significantly related to both subsequent vocabulary size and grammatical complexity within and across languages after controlling for the percentage of …

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Power Of Memory, Tajana. Bjellos Jan 2010

Power Of Memory, Tajana. Bjellos

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This thesis provides a rhetorical analysis of the Western representation of the Kosovo conflict and its resolution in the year 1999. By reviewing political, scholarly and media rhetoric, the thesis examines how the dominant narrative of "genocide in Kosovo" was created in Western discourse, arguing that it gained its persuasive force from the legacy of the collective memory of the Holocaust. Using the framework of Kenneth Burke's theory of Dramatism and Walter Fisher's theory of the narrative paradigm, this thesis aims to understand how language, analogy and collective memory function in rhetoric to shape audience perceptions and guide political and …

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Power Of Subtext And The Politics Of Closure, Adam. Berzak Jan 2010

Power Of Subtext And The Politics Of Closure, Adam. Berzak

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This thesis explores the ways that certain artists-including Joseph Conrad, Alan Moore, Richard Attenborough, and Francis Ford Coppola-break from their inherited traditions in order to speak from an alternative perspective to western discourse. Conventional narrative formulas prescribe that meaning will be revealed in a definitive end, but all of the texts discussed reveal other avenues through which it is discerned. In Heart of Darkness, the tension between two divergent narratives enables Conrad to speak beyond his social context and imperialist limitations to demonstrate that identity is socially constructed. In Watchmen, Moore breaks from comic convention to illustrate ways meaning may …

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Puente Hecho De Tierra: Un Estudio Comparativo De La Visiâon Indigenista Del Problema De La Tierra En Balâun Canâan, Por Rosario Castellanos, Y "El Problema Del Indio," Por Josâe Carlos Mariâategui, Blaire. Modic Jan 2010

Puente Hecho De Tierra: Un Estudio Comparativo De La Visiâon Indigenista Del Problema De La Tierra En Balâun Canâan, Por Rosario Castellanos, Y "El Problema Del Indio," Por Josâe Carlos Mariâategui, Blaire. Modic

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This thesis uncovers a deep and recurring link between two indigenista texts of the 20th Century: Balâun Canâan, by Rosario Castellanos, and "El problema del indio," by Jose Carlos Mariâategui. Mariategui's text, an essay, takes a deductive approach to prove that the "Indian's problem" in Peru is related to the concentration of land in the hands of his oppressors. Using Marxist theory, Mariâategui shows that only through more equitable distribution of land can the indigenous Peruvian's fortunes be improved. Castellanos chooses the years of the Cardenas presidency (1934-1940) for her novel, a work that deals with the legacy of the …

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Rastafari Presence In Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, Beloved, And Song Of Solomon, Nicole Racquel Carr Jan 2010

Rastafari Presence In Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, Beloved, And Song Of Solomon, Nicole Racquel Carr

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Literary scholars frequently analyze the allusions to Western Christianity apparent in Toni Morrison's novels, but these studies overlook the ways in which some of her novels are informed by a Caribbean presence. This study argues that Rastafari themes, symbols, and ideologies are recurrent in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, Beloved, and Song of Solomon. Rastafari is a social movement primarily concerned with restoring the image of Africa to a holy place. A Rastafari analysis of these texts broadens the literary spectrum to suggest that these novels highlight Morrison's attempt to write about the multifaceted element of the black community, which remains …

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The Moral Authority Of The Child In Two Fairy Tales, Alyssa. Cedeno Jan 2010

The Moral Authority Of The Child In Two Fairy Tales, Alyssa. Cedeno

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Although many studies focus specifically on the child's reception of fairy tales, few have considered whether the (step)child in the tales is more aware or more equipped with a knowledge of "moral authority" and "correct" conduct than the (step)parent. This thesis will consider the (step)parent/ (step)child relationship motif in two French and German fairy tales by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm: Perrault's Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre and Le Petit Chaperon rouge; and the Grimms' Aschenputtel and Rotkèappchen. In analyzing the genre's depiction of children, the thesis will examine the ways in which the narrative voice constructs the …

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Vision Of Theophilus, Fatin Morris Guirguis Jan 2010

Vision Of Theophilus, Fatin Morris Guirguis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study is a literary and ethnographic examination of The Vision of Theophilus, a fourth century Coptic narrative, as influential counter-narrative and source of counterdiscourse against the narrative created by the historically dominant Egyptian Arab Muslim state. It shows that The Vision has provided the Copts with the means to articulate their identity as different from their oppressors through its function as a repository of Coptic ideology, history and knowledge. Specifically, it has helped them resist the erosion of those aspects of their cultural identity targeted by colonial practices through its promotion of the Coptic language, pride in Coptic history, …

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On Aggregating Uncertain Information By Type-2 Owa Operators For Soft Decision Making, S-M Zhou, Ri John, F Chiclana, Jm Garibaldi Jan 2010

On Aggregating Uncertain Information By Type-2 Owa Operators For Soft Decision Making, S-M Zhou, Ri John, F Chiclana, Jm Garibaldi

School of Nursing and Midwifery

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Translation And The Gc Session In Atlanta, Gerald A. Klingbeil Jan 2010

Translation And The Gc Session In Atlanta, Gerald A. Klingbeil

Faculty Publications

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