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Informal Screencasting: Results Of A Customer-Satisfaction Survey With A Convenience Sample, Jody Bailey

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Purpose: Informal screencasting (i.e., capturing your actions on a computer screen with the goal of showing others how to accomplish tasks on a website or in a given software environment) is defined and described. Customer-satisfaction survey results from 103 faculty, staff, and students are presented. Design/methodology/approach: An online survey revealing customer satisfaction with informal screencasts was made available in spring 2010 to faculty, staff, and students of a mid-sized public university in Arlington, Texas, USA. Results are compiled, analyzed, and presented here. Findings: Most participants' reactions to the librarian's informal screencasts were positive or quite positive, but many participants still …

Budaya Dilestari Bahasa Diperkasa: Input Prosodi, Semantik, Dan Budaya Dalam P&P Bahasa Melayu, I. Zahid

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

No abstract provided.

Budaya Kesopanan Berbahasa Dalam Kalangan Masyarakat Melayu Lama: Pelestarian & Pemerkasaannya, A.R. Ab. Karim

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

SETIAP BAHASA mempunyai peraturan kesopanan dalam hubungan antara ahli-ahli anggota masyarakatnya. Kesopanan boleh dilihat sarna ada melalui tingkah laku masyarakat penutur bahasa dan juga daripada aspek bahasa yang dituturkan oleh anggota masyarakat. Masyarakat Melayu memang kaya dengan pelbagai budaya yang diwarisi daripada generasi lampau untuk anggota masyarakatnya. Pelbagai bentuk budaya yang diwarisi kini dapat dilihat dalam pelbagai perkara dan salah satu daripada budaya yang diwariskan kepada generasi sekarang ialah kesopanan berbahasa dalam kalangan masyarakat Melayu. Ramai tidak menyedari bahawa dalam bahasa Melayu khususnya dan amnya bagi masyarakat Melayu bahawa terdapat budaya berbahasa yang menjadi amalan masyarakat zaman lampau yang kini …

End Matter, Religious Educator

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

Reflections On Teaching Chinese Language Films At American Colleges, Haili Kong

Chinese Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

September 1, 2011, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Furman Alumni News, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

Joy Of Competition Propels Kattouf To Duathlon World Title, Ron Wagner

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

Using Authentic Materials To Enhance Reading And Speaking Tasks At The Novice And Intermediate Levels For High School Spanish Instruction, Cinthya Tumlison

Theses and Dissertations

The popularity of authentic materials provides foreign language teachers with more resources to practice communicative language teaching. Finding authentic materials in the target language has become very accessible. Used appropriately, authentic materials can provide students with greater access to the target language and culture. Nevertheless, creating activities using authentic materials without editing the text can be very challenging and time consuming. Sometimes teachers perceive authentic materials to be too difficult and complicated to use for novice learners and would rather only use edited or simplified texts provided by their textbook curriculum. The focus of this thesis is to determine whether …

Phl 405.01: 20th Century Analytic Philosophy, David K. Clark

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Nonbelievers, Nelson Tebbe

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

How should courts handle nonbelievers who bring religious freedom claims? Although this question is easy to grasp, it presents a genuine puzzle because the religion clauses of the Constitution, along with many contemporary statutes, protect only religion by their terms. From time to time, judges and lawyers have therefore struggled with the place of nonbelievers in the American scheme of religious freedom. Today, this problem is gaining prominence because of nonbelievers’ rising visibility. New lines of social conflict are forming around them, generating disputes that have already gone legal. In this Article, I argue that no wholesale response will do. …

Songs And Intellectuals: The Musical Projects Of Alain Locke, Alejo Carpentier, And Mário De Andrade, Luiza Franco Moreira

Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship

No abstract provided.

A Workshop On Foreign Language Methods For Chinese English Language Teachers, Jennifer Crafton Parette

Theses and Dissertations

Currently in China, the demand for proficient English speakers in the work place continues to grow exponentially. In both China and America the need for educating students in foreign languages is a complicated, monumental undertaking. Both countries must find ways to work within their present governing systems to bring students to proficiency in foreign languages. This study was done to ask the question, "Can the American emphasis on communicative language competence in foreign language study be helpful to the Chinese system of foreign language instruction?" This thesis provides an overview of the historical as well as the current philosophy of …

Technologically-Mediated Collaborative Learning Activities For The University Level Intermediate Spanish Classroom, Alyssa Jean Hepburn

Theses and Dissertations

Due to the availability of a collaborative technologically enhanced classroom in the second language department of Harding University and a desire to closer align teaching practices with the aims of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, the author conducted research on using technology in various ways in a collaborative-style classroom. Her aims were to provide greater authenticity, as well as to focus on the three modes of communication, interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational. The author conducted research on the communicative model and how collaborative learning can be used to make the classroom more proficiency-based. Technology is a useful …

Implementation Of Pbl In Different Cultural Contexts And Student Learning Research, Man-Yuen Sze, Aniel D

Journal of Medical Education

We need ”well-trained” medical doctors as well as Traditional Chinese Practitioners to serve in society to safeguard the quality of our health. It is argued that despite international medical education centres adopting innovative approaches to learning through the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in western medical training, such medical programs do not automatically ensure that students will graduate with high quality learning outcomes and understanding at a level to prepare them to readily uptake the responsibility and challenges related to the medical profession, in other words, that they are well trained. We are now at a crossroad to consider whether …

Embodied Cultural Cognition: Situating The Study Of Embodied Cognition In Socio-Cultural Contexts, Angela K. Y. Leung, Lin Qiu, Lay See Ong, Kim-Pong Tam

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Embodiment research has demonstrated that cognition is grounded in bodily interactions with the environment and that abstract concepts are tied to the body’s sensory and motor systems. Building upon this embodiment perspective and advancing our understanding, we discuss the extension of embodied cultural cognition. We propose that some associations between bodily experiences and abstract concepts are not randomly formed; rather, the development of such associations is situated in a socio-cultural context, informed by cultural imperatives, values, and habits. We draw evidence supporting this view of embodied cultural cognition in body–mind linkages manifested in construal of emotions, time perception, person perception, …

Library Education And Development Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 1, Uno Library Science Education

Library Education and Development (L.E.A.D.)

This issue of the Library Education and Development Newsletter features Advice from the Frontlines from Jill Moore, a Student Spotlight of Teresa Bell, Announcements, Conferences and Professional Development, A Warm Welcome to Bridget Kratt, and Things to Consider: "Access to Resources and Services in the School Library Media Program: An Interpretation of the LIBRARY BILL OF RIGHTS" article.

Expanded Behavioral Model For Online Support Services, Laura Boxley

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The rapid expansion of online technologies and health resources has created opportunities to develop broadly available interventions to address the needs of the modern patient. This study proposes a theoretical structure based on Andersen's Individual Determinants of Health Service Utilization Model to describe who is using online support and how it is being used. Also unique to this analysis was the use of objective behavioral data to describe and predict website utilization, and linguistic analysis to evaluate the content of what is shared in online groups. Eighty-four men and women completed baseline evaluations and were randomized into either online support …

Experience Of Undocumented Immigrant Children In The Child Welfare System, Brenda M. Flores

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

As the number of undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. continues to increase, the number of undocumented children and families who come into contact with the child welfare system is also increasing. Currently, there are no federal or state guidelines addressing the immigration status of undocumented children placed in out-of-home care. They are assessed using traditional models without consideration of their unique needs and are referred for the same general types of treatment and services. It is important to identify and address the needs and challenges faced by this population. The goal of the study was to obtain a detailed understanding …

Exploring Gender Differences In Online Cancer Support Groups, Natalie Christine Kaiser

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Gender differences in depression and other psychiatric conditions have been widely

documented in the general population (Nolen‐Hoeksema, 2006). Therefore, several studies have

analyzed the differential gender‐based adaptation of a cancer diagnosis. However, there seem to be contradictory results. While some studies have found there to be no gender differences in terms of cancer‐related distress (Beresford et al., 2006; Deimling et al., 2006; Zabora et al., 2001; & Carlson et al., 2004; Matthews, 2003), other studies have found that females tend to display more anxiety and depressive symptoms (Mystakidou et al., 2005; Deimling et al., 2006). Interestingly, limited studies have reported …

Myelomeningocele And The Neuropsychological Functioning Of Bilingual Children, Claudia Resendiz

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Myelomeningocele is the most common and most severe form of spina bifida, affecting the brain and spinal cord of millions of children. Children of Hispanic background have the highest prevalence rate of this condition. Despite this fact, research that examines the cognitive profiles of Hispanic children with myelomeningocele is limited. A review on bilingualism and neurocognitive performance suggests that a cognitive advantage is present among those who are able to learn and utilize two languages. Although some have investigated the neuropsychological performance of children with myelomeningocele, research has yet to examine whether a bilingual cognitive advantage is present among bilingual …

Guidelines For Culturally Informed Interventions: Culture, Attributions And Continuity Of Care, Chung Mu Seo

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Although early detection can improve survival of breast and cervical cancer, U.S. Latinas are more likely to be diagnosed at later stages of cancer and have poorer survival rates compared to Anglo women. Poorer continuity of care and adherence to recommended screening are seen as contributing factors to this disparity. Existing interventions have tried to reduce human, system, and culture barriers. However, they lacked a systemic guidance in the process of identifying cultural factors and the pathways in which they affect the specific behavior of interest through psychological processes in a minority population. Guided by Betancourt’s integrative model of culture, …

Plotting The Pixel In Remediated Word And Image, Sarah Wyman

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Plotting the Pixel in Remediated Word and Image" Sarah Wyman argues that art's historic negotiation of culture continues into the new digital media age as it both asserts the materiality of the medium and acknowledges the impact of embodied perception. She demonstrates that however revolutionary, the new digital media still relate to many traditional paradigms of aesthetic expression. Problems of representation and simulation continue to catch on questions of time, space and human perception. The contingent relationships between categories and entities once kept separate — word/image, observer/observed — determine and define the process of globalization. The new …

Making Sense Of The Digital As Embodied Experience, Serge Bouchardon, Asunción López-Varela

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Making Sense of the Digital as Embodied Experience" Serge Bouchardon and Asunción López-Varela discuss a digital creation — Loss of Grasp <http://lossofgrasp.com/> — created by Serge Bouchardon and Vincent Volckaert. The work is about the notions of grasp and control. Through an analysis of Loss of Grasp, Bouchardon and López-Varela Azcárate show how the Cartesian understanding of private isolated experience, independent of reality external to it, has given way to a communal understanding of experience in which the subject constitutes itself by mirroring himself/herself on its objects, producing a mutual engagement or co-creativity among interdependent intersubjects: …

An Intermedial Reading Of Paley's Sita Sings The Blues, Ipshita Chanda

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "An Intermedial Reading of Paley's Sita Sings the Blues" Ipshita Chanda discusses the film text of Nina Paley's 2008 animation film, a culturally reconceptualized version of Válmíki's Sanskrit epic Rámáyana. Chanda discusses the film as an intermedial retextualization of the Rámáyana in the film where media boundaries and genres are crossed in "textual," audio, and visual media. The basic premise from which Chanda proceeds is that the condition of intermediality in film is produced by a "conceptual fusion" of different media which, in turn, are analyzed using theories of reception and contact between different media …

In The Name Of Citizenship: The Writing Classroom And The Promise Of Citizenship, Amy J. Wan

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Bibliography For Work In Hungarian Studies As Comparative Central European Studies, Louise O. Vasvári, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Carlo Salzani

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Introduction To New Perspectives On Material Culture And Intermedial Practice, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Asunción López-Varela, Haun Saussy, Jan Mieszkowski

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Discourses And Models Of Intermediality, Jens Schröter

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Discourses and Models of Intermediality" Jens Schröter discusses the question as to what relations do different discourses pose between different "media." Schröter identifies four models of discourse: 1) synthetic intermediality: a "fusion" of different media to super-media, a model with roots in the Wagnerian concept of Gesamtkunstwerk with political connotations, 2) formal (or transmedial) intermediality: a concept based on formal structures not "specific" to one medium but found in different media, 3) transformational intermediality: a model centered around the representation of one medium through another medium. Model 3) leads to the postulate that transformational intermediality is not …

Intermediality And Human Vs. Machine Translation, Harry J. Huang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Intermediality and Human vs. Machine Translation" Harry J. Huang analyzes translation as a process of transferring meaning and/or information. The process and the translated text represent a new medium. When machine translation originating from human translation is integrated into the world wide web, it becomes part of global media. Accordingly, machine translation may best be studied within the context of intermediality, especially its quality vs. that of human translation. Based upon data generated from an international survey of 300 translators, writers, editors, and translation scholars, Huang analyses the participants' expectations and their acceptance of imperfection in the …