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A Qualitative Study Of Language Beliefs And Linguistic Knowledge In Preservice Teachers Using The Intercultural Communicative Competence Framework, Kimberly K. Ilosvay

Dissertations and Theses

Since 1980, the number of people in the United States who speak a language other than English at home has increased by 140% (United States Census Bureau, 2010). Therefore a greater percentage of students now are multilingual. Throughout the world, multilingualism is considered the norm and monolingualism is the exception (Auer & Wei, 2008). In the United States, however, policies regarding instruction in schools are still influenced by monolingual ideology that carries expectations and assumptions of assimilation, loss of mother tongues, and defined hierarchical structures. As classroom populations become socially, ethnically, racially, and linguistically more diverse, it is increasingly important …

Fostering Hope And Closing The Academic Gap: An Examination Of College Retention For African-American And Latino Students Who Participate In The Louis Stokes Alliance Minority Participation Program (Learning Community) While Enrolled In A Predominately White Institution, Aisha La'chae Hollands

Dissertations and Theses

Colleges are struggling to retain students of color at four-year academic institutions (Kuh, 2005). The result is that while African-American and Latino students are entering college, fewer successfully complete their programs of study and obtain an undergraduate degree (ACE, 2006). For this reason, institutions are establishing supportive learning communities to not only recruit, but to retain this population.Learning communities have become welcoming places in the academy, and are designed to help students succeed in college by providing a formative, integrated academic experience that builds strength, perspective, and commitment. Employing Vincent Tinto`s (1975) student integration theory as a conceptual framework, this …

Preschool Teachers' Perspectives On Caring Relationships, Autonomy, And Intrinsic Motivation In Two Cultural Settings, Xiaoling Tian

Dissertations and Theses

This study explored preschool teachers' perspectives on caring relationships and their perceptions of how such relationships affect children's autonomy and motivation in preschool in two cultural settings: one city in China and another in the U.S. Data was collected from preschool teachers in both locations using a qualitative interviewing research strategy. The study found that consensus exists among preschool teachers from the two cities about the importance of caring relationships, in which trust, acceptance, equality, and mutual respect were viewed as these relationships' primary characteristics. There were also shared values regarding teachers' roles and their effective strategies for establishing social …

The Emerging Church - Part 4: Levels Of Change, Fernando Canale

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.

A Behavioral Genetic Study Of Humor Styles In An Australian Sample, H. M. Baughman, E. A. Giammarco, Livia Veselka, Julie A. Schermer, Nicholas G. Martin, Michael Lynskey, Phillip A. Vernon

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

2'-O Methylation Of The Viral Mrna Cap By West Nile Virus Evades Ifit1-Dependent And -Independent Mechanisms Of Host Restriction In Vivo, Kristy J. Szretter, Brian P. Daniels, Hyelim Cho, Maria D. Gainey, Wayne M. Yokoyama, Michael Gale Jr., Herbert W. Virgin, Robyn S. Klein, Ganes C. Sen, Michael S. Diamond

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Domestic Violence Advocacy In The Rural Context And Discourses Of Gender And Sexuality Related To Domestic Violence Victims And Perpetrators, Sarah Pitcher

Research Papers

This project explores domestic violence advocacy in a rural setting, using a critical feminist-informed social constructionist approach. Analysis considers how the rural context specifically affects advocacy work, victims’ experiences, and perceptions of domestic violence victims and ultimately aims to give voice to the experiences of advocates and domestic violence victims located within the cultural and social context of a rural area. Analysis also focuses on discourses that arise within the interviews related to gender and sexuality, most often surrounding the victims but also related to abusers. Results indicate that the rural context affects advocacy and the experiences of domestic violence …

Media Representation In "Shifting Contexts:" Saving The "Abandoned Child Of Orient", Zheng Zhu

Iowa Journal of Communication

Representations of Chinese orphans by U.S. print media and online adoption agencies were explored. Grounded on theoretical foundations of media representation (Grossberg, 1984; Miller, 1988; Severin & Tankard, 1997) and critical discourse analysis (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997), findings revealed U.S. media constructed Chinese orphans as exotic, commodifiable, feminine, and inassimilable victims of their cultural and national origin. The inherent inferiority of "Chineseness" was legitimized through either the explicit representation of their prior suffering experiences as a China-born baby of a dysfunctional family or the romanticization of their journey to American families as a process of becoming civilized. Accordingly, the image …

Incorporating Literary Methods And Texts In The Teaching Of Tort Law, Zahr K. Said

Articles

Literature is comparatively under-investigated as an arena for tort pedagogy and for first-year courses in the legal curriculum generally. Where literature tends to appear in law school, it most frequently does so in the form of stand-alone law-and-literature classes, which usually focus heavily on literature.

In teaching a first-year tort law course at the University of Washington School of Law, I have explicitly used literature to aid and amplify legal analysis. The emphasis has been on law, rather than on literature. Nonetheless, literary texts and methods helped my students investigate how the law conceives of, and expresses, duties and losses …

University Of New Hampshire R+30 Headcounts Of Majors By College And Gender Unh - Durham Degree Candidates Only Fall 2011, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2011-2012 academic year

Word Ways: Revisiting Ancient Greco-Latin Myths To Build Vocabulary, Jacqueline S. Thursby

The Utah English Journal

I recently assigned an old children’s tale to my senior undergraduate students called “!e Story of the Cruel Giant Barbarico, the Good Giant Benefico, and the Little Pretty Dwarf, Mignon,” written by Sarah Fielding, who lived from 1710 to1768. It was an unfamiliar story to them and written in the archaic style of 18th century English. The primary characters in the story were the giants, Barbarico and Benefico, and the sweethearts, Fidus and Amata. The names clearly reflect characteristics of the players in the story. By using root Latinate forms, Sarah Fielding foreshadowed the characters’ primary personality attributes: Barbarico (barbarous: …

The Extension Of Imperial Authority Under Diocletian And The Tetrarchy, 285-305ce, Joshua Petitt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Despite a vast amount of research on Late Antiquity, little attention has been paid to certain figures that prove to be influential during this time. The focus of historians on Constantine I, the first Roman Emperor to allegedly convert to Christianity, has often come at the cost of ignoring Constantine's predecessor, Diocletian, sometimes known as the "Second Father of the Roman Empire". The success of Constantine's empire has often been attributed to the work and reforms of Diocletian, but there have been very few studies of the man beyond simple biography. This work will attempt to view three of Diocletian's …

Commencement Program (December 2012), Csusb

CSUSB Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Self-Assmbled Lithography-Free Fabrication Of Microchannels And Microfluidics In Polymers, Wintana Tadesse Kahsai

Bioengineering Theses - Archive

Rapid, reliable and easy to implement approaches are needed for fabrication of circular microchannels in polymeric microfluidics. PDMS has been a choice of material in microfluidics and it is being used as prototype due to its unique property such as flexibility and transparency. Traditional method of fabrication such as photolithography and soft lithography are complicated and time consuming. In this thesis, a non-lithography and bottom-up self-assembled approach is shown. The resulting devices can have uses in many applications such as assays, biosensing, separation of mixtures, micro-mixing and bioreactors. This thesis presents novel approaches of manufacturing self-assembled microchannels in polydimethyleneoxide (PDMS) …

Bryant University Undergraduate Course Catalog 2012 - 2013

Bryant University Undergraduate Course Catalog

No abstract provided.

English: Literature And Cultural Studies, 2012-2013, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2012-2013 for the Bachelor's of Arts in English's Literature and Cultural Studies

Senate Bill (A) 53-059 Annual Budget Bill 2013-2014, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

No abstract provided.

Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 2012, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Cornerstone

No abstract provided.

Live From New York, It's The Fake News! Saturday Night Live And The (Non)Politics Of Parody, Amber Day, Ethan Thompson

English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles

Though Saturday Night Live's “Weekend Update” has become one of the most iconic of fake news programs, it is remarkably unfocused on either satiric critique or parody of particular news conventions. Instead, the segment has been shaped by a series of hosts who made a name for themselves by developing distinctive comic personalities. In contrast to more politically invested contemporary programs, the genre of fake news on Saturday Night Live has been largely emptied to serve the needs of the larger show, maintaining its status as just topical, hip, and unthreatening enough to attract celebrities and politicians, as well …

Macro And Microfluidic Flows For Skeletal Regenerative Medicine, Brandon D. Riehl, Jung Yul Lim

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Faculty Publications

Fluid flow has a great potential as a cell stimulatory tool for skeletal regenerative medicine, because fluid flow-induced bone cell mechanotransduction in vivo plays a critical role in maintaining healthy bone homeostasis. Applications of fluid flow for skeletal regenerative medicine are reviewed at macro and microscale. Macroflow in two dimensions (2D), in which flow velocity varies along the normal direction to the flow, has explored molecular mechanisms of bone forming cell mechanotransduction responsible for flow-regulated differentiation, mineralized matrix deposition, and stem cell osteogenesis. Though 2D flow set-ups are useful for mechanistic studies due to easiness in in situ and post-flow …

Fact Book 2012-13, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Fact Books

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Back Matter, John Paine

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Contributors' Notes

Coplanar Pcb77 And Angii Induced Vascular Disorders, Madhura Parulkar

Theses and Dissertations--Nutritional Sciences

Previous studies demonstrated that coplanar PCBs promote inflammation by release of pro-inflammatory cytokines like TNF, MCP-1, and VCAM-1 from endothelial cells as well as adipocytes. Also these PCBs at small doses may contribute to the development of obesity by inducing adipocyte differentiation. Obesity is a known risk factor that promotes cardiovascular disorders like atherosclerosis and AAAs. Evidence shows Ang II, a component of the RAS, leads to the formation of atherosclerosis and AAAs in both normal as well as hyperlipidemic mice. Earlier studies in our laboratory have also shown that coplanar PCB-77 promotes atherosclerotic lesion formation in ApoE-/- mice. The …

Black Men's Responsible Fatherhood Narratives: Fatherhood, Responsibility, Race, And Gender, Shane Chaplin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Over the last few decades increasing rates of single mother households in the United States have triggered a national alarm over the effects of father absence on society. Father absence has been linked specifically to many of the problems plaguing black communities in the United States (e.g. poverty, low educational attainment, etc.) and as a result community and political leaders alike have consistently promoted responsible fatherhood practices as a way to address them. Although responsible fatherhood has received, in this context, a considerable amount of social attention, this attention has come intertwined with considerable political and moral rhetoric at all …

Literary Imagination And Community Mental Health: A Deleuzian Analysis Of Discourse In A Fiction Reading Group, Rodney Teague

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study presents an empirical, qualitative investigation of transformations as they occurred in the participants' language during a fiction reading and discussion group in a community mental health setting. Session transcripts have been analyzed from the perspective of researcher as literary critic and through the Deleuzian lens of rhizomatic assemblages (Deleuze & Guattari, 1980/2005). This nonlinear, non-hierarchical and non-referential approach re-imagins the relationship among readers, texts and authors. Three themes follow from the rhizomatic perspective on transcript data.

The first of these, Assemblage, details the ways that participants engage in and with fictional story-worlds. This engagement is such that text, …

Induced Mutation Of In Vitro Aquatic Plant, Cryptocoryne Xwillisii Reitz By Using Gamma Irradiation And Irap Analyses To Distinguish The Sports (Clonal Mutation) / Norhanizan Sahidin, Sahidin Norhanizan

Student Works (2010-2019)

One part of ornamental fish industry is the aquatic plants. Ornamental fish industry is identifying as one of National Key Economic Area (NKEA) for Malaysia, under business opportunity. Cryptocoryne xwillisii Engler ex Baum is one of the highly demanded aquatic plants in international market. Unfortunately, the plants take months to grow, seldom flowering and no viable seeds. The studies were done to mass-produce the plants by tissue culture and to develop new variety by mutation. Tissue culture of water trumpet, Cryptocoryne xwillisii Engler ex Baum, was developed using Murashige and Skoog 1962 (MS) medium, which contained two different plant growth …

The Influence Of Communication Satisfaction And Organizational Commitment On Turnover Intention / Saw Sze Syeh, Celine, Celine Sze Syeh Saw

Student Works (2010-2019)

Employee turnover has gained considerable attention from all sectors and industries in Malaysia. Most organizations are aware of the fact that employee turnover intention is costly and when it happens, it is a huge lost to a company. It is definitely a great price to pay when organizations lose valuable talents especially those employees who are professional, highly productive and socially well connected to clients. As the issue of employee turnover becomes a hot topic, issues such as high commitments of employees and their attitude towards the organizations are being addressed. Studies showed that employees who are committed to their …

Innovative Work Behaviour Under Participative Leadership Among 2 High Performance Work Culture Companies In Malaysia / Lee Hywe Theng, Hywe Theng Lee

Student Works (2010-2019)

Many studies have investigated the main determinants of employees’ Innovative Work Behaviour (IWB) which includes personal traits, individual competencies or skills, the reward system, income and incentives, the quality of relationships between coworkers and team composition, as well as job characteristics are found to be regarded as an important antecedents of IWB. On top of the above-mentioned factors, company work culture is also one of the important linking elements for IWB. It is defined as how employees view their work culture and how they perceive leadership support for innovation is more important than the company’s objective and definition of innovation …

The Influence Of Interpersonal Solidarity On The Choice Of Refusal Strategies / Marsha Lavania A/P Manivannan, Marsha Lavania Manivannan

Student Works (2010-2019)

Refusal is a face threatening act because it contradicts with the expectations of the speaker and therefore, is not a preferred speech act. However, the speech act of refusal cannot be avoided as it is part of our daily communication. Therefore, this study is carried out to perceive how Malaysians, a collectivist society, handle refusal. The present study investigates the effects of interpersonal solidarity on the choice of refusal strategies made by Malaysians as well as the most frequently used refusal strategy by Malaysian men and women respectively, with regards to wedding invitations. These objectives are expressed through three research …

Examining The Factors Of Functional (Healthy) Food Purchase In Kuala Lumpur / Teh Chye Beng, Chye Beng Teh

Student Works (2010-2019)

No abstract provided.