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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 15, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 15, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.

Understanding Dyslexia In Children Through Human Development Theories, Thuraya A. Al-Shidhani, Vinita Arora

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin, with an estimated overall worldwide prevalence of 5–10% of the population. It is characterised by difficulties in reading, accuracy, fluency, spelling and decoding abilities. The majority of publications reviewed indicated that screening is performed at the preschool level. Screening can also be conducted at birth or the first year of life. Understanding human development theory, for example, Piaget’s human development theory, may help determine at which stage of childhood development dyslexia is more detectable, and therefore guide the management of this disability. The objective of this review is to …

Review [Of Marguerite Johnson, Harold Tarrant (Ed.) Alcibiades And The Socratic Lover-Educator], Owen Goldin

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Library As Hub Of The Network Universe, Patrick Kelly

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In submitting a proposed paper for this conference I made four definitive statements:

1. The library is positioned at the hub or cross-over point of three network levels: the library network, the University LAN and WANs/VANs.
2. There is a perfect marriage between the library and networks: the satisfaction of mutual need. Academic networks need the services the libraries can deliver as much as the library needs network services.
3. The metamorphoses of the traditional 'computer services' function to the management of networks and networks services will justify the amalgamation of academic library and computer services as the network becomes the source of …

Library Automation In Europe, Marc Walckiers

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Library automation is probably the main challenge that libraries in Europe have to face now. Despite various achievements at regional and national levels, the European library scene is still partitioned and hampered by national borders as well as regional and local particularisms.

This swift overview on library automation in Europe is based on recent studies on libraries in Europe and on the papers presented last year in Brussels at the European Conference on Library Automation and Networking.

Five years ago, the Commission of the European Communities decided to tackle the problem of library automation in the 12 EC countries. Among …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (W. J. T. Mitchell) (Reviewed by Karl Kroeber)

The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Wendy Wall) (Reviewed by Marilyn L. Williamson)

Shepheards Devises: Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and the Institutions of Elizabeth Society (Robert Lane) (Reviewed by Tim Montbriand)

The Snowflake on the Belfry: Dogma and Disquietude in the Critical Arena (Anna Balakian) (Reviewed by Clarise Samuels)

Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History (Michael André Bernstein) (Reviewed by David H. Hirsch)

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, Emma Eccles Jones College Of Education And Human Services, July 13, 2012, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University is proposing the implementation of a minor in teaching American Sign Language (ASL).

English Language Teaching Using The Whole Student Philosophy, Tahira Y. Muhammad

MA TESOL Collection

Education in Kuwait is centered on rote learning methodology. Historically, the Kuwait educational system was created to mimic the Egyptian rote learning systems that date back to Pharaonic times. Furthermore, Kuwaiti educators are convinced that rote learning is the optimal form of education. In this paper, I will attempt to prove that this method is unsuccessful, and that educators, within their classroom and lesson planning, should adapt their teaching strategies to the adoption of the whole language philosophy.

The major limitation of this research is that the observer is also participant. However, the fact that the observer is fully trained …

Nonprofit Ethos And Identity: An Interdisciplinary Analysis Of People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals' Websites, Jessica Marie Kokinos-Havel

Theses and Dissertations

Research in the field of nonprofit studies tells us that nonprofit organizations have the inherent ability to provide communities with a distinctive kind of social capital in the form of collective identity and group participation. This identity function is one of the defining characteristics of the nonprofit sector. This study involves a rhetorical analysis of four websites maintained by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Each website (PETA.org, PETA Prime, peta2, and PETAKiDS) is aimed at reaching different age groups. This provides us with a unique rhetorical perspective into how the ethos of a nonprofit organization can …

Promoting Blogging To Improve Interpersonal And Presentational Writing Skills While Increasing Cultural Competency In An English Language Learning Setting, Terese Cox

Theses and Dissertations

Instructors of English Language Learners (ELLs) often focus on writing as one of the primary skills acquired in the university second language classroom. This thesis examines the role of blogging in improving interpersonal and presentational writing while also increasing students' cultural competency. It describes how to create and use a web source to promote blogging in the classroom. A classroom web source to accompany Interchange 3 as well as sixteen lessons with accompanying materials and rubrics comprise a substantial portion of this thesis to practically show how blogging might be incorporated into an ESL classroom. Each lesson enforces and highlights …

Supporting African American Involvement In A Doctoral Program At A Regional Comprehensive University: A Research Study Of The Experiences And Perceptions Of African American Current Doctoral Candidates And African American Doctorates, Frankie Nicholson

Theses and Dissertations

Education has been the path to battle moral injustice and to encourage self-governing dialogue about doing the "right thing" (Freire, 1998; Fullan, 2007; Hurtado et al., 1999; Tatum, 1992). Fullan (2007) claims that education is the "vehicle" to diminish inequities for the academically disadvantaged. Through interviews and conversations regarding their experiences and perceptions, this research study "gives voice" to African American doctorates, current doctoral students, and doctoral students who chose not to complete the doctoral educational leadership program at a regional comprehensive university in a Mid-Atlantic State (Allen, 1992, 2000; Delgado, 1995; Freeman, 1997; Soloranzo & Yosso, 2000, 2001). Using …

Sheltered English Immersion Vs. Two-Way Bilingual Education: A Case Study Comparison Of Parental Attitudes And Hispanic Students' Perceived Self-Efficacy, Edith A. Mcgee

Theses and Dissertations

Two common forms of teaching English to English-language learners are bilingual education and sheltered English immersion. While both programs claim successful second language acquisition, other effects of the programs need to be considered. This research examines one of those effects: self-efficacy, or students' perception that they will be successful or unsuccessful in doing a specific task or acquiring a specific skill. Using archival records and semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions, this qualitative study draws on the work of Bandura (1977, 1986, 1997) to explore differences in self-efficacy between students who have participated for 5 years in a two-way Spanish-English bilingual …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Halide Edib:Turkish Nationalism And The Formation Of The Republic, Ansev Demirhan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Halide Edib positioned herself as a main agent and figure of the Turkish nationalist movement, as both visionary and defender of her nation. Contributing to the evolving discourse on what it meant to be Turkish; Edib placed the family at the center of the state and identified women as state-builders. Through her interpretation of Turkish nationalism, I argue that Edib obscured the division between the public and private realm and classified women as agents in the creation of the Republic. I further contend that by doing this she contributed to the legitimization of Turkey on an international scale. This thesis …

The Impact Of Sincerity Of Terrorists On Committing Terrorist Activities In Turkey, Ahmet Turer

Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the impact of sincerity of terrorists on committing terrorist activities in Turkey. The researcher is a Chief of Police in Turkey and has worked in the Anti-terror Department for a considerable part of his professional career. His professional experience has shown that the more sincere a terrorist is the more violent or heedless the terrorist activity is. Thus this research academically and statistically examines this observation and finds that sincerity affects level of violence. Attachment and adherence to the terrorist organization turn even the characteristically non-violent people into blood seeking terrorists.

A Resource Reading Guide To Philippians, Ken Berry

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Book Review, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology: Language, Gender and Political Economy in Revolution (Tom Furniss)
Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art (Ed. Paul Mattick, Jr.) (Reviewed by Frances Ferguson)

History, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literature (Ed. Beth Fowkes Tobin)
Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers (Claudia N. Thomas) (Reviewed by Charlotte Sussman)

Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (Jon Mee)
Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law (E. P. Thompson) (Reviewed by Michael Scrivener)

Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading (Richard J. Gerrig) (Reviewed by Richard Marback)

Commemorations: The …

July 11, 2012: Clifford Davidson's The York Corpus Christi Plays Profiled In Humanities, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

Outcomes Of A Social Communication Intervention On The Use Of Emotion Words, Amy Tucker Cornett

Theses and Dissertations

Children with language impairment (LI) have often been identified as having social communication breakdowns. A number of these problems are likely the result of deficits in emotional competence. This thesis examines a social communication intervention designed to target the emotional competence of children with LI. Three elementary school-aged children with LI were recruited to receive twenty, 20-minute intervention sessions over the course of four months. Each intervention session involved a combination of activities targeting emotion recognition and emotion inferencing using story retell, story exploration, story enactment, perspectives charts, journal entries, emotion labeling, and personalization. These activities revolved around Mercer Mayer's …

Volume 49, Number 47: July 11, 2012, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

The Alestle - Vol. 64 No. 39 - 07/11/2012, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 64 No. 39

Development Of Psychometrically Equivalent Speech Audiometry Materials For Measuring Speech Recognition Thresholds In Native Tagalog Speakers, Brandon Brian Taylor

Theses and Dissertations

In addition to the use of pure-tones for testing hearing, speech signals are highly valuable diagnostic tools for identifying and evaluating hearing impairment. Speech audiometry involves the implementation of such signals in the measurement of hearing acuity. One aspect of speech audiometry involves assessment of the speech recognition threshold (SRT) which evaluates an individual's ability to hear and understand speech. While live speech has been used in the past to assess SRT, recorded materials are preferred and have been shown to be advantageous over live speech. High-quality digitally recorded speech audiometry materials have been available in English for some time, …

Book Review, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Elegy & Paradox: Testing the Conventions (W. David Shaw) (Reviewed by William A. Ulmer)

Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Paul Thomas Murphy) (Reviewed by Kevin Gilmartin)

Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind (Karl Kroeber) (Reviewed by Timothy Morton)

Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque (Chris Snodgrass) (Reviewed by Linda G. Zatlin)

Narrative Ethics (Adam Zachary Newton) (Reviewed by Gary Handwerk)

"Antike Roman": Power Symbology and the Roman Play in Early Modern England, 1585-1635 (Clifford Ronan) (Reviewed by Irving Massey)

Jews in Today's German Culture (Sander L. Gilman) (Reviewed by Jack …

Horace's Ideal Italy: Sabines And Sabellians In Odes 1-3, Keith R. Fairbank

Theses and Dissertations

Within Odes 1-3 Horace consistently locates an idealized version of Rome in Sabinum and Italia. The former had long been a moral foil for Rome. The latter consisted of the regions of Italy that rebelled against Rome during the Social War and fought on the side of Marius in the civil wars that followed. Horace joins these two groups with the term Sabellians and places them together in moral opposition to the corruption and decadence of the late first century BC. Thus Horace elevates the formerly rebellious and still foreign Italici into Roman politics in the lofty position of …

Vol 3 No 2 Editor's Words, Bo Mou

Comparative Philosophy

No abstract provided.

Effect Of A Humanoid Robot During Therapy On Responding To Joint Attention With Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Katherine Lowe

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the use of a humanoid robot to engage two children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on responding language behaviors including language, affect, imitation, and eye contact. The robot was integrated into each child's regular intervention in low-doses (10 min of a 50 min session). The goal was to increase responding language behaviors in the children with their conversational partners. The two children participated in pre and post assessment sessions as well as 16 intervention sessions. The data from these sessions were coded into two main categories including how the children interacted (Initiating Engagement, Responding to …

Having Fun While Speaking French: A Foreign Language Housing Case Study, Donna Lee Andrus

Theses and Dissertations

As the need for foreign language education increases, various types of immersion programs are on the rise within the United States. This study presents foreign language housing as an under-researched type of immersion program that can be a valuable component of university language departments. Using the framework of situated learning and communities of practice, this study provides an in-depth look at lower proficiency (LP) student perspectives and experiences within Brigham Young University's French House. Data were collected through a preliminary questionnaire, a semester-long period of observations, and multiple interviews with select participants. A comparison of all three sources revealed that …

Using Language Corpora To Enhance Grammatical Proficiency In Chinese, Hsiao-Chien Chen

Theses and Dissertations

School curriculum and pedagogy change over time and are affected by changes in technology. One little used technology in foreign language classrooms is the electronic language corpus. In corpus-based linguistics, language corpora are often used as tools to analyze and observe various language features, including discourse, pragmatics, and syntax. However, language corpora can also act as a tool to assist language teachers by providing greater exposure to features of the language. Using language corpora is especially helpful in exposing learners to so-called authentic language used in a target language culture. Moreover, students can gradually enhance their language proficiency by using …

Editor's Preface, John N. Schumacher

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.