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Multicultural Picture Books: Windows And Mirrors, Dawn M. Goodale

Graduate Research Papers

Multicultural children’s picture books offer readers views into far away places that can be similar or very different from that of the reader. These picture books can be used to enhance the Social Studies curriculum by offering students new perspectives on other cultures. The researcher employed the five dimensions of global perspectives developed by Robert G. Hanvey (1976) and criteria from the Iowa Core Curriculum Social Studies Standards (grades 3-5), to determine the titles that best exemplified the criteria. Review of related literature included the topics of multicultural education, multicultural literature and reader-text-relationships. The project consists of an annotated bibliography …

Leading By Example: Modeling Global Public Service Excellence, Nadia Rubaii

Public Administration Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Making Use Of Hidden Data: Towards A Database Of Weather Predictors, Karen Pennesi

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Anthropologists often have interesting and valuable data that remains ‘hidden’ because it does not fit easily into conventional academic publishing formats. This article suggests that it is worthwhile to make use of this hidden data for the benefit of other researchers and the study communities. To illustrate, the article describes initial efforts to create an online database of traditional weather prediction indicators derived from observations of the ecosystem. The database was started with descriptions of more than a thousand prediction indicators used in Northeast Brazil, which were collected as part of a survey of farmers and ‘rain prophets’. It is …

Anthropology, 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 Anthropology.

Crossing International And Research Boundaries: From Subject To Author For An Authentic Refugee Portrait, Jasenka Besic, J. Lynn Mcbrien

School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies Sarasota Manatee Campus Faculty Publications

Scholars in training, including qualitative researchers, are often cautioned about their relationship to their research participants with the notion that “getting too close” can distort findings. However, with many participants, especially those with whom issues of trust are problematic due to their personal experiences, researchers cannot gain rich data without creating an authentic and close relationship. In this longitudinal study, a female Bosnian youth and an academic researcher grapple with issues of trust, friendship, and research in an effort to determine ways to create valid research findings over years of relationship building.

From There To Here: Using Photography To Explore Perspectives Of Resettled Refugee Youth, Jody Lynn Mcbrien, Rebecca Day

School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies Sarasota Manatee Campus Faculty Publications

Because refugee numbers are much smaller than those of other immigrant populations in the United States, researchers frequently group refugees with other immigrants in their studies. However, due to the traumatic circumstances that most refugees face prior to their arrival, they require separate consideration. We chose the medium of photography to help newcomer refugee students express themselves beyond their current capacities in English, and we used the students’ photographs as catalysts to interview them about their resettled lives in the United States. Through this process, we discovered themes central to the students’ lives, and ways in which they were working …

The Unending Search For The Optimal Infringement Filter, Sonia K. Katyal, Jason M. Schultz

Faculty Articles

Professor Edward Felten has observed, "[i]n technology policy debates, lawyers put too much faith in technical solutions, while technologists put too much faith in legal solutions." In their Article, The Best Available Technology Standard, Lital Helman and Professor Gideon Parchomovsky demonstrate the power and potential consequences of Felten's Law as they consider whether the current safe harbor architecture of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) strikes the appropriate public policy balance concerning online copyright infringement and the open Internet, ultimately concluding that it cannot without the help of the best filtering technology available to guide and architect the contours of …

What Is A Lawyer? A Reconstruction Of The Lawyer As An Officer Of The Court, Deborah M. Hussey Freeland

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

This paper engages with the central question in legal ethics concerning the lawyer’s role, analyzing this fundamental question in terms of professional identity. Literature in this debate frames the lawyer either as a professional who exists entirely to serve her client (the “standard conception”), or as a professional whose primary duties are to the legal system. I reposit and examine the lawyer’s professional identity as an officer of the court—an identity marginalized by those who favor the standard conception—noting that “standard conception” was coined to draw attention to a supplanting threat to legal professionalism. Providing a uniquely detailed examination of …

A Comparative Linguistic Study Between Sicilian And Spanish (Estudio Lingüístico-Comparativo Del Siciliano Y El Español), Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez, Raven Chakerian

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study proposes a linguistic-comparative analysis of both Spanish and Sicilian. While numerous linguistic studies have been done on Romantic languages, very few deal with Sicilian, isolated as a dialect of Italian. According to some linguists, Sicilian, as well as Sardinian (spoken in Sardinia), is not a dialect but an independent language per se. It lost its language status when the Italian parliament decided to assign a national language. This research, independently of Sicilian being a language or a dialect, analyses the most important phonetic, lexical, spelling and morphological differences with his sister-language, Spanish. At the same time, some parallelisms …

A Study Of Compliment Response Strategies Among Malays And Iranians / Leila Afsari, Leila Afsari

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study investigates and compares compliment response strategies (CRS) among Malays and Iranians with the aim of performing a semantic and pragmatic analysis of complimentary speech acts among Malays and Iranians. The data were collected through the use of interview and Discourse Completion Task (DCT), using eight complimentary sentences. Two were on appearance, two on character, two on ability and two on possession. A total of thirty university-students of the University of Malaya and University Putra Malaysia participated in the study over a period of three months. The findings demonstrated that all Malays and Iranians accepted most of compliments but …

Basic Reading Skills : A Case Study Of An Adult With Treacher Collins Syndrome / Lilly S. Kulanthai., Lilly S. Kulanthai

Student Works (2010-2019)

Everyone regardless of age and gender should be given an opportunity to learn, especially to read. Literacy improves lives of people in tremendous ways. However, for individuals with cognitive and memory impairment, learning to read has been a great challenge. In response to this challenge, this single subject case study examined the reading ability of an adult with cognitive and memory impairments, using a combination of five reading strategies. These strategies are: improving word recognition, building fluency, improving reading comprehension, using special remedial methods and using computers to teach reading. The five reading strategies were adapted from the teaching strategies …

The Use Of Malaysian English Lexical Terms In The Work Of Preeta Samarasan / Prema Jaya Balan, Prema Jaya Balan

Student Works (2010-2019)

This research is a study on how Malaysian English is used in creative writing by a Malaysian writer. It studies the novel ‘Evening is a whole day’ by Preeta Samarasan. Focusing on the extraction and categorisation of Malaysian English lexical items and semantic terms used by a Malaysian writer, this research sets out to study the extent to which the writer uses lexical items and semantic terms from the non-native variety in her prose writing. Language purists have often accused non-native varieties as being the result of a failure of approximation. The deviations in these varieties are seen in a …

Strategik Kesopanan Dalam Komunikasi Di Tempat Kerja / Vikneshwary, Manoqaran, Manoqaran Vikneshwary

Student Works (2010-2019)

No abstract provided.

Investigating Young Esl Learners' Comprehension Of Stories Situated In Native And Non-Native Cultures / Sawittri Shotiwuth A/P Charun, Sawittri Shotiwuth Charun

Student Works (2010-2019)

Children’s literature has long been regarded as appropriate and engaging materials for teaching language to young learners. Teachers of English as a second language (ESL) have found narrative texts to be effective in building language and comprehension skills. A massive volume of children’s literature, however, are produced for the native speakers in mind, thus bearing cultural references and settings that may be unfamiliar to non-native speakers. Viewed from the Schema Theory perspective – which holds that comprehension of texts is made possible through existing mental frameworks – the lack of familiarity with the culture upon which a story is situated …

Representation Of The Views Of Individual Authorities And Pressure Groups On Ppsmi In Malaysian English Newspapers / Amjad Raji Bin Jusoh, Jusoh Amjad Raji

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study is aimed at analysing the discursive construction ofcontroversy about the medium of instruction (MOI) for schoolsin the news media discourse in Malaysia. The data were collected from two mainstream English newspapers, The Star and The New Straits Times (January 2009 – June 2010). In Malaysia, national schools at the primary and secondary levels; and vernacular (Chinese and Tamil) schools at the primary level use English, instead of the national language, Bahasa Malaysia (BM), to teach Mathematics and Science, upon a directive issued by the Education Ministry in 2003. The policy is popularly known as PPSMI (PengajarandanPembelajaranSainsdanMatematikDalamBahasaInggeris, tr., Teaching …

Translation Of Malaysian Legal Terminology And Lawyers' Perspectives On Linguistic Borrowing / Phoebe Lim Ian Yee, Phoebe Ian Yee Lim

Student Works (2010-2019)

This dissertation studies the translation of legal terminology from the English to the Malay language, in particular borrowings from English. The purpose of this study is to investigate the forms and functions nature of these legal borrowings and their usage among legal professionals. The legislative text of Evidence Act 1950 is used as the study data. Textual analysis is done based on Mashudi Kader’s (1994) categorisations of the source of Malay legal terms with some modification adapted from Newmark (1988) and Haugen (1953). Interviews and questionnaires were also used as instruments to find out lawyers’ reactions towards legal borrowings and …

Strategi Penterjemahan Kata Sendi Nama Arab Ke Bahasa Melayu : Satu Analisis Deskriptif Dan Semantik Dalam Novel "Masrur Dan Makrur" / Muhammad Luqman Ibnul Hakim B Mohd Saad, Mohd Saad Muhammad Luqman Ibnul Hakim

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study is a descriptive and semantic analysis of the Arabic Prepositions من، إلى، عن، على، في، الباء، اللام ] ] translated into Malay language in the novel Masrur & Makrur. Its main aims are to identify the strategies and styles used to translate the prepositions and to analyze their meanings, semantic functions in verbal phrase (collocations and idioms) which were translated into Malay. Analysis of the results enabled the study to come up with a strategy of translating Arabic prepositions into the Malay language. This study applied the Dynamic, Semantic and Communicative Theories as well as the Relevance Theory …

Analisis Kecelaruan Membaca Bahasa Melayu Pelajar Kelas Intervensi Awal Membaca Dan Menulis (Kia2m) / A. Jailani Bin Che Abas, Che Abas A. Jailani

Student Works (2010-2019)

The objective of this research is to study on the confusion in reading Malay language among year one pupils involve with program known as ‘Kelas Intervensi Awal Membaca dan Menulis (KIA2M).This research hopes to help teachers to plan for the group as the issue of illiteracy has been seriously attended to . The seriousness of this issue can be seen when the program is replaced with Literacy and Numeracy programs (LINUS), that is National Key Result Areas (NKRA) as a main focus by the Ministry Of Education Malaysia. A total of 22 pupils involved in this research representing 220 Year …

A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Ppsmi In Malaysian News Media / Kiew Sieh Ping, Sieh Ping Kiew

Student Works (2010-2019)

This research report seeks to realise and compare the different ideologies that are contained in reports from Malaysian mainstream and alternative media with respect to the issue of teaching science and mathematics in English (otherwise known by the Bahasa Malaysia acronym, PPSMI). More specifically, the study focuses on the discourse that centres around the government’s decision to abolish the PPSMI. To do so, the study analyses a corpus of 21 news reports from The Star and 13 from Malaysiakini. These reports span a period of three months, i.e. from June to August 2009. The media plays an important role in …

Grammatical Errors In Saudi Students' Writing : A Minimalist Approach / Mohammad Abdul Aziz Omar Al-Khatib, Mohammad Abdul Aziz Omar Al-Khatib

Student Works (2010-2019)

This empirical study is an analysis of EFL writing by third year university students. There are three aims of the current work; (1) to find out the kinds of grammatical errors Saudi students make in their writings; (2) to explicate ungrammaticality of the students' errors employing the Minimalist Program; (3) to evaluate the contributing factors that cause grammatical errors. Data was derived from compositions written by a stratified random sample of twenty junior students majoring in English at The Faculty of Arts and Humanities in King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Actually, these compositions are an assignment given by …

The Role Of Playground Games In The Syntactic Development In Sudanese Children / Abubakr Abdalgadir Mohammed Abdalla, Abubakr Abdalgadir Mohammed Abdalla

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study explores the playground games performed by Sudanese preschoolers and school going age children in an effort to determine the role of these in the syntactic development among its performers. The researcher’s own children as well as Sudanese students in some international schools in Kuala Lumpur form the population of participants in this study. The study adopts a qualitative research method and its data is collected by means of tape recording, transcribed and analyzed using the Minimalist Program which is latest development in Generative Grammar as a framework of analysis. This is done to determine foremost the grammaticality of …

A Comparative Study Of English And Myanmar Syntax In A Narrative With A Focus On Sfpca Elements / Mya Tharaphi Wynn, Mya Tharaphi Wynn

Student Works (2010-2019)

This research project examines the similarities and differences between English and Burmese with regard to the functions of SFPCA in clauses. Data for the study come from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in simplified English and its Myanmar translation. Analysis of SFPCA elements is based on Bloor and Bloor’s (2004) and Halliday’s (1994) Systemic Functional Grammar theories. Burmese is now officially called Myanmar language which belongs to Burmanic branch of the Tibeto-Burman family, a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The English language, on the other hand, belongs to the Indo- European language family. In Myanmar, the kind of grammatical apparatus such …

An Evaluation Of Year Four Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan English Textbook / Loh Leh Kwong, Leh Kwong Loh

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study evaluates an English textbook entitled Year Four [Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina/Tamil)] English Textbook. It is used nationwide by all the Malaysian government funded Chinese primary schools. Five common elements i.e. objectives, contents, vocabulary, grammar and exercises were studied in this research. The presence of the elements of Bloom’s taxonomy were also compared and reviewed against the exercises of the textbook. Teachers and Year 6 students, being the direct users of the textbook were chosen to participate in the study. Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect relevant data. Generally, the textbook complied with most of the objectives set …

Representation Of Olympic Athletes In A Malaysian Online Newspaper / Wardah Hajisama, Hajisama Wardah

Student Works (2010-2019)

The purpose of this study is to investigate how genders are represented in selected sports news during the 2008 Olympics. The sports news of the 2008 Olympics from The Star online newspaper were selected as the corpus of the study, focusing on reports of selected female-appropraite sports. These female-appropriate sports were classified by Vincent et al. (2002) based on categories proposed by Metheny (1965) and Kane (1988). A discourse analysis was conducted to investigate how gender is portrayed in today’s sports media. A concordance software was used to study the data to obtain terms referring to male and female athletes. …

A Study Of Forms And Functions Of Directives In Advice Columns From English-Daily / Shaidatul Akma Adi Kasuma, Adi Kasuma Shaidatul Akma

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study investigates the forms and functions of directives in an advice column of a local newspaper. The forms and functions of directives are intricately related to the protection of face. Thus, the (im)politeness and face-saving strategies used in the advice texts are also analysed. The forms and functions of directives are identified based on the theoretical frameworks of Ervin-Tripp’s (1976), Blum-Kulka (1987) and Eken’s (1996). To rationalize the relationship between forms and functions of directives and the protection of face, the theoretical frameworks of (im)politeness adopted are the positive-negative politeness theory (Brown and Levinson, 1978, 1987) and the frame-based …

Code-Switching In Blogs Of Older And Younger Malaysian Chinese / Angelina Wong Li Wei, Angelina Li Wei Wong

Student Works (2010-2019)

Code-switching is a common occurrence in a multilingual country like Malaysia. Over the years, researches have been conducted to study oral code-switching in multilingual societies. However, the emergence of weblogs or better known as blogs is changing the way people interact over the Internet. Code-switching is noted to take place in online emails, journals, chatrooms, emails and also blogs. This study aims to investigate the domains in which code-switching takes place more often can be discovered as well as the similarities and differences in the writing of blogs between two age groups (older and younger) of Malaysian Chinese female bloggers. …

An Evaluation Of The Use Of Machine Translation Among Arab Students / Talal Mohammad Ahmad Barghouthi, Talal Mohammad Ahmad Barghouthi

Student Works (2010-2019)

The last thirty years, the internet has come to govern our lives and has emerged as one of the main means of communication. Translation is one of the areas which has been greatly affected by the rapid progress in online communication. Research and development undertakings for machine translation systems focus more on the translation of English language to other languages more than other languages, dependence on these systems. Problems arise when Arab students in the Faculty of Islamic studies, University of Malaya, who conduct their researches in Arabic are required to furnish an English version of their abstract. Since they …

Framing Of A Successful Female Athlete In A Malaysian English Language Daily : A Multimodal Analysis / Noor Dalina Khalid, Khalid Noor Dalina

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study aims at examining how the Malaysian World No.1 female squash player, Nicol Ann David is being framed in one of the English-language Malaysian dailies, The Star. Studies on stylistics features of news reporting have frequently focused on male athletes (Klien, 1988) and as such, this study would further enrich the field of sports news reporting by focusing on reports of a female athlete. The added focus on analysing the visuals that accompany the reports would also justify the need for this study as previous studies on sports news are mostly linguistically based. Nicol Ann David was made the …

The Impact Of Sign Language Exposure And Use In Deaf Children's Acquisition Of Vocabulary / Chong Vee Yee, Vee Yee Chong

Student Works (2010-2019)

This research studies the expressive and receptive skills of four Deaf children with the aim of investigating how different linguistic environment, such as the amount of input and practice, will affect their sign language acquisition. The study was conducted through observations of the subjects in the formal learning activity sessions and their regular activities in three different settings: home, church and shopping mall. Interviews were conducted with each of the subjects’ parents to gather background information regarding the linguistic input the subjects have acquired as well as the way the subjects communicate with their parents and the people around them. …

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