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The Interaction Of Gradient And Categorical Processes Of Long-Distance Vowel-To-Vowel Assimilation In Kazan Tatar, Jenna T. Conklin

Open Access Theses

Vowel harmony and vowel-to-vowel coarticulation are long-distance assimilatory processes wherein certain vowels trigger systematic changes in adjacent vowels; harmony effects phonological change, resulting in phonemic alternation, while coarticulation effects phonetic change. This thesis offers a novel acoustic analysis of the coarticulatory processes present in disharmonic words in Kazan Tatar, a language with left-to-right palatal harmony. While right-to-left palatal coarticulation is found to be widespread, left-to-right palatal coarticulation is virtually nonexistent in Tatar. It is hypothesized that gradient and categorical processes sharing the same triggers, targets, target feature, and direction cannot coexist; the diachronic implication for Tatar is that, once coarticulation …

Colossians 4:11 And The Ethnic Identity Of Luke, R. Wayne Stacy

Eruditio Ardescens

No abstract provided.

Writing The Nation: A Concise Introduction To American Literature 1865 To Present, Amy Berke, Robert Bleil, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis

Textbooks

Writing the Nation: A Concise Guide to American Literature 1865 to Present is a text that surveys key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature.

ENGL 202

Multicultural News, April 1, 2015, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Walter J. Lemke Department Of Journalism

Multicultural News

"A laboratory production of the University of Arkansas Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism and printed by the Morning News."--Apr. 6, 2006

Developing Pre-Service Teacher Identity With Respect To Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Tessa Nicole Mauro

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This thesis will discuss how the development of teacher identity is a necessary component of pre-service teachers schooling. Through social foundations of education, dialogue about systemic oppression and teachings on historical ramifications of the educational system, pre-service teachers can develop a deeper understanding of the students around them. Current teacher education programs focus on a limited exposure to Culturally Relevant Pedagogical ideologies. Pre-service teachers can choose whether to address inherent biases or to remain unaware of their inherent dysconscious biases. Developing teacher education programs that help foster critical consciousness through reflection, action, and dialogue are all important issues that should …

Raising Teachers’ Cultural Knowledge Of Middle Eastern Students In The Classroom, Hassan J. Alnawar

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

A large number of researchers have investigated the impact culturally aware and conscious teachers have in creating a better learning environment for students, especially those who are from different academic and ethnic backgrounds. However, limited studies have been conducted to inspect how teachers’ attitudes toward the cultural background of their students from the Middle East, and how they perceive and interact with them. Using qualitative research methods this study will examine elementary teachers’ conceptions and attitudes toward their Middle-Eastern students. In comparison to other immigrant groups, Middle Eastern students, the focus of this study, face additional challenges as a result …

Teacher Perspectives On The Educational Experience Of English Learners: A Case Study Of Three Monterey Country Schools, Brianna Skinner

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The educational experience of English learners has been largely debated, especially after the passage of Proposition 227 in California in 1998. This proposition essentially banned bilingual education within public schools in the state. With English learners unable to use their native language in a scholastic setting in order to help them acquire English language skills, the educational experience of these students is of particular interest. Monterey County is an idea location as it has the second highest population of English Learners in the state after Imperial County, a county located on the national border with Mexico. Three Monterey County elementary …

Utilizing Mobile Computer Devices In Urdu / Hindi Language Programs To Enhance Language Learning, Shagufta Khan

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Mobile computer devices, such as laptops, hand-held devices like iPads, and smartphones, have become an integral part of learning, today. In this study, effects of mobile computer devices to facilitate language learning were explored. Students from a university were surveyed for their beliefs, behaviors, preferences and practices with respect to using mobile computers devices to learn Urdu/Hindi languages. How students use various types of devices; which language skills (listening, reading, speaking) are affected and enhanced the most; how mobile devices facilitate differentiated instruction for varying learning styles; how they foster self-organized learning environments (SOLE) and support universal design for learning …

The Effects Of Direct Speech Instruction On English Language Learners For The Celdt 4-Picture Narrative, Alexander Salazar

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The necessity for English Language Learners to meet the language proficiency required for designation as a Reclassified Fluent English Proficient (RFEP) student warranted a reevaluation of the current practices of speech instruction. The research highlighted the importance of direct instruction for the speaking 4-Picture Narrative assessment of the California English Language Development Test (CELDT), as well as promoted the necessity of combining strategies and student ability levels in order to help English Language Learners of the 9-12 grade span acquire the oral academic language necessary for attaining a proficient score of Early Advanced on the exam. The findings found that …

The Parental Involvement Of Non-English Speaking Latino Parents In Secondary Education, Bianca M. Andrade

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This study characterized the ways in which non-English speaking Latino parents demonstrate their commitment to secondary education and investigated the factors that cause non-English Latino parents to feel unwelcome at a public secondary education institution. The 33 participants of the study were self-identified non-English speaking Latino parents of students enrolled at a middle school in the central coast valley of California. The parents participated in one of three ways: (a) a one-on-one interview, (b) group interview or (c) they completed a home-sent questionnaire. After analysis, the qualitative data revealed non-English speaking Latino parents participate in the education of their children …

Science Curriculum Development With Next Generation Standards: Meeting The Needs Of In-Service Teachers, Laura Arnow

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) bring new opportunities to American classrooms, with their emphasis on investigation, reliance on data, and constructing explanations and lines of argument based on evidence. However, they also pose considerable challenges both to teachers and students. Years of minimal science instruction during the era of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) have left a generation of students unfamiliar with the idea of questioning, and a professional cohort of teachers with little experience with inquiry curriculum or confidence in their mastery of science content. This leaves a gap for curriculum design. This study assessed the needs of …

Effective Integration Of Technology In A High School Beginning Japanese Class, Yo Azama

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Technological advancement is rapidly changing our daily lives. Many teachers seek ways to implement technology to improve students’ learning experiences. How do we determine what types of technological tools to use to maximize learning? This research investigated the effectiveness of the integration of the Substitution Augmentation Substitution and Redefinition (SAMR) model and other web applications in learning Japanese at the high school level. Fifty-one students in first-year Japanese language classes participated in a technology-integrated lesson. Technology-enhanced activities were selected with the SAMR model and were developed for students to learn and demonstrate Japanese language skills and cultural knowledge in a …

Manual / Issue 4 / Blue, Amy Pickworth, Editor, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor, S. Hollis Mickey, Editor, Lawrence Berman, A. Will Brown, Linda Catano, Spencer Finch, Jessica Helfend, Kate Irvin, Dominic Molon, Maggie Nelson, Ingrid Neuman, Margot Mcilwain Nishimura, Karen B. Schloss, Anna Strickland, Louis Van Tilborgh, Oda Van Maanen, Elizabeth A. Williams

Journals

Manual, a journal about art and its making. Blue.The fourth issue. Indigo blue, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, zaffre blue, indanthrone blue, phthalo blue, cyan blue, Han blue, French blue, Berlin blue, Prussian blue, Venetian blue, Dresden blue, Tiffany blue, Lanvin blue, Majorelle blue, International Klein Blue, Facebook blue. The names given to different shades of blue speak of plants, minerals, and modern chemistry; exoticism, global trade, and national pride; capitalist branding and pure invention. The fourth issue of Manual is a meditation on blue. From precious substance to controllable algorithm to the wide blue yonder, join us …

Do You "Park Your Car" Or "Pahk Your Cah''?: The Changing Dialect Of Southern New Hampshire, Melanie Platt

Inquiry Journal 2015

This article reports on a sociolinguistic study conducted in the summer of 2014 in which I interviewed native southern New Hampshire men and women, aged 18 to 89, listening for rhoticity (r variable) in their speech. I found that speakers younger than 60 years old are now exhibiting fully rhotic speech, which contrasts with the results of earlier studies.Possible motivations for the shift were also examined and compared with more recent studies on the r variable. I found in this study a correlation between the non-rhotic speech of many older speakers and small farming communities. The shift from non-rhotic to …

Comics And Composition, Comics As Composition: Navigating Production And Consumption, Tammie M. Kennedy, Jessi Thomsen, Erica Trabold

English Faculty Publications

Composition has a vested interest in exploring how comics studies can inform our teaching of writing, multimodal literacies, and visual rhetoric. Composition and rhetoric has already demonstrated a growing interest in comics (including graphic literatures, graphic novels, graphic narratives, digital storytelling) as complex sites of literacy and as spaces to theorize and practice multimodal composing. Comics also provide opportunities to explore the rhetorical choices and transactions that must be negotiated between composers and readers. However, despite composition scholars’ interest in multiliteracies, multimodal composing, and visual rhetoric, the interdependent and fluid connections between images and words remain largely disengaged. For example, …

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles and quizzes in this issue.

A Corpus For Investigating English-Language Learners' Dialog Behaviors, Nigel Ward, Paola Gallardo

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

We are interested in developing methods for the semi-automatic discovery of prosodic patterns in dialog and how they differ between languages and among populations. We are starting by examining how the prosody of Spanish-native learners of English differs from that of native speakers. To support this work, we have collected a new corpus of conversations among college students. This includes dialogs between a nonnative speaker of English and a native, dialogs between native speakers of English, and Spanish conversations.

Hooglund, E. & Stenberg, L. (Eds.). Navigating Contemporary Iran: Challenging Economic, Social And Political Perceptions. New York And London: Routledge, 2012., Kathleen Foody Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Cc: Connecticut College Magazine, Spring 2015, Connecticut College

Alumni News/Connecticut College Magazine

No abstract provided.

Prism, Spring 2015, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Reading The World: Historicizing Systemic Contradictions In Lntertextual Dialogues, João J. Rosa

Journal of Cape Verdean Studies

No abstract provided.

The Processing Of Formulaic Language On Elicited Imitation Tasks By Second Language Speakers, Yan Xun

Open Access Dissertations

The present study investigated the processing of formulaic language, in an effort to examine how the use of formulaic language may or may not contribute to second language (L2) fluency in speaking performance. To examine the effect of formulaic language on L2 fluency, this study utilized elicited imitation (EI) tasks designed to measure general English language proficiency in order to compare repetition of individual sentences containing formulaic sequences (FS) to repetition of sentences that do not. In addition to the presence of FS, the length of stimuli sentences was manipulated and compared to a second independent variable. Responses to EI …

What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction To His Life And Thought, Lewis R. Gordon, Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, Drucilla Cornell

Philosophy & Theory

Challenging the notion of theory as white and experience as black, Lewis Gordon here offers a philosophical portrait of the thought and life of the Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an example of “living thought” against the legacies of colonialism and racism, and thereby shows the continued relevance and importance of his ideas.

A Novel Root Based Arabic Stemmer, Mohammed N. Al-Kabi, Saif A. Kazakzeh, Belal M. Abu Ata, Saif A. Al-Rababah, Izzat M. Alsmadi

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Stemming algorithms are used in information retrieval systems, indexers, text mining, text classifiers etc., to extract stems or roots of different words, so that words derived from the same stem or root are grouped together. Many stemming algorithms were built in different natural languages. Khoja stemmer is one of the known and widely used Arabic stemmers. In this paper, we introduced a new light and heavy Arabic stemmer. This new stemmer is presented in this study and compared with two well-known Arabic stemmers. Results showed that accuracy of our stemmer is slightly better than the accuracy yielded by each one …

Collaborative Power: Graduate Students Creating And Implementing Faculty Development Workshops On Multilingual Writing, Brooke R. Schreiber, Dorothy Worden, Eunjeong Lee

Publications and Research

A description of how a group of graduate students was able to coordinate institutional resources and connections to put on faculty development sessions for working with multilingual writers (often called ESL students) across the curriculum.

Gallaudet Today Volume 45 Number 1 Spring 2015, Catherine Murphy

Gallaudet Today

No abstract provided.

Ua64/2 The Challenge: Magazine For The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 36, Spring 2015), Center For Gifted Studies, Tracy Inman Editor

Gifted Studies Publications

No abstract provided.

Klassnaya Gazeta No. 9-10, Petko Ivanov, A.J. Boyce, Philip Greenberg, Anna Bleck, Julia Panter, Emily Shafer, Jack Winston, Joseph O'Connell

Slavic Studies Student Projects and Publications

No abstract provided.

Parnassus: Classical Journal (Volume 3, 2015), Corey J. Scannell, Rebecca Finnigan, Marianne Muro, Alexandra Larkin, Joseph Macneill, Valerie Kisselback, Kelsey Littlefield, Thomas Krueger, Meagan Freeze, Margaret Macmullin

Parnassus: Classical Journal (v.1-6)

Parnassus is an undergraduate journal published by the College of the Holy Cross in conjunction with the Classics Department. Parnassus' mission is to share the passion of Holy Cross students for the ancient world. All pieces aim to be generally understandable, allowing the field to be more accessible to non-specialists in the community.

Collection Development Policy, Philosophy, Richard H. Harrison

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.