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Metacognitive Awareness Of Reading Strategies Among Efl High School Students In China / Li Yang, Yang Li

Student Works (2010-2019)

Readers’ metacognitive awareness of reading strategies has always been the interest of L2 reading research (Zhang, 2001). This study reported an investigation of 118 Chinese EFL students’ metacognitive awareness of reading strategies and the relationship between metacognitive awareness and actual reading performance. Data was collected through the Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) and one internal reading exam. The findings showed that students’ overall metacognitive awareness of reading strategies was at a moderate level with the highest level on problem-solving strategies, followed by global strategies and support strategies. Students from high English proficiency group reported considerably higher metacognitive awareness in global …

The Intonation Patterns Of Questions In Malaysian English / Yap Tsong Shiuan, Tsong Shiuan Yap

Student Works (2010-2019)

Since its introduction to Malaya by the British in the 18th century, the English language spoken in Malaysia has developed to become a local variety of English which we call Malaysian English (MalE). The purpose of this study is to identify and compare the intonation patterns used by MalE speakers when asking wh-questions and yes/no-questions. Twelve Malaysian speakers of the three major ethnic groups in Malaysia (Malay, Chinese and Indian) were recorded reading a list of questions and participating in an information gap activity. Analysis on the initial and final boundary tones indicates that Malaysian speakers of English almost consistently …

Learners’ Perceptions Of Learning English Through Metaphors / Ervinna Luk Yee Woon, Luk Yee Woon Ervinna

Student Works (2010-2019)

Learners and teachers often hold deep beliefs about language learning (Mariani, 2010) resulting in complexities based on attitudes, experiences and expectations (Riley, 2009). Effective language learning can potentially take place when the learners’ needs are met by the teachers through different classroom approaches. In the context of postgraduate teaching, learners come from various nationalities. Therefore, it is crucial to understand their perceptions on what constitutes language learning process and language teachers’ roles, especially in various socio-cultural educational settings (Borg, 2006) to ensure successful implementation of theoretical teaching methodologies (Sykes, 2011). Perception studies, however, revealed that examining the metaphors used by …

Apology Strategies In English Used By Malay Undergraduates / Noorhayati Baharudin, Baharudin Noorhayati

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study aims to investigate the apology strategies in English used by 30 Malay undergraduates in Malaysia. It looks into the frequency, combination and sequential position of apology strategies used. The results reveal that the respondents employed different combinations of strategies to apologize. The use of apology strategies varied across six social situations. Most of the responses started with expression of apology (IFID) followed by other strategies. The most common combinations employed are expression of apology and explanation or account, expression of apology and repair and forbearance and expression of apology, acknowledgement of responsibility and minimizing the degree of offense. …

A Contrastive Study Of The Speech Act Of Refusal Among Efl Speakers / Zhao Chunli, Chunli Zhao

Student Works (2010-2019)

Refusal, as one of the most frequently performed speech acts in our daily lives, has recently gained increasing attention in pragmatics. In academic settings in Malaysia, for example, the opportunity for interaction frequently occurs among students from different cultural backgrounds. The purpose of this study is thus to investigate two groups of EFL speakers, namely Chinese and Iraqis, in their realization of the speech act of refusal in an academic setting. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, the study seeks to explore the similarities and differences of refusal strategies employed by Chinese (mainland China) and Iraqi EFL …

Kata Adverba Dalam Karya Halis Azhan Mohd Hanafiah / Vijaya Letchumi Karuppiah, Karuppiah Vijaya Letchumi

Student Works (2010-2019)

The aim of this research is to analyse adverbs which had raised issues in Malay linguistics. Many language researchers have debated and discussed on adverbs in Malay, yet no decision has been reached. Therefore, this study aims to describe the forms and types of adverbs as well as to analyse the position of adverbs in the sentence construction. Data of adverbs for the study were taken from the novel Azfa Hanani written by Halis Azhan Mohd Hanafiah, students edition, 2010. This is a descriptive research, using two approaches, i. e. library research and textual study. Some 303 adverbs were identified …

Strategies Used In The English Translation Of Chinese Specific Terms In Government Work Reports / Tong Xing, Xing Tong

Student Works (2010-2019)

Translation is an important aspect in ESL pedagogy among Chinese learners. Translation provides Chinese learners strategies to use in the acquisition of English. By reviewing translated scripts, learners will be able to identify the differences between the Chinese and English language structures. Translating Chinese specific terms in English must be done carefully in order to make sure there is no change in the meaning as well as the purpose of the text. This research aims at investigating the English translation of Chinese specific terms in the 2014 Government Work Report, and to identify the pedagogical implication to Chinese ESL learners. …

The Influence Of A Digital Comic Tool On Writing Anxiety And Performance Of Malaysian Esl Learners / Faustina Roberts, Roberts Faustina

Student Works (2010-2019)

Writing is one of the difficult language skills causing anxiety among learners. Findings of a study conducted by Nesamalar, Saratha and Teh (2001) had revealed that many Malaysian ESL learners have poor writing skills. Hence, this study is geared towards investigating if Malaysian ESL learners experience writing anxiety, and if yes, what are the levels and causes of their writing anxiety. Since the Malaysian Education System recognises the need to incorporate Information and Communications Technology (ICT) into the teaching and learning procedure, this study also aims to explore the influence of a digital comic tool on the writing anxiety and …

Reliability And Validity Of The Bahasa Malaysia Version Of The International Physical Activity Questionnaire / Pri Hansini Chaskar, Chaskar Pri Hansini

Student Works (2010-2019)

Terdapat banyak indikasi yang menunjukkan bahawa kekurangan aktiviti fizikal membawa pelbagai jenis penyakit seperti obesiti, osteoporosis, diabetis, hipertensi, penyakit kardiovaskular, depresi, serta kanser. International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) merupakan salah satu borang kaji selidik yang luas digunakan untuk menentukan tahap aktiviti fizikal seseorang individu. Borang ini telah diuji di 14 pusat di 12 buah negara di seluruh dunia. Waiau bagaimanapun, di Malaysia, tidak terdapat satu alat kaedah yang piawai untuk menentukan tahap aktiviti fizikal seseorang individu. Kekurangan kaedah menentukan tahap aktiviti fizikal di sesebuah negara yang terdiri dari pelbagai kaum dan bangsa seperti Malaysia, akan menghambat kajian penyelidikan dan epidemiologi …

A Context For Legal History, Or, This Is Not Your Father’S Contextualism, Justin Deystone

Publications

This short essay attempts a systematic rehearsal of the structuralist approach to legal historiography.

Development Of A Higher Order Thinking Teaching Model For Basic Education Students In Science / Gulistan Ahmed Mohammed Artosh, Mohammed Artosh Gulistan Ahmed

Student Works (2010-2019)

The purpose of the study was to develop a higher order thinking (HOT) teaching model for science among basic education students. The development of the model was aimed at overcoming basic students’ needs in terms of developing their higher cognitive skills in science education. The study adopted the Design and Development Research Approach. Based on the approach, the study was conducted in three phases namely, needs analysis, design and development and evaluation phase. In order to identify the needs to develop the model, two instruments were used in phase1. First, a Higher Order Thinking Level Test (HOTLT) was developed based …

Refugee Representation In Malaysia: A Study Of Media Representations And Personal Narratives / Charity Lee Chin Ai, Lee Chin Ai Charity

Student Works (2010-2019)

This study explores the representation of refugees living in Malaysia from two perspectives. Firstly, this study analysed representations of refugees in Malaysian media discourse by the significant Other in Malaysia, namely elite political voices and the Malaysian press. Secondly, the perspective of the refugee or the Self was explored through narrative analysis of refugee in-depth interviews. The analysis of the media texts revealed representations of the refugee along two binaries. First, the refugee as either an illegal immigrant or a recognised refugee. Second, the refugee as a social, political and security threat or a victim. The government voices frequently represented …

Visualisation Studio For The Analysis Of Massive Datasets, Roy Colin Tucker

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis describes the research underpinning and the development of a cross platform application for the analysis of simultaneously recorded multi-dimensional spike trains. These spike trains are believed to carry the neural code that encodes information in a biological brain. A number of statistical methods already exist to analyse the temporal relationships between the spike trains. Historically, hundreds of spike trains have been simultaneously recorded, however as a result of technological advances recording capability has increased. The analysis of thousands of simultaneously recorded spike trains is now a requirement. Effective analysis of large data sets requires software tools that fully …

Community Building, Multiculturalism And The Suburban Public Library: Community, Cohesion And Sustainability. Qualitative Data From Interviews On Western Australian Migrants' Information Needs & Quantitative Web Survey Data On Service Provision At Australian Public Libraries, 2011-2012, Rajeswari Chelliah

Research Datasets

This dataset consists of 3 files:

File 1: Qualitative data enclosed in Microsoft Excel file. Data collection includes one to one interviews with Western Australian migrants.

Content analysis: interview utterances were analysed for content, classified into categories, and coded and entered in Microsoft Excel file columns.

File 2: Qualitative data enclosed in Microsoft Word file. Data collection includes one to one interviews with Western Australian migrants.

Content analysis: interview utterances were analysed for content, classified into categories, and coded and entered in Microsoft Word file columns.

File 3: Quantitative data enclosed in Qualtrics software which includes public librarians’ responses to …

Assessing And Selecting Culturally Diverse Literature For The Classroom, Helen Adam, Laurie Harper

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Articulated within the Australian Curriculum (AC) and the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia (EYLF) are strong principles of diversity and intercultural awareness. These principles place a responsibility on educators to make curriculum decisions that reflect inclusive goals and practices. It is important that all children have access to authentic and accurate representations and role models related to their cultural backgrounds and everyday lives, in order to gain benefits associated with developing a positive sense of identity and belonging (Gollnick and Chinn, 2006; Jones Diaz and Harvey, 2002; Morgan, 2009) with additional benefits to their academic and intellectual progress (Department …

Satire And Synthesis: Parody And Satire Of Victorian Education In The Works Of Lewis Carroll, Cameron D. Sedlacek

All Master's Theses

Education is an integral part of any society. Victorian England saw drastic reform in the method of childhood education, shifting from religious to secular forms of rote memorization. An analysis of the works of Lewis Carroll reveals significant instances of parody, pastiche, and satire on these styles of education and their corresponding reform. Unlike traditional satire, however, Lewis Carroll’s satire does not simply criticize these targets, but utilizes a strategy of synthesis to illustrate strengths and weaknesses of various conflicting educational ideologies and to suggest ways of adopting methods from all available options.

Reaction To Stimulus Figures In Chimpanzee Drawings, Alexandra Bobrinskoy Casti

All Master's Theses

Seven captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) produced drawings at the University of Oklahoma between November 1971 and November 1972. Chimpanzees drew on sheets of paper that were either blank or had a stimulus. The stimulus was located in the center or offset from the center. These drawings were scanned and digitized. Analysis tested whether chimpanzee mark placement was contingent on the location of stimulus figures. Centroid locations significantly changed between stimulus type for all drawing categories and among participants for free choice and central figure drawings. Participants drew in the empty space opposite offset figure drawings. Findings support previous …

Pragmatic Quality Assessment For Automatically Extracted Data, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Scott N. Woodfield, Stephen W. Liddle, Tae Woo Kim, David W. Embley, Christopher Almquist

Faculty Publications

Automatically extracted data is rarely “clean” with respect to pragmatic (real-world) constraints—which thus hinders applications that depend on quality data. We proffer a solution to detecting pragmatic constraint violations that works via a declarative and semantically enabled constraint-violation checker. In conjunction with an ensemble of automated information extractors, the implemented prototype checks both hard and soft constraints—respectively those that are satisfied or not and those that are satisfied probabilistically with respect to a threshold. An experimental evaluation shows that the constraint checker identifies semantic errors with high precision and recall and that pragmatic error identification can improve results

Why Implicit Control Cannot Be A Syntactic Or Semantic Relation Between Arguments, Jeffrey Jack Green, Alexander Williams

Faculty Publications

Implicit control (IC) is the apparent anaphora on display when we use (1) to mean (2). In this talk we develop two objections to grammatical accounts of IC with rationale clauses, which analyze it as identification of two variables in the meaning of the sentence. Such accounts, whether syntactic ([1]) or semantic [2,3]), can explain neither remote IC, as in (3), nor the truth-conditions of the rationale construction. Our objections thus favor the view of IC as a restrictive variety of discourse anaphora, as urged in [4,5]. In turn they weaken the persistent claim that IC indicates the syntactic presence …

Criteria Language Teachers Use When Selecting Call Technologies, K. James Hartshorn, Benjamin L. Mcmurry, Peter J. Rich, Neil J. Anderson, David D. Williams

Faculty Publications

It is important to identify the criteria that language teachers consider when selecting technologies. Software designers and developers, program administrators, and others need to be aware of adoption issues and practices for CALL technology. The focus of this case study was to look at six language instructors considered to be experts in their use of technology in the classroom and examine the criteria they use when selecting CALL resources or activities in the classroom. Interviews, recorded classroom observations, and analyses of teaching materials resulted in three themes: consideration of pedagogy, consideration of convenience, and consideration of authenticity. These are discussed …

Comparing The Opi And The Opic: The Effect Of Test Method On Oral Proficiency Scores And Student Preference, Troy L. Cox, Gregory L. Thompson, Nieves Knapp

Faculty Publications

While studies have been done to rate the validity and reliability of the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and Oral Proficiency Interview–Computer (OPIc) independently, a limited amount of research has analyzed the interexam reliability of these tests, and studies have yet to be conducted comparing the results of Spanish language learners who take both exams. For this study, 154 Spanish language learners of various proficiency levels were divided into two groups and administered both the OPI and OPIc within a 2-week period using a counterbalanced design. In addition, study participants took both a pre- and postsurvey that gathered data about their …

Exceptions To Prosecution History Estoppel Are Hardly A Dime A Dozen: An Analysis Of The Federal Circuit’S Application Of The Narrow Exceptions To Prosecution History Estoppel Twelve Years After Festo, Rachel C. Hughey, Linhda Nguyen

Cybaris®

No abstract provided.

On Specialized Legal Research, Mary Whisner

Librarians' Articles

Ms. Whisner describes what specialized legal research is and how students are initially exposed to the various topics that fall within the category, including taxation, intellectual property, and health law. She then provides strategies for learning about specific bibliographic sources and about the specialized vocabulary used to perform the necessary research.

Effect Of Two Semesters Of Small Group Problem-Based Learning (Pbl) On Expectations Of Physician Assistant Students Regarding Self, Others, And Facilitator Using The Pbl Readiness Questionnaire, Susan Hawkins, Mark Hertweck, Anthony Goreczny, John Laird

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess changes in expectations and perceptions among physician assistant (PA) program matriculants regarding small group problem-based learning (PBL) from the beginning to the end of the first didactic year. Some of the stress experienced by students entering health science professional programs using PBL may be due to lack of awareness of the goals and norms of PBL which differ from those of traditional lecture-based curricula. A change in student expectations as a result of participation in PBL would indicate that these goals and norms can be learned through participation. Methods: The authors …

Listening To Afro-Latinidad: The Sonic Archive Of Olú Clemente, Patricia Herrera

Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications

For many Puerto Ricans and other Latinos, Roberto Clemente was more than just a baseball star. Above all, he was a symbol of hope and humanitarianism, succeeding despite the overt racial discrimination he encountered as a Black Puerto Rican. Off the field, Clemente was renowned and beloved for his involvement in charity work in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries. His final humanitarian act came about in 1972 on New Year’s Eve when the plane chartered to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua crashed into the ocean off the coast of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. His sudden and …

River Report. State Of The Lower St. Johns River Basin, Florida: Water Quality, Fisheries, Aquatic Life, Contaminants, 2016, Environmental Protection Board, City Of Jacksonville, University Of North Florida, Jacksonville University, Gerry Pinto, Nisse Goldberg, Radha Pyati, Peter Bacopoulos, Anthony Ouellette, Gretchen Bielmyer-Fraser, An-Phong Le, Ray Oldakowski

State of the River Report

No abstract provided.

Heaney At Halftime, Kieran Quinlan

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 31-38

A Virgin Population Epidemic, Katherine Dover

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 163-168

Birmingham Poetry Review 43 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.

Peeking Inside The Black Box: A Preliminary Survey Of Technology Assisted Review (Tar) And Predictive Coding Algorithms For Ediscovery, Shannon Brown

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.