Digital Commons Network^™

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Acoustic Measures Of English Prosody And Holistic Measures Of English Proficiency In Extemporaneous Speech Of Native Chinese Speakers Of English As A Second Language, Carl Tyler Johnson

Open Access Dissertations

English prosody works as a structural and semantic glue that establishes relationships among words and phrases within a sentence, and among sentences within a larger discourse. This dissertation hypothesizes and demonstrates an association between acoustic measurements of English prosody and holistic measures of English proficiency. To test this hypothesis, acoustic data was used from 10 examinees each of low, medium, and high oral English proficiency groups of L1 Chinese speakers who took Purdue’s Oral English Proficiency Test (OEPT). Prosodic measurements of duration, F0, and intensity were gathered from adjacent function and content words in the OEPT audio data and compared …

Emigrants' Stories Of Foreign Aid And Their Reasons For Emigration: Guatemalans On The Move, Monica Spohn

History and Political Science | Student Professional Publications

This single instrumental case study was designed to learn about emigrants’ reasons for emigrating, situated within the challenges and available opportunities in their home country of Guatemala. Eight emigrants (two women and six men) were interviewed to better understand their personal experiences and to examine the role of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) investments, Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), and Guatemala’s domestic conditions and development in participants’ decisions to emigrate to the U.S. The study was guided by the following central questions: (1) How do emigrants explain their reasons for leaving? (2) What motivates emigration in …

Race As A Social Construct: Evolution Of Black Ascription, Tatyana N. Smith

XULAneXUS

No abstract provided.

Premier: The Magazine Of The Unlv Harrah College Of Hospitality, Matt Jacob, Jason Scavone, Shekinah L. Hoffman, Stowe Shoemaker, Maggie Hausbeck, Alexandra Liebman

Premier: The Magazine of the UNLV Harrah Hotel College

No abstract provided.

Does Browsing Matter? : Predation And Population Declines In The Federally Endangered Schweinitz's Sunflower (Helianthus Schweinitzii T&G), Bryan Benson England Iii

Graduate Theses

Herbivory is a ubiquitous ecological process, yet its importance to plant community ecology and conservation biology is controversial. When Schweinitz's sunflower (Helianthus schweinitzii T&G) was listed as a federally endangered species in 1991, "Predation and Parasitism" were considered "not applicable" as threats, and it was the lack of large herbivores that was repeatedly identified as a threat to this species' survival. Two decades later, persistent negative population trends in many protected populations and anecdotal reports of "heavy browse pressure from white-tailed deer" led to suggestions that herbivory by deer could be impeding the recovery of this species. To test for …

3 Legged Dog Joke, Tiffany Carlton

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

What do you call a 3 legged dog?

Target Practice

2017 Interim Report Neasc Decision Letter, Commission On Institutions Of Higher Education, New England Association Of Schools & Colleges, Inc.

University Accreditation

This is the decision letter from the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education to Bridgewater State University.

Distracted Boyfriend Meme, Melissa Herrera

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

No abstract provided.

Utah State University Women’S Soccer Pre-Game Practice Cheer, Mealii Enos

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Wesley: And, uh we just a—it’s where you pick out like—do you want me to describe it? [mhmm yeah] Ok, it’s like pick out, well the team—what is it called, not name [um their mascot?] mascot, yeah mascot and then you just match it with a word. And, I don’t know usually like the team comes up with it together and it’s kinda fun, like, some people are annoyed and like wanna leave practice but others are like having fun like coming up with like, stupid words that can—same lettering words…

Mealii: So give me, like, an example.

W: Ok. …

Sky View High School Spirit Fountain Ritual, Tanner Perkes

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

[At first] We would hold the drinking fountain for each other and get a drink and then at the end we would, like, make these chicken noises. And then that progressed in to Marty [another English teacher at the school] being, like, the leader cuz he would, like, mock us when we would bow because sometimes we’d to each other like, [mocking situation] “Oh, thank you!” and we’d do a little bow or a curtsy or something like that after someone held the drinking fountain. So then it became a ritual where after we played [basketball] we’d go to the …

Battle Of Gettysburg Joke, Tiffany Carlton

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

What’s black and white and red all over?

The Battle of Gettysburg.

“66 Year Old Bodybuilder William Reed Sees Color For The First Time”, Kaylee Dudley

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqHlIRZnF38

The video opens with a man, William Reed, standing on his porch and the people around him singing happy birthday. He jokes about his age and then talks about guessing what the present might be. There are voices off camera saying, “Don’t guess,” and “You’re gonna guess wrong.” He replies, “Really?” Then begins unwrapping the present. He removes a box from a brightly colored bag filled with tissue paper. He then struggles to open the box because of the packing tape. Someone teases him for taking a while, “You’re just slow cause of your age.” The group laughs and …

It Sure Is Dark In Here Joke, Tiffany Carlton

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

So one day this little boy is home, he walks in his mother and a man having an affair, he hides in the closet to watch them, as they don’t notice him. The boy’s father comes home, the mother pushes the man into the closet with the little boy not knowing he is already in there. The boy says “it sure is dark in here” the man replies “yes it is.” The boy tells the man, “I have a baseball glove,” the man replies “okay how much?” The little boy says $750. The man tells him that it is too …

Birthday Week, Carrigan Price

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Birthday Week is the week of your birthday and you can choose 7 days before or 7 days after or split it but everybody that has a brain does the 7 days before and what you do on those seven days is whatever you want [laughter] you get to pick a place to go eat and you usually open presents in the morning and also we have a big family party on the Sunday that is inside your birthday week. When I’m the birthday person, I get to be the queen of everybody. Like when Mom tells me to do …

Smu Establishes Fruitful Collaborations With Six Leading Chinese Partner Universities, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases and News

Leading a senior delegation from 18-23 November 2017, SMU President Prof Arnoud De Meyer visited six partner universities in Shanghai and Beijing. The trip culminated in productive meetings with the leaders of these reputable Chinese universities and the signing of a number of partnership agreements that would strengthen the links of SMU and its schools with their Chinese counterparts. The universities are: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University, China University of Political Science and Law.

A Country Writer Exiled In The City: The Case Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher

Articles

No abstract provided.

Jason Bond Family History, Jason Bond

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

Jason Bond authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Fall 2017 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]

Urinformed December 2017, Urinformed

URInformed: The URI Employees' Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Hermit-Neutics: Textualism In H. D. Thoreau's Walden, Eleftherios Mastronikolas

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

According to Joseph North’s Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, the titular discipline is today the site of a hegemonic historicist/contextualist practice. It ascended to this hegemony by edging out a different literary practice, what I call textualism, first thought through by the New Critics but also yoked by them to religious themes. North argues that since historicism/contextualism transforms literary criticism into a site of knowledge production and the commodification of literature as part of the “neoliberalization” of the university, the time has come to return to textualist practice so as to combat this trend, if only at a discursive …

The "Narrative Impulse" And Literary Intervention In The Public Science Discourse, Lauren Kilian

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

My dissertation examines diverse perspectives that literary authors, popular science writers, and academics bring to bear on the question of who can contribute to public science discourse. That discourse has a vexed history; it inherits assumptions of incompatibility from debates about a “Two Cultures” divide, and has been the battleground of the “Science Wars” between scientists and cultural theorists. I move beyond discord and valuation, in favor of a “participatory model,” where both scientists and nonscientists promote the scientific literacy of the lay public. My project juxtaposes popular science alongside literature, which illuminates narrative's alternately constructive and destructive role in …

Spriggs Has A Toe In Literature Creative Writing And Rhetoric, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Professional Development For Educators To Promote Literacy Development Of English Learners: Valuing Home Connections, Leslie Grant, Angela B. Bell, Monica Yoo, Christina Jimenez, Barbara Frye

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

While families play a vital role in the early literacy skills of young English Learners, their educators often do not share the same backgrounds or cultures, and may not know how to connect with parents who are linguistically and culturally different. As part of a year-long grant funded professional development project, the authors led teams of educators from two districts through a series of workshops which included ways teachers could increase home-school connections to support the children’s literacy. Data from participant surveys with Likert-scale and open-ended questions provided evidence that the professional development experiences resulted in an increase in the …

Increasing Provider Awareness Of Patient Health Literacy Needs For Dental Screenings Among Patients With Diabetes In A Rural Health Clinic, Diana M. Solis

Doctor of Nursing Practice

The purpose of this project was to increase provider awareness of health literacy needs for recommended dental screenings among patients with diabetes in a rural clinic setting. Over 35% of adults in the United States are considered to have low literacy levels (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2015). Low health literacy levels have an impact on patient outcomes due to decrease compliance with recommended treatment plans and preventive health screenings. Patients with diabetes have a trifold increase of developing oral infections such as periodontal disease, fungal infections, and xerostomia (Kudiyirickal & Pappachan, 2015). Healthcare providers acknowledging a patient’s health …

Teach Your Children White?, Katelyn Johnson

Senior Theses

Through exploration of early childhood literature - focused on those intended as read aloud and including illustrations – this thesis will investigate the impact and influence of cultural and racial diversity and representation in books on the development of a child’s identity as well as broader world view. The thesis will also research the histories of cultural diversity and representation in children’s literature. The research parameters for this project are focused on Marin County and will include: access to culturally diverse literature in public libraries throughout the county; library procurement policies and the impact on cultural diversity within the collection; …

Music As A Bridge And Platform For Personal, Cultural, And Societal Change: The Work Of Billie Holiday, Adrienne Auer

Senior Theses

Billie Holiday came into this life faced with many hardships and struggles. She was raised with harsh realities and hard choices inherent in an inequitable culture that allowed discrimination, segregation, disenfranchisement, and continued acts of oppression and brutality. Her life story, her musicality, her songwriting, her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues, and the feeling that she put into almost everything she touched created a lasting legacy. This essay examines how Billie Holiday was able to channel her emotionality and her life experiences into her art. It draws from Billie Holiday’s autobiography and her songs, from the work of noted …

Vision, Winter 2017

Vision

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

VisionFinding Aid

The Deaf Catholic, Winter 2017

ICDA The Deaf Catholic

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

ICDA The Deaf CatholicFinding Aid

Hand In Hand, Winter 2017

Hand in Hand

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Milwaukee, WI

Hand in Hand Finding Aid

Mis Familias, Mis Maestros/As Y Yo: A Transformative Research Approach To Latino/A Family Engagement, Literacies In The Community, And Advocacy, Ileana Cortes Santiago

Open Access Dissertations

This qualitative study follows a transformative research approach, which intends to shift dominant paradigms and honor the culture and voices of marginalized peoples through collaborative needs-assessment, goal setting, and intervention/initiative development that brings about change (Mertens, 2007, 2009). Five Latina mothers and two literacy teachers living in a Midwest state partook in a six-month project where they identified a need within their community, met, engaged, and partnered with local organizations while working on the social media platform that would address that need [i.e., the provision of a bilingual (Spanish/English) network/space to connect educators and Latino/a families]. Written as three different …

Editorial: Interpreter Education Within And Outside Of The Classroom, George Major, Ineke Crezee

International Journal of Interpreter Education

No abstract provided.