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Teaching Academic Language And Prosody Through Content-Related Collocations, Nell Duffy Hernandez Jul 2017

Teaching Academic Language And Prosody Through Content-Related Collocations, Nell Duffy Hernandez

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

My research seeks to answer the questions How can students gauge their own prosody of targeted collocations?, What feedback and strategies can content teachers use to aid students? and Can a holistic rubric aid students’ learning to produce academic collocations?. To answer these questions I designed a study given to six sixth grade level four and five English language learners (ELs). Eight academic collocations were chosen from the students’ social studies textbook as the targeted language. The research examined the ELs’ language use using a holistic speaking and writing rubric designed for teacher assessment and a student self-monitoring sheet. The …

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Multimodal Pedagogical Approaches To Public Writing: Digital Media Advocacy And Mundane Texts, Sarah Warren-Riley, Elise Verzosa Hurley Jul 2017

Multimodal Pedagogical Approaches To Public Writing: Digital Media Advocacy And Mundane Texts, Sarah Warren-Riley, Elise Verzosa Hurley

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

With the proliferation of digital media and other forms of technologically mediated communication, this article argues that critical multimodal pedagogical approaches to public writing—particularly through interrogating mundane, everyday texts—have the potential to engage students with advocacy and its role in shaping public discourse. In this article, we propose a pedagogy that views multimodal composition as advocacy. Because all texts are embedded with advocacy, encouraging students to recognize their own advocacy practices, and teaching them to carefully approach how they construct texts, we argue, may better prepare our students to be more social-justice minded public writers and rhetors in the future.

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Measuring The Effectiveness Of Critical Literacy As An Instructional Method, Edward Lehner, Kaemanje Thomas, Jean Shaddai, Toni Hernen Jul 2017

Measuring The Effectiveness Of Critical Literacy As An Instructional Method, Edward Lehner, Kaemanje Thomas, Jean Shaddai, Toni Hernen

Publications and Research

This paper reports the results of a quasi-experiment investigating the efficacy of using critical literacy as an instructional method. Using a quantitative comparison method, critical literacy is the study’s treatment. The treatment measures the final exam scores of linguistically diverse urban community college students enrolled in college developmental reading courses against 13 other statistically similar classes. The primary data are the results of a standardized final exam. This quasi-experimental study demonstrates the effectiveness of a critical literacy model when employed in a community college setting. Further, this study introduces a quantitative rationale for using critical literacy and establishes the practice …

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2017-July-01-Tennessee Senate Lauds 'Old Smoky', University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Jul 2017

2017-July-01-Tennessee Senate Lauds 'Old Smoky', University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Human Rights, Human Dignity, And The Concept Of Honour: A German Perspective, Eric Hilgendorf Jul 2017

Human Rights, Human Dignity, And The Concept Of Honour: A German Perspective, Eric Hilgendorf

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The overuse of terms like human rights, human dignity, and honour in European legal discourse risks diminishing their normative impact. Rooted in Enlightenment ideals and reactions to historical injustices, these concepts are central to German law, balancing individual rights with freedoms like expression. However, their broad application, especially in criminal law, necessitates a more precise definition to preserve their legal potency.

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Split Labor Markets In International Schools: Perceptions Of Fairness Among Local-Hire Teachers, Rose Tyvand Jul 2017

Split Labor Markets In International Schools: Perceptions Of Fairness Among Local-Hire Teachers, Rose Tyvand

Doctor of Education (EdD)

This quantitative study investigated perceptions of compensation fairness among local-hire teachers at international schools who worked in a split labor market. Under this model, localhire teachers perform the same basic job duties as their foreign-hire colleagues, yet receive far less compensation. The study employed survey research to examine potential relationships between such variables as: perceived compensation differentials, perception of foreign-hire contributions, teachers’ dependents attending the school on scholarship, perception of systems of communication and promotion, perception of compensation fairness, and willingness to support and collaborate with foreign hire teachers. 86 local-hire teachers from 7 international schools responded to online questions …

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Corporate Social Responsibility In Sports: Efforts And Communication, Daniel Erickson Jul 2017

Corporate Social Responsibility In Sports: Efforts And Communication, Daniel Erickson

Master's Theses (2009 -)

The practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has always been integral to sports organizations and is increasing rapidly in popularity. However, scholars have found that there is no true definition of CSR that describes what it is, whom it should help, and how it should be communicated to stakeholders. This thesis examines the CSR initiatives of four major U.S. sports leagues and their teams, as well as how these initiatives are communicated to fans and other stakeholders through the websites associated with these organizations. This study found these organizations make CSR information readily accessible to their stakeholders and participate in …

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Utility Of Feedback Given By Students During Courses, Michael Alton Atkisson Jul 2017

Utility Of Feedback Given By Students During Courses, Michael Alton Atkisson

Theses and Dissertations

This two-article dissertation summarizes the end-of-course survey and formative feedback literatures, as well as proposes actionability as a useful construct in the analysis of feedback from students captured in real-time during their courses. The present inquiry grew out of my work as the founder of DropThought Education, a Division of DropThought. DropThought Education was a student feedback system that helped instructional designers, instructors, and educational systems to use feedback from students to improve learning and student experience. To find out whether the DropThought style of feedback was more effective than other forms of capturing and analyzing student feedback, I needed …

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Comparing The Awl And Avl In Textbooks From An Intensive English Program, Michelle Morgan Hernandez Jul 2017

Comparing The Awl And Avl In Textbooks From An Intensive English Program, Michelle Morgan Hernandez

Theses and Dissertations

Academic vocabulary is an important determiner of academic success for both native and non-native speakers of English (Corson, 1997; Gardner, 2013; Hsueh-chao & Nation, 2000). In an attempt to address this need, Coxhead (2000) developed the Academic Word List (AWL)—a list of words common across a range of academic disciplines; however, Gardner & Davies (2014) identified potential limitations in the AWL and have more recently produced their own list of core academic vocabulary—the Academic Vocabulary List (AVL). This study compares the occurrences of the AWL and AVL word families in an intensive English program (IEP) corpus of 50 texts to …

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"Goin' To Hell In A Handbasket": The Yeatsian Apocalypse And No Country For Old Men, Connor Race Davis Jul 2017

"Goin' To Hell In A Handbasket": The Yeatsian Apocalypse And No Country For Old Men, Connor Race Davis

Theses and Dissertations

On its surface, Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men appears to be a thoroughly grim and even fatalistic novel, but read in conjunction with W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"—a work with which the novel has a number of intertextual connection—it becomes clear that there is a distinct optimism at the heart of the novel. Approaching McCarthy's novel as an intertext with Yeats' poem illuminates an apparent critique of eschatological panic present in No Country for Old Men, provided mainly through Sheriff Bell's reflections on the state of society.

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Could The United States Reinstitute An Official Torture Policy?, Adam D. Jacobson Jul 2017

Could The United States Reinstitute An Official Torture Policy?, Adam D. Jacobson

Journal of Strategic Security

In 2015, the United States passed legislation that reaffirmed its ban on using torture and abusive techniques in national security interrogations. However, the Republican president-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to revive torture as official policy, and the idea of torturing suspected terrorists is popular with the American public. Given these facts, what are the vulnerabilities within the current prohibition that makes a return to an official torture policy possible? This paper examines the weaknesses within each branch of government and other factors that could contribute to making a return to official torture by the United States more likely. It …

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Review Of "Introducing Sign Language Literature: Folklore And Creativity" By R. Sutton-Spence And M. Kaneko, Donna Jo Napoli Jul 2017

Review Of "Introducing Sign Language Literature: Folklore And Creativity" By R. Sutton-Spence And M. Kaneko, Donna Jo Napoli

Linguistics Faculty Works

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Bridging The Gap Between Linguistic And Pragmatic Assessment In Turkish Contexts, Aysegul Takkac Tulgar, Oktay Yagiz, Turgay Han Jul 2017

Bridging The Gap Between Linguistic And Pragmatic Assessment In Turkish Contexts, Aysegul Takkac Tulgar, Oktay Yagiz, Turgay Han

PASAA

The purpose of this qualitative study was to reach an understanding of the perceptions and self-evaluations of faculty members and students regarding pragmatic assessment in foreign language education. The participants were the academics and students in EFL departments at six state universities in Turkey. The data were collected through six open-ended questions in which the participants were asked to provide written answers. The main findings pointed at three themes for discussion: perceptions of pragmatic assessment and its contributions to foreign language education, the challenges as well as the scope and ways of pragmatic assessment. The participants generally appreciated the contributory …

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Pedagogical Practices In Teaching Reading Comprehension: A Case Study Of Three Efl Teachers In A Secondary School In Ethiopia, Yenus Nurie Jul 2017

Pedagogical Practices In Teaching Reading Comprehension: A Case Study Of Three Efl Teachers In A Secondary School In Ethiopia, Yenus Nurie

PASAA

Various studies investigating psychological variables associated with reading comprehension are currently available. However, there has been little linguistic research conducted to examine the pedagogical practices of teachers in teaching reading comprehension of EFL Secondary Schools, Ethiopia. The present study was conducted to fill the research gap by examining the current practices of teachers in teaching reading and how the teachers handle and organize reading comprehension. This study employed a descriptive and interpretive case study design that was analyzed through qualitative methods. The data was collected from observations of the most experienced EFL teachers' best representative comprehension classes and interviews with …

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Evidentiality, Questions And The Reflection Principle In Tibetan: What Do Children Learn When They Learn About Evidentiality?, Jill De Villiers, Jay L. Garfield Jul 2017

Evidentiality, Questions And The Reflection Principle In Tibetan: What Do Children Learn When They Learn About Evidentiality?, Jill De Villiers, Jay L. Garfield

Philosophy: Faculty Publications

Evidentials fall in the borderland between traditional semantics and pragmatics. A situation semantics for evidentials helps to explain their puzzling developmental pathway in children. Drawing on our work in Tibetan, we argue that there is no necessity for a child to master Theory of Mind, that is, awareness of others' mental states, in order to make or to understand assertions that carry evidential force. The meaning of evidentials does not make reference to states of knowledge of persons, but rather encodes relations between discourse, evidence and evaluation situations. On the other hand, when a Tibetan speaker asks a question, the …

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A Conceptual Model For A Universal Severity Of Emergency Report (User): An Example In Aviation, Scott R. Winter, Stephen Rice, Mattie Milner, William B. Coyne, Martin Lauth, Clyde Rinkinen Jul 2017

A Conceptual Model For A Universal Severity Of Emergency Report (User): An Example In Aviation, Scott R. Winter, Stephen Rice, Mattie Milner, William B. Coyne, Martin Lauth, Clyde Rinkinen

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

In emergency situations, it is important that information be communicated quickly, concisely, and efficiently. Breakdowns can occur when the receiver of the emergency call does not fully understand the information that the person is sending. The purpose of this paper is to present a new model for enhancing communication between the sender and receiver in emergency situations. The Universal Severity of Emergency Report (USER) is a model designed to be used in emergency situations and convey more information about the current state of the person declaring the emergency than is currently offered by emergency communication channels. USER provides three key …

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Giving English Language Learners A Paddle: Idiom Usage In Two Undergraduate Texts, Michael John Heine Jul 2017

Giving English Language Learners A Paddle: Idiom Usage In Two Undergraduate Texts, Michael John Heine

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The purpose of this project was to answer the research question of: What types of idioms are common in two undergraduate texts and how often do they occur? Idiom definition and type were first explored based on several different factors. A text analysis was used in order to identify the frequency and typology of idiom occurrence within two undergraduate texts. The identified idioms’ were looked at for non-compositionality, and they were then categorized based on their level of transparency. The findings reinforced the idea that idiom instruction should be informed by corpus-based lists created from authentic language. The findings also …

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Teaching Animal Ethics In Culturally Diverse Settings, Julie Knopp Jul 2017

Teaching Animal Ethics In Culturally Diverse Settings, Julie Knopp

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

This project explores the research question “How can we teach compassion for animals in a culturally responsive manner?” The premise stems from the contrast of the narrow range of values taught in public schools and the growing cultural diversity of our students. Literature in moral development theory, culturally responsive pedagogy, and humane education suggested that the most effective values education invites students to think critically. By providing information, modeling, and supports for ethical decision-making, students develop a greater sense of moral integrity, while simultaneously developing essential academic skills. The result of this project is a unit promoting critical thinking about …

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Creating An At-Home Learning Tool For Chinese Language Immersion Students, Xuanyao Polga Jul 2017

Creating An At-Home Learning Tool For Chinese Language Immersion Students, Xuanyao Polga

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The research question addressed in this capstone was, why it is important to provide an at-home learning tool for parents to help their child improve their Chinese language learning by connecting in-school learning with at-home reviewing materials. It will show that an online language learning website is a wonderful solution to this question. When parents set up an at-home routine for their child, it is easy for their child to transition the routine concept from home to school smoothly. The capstone project informed the creation of the language learning website. An at-home language learning website will be a transitional tool …

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Increasing English As A Second Language Teacher Retention, Sarah Tupy Jul 2017

Increasing English As A Second Language Teacher Retention, Sarah Tupy

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

With the increasing number of English Learners entering schools across the nation, there is an increased need for high-quality English as a Second Language teachers. (Watlington, Shockley, Guglielmino, and Felsher, 2010) School districts spend time and money to hire and recruit high-quality teachers. Many teachers in various districts face an overwhelming workload. Due to the overwhelming workload, many teachers leave the profession. Districts are faced with increased costs to recruit and hire quality teachers. (Brill and McCartney, 2008; Cha and Cohen Vogel, 2011; Sharplin, O’Neill and Chapman, 2011) Students’ education is compromised when the turnover rate is high. (Kraft, Marinell, …

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Pedagogy-Minded Use Of Web-Based Technology In The Classroom, Jeff Mcgie Jul 2017

Pedagogy-Minded Use Of Web-Based Technology In The Classroom, Jeff Mcgie

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The research question addressed in this project was: How can teachers use web-based technology in the curriculum to increase student engagement and enrich learning? It documents a teacher’s creation of a technology-infused curriculum that uses valid research and pedagogically-minded practices as its foundation. In addition to the curriculum, the author created a web technology toolbox that assists teachers in effectively and strategically implementing the technology into their classroom. The author describes the project’s challenges as well as the implications for students and teachers. He concludes that: 1) technology enhances learning only when used in alignment with pedagogy and instructional strategies; …

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How Can An Effective Parent Outreach Program Impact Literacy Achievement And Foster A Community Network At An Urban Charter School?, Anne C. Weisheipl Jul 2017

How Can An Effective Parent Outreach Program Impact Literacy Achievement And Foster A Community Network At An Urban Charter School?, Anne C. Weisheipl

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

This capstone identifies the process of creating a family literacy program to support literacy growth. The research question addressed in this project was, How can an effective parent outreach program impact literacy achievement and foster a community network at an urban charter school? It documents a teacher's creation of a family literacy program that builds literacy communities through school-home partnerships and literacy activities. The author documents the process of creating a family literacy program following researched methods that validate the creation of the curriculum. The results of the research help focus the capstone on two very important aspects of school-home …

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How Can Primary Teachers Use Technology, Primarily Ipads, To Differentiate Language Arts Instruction And Increase Comprehension, Ellen Isaacs Jul 2017

How Can Primary Teachers Use Technology, Primarily Ipads, To Differentiate Language Arts Instruction And Increase Comprehension, Ellen Isaacs

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

This project answers the question: how can primary teachers use technology, primarily iPads, to differentiate language arts instruction and increase comprehension? This paper reviews technology resources that can be used in elementary classrooms, focusing on kindergarten, first, and second grades. These resources are analyzed using the SAMR model (Puentedura, 2014), The App Map (Israelson, 2015), and the dimensions of participatory literacy (Roswell & Wohlwend, 2016). A website was created to culminate the findings based off of research, student artifacts, and visuals from the digital resources

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How Does The Use Of Adult-Child Conversations Affect The Oral Language Development Of Pre-K Students, Beth Bugarin Jul 2017

How Does The Use Of Adult-Child Conversations Affect The Oral Language Development Of Pre-K Students, Beth Bugarin

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The purpose of this Capstone project is to discover how adult-child conversations affect preschoolers’ oral language development. The project consists of a literature review and the creation of a website. Research shows that oral language development in early childhood is related to social-emotional development and later success in literacy (Cohen, 2005; Lonigan & Shanahan, 2009; NAEYC, 2009; Hartas, D., 2012). Children’s oral language development is influenced by teachers’ emotional, instructional, and organizational support, including, language modeling and feedback, and the closeness of teacher-student relationships. Adult-child conversations can support these evidence-based practices. The findings from the literature review signify that, through …

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Leveraging Technology To Impact Reading Achievement Of Early Elementary Students, Sarah Lidstrand Wall Jul 2017

Leveraging Technology To Impact Reading Achievement Of Early Elementary Students, Sarah Lidstrand Wall

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The adoption of technology in the classroom has dramatically changed the way in which teachers teach and students learn. Technology is constantly evolving, creating a sense of urgency to examine the most effective methods to successfully integrate technology into classrooms. The research question addressed in this project was: how can teachers leverage technology to impact reading achievement of early elementary students? The review of literature investigated early literacy skills, proficient readers, reading in the digital age, iPads, technology in the classroom and technology integration models. It was evident that technology alone will not increase student achievement. Wood and Joicus (2014) …

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Curriculum For Teaching Relative Constructions To Somali-Speaking Learners Of English, Kelly M. Rynda Jul 2017

Curriculum For Teaching Relative Constructions To Somali-Speaking Learners Of English, Kelly M. Rynda

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The research question addressed in this project was, how do relative constructions in Somali compare to relative constructions in English, what difficulties do Englishlanguage learners have acquiring relatives, and what teaching strategies are most appropriate for these learners? It documents one teacher’s creation of a unit focused entirely around the acquisition of relative constructions, using strategies that have been identified as most effective, such as learning subject relatives and object relatives in sequence and utilizing repeated timed reading. The author provides lesson plans and activities that align with the best practices outlined in the research, with particular consideration given to …

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The Impact Of Trauma And Refugees: Resources For Educators, Deanna Taylor Jul 2017

The Impact Of Trauma And Refugees: Resources For Educators, Deanna Taylor

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The research question addressed in this project was, how can professional development be provided to assist educators in working with refugees and immigrants who have experienced trauma? Hos, 2016; DeCapula, et al, 2011 concur that the number of refugees with trauma is on the rise throughout the world. Research by Hurley, et al, 2014 explains that previous research indicates that teachers have limited experience in working with refugees and trauma; there is a lack of training to support these students. My method of study was on the work on adult learning by Malcolm Knowles (2005). His work assisted me in …

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Making The Transition: Moving From A Pull-Out Model For El Instruction To A Co-Teaching Models, Alyssa Kae Anderson Jul 2017

Making The Transition: Moving From A Pull-Out Model For El Instruction To A Co-Teaching Models, Alyssa Kae Anderson

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

Many schools are transitioning from the pull-out model for English Learner (EL) instruction to the co-teaching model, and many factors are likely to impact the smoothness of this transition. As a result, the author’s research questions were: Is the coteaching model for EL instruction truly more effective than the pull-out model? If so, how can elementary schools effectively transition from the pull-out model to the co-teaching model? An examination of the existing literature demonstrates that very little research has been conducted comparing the effectiveness of the pull-out and co-teaching models. However, research does provide a number of components that must …

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Creating A Social Studies Curriculum For Second Grade, Julie A. Cronin Jul 2017

Creating A Social Studies Curriculum For Second Grade, Julie A. Cronin

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The research question discussed in this project was: how can an unbiased social studies curriculum for second grade be developed that is aligned with the MN State Social Studies Standards? It chronicles one educator’s creation of a social studies curriculum unit plan based on citizen and government as its area of focus. It is aligned with the MN State Standards for Social Studies for Second Grade. The author cites the details of the unit and uses research that is pertinent to the creation and development of the unit. This unit includes a scope and sequence, and includes a variety of …

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Teaching Writing To English Learners: Professional Development For Content Teachers By Ell Teachers, Elizabeth D. Gillaspey Jul 2017

Teaching Writing To English Learners: Professional Development For Content Teachers By Ell Teachers, Elizabeth D. Gillaspey

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects

The research question for this project was: what is the best format and content for a professional development class designed to help middle school content teachers improve their skill-set for teaching ELL writing? After presenting literature on different types of professional development as well as best practices for teaching ELL writing, a modified version of train-thetrainer was used to develop four professional development sessions. The sessions were designed to be presented in a school by that school's ELL teachers and they each have a separate focus: background information, pre-writing strategies, during writing strategies, and post-writing strategies. The project contains slides …

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