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September 13, 2018, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern’s Master of Health Administration named one of most affordable degrees

• Georgia Southern alumna nominated for Country Music Association award

• Georgia Southern hosts Interdisciplinary Academic Building ribbon-cutting on Statesboro Campus

The Ticker, September 12, 2018

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Teaching Literature To Develop Young Learners’ Basic Language Skills And Language Area, A.E Alieva

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

The article describes literature as a means to teach EFL students’ communicative skills. A series of literature-based activities are presented to teach students’ basic language skills and language areas as a foundation for communication. Great attention is focused on the use of authentic materials related to the age of the students.

Analyzing The Cultural Critical Discourse Of Adolescent Authentic Discussions Using Online Booktalks, Christina Cereghini

Theses and Dissertations

This mixed methods study investigates the effect of cultural and sociolinguistic textures of talk on authentic discussion patterns and whether reading comprehension and inferencing are affected in an online booktalk environment with adolescents. The research will also investigate the contextual features of the classroom community to be studied to help determine the specific sociocultural norms established in that classroom. The unique conditions of the setting in which today’s adolescents function, such as amplified access to digital technologies, the evolving status of socialization, the express shift of physical and emotional factors, and the collective influence of prior experiences with reading, call …

The Influence Of Teacher Decision-Making On The Literacy Gains Of Elementary Students With Characteristics Of Dyslexia, Natalee Mcgill

Theses and Dissertations

This descriptive case study approach with multiple cases and an interrupted time-series design used quantitative and qualitative data to answer two research questions: 1) What changes occur over time in the problem-solving strategies, text-reading accuracy, and phonological knowledge of struggling readers in response to targeted instruction in an innovative dyslexia intervention? 2) How do teachers engage in a collaborative, decision-making process to monitor student learning and adjust scaffolding procedures for struggling readers who are participating in an innovative dyslexia intervention? The quantitative data analysis examined the literacy gains for eight elementary students with characteristics of dyslexia who had participated in …

An Eye Tracking Study: Composition Teachers’ Assessment Of Native And Non-Native, Rachel Casper, Grant Eckstein

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Applied linguists are interested in the cognitive processes of writing teachers within the subfields of both second language writing and writing assessment. Such cognitive insights as how a teacher reads and scores a piece of non-native English speaker (L2) writing can have an impact on the way in which second languages are taught and assessed in writing classrooms. This is particularly relevant as increasing numbers of L2 students matriculate into composition courses traditionally designed for native-English speakers.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• STUDENT TAKES TWO-STORY DROP
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Are We Doing More Than We Know? Possible Mechanisms Of Response To Music Therapy, Amy Clements-Cortés, Lee Bartel

Music Faculty Publications

Due to advances in medical knowledge the population of older adults struggling with issues of aging like Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and stroke is growing. There is a need for therapeutic interventions to provide adaptive strategies to sustain quality of life, decrease neurologic impairment, and maintain or slow cognitive decline and function due to degenerative neurologic diseases. Musical interventions with adults with cognitive impairments have received increased attention over the past few years, such as the value of personalized music listening in the iPod project for AD; music as a tool to decrease agitation and anxiety in dementia; …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern included in EDsmart’s list of 30 Most Affordable Online Master’s Programs

• Georgia Southern and Hinesville Development Authority to build business incubator, funded by $1.5 million in grants

• New administrator appointments in Georgia Southern’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

• Georgia Southern University celebrates Latino Heritage Month

From Affirmative Action To Anti-Colonialism: Stalin And The Prehistory Of Post-Colonialism, Roland Boer

Culture, Society, and Praxis

This article argues that a significant, albeit forgotten piece of the history of post-colonialism concerns none other than Joseph Stalin. The study begins by picking up on the insight, from Christina Petterson, that the abolition of the ‘second world’ (the socialist world) was a precondition for the arrival of postcolonial theory, which tellingly came into its own only after 1989. The next step is to investigate the thought and practice of Stalin in the Soviet Union, for he was the architect of what has been called the world’s first and most comprehensive affirmative action program, especially in relation to nationalities, …

Film, Arts And Culture As Community Outreach Tools: Perspectives From Singapore, Victor Yu

Culture, Society, and Praxis

This article focuses on the Singapore’s government using the film and arts both as an economic as well as a community outreach tool. It argues that the evolution of the state arts policy is a function of the economic policy. Its “Creative City” approach is both economically-driven as well as arts-centered. At the same time, policy makers have introduced many strategies to build a vibrant film and arts sector to make the arts more accessible to the community. Cinemas and arts institutions also are seeking ways to increase the public’s access and exposure to their activities.

Bible As Notepad. Tracing Annotations And Annotation Practices In Late Antique And Medieval Biblical Manuscripts, Liv Ingeborg Lied, Marilena Maniaci, Jeff Childers

Graduate School of Theology

The present volume provides a comparative look at the contents and layout features of secondary annotations in biblical manuscripts across linguistic traditions. Due to the privileged focus on the text in the columns, these annotations and the practices that produced them have not received the scholarly attention they deserve. The vast richness of extant verbal and figurative notes accompanying the biblical texts in the intercolumns and margins of the manuscript pages have thus been largely overlooked. The case studies gathered in this volume explore Jewish and Christian biblical manuscripts through the lens of their annotations, addressing the various relationships between …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 10, 2018), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

How To Begin, Danielle M. Pillet-Shore

Communication

This article introduces the special issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction organized around the theme “Opening and Maintaining Face-to-Face Interaction.” The contributions to this special issue collectively consider “how to begin”—either a new encounter or a new sequence after a lapse in conversation. All articles analyze naturally occurring, video-recorded episodes of casual and/or institutional copresent interaction using multimodal conversation analytic methods. Though the opening phase of a face-to-face encounter may elapse in a matter of seconds, this article shows it to house a dense universe of phenomena central to sustaining our human sense of self and our social …

Bell And Moran Talk A Load Of Tripe In Italy, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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This Week In The College Of Arts & Humanities At Georgia Southern University, Georgia Southern University

This Week in CAH

• 2018 Faculty Exhibition
• Ovation
• International Exhibition: Fwala Jutunek (Light of the Sun)
• Department of Writing & Linguistics Meet and Greet
• Faculty Lecture Series: "Marilyn Monroe, Murderess" with Dr. Amanda Konkle
• Latin American Myths & Legends in Historical Perspective
• Constitution Day
• American Islamophobia: Understanding the roots and rise of fear

Crow's Nest, September 10, 2018, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 10, 2018, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Blair Mcelroy Named Senior International Officer At Um, Shea Stewart

University of Mississippi News

Ole Miss alumna brings global perspective, experiences to role

This Week In The College Of Arts & Humanities At Georgia Southern University, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

• 2018 Faculty Exhibition
• Ovation
• International Exhibition: Fwala Jutunek (Light of the Sun)
• Department of Writing & Linguistics Meet and Greet
• Faculty Lecture Series: "Marilyn Monroe, Murderess" with Dr. Amanda Konkle
• Latin American Myths & Legends in Historical Perspective
• Constitution Day
• American Islamophobia: Understanding the roots and rise of fear

College Of Education News, College Of Education, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• COE welcomes new faculty and staff for 2018-19

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Poet James Longenbach to visit Armstrong campus on October 4

Portuguese And German Repertoires Perceived By Portuguese Speaking Children In Germany: A Tale Of Two Continua, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Alexandra Fidalgo Schmidt

Journal of Multilingual Education Research

After a theoretical overview of the concept of heritage language (HL) from a plurilingual perspective, we will describe the project “Images on the (teaching of) Portuguese Language abroad”. For this project, several drawings were collected, produced by lusodescendant children living in Germany and attending supplementary Portuguese lessons. We will analyze four tendencies of students’ representations towards Portuguese and German, as well as towards the skills they have developed in those languages. These representations illustrate four profiles of Portuguese Heritage Language (PHL) learners present in the classroom (in terms of motivations, skills, linguistic repertoires, etc.). As conclusions, we will point at: …

Investigating Efl Classroom Management In Pesantren: A Case Study, Akhmad Habibi, Amirul Mukminin, Johni Najwan, Septu Haswindy, Lenny Marzulina, Muhammad Sirozi, Kasinyo Harto, Muhammad Sofwan

The Qualitative Report

Classroom management (CM) is one of the most important issues in education and this research was aimed at understanding the classroom management problems and the coping strategies of Indonesian Islamic Boarding schools’ [hereinafter-termed pesantren] with the uniqueness of their system from the perspectives of the English teachers. Specifically, the purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom management (CM) problems and the coping strategies of Indonesian Islamic boarding schools’ teachers. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions (FGD), and observation with eight English teachers working in the three pesantren. …

Open Access At Mit And Beyond: A White Paper Of The Mit Ad Hoc Task Force On Open Access To Mit’S Research, Katharine Dunn, Hal Abelson, Chris Bourg, Ellen Finnie

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

MIT researchers, students, and staff have long valued and put into action MIT’s mission to generate and disseminate knowledge by openly and freely sharing research and educational materials. Indeed, the Institute has been at the forefront of the sharing culture: MIT launched OpenCourseWare (OCW), a free webbased publication of virtually all MIT course content in 2001; in 2002 released DSpace, an open-source platform for managing research materials and publications co-created by MIT Libraries staff; and adopted the first campus-wide faculty open access (OA) policy in the US in 2009.

Convening an open access task force was one of the 10 …

We Should Persuade Iran With Bargains Not Bombs, Theodore Adam Harris

Culture, Society, and Praxis

Iran’s defiance of the IAEA has raised questions about Tehran’s desire to build nuclear weapons and this in turn has put that country squarely into the cross-hairs of the hawks in Washington. This case study reflects my search to answer a logical question stemming from the current backdrop; should we bomb Iran in order to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons? I am a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran from the first gulf war where I acted as an Iranian linguist signals intelligence and crypto-logic technician. It is impossible for me not to be passionate about our policies in the …

Establishing Enemy Combatant As Political Rhetoric: How The Bush Administration Has Framed The Conversation On Wartime Prisoners, Paul R. Alexander

Culture, Society, and Praxis

The White House administration of George W. Bush faced a crisis when an attack was committed on United States territory in September of 2001. As a result, the administration has initiated a "War on Terror" in which they have disregarded the Geneva Conventions and placed a huge amount of authority in the role of the president in determining who is classified as an "enemy combatant." This paper specifically addresses the use of the term "enemy combatant" as a rhetorical device which the administration has used to make a moral statement about prisoners of war. Using George Lakoff's concept of frames, …

Teacher Perceptions Of A Culture Of Thinking, Gary G. Andersen Ph.D.

Advanced Education Programs Faculty Publications

Building classroom and school cultures of thinking is one of the fundamental and critical purposes of education. This study is an exploratory effort to obtain a clearer picture of teachers’ perceptions about eight components of a culture of thinking within their own classroom. The instrument used is a quantitative survey developed by Ritchhart (2015) that examines eight forces of cultures of thinking (expectations, language, modeling, time, opportunities, routines, physical environment and interactions). The survey results provide useful information about potential target areas for those seeking to deepen cultures of thinking in educational settings

Vol. 21 (Full)

Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges

No abstract provided.

Design Patterns As A Collaborative Entity Within The Smart Environment, Aitor Arribas Velasco, John Mcgrory, Damon Berry

Conference papers

Modern technology is increasingly being employed to create a “smart” living experience. These “smart” technology entities are producing copious of amounts data, which in turn rely on increased storage, distribution and computation needs to manage the data. Depending on the scenario, the diversity of piecemeal solutions almost mirrors the numbers of problems posed. Some successful solutions touted as being “smart” for example: save energy, or to support in assisted living, have been created, but the true underlying pattern of interactivity has not been identified. In the field of computing, patterns can provide a general, reusable solution to commonly repeatable occurring …