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Improving The Oral Communication Skills Of Undergraduate Nursing Students With Language Support: A 6-Month Follow-Up, Lucie M. Ramjan, Paul J. Glew, Bronwyn Everett, Joel M. Woodmass, Joan Lynch, Yenna Salamonson

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This study examined the relationship between students' use of academic literacy support and oral communication performance as measured by a Coherence, Lexical, Grammatical, Pronunciation (CLIP) index. The CLIP index tool can be used to track students' oral language skill needs over the course of their study.

The Relation-Theory Of Mental Acts: Durand Of St.-Pourcain On The Ontological Status Of Mental Acts, Peter Hartman

Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It publishes new work by leading scholars in the field, and combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness. The papers will address a wide range of topics, from political philosophy to ethics, and logic to metaphysics. OSMP is an essential resource for anyone working in the area.

The Language Of Repentance In The Book Of Mormon, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Efforts to understand the doctrine of repentance in the Book of Mormon have long been hampered by linguistic considerations—and especially the traditional translation provided in the King James Version of the Bible. Twentieth century studies provide a needed correction to this situation and open a wealth of potential new understandings of Book of Mormon discourse on repentance. Further, the discovery that the Book of Mormon uses the common biblical figure of speech of hendiadys repeatedly to expand and enrich the concept of repentance beyond biblical usage helps readers appreciate the ways in which repentance can be seen as the most …

Should An Effective Language Learning Be Through The Development Of Just One Language Skill?, Victor Daniel Gil Vera Vdgv, Bairon Jaramillo Valencia, Nancy Biviana Cardona, María Alejandra Cifuentes, Shirley Alejandra Jimenez, Laura Marcela Martínez

The Qualitative Report

This paper is intended to identify how teachers’ emphasis on writing influence the learning process in an English class, taking into account that the development of the four language skills is essential for learning a second language to gain an effective communication. this study adopts some main concepts related to English teaching and learning, which are: language skills, writing and learning process. Then, in order to recognize this educational case, this study follows a qualitative approach, a hermeneutic paradigm and a case study, using a non-participant observation, a participant observation, a semi-structured interview and some task-based learning (TBL) sessions which …

The Goodness Of God And His Children As A Fundamental Theological Concept In The Book Of Mormon, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

The phrase goodness of God does occur occasionally in the Hebrew Bible, but has not been considered by Old Testament scholars to be an independent principle in Israelite theology. Rather, it has been interpreted as just another way of talking about God’s acts of hesed or loving kindness for his covenant people and is usually interpreted in the context of the covenants Israel received through Abraham and Moses. The Book of Mormon clearly echoes that Old Testament pattern, but also presents two additional conceptual frameworks that are explained in terms of the goodness of God. It advances an explicit …

Faith And Faithfulness In The Book Of Mormon, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

The concept of covenantal faithfulness toward Yahweh that Old Testament scholars have recognized and defined over the last century turns out to be a far better account of the Book of Mormon understanding of faith in the Lord, in Jesus Christ, than are any of the competing concepts of faith that have grown out of the Christian tradition over the last two millennia. For the Nephite prophets, faith was an active concept, better understood as faithfulness—as diligent obedience to the commandments the Lord has given to those who have accepted the gospel covenant through repentance and baptism. The divine …

A Practical Application Of Analytic Guiding Frame (Agf) And Overall Guiding Frame (Ogf): An Illustration From Literacy Education, Su Li Chong

The Qualitative Report

This paper illustrates how the Analytic Guiding Frame (AGF) and the Overall Guiding Frame (OGF) are applied when analytic shifts occur in qualitative data analysis. Analytic shifts mainly occur when a proposed analytical method is found to be not fully amenable for analysis because of the contextually-bound nature of qualitative data. In this paper, the illustration located in the field of literacy education revolves around how a methodological and analytical problem was confronted during the fieldwork/analysis stage of research and how analytic negotiations were made with the help of the AGF/OGF framework. From here, it is proposed that much more …

Covenant Language In Biblical Religions And The Book Of Mormon, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

In this essay I have tried to provide a broad survey of the concept of covenant for Latter-day Saint students of the Bible and the Book of Mormon. I began with a sketch of the history of covenant theology in the Christian tradition showing how the early New Testament idea of a baptismal covenant was soon replaced by the Christian institution of sacraments. Although the covenant idea played little role in the historical developments of Christian theology, it did resurge in the Reformation, but without widespread theological impact.

In contrast, over the last century, the role of the covenant idea …

Linking Library Resources To The Web Through Linked Data, Sankha Subhra Das, Arpita Roy Chowdhury

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The concept of linked Data and Semantic Web have been gaining importance to revolutionise the world of the internet. The idea behind Linked Data can be used to create a huge database of the Internet interlinked by relationships that will be easily understood by machines as well as humans. We tried to compare some libraries that have published their content via linked open data. The advantages and disadvantages have also been highlighted. libraries should benefit by adopting linked Data but there are many challenges that will come up in its implementation. The BIBFRAME Initiative is a possible framework that will …

Silently Struggling In A New World: Exploring English Language Learners With Language Disabilities

Symposium of Student Scholars

With the awareness that Spanish speaking households compose a significant number of students in English language learning (ELL) programs, this researcher will be illuminating areas of academic ambiguity where language learning overshadows learning disabilities in the United States— a country with no official language. This phenomenon will be thoroughly examined using textual methodologies such as secondary analysis, theoretical study, and an extended literature review to describe how these correlations negatively impact students with English as a secondary way of expression. By emphasizing this gap within academia, it is the hope of the author that additional teacher-created resources will be readily …

Characterizing The Influences Of Cultural Mindset And Linguistic Context On Responses To Pain In Spanish-English Bilinguals, Morgan D. M. Gianola

Open Access Theses

Language and culture are integrally linked aspects of human experience known to influence bilingual individuals’ cognition across contexts. Pain, a subjective sensation shaped by social and cognitive forces, represents an ideal system for testing the impacts of language and cultural mindset on perception. In this Master’s thesis, I sought to disentangle the relative contributions of language and cultural context to pain perception among Spanish-English bilinguals. Bilingual participants experienced multiple types of painful thermal stimulations both before and after language-congruent cultural priming, on separate English and Spanish testing days. Different pain self-report ratings were sensitive to either language or cultural context …

Speaker Biographies, Sienna Craig, John Kopper

Women on the Faculty: A Dartmouth Centennial

This document contains the biographies of all of the event speakers.

Oh No! Oh Know! Early-Career Deaf Educators Negotiating Knowledge & Experience In Student-Teaching Mentorship Panel Discussion, Michael E. Skyer

Presentations and other scholarship

Recent survey data show that student-teaching is a transformative and pivotal component of teacher- preparation for deaf educators. During student teaching, deaf educators-in training face complex problems and interdependent issues that they must confront, including the transference of theoretical knowledge gained in coursework into concrete teaching praxis. Likewise, new teachers of deaf students must learn how negotiate themselves as legitimate knowers (and erstwhile, learners) within an established deaf educational system or context. This presentation will take the form of a panel composed of several early-career deaf educators from diverse background. The discussion will be led by Michael E. Skyer, Senior …

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

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

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The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

National Climate-Mitigation Policy: The Spatial Framing Of (In)Justice Claims, Ian Bailey

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

One-Legged Contracting, Ian Ayres, Gregory Klass

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This response to Robin Bradley Kar & Margaret Jane Radin, Pseudo-Contract and Shared Meaning Analysis, 132 Harv. L. Rev. 1135 (2019), makes three broad points. It criticizes as arbitrary and essentializing Kar and Radin’s insistence of shared meaning as the core of contracting. It argues that even if shared meaning were the sine qua non of contracting, their proposal fails to achieve it because it does not assure that the terms would be cooperatively communicated. And it argues that their proposed enforcement standard would in practice severely limit freedom of contract and likely reduce consumer welfare. There is a …

Contractual Communication, Lawrence B. Solum

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this Response, I will investigate the foundations of both shared and unshared meaning in legal communication. Part I takes a step back from contractual communication and offers a preliminary sketch of a general model of legal communication; the sketch draws on speech act theory and the work of Paul Grice, extending and modifying many of the insights developed by Kar and Radin. Part II turns to contractual communication, differentiating distinct “situations of contractual communication” and interrogating Kar and Radin’s Shared Meaning Analysis. Part III interrogates Kar and Radin’s distinction between “contract” and “pseudo-contract.” The conclusion of the Response briefly …

Academic Leadership Development: The Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy (Enfla) Cohort Iii Outcomes, Carol J. Huston, Julie B. Meaux, Laly Joseph, Abigail S. Rea, Catherine Wilson Cox, Debra M. Stark, Gayle J. Kipnis, Lisa S. Lewis, Michael Joseph S. Dino, Michelle M. Kelly

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This session provides an opportunity for the nine 2018/2019 Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy Scholars (3rd cohort) to present outcomes related to their leadership development. Additional information about applying for future leadership development academies will be made available to attendees.

On The Focusing Function Of The Japanese X Toka Construction, Motomi Kajitani

Shared Knowledge Conference

The X toka construction in Japanese is known for the various functions it expresses (cf. Taylor 2010). Some of the well-cited functions include exemplification ('for example, X, etc.') (Teramura 1991), defocusing ('X or something like that') (Barotto 2018), and focusing ('such a thing as X') (Amano 2001). Compared to the first two functions, the focusing function is puzzling: What exactly does "focusing" involve? What are the relationships between the focusing function and other less commonly illustrated functions of the construction, such as exclamative ('X!'), self-mockery ('X, hehe, I'm just kidding') (Suzuki 2001), and topic-marking ('talking about X...') (Nakamata 2007)? How …

Variable Use Of Mucho And Muncho In Traditional New Mexican Spanish, Mark Cisneros

Shared Knowledge Conference

Archaisms like muncho, vide, and truje are often retained for longer periods of time in remote, isolated varieties, are associated with uneducated speakers, and considered non-standard forms (Wilson 2015; Bills & Vigil 2008). As these isolated varieties experience increased contact with mainstream varieties, archaisms tend to be replaced by modern forms. Nevertheless, before they disappear, archaisms coexist alongside their modern counterparts, resulting in a period of linguistic variation. This study investigates the use of muncho and its modern counterpart mucho in Traditional New Mexican Spanish (TNMS). Examples (1) and (2) are instances of archaic forms of mucho produced in TNMS: …

Reader Response Theory: Students’ Encounter And Challenges With E- Literature, Ma. Junithesmer D. Rosales, John Paolo Sarce

English Faculty Publications

This paper investigated the overall experience of learners with e-literature (e-lit). E-lit as a new form of economy in the field of literature and humanities prompted authors and scholars to create newborn sites of learning — videograph fiction, kinetic poetry, text tula (hyperpoem), and hyperfiction. Thus, the digitization of resource materials in literature led the researchers to investigate the outer circle of some of these new born sites by focusing on the following: readers and their experiences on understanding and learning through e-lit; textual which is concerned with performance and complexities of using this new form of literature; and cultural …

Using Customer Service Dialogues For Satisfaction Analysis With Context-Assisted Multiple Instance Learning, Kaisong Song, Lidong Bing, Wei Gao, Jun Lin, Lujun Zhao, Jiancheng Wang, Changlong Sun, Xiaozhong Liu, Qiong Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Customers ask questions and customer service staffs answer their questions, which is the basic service model via multi-turn customer service (CS) dialogues on E-commerce platforms. Existing studies fail to provide comprehensive service satisfaction analysis, namely satisfaction polarity classification (e.g., well satisfied, met and unsatisfied) and sentimental utterance identification (e.g., positive, neutral and negative). In this paper, we conduct a pilot study on the task of service satisfaction analysis (SSA) based on multi-turn CS dialogues. We propose an extensible Context-Assisted Multiple Instance Learning (CAMIL) model to predict the sentiments of all the customer utterances and then aggregate those sentiments into service …

Influence Of International Service Learning On Cultural Competence, Tracey Long

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Knowing how best to teach nurses to become culturally competent is an important topic. This study examined the influence of international service learning on nursing students and nurses & its impact towards developing cultural competence. Does traveling and serving in another country really help nurses become more culturally competent?

The George-Anne Inkwell Edition, Georgia Southern University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Multilingual Tutors' Experiences And Practices In Online Sessions, Petra Jurova

All HCAS Student Capstones, Theses, and Dissertations

This thesis explores multilingual tutors’ diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and examines how those elements affect their tutoring practices in online sessions. While previous scholarship has examined multilingual student experiences, direct experiences of online multilingual tutors are relatively unexplored. For this study, four tutors were interviewed. The interviews revealed that tutors perceive their multilingualism as a strength in how they relate to multilingual students and their writing while also experiencing challenges related to assumptions made about their linguistic abilities. In online sessions, clarity and purposeful communication is key and multilingual tutors communicate clearly, often code-switching, which enhances understanding, efficiency, and …

Aspect And Opinion Aware Abstractive Review Summarization With Reinforced Hard Typed Decoder, Yufei Tian, Jianfei Yu, Jing Jiang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we study abstractive review summarization. Observing that review summaries often consist of aspect words, opinion words and context words, we propose a two-stage reinforcement learning approach, which first predicts the output word type from the three types, and then leverages the predicted word type to generate the final word distribution. Experimental results on two Amazon product review datasets demonstrate that our method can consistently outperform several strong baseline approaches based on ROUGE scores.

Personality Prediction Through Curriculam Vitae Analysis Involving Password Encryption And Prediction Analysis, Gagandeep Kaur, Shruti Maheshwari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A recruitment process requires an eligibility check, an aptitude evaluation and a psychometric analysis of prospective candidates. The work puts forward an application where the system allows employers to post new job offerings and registered candidates can apply. The application estimates applicant’s emotional aptitude through a psychometric analysis based on a test whereas the professional standard is verified via a technical aptitude test. OCEAN Model is used to assess emotional quotient and predict the personality traits. Machine learning techniques such as Logistic Regression are used for modelling the personality predictor. The details of the candidates are kept secure by using …

Refugees' Perceptions Of Primary Care: What Makes A Good Doctor's Visit?, Anne Mutitu, Bev Zabler, Jeana M. Holt

Patient Experience Journal

Redesigning primary care is a national priority, as the United States (US) struggles with issues of poor access, high cost, and suboptimal quality. Refugees are among the populations who suffer from America’s disjointed health care system, resulting in disproportionate health disparities. Although there are many studies on refugee health, few share refugees' perceptions of primary care. We asked local refugees who were seen for primary care services at a midwestern academic nurse-led clinic, what makes a good doctor's visit?  The clinic served as the hub of a federally funded refugee Community Centered Health Home (CCHH) pilot project. This qualitative study …