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Experiences Of African American Teachers In Desegregated Pk–12 Schools: A Systematic Literature Review, Yonghee Suh, Brian J. Daugherity, Jihea Maddamsetti, Angela Branyon

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

This literature review reports findings from 19 empirical studies on the experiences of African American teachers in PK–12 desegregated schools. The research questions were: What do we know about the experiences of African American teachers in desegregated PK–12 schools? What are the challenges African American teachers experience in desegregated PK–12 schools? In response to these questions, the article first discusses school desegregation after the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its impact on African American teachers as a historical backdrop. Findings from 19 studies were analyzed through grounded theory. Two core themes were identified from our findings: persistent structural …

Usando Fondos De Conocimiento Comunitario Y Derechos BáSicos De Aprendizaje Para Escribir Problemas Verbales, Ricela Feliciano-Semidei, Mariana Alvayero Ricklefs, Yolima A. Rocha Fontalvo, Kevin A. Palencia Infante, Raúl A. Beltrán Hoyos

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

En este estudio se analiza el uso de fondos de conocimiento comunitario (FCC) y los Derechos Básicos de Aprendizaje (DBA) de Matemáticas utilizados en la escritura de problemas verbales por estudiantes del Programa de Licenciatura en Matemáticas de una universidad de la región Caribe colombiana en una sede en el área rural. Los datos colectados en este estudio de caso consisten en un reporte que explica las maneras en las que se percibe la matemática en las actividades de la vida diaria en su comunidad. Así mismo, los participantes escribieron un problema verbal relacionado con su entorno. Los datos fueron …

The Influence Of Language Context On Repetitive Speech Use In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Allison Gladfelter, Cassidy Vanzuiden

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Purpose

Although repetitive speech is a hallmark characteristic of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the contributing factors that influence repetitive speech use remain unknown. The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine if the language context impacts the amount and type of repetitive speech produced by children with ASD.

Method

As part of a broader word-learning study, 11 school-age children with ASD participated in two different language contexts: storytelling and play. Previously collected language samples were transcribed and coded for four types of repetitive speech: immediate echolalia, delayed echolalia, verbal stereotypy, and vocal stereotypy. The rates and proportions of repetitive …

O'Kei: An American Novel, Boris Pilnyak, Ronald D. Leblanc (Translator)

Faculty Publications

On January 4, 1931, Boris Pilnyak (1894-1938) wrote a letter to Joseph Stalin, pleading with the Soviet leader to grant him permission to travel to the United States in order to conduct research for an ambitious book project he was undertaking that would compare communist Russia favorably to capitalist America. Pilnyak’s request received official approval, and a few months later the writer set off for the U.S., arriving in New York by steamer on March 12, 1931, and remaining in the country until August 3, 1931. During his nearly five-month stay in America, Pilnyak became acquainted with a number of …

The Language Flagship Program And Multilingualism In Overseas Language Immersion, Samuel Eisen

Russian Language Journal

The relocation of the overseas Arabic and Russian Language Flagship programs to Morocco and Kazakhstan created challenges and also opportunities for advanced students of Arabic and Russian to develop greater intercultural understanding as they negotiate the cultural underpinnings of these multilingual environments. These students will bring in more nuanced understanding of complex international environments as they move into positions in government or other international fields. The Language Flagship program is designed to meet the need for professional language proficiency and intercultural skill in federal service. In both Morocco and Kazakhstan, the local language is undergoing revitalization while the post-colonial language …

Emerging Trends In The Study Of Russian In The Us: K-16 Enrollments 2007 To 2016, Dan E. Davidson, Nadra Garas

Russian Language Journal

Based on the American Councils-administered K-16 National Survey of Foreign Language Enrollments (2017), the present study examines emerging trends in enrollments and the availability of Russian language instruction at the state and national levels. K-12 and tertiary institutional data are examined in light of comparable information collected in 2007. The study found a continued close association between the geographical location of Russian K-12 offerings and the distribution of Russian-speaking households reported in the US Census. Nationally, Russian language enrollments increased by 20% between 2007 and 2016 among K-12 institutions to 14,876 with 31 states and the District of Columbia reporting …

Early Efficacy Of Multitiered Dual-Language Instruction: Promoting Preschoolers’ Spanish And English Oral Language, Trina D. Spencer, Meghan Moran, Marilyn S. Thompson, Douglas B. Petersen, M. Adelaida Restrepo

Child and Family Studies Faculty Publications

The purpose of this cluster randomized group study was to investigate the effect of multitiered, dual-language instruction on children’s oral language skills, including vocabulary, narrative retell, receptive and expressive language, and listening comprehension. The participants were 3- to 5-year-old children (n = 81) who were learning English and whose home language was Spanish. Across the school year, classroom teachers in the treatment group delivered large-group lessons in English to the whole class twice per week. For a Tier 2 intervention, the teachers delivered small-group lessons 4 days a week, alternating the language of intervention daily (first Spanish, then English). Group …

White-Handed Gibbons Discriminate Context-Specific Song Compositions., Julie Andrieu, Samuel G Penny, Hélène Bouchet, Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Ulrich H. Reichard, Klaus Zuberbühler

Publications

White-handed gibbons produce loud and acoustically complex songs when interacting with their neighbours or when encountering predators. In both contexts, songs are assembled from a small number of units although their composition differs in context-specific ways. Here, we investigated whether wild gibbons could infer the 'meaning' when hearing exemplars recorded in both contexts (i.e. 'duet songs' vs. 'predator songs'). We carried out a playback experiment by which we simulated the presence of a neighbouring group producing either its duet or a predator song in order to compare subjects' vocal and locomotor responses. When hearing a recording of a duet song, …

The Impact Of United States Of America College Education On The Japanese Students’ Keigo Toward Their Senpai, Manami Matsuoka

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The purpose of the study is to research whether studying abroad experiences in the United States of America affect keigo usage of Japanese college students toward senpai. 58 Japanese college students in Japan and the United States of America completed a 25-item survey. Honorifics usage of both Japanese college students in Japan and international Japanese students in the United States were tested. The Results revealed that study abroad experiences influenced/changed international Japanese students’ original communication style and keigo usage toward senpai.

Lsu General Catalog 2020-2021, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The LSU General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

Disrupting An(Other): Sexuality As Political Resistance, Emma C. Downey

Master’s Theses

If sexual knowledge can threaten social and political institutions and their control, how do the contents and subjects of literature and publications in the interwar period make that legible? Moreover, if female sexuality–represented or real–was seen as something disruptive to the normal functioning of society, did sexuality offer a useful entry point for social, political, or ideological critiques of the interwar period? My project responds to these questions by analyzing the lives and writings of two female authors of the interwar period: Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) and Katharine Burdekin (1896-1963). In my analysis, I focus on two major points of connection. …

The Influence Of Language Background And Second Language Phonetics Training On The Perception Of Lexical Stress In A Second Language, Todd A. Gibson, Carolina Bernales

Faculty Publications

Language background and second language (L2) training both have been found to contribute to L2 lexical stress perception. To explore their relative contributions, a lexical stress perception task was administered to a total of 129 university students of different language backgrounds. A group of 62 monolingual English-speaking students in the U.S.A. and 67 English-as-a-foreign-language students in Chile were asked to identify lexical stress in trochees and iambs. Chileans with previous phonetics training performed better than Chileans without the training and performed as well as their U.S. peers. U.S. participants and those Chileans without previous phonetics training performed better with trochees …

Vowel Acoustic Characteristics Of Southern American English Variation In Louisiana, Hyunju Chung

Faculty Publications

This study examined acoustic characteristics of vowels produced by speakers from Louisiana, one of the states in the Southern English dialect region. First, how Louisiana vowels differ from or are similar to the reported patterns of Southern dialect were examined. Then, within-dialect differences across regions in Louisiana were examined. Thirty-four female adult monolingual speakers of American English from Louisiana, ranging in age from 18 to 23, produced English monosyllabic words containing 11 vowels/i, É, e, É, æ, E, u, ÊŠ, o, É, É/. The first two formant frequencies at the midpoint of the vowel nucleus, direction, and amount of formant …

Expressive Language Abilities Of Boys With Idiopathic Autism Spectrum Disorder And Boys With Fragile X Syndrome + Autism Spectrum Disorder: Cross-Context Comparisons, Elizabeth Hilvert, Audra Sterling, Eileen Haebig, Laura Friedman

Faculty Publications

Background and aims: Understanding the unique expressive language profiles of children with phenotypically similar, but distinct neurodevelopmental disorders, such as idiopathic autism spectrum disorder and fragile X syndrome with a co-diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (fragile X syndrome + autism spectrum disorder), has both clinical and theoretical implications. However, comparative studies of these two clinical groups have been limited, and results have been inconsistent, partially as a result of different assessment methods being utilized. Thus, the current study compared the expressive language profiles of boys with idiopathic autism spectrum disorder and boys with fragile X syndrome + autism spectrum disorder …

Introduction To The Special Issue On English In The Southern United States: Social Factors And Language Variation, Irina Shport, Wendy Herd

Faculty Publications

The Southern United States have long been known for language diversity, yet linguistic research in this region has often focused on broad descriptions of characteristics of Southern American English as compared to other regional dialects of American English. Linguistic subregions in the South, however, are distinctly different from each other, and additional social variation also occurs within those subregions. Thus, the different English varieties spoken in the South cannot be collapsed under a single umbrella. Analyzing varieties of English in the Southern United States calls for a narrower approach, which will more accurately represent diverse Southern communities, their languages of …

Celebrating The Twentieth Anniversary Of The Voice And Speech Review, Rockford Sansom, Rena Cook, Julia Guichard, Jeff Morrison, Mandy Rees, Lynn Watson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Software Requirement Catalog On Acceptability, Usability, Internationalization And Sustainability For Contraception Mphrs, Manal Kharbouch, Ali Idri, Leanne Redman, Hassan Alami, José Luis Fernández-Alemán, Ambrosio Toval

Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Contraception Mobile Personal Health Records (mPHRs) are efficient mobile health applications (apps) to increase awareness about fertility and contraception and to allow women to access, track, manage, and share their health data with healthcare providers. This paper aims to develop a requirements catalog, according to standards, guidelines, and relevant literature to e-health technology and psychology. The requirements covered by this catalog are Acceptability, Usability, Sustainability, and Internationalization (i18n). This catalog can be very useful for developing, evaluating, and auditing contraceptive apps, as well as helping stakeholders and developers identify potential requirements for their mPHRs to improve them.

You Don’T Say... Linguistic Features In Sarcasm Detection, Martina Ducret, Lauren Kruse, Carlos Martinez, Anna Feldman, Jing Peng

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

We explore linguistic features that contribute to sarcasm detection. The linguistic features that we investigate are a combination of text and word complexity, stylistic and psychological features. We experiment with sarcastic tweets with and without context. The results of our experiments indicate that contextual information is crucial for sarcasm prediction. One important observation is that sarcastic tweets are typically incongruent with their context in terms of sentiment or emotional load.

Long-Term Impact Of International Service Learning: Cultural Competence Revisited, Nathan Short, Heather Y.Z. St. Peters, Thomas Almonroeder, Grace Bolomope, Kelli Daller, Kayla Deaton, Madeline Kreill

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education

As cultural diversity continues to rise globally, there is an evident need for culturally competent care, especially within the client-centered field of occupational therapy. Previous research has shown that occupational therapy doctoral (OTD) students who participated in international service-learning demonstrated an immediate positive impact on their cultural competence. The current study revisits these same doctoral students to examine the long-term impact of international service-learning experiences at six-month, one-year, two-year, and three-year intervals following the initial experience. The researchers conducted a mixed methods study with a pre-test post-test design, utilizing the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CQS), as well as qualitative responses in …

Exploring Sectoral Solutions For Digital Workers: The Status Of The Artist Act Approach, Sara J. Slinn

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Digital workers have not had significant success in securing conventional forms of collective workplace representation, particularly statutory collective bargaining. This article examines an established sectoral bargaining statute, the Status of the Artist Act (SOA), as a possible model for collective bargaining legislation that is better suited to regulate digital work than the Wagner Act model (WAM) of labor legislation. Key features of the WAM labor legislation pose significant barriers for digital worker organizing. These include requirements to: demonstrate employee status, accurately estimate the number of employees in the proposed used, the requirement to demonstrate sufficient support. The WAM is oriented …

English Morpheme Accuracy, Diversity, And Productivity Measures In School-Aged Bilingual Children, Gabrielle Raab

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

The identification of meaningful language measures for bilingual children has important clinical implications in the diagnosis of impairment. Given the shortage of bilingual speech-language pathologists, informative English measures are invaluable. This study extends current research to examine the utility of widely accepted English grammatical measures in bilingual school-aged children with differing levels of English exposure. The language sample analyses implemented have shown repeatedly to discriminate between typical and language impaired monolinguals, and more recently were considered in the assessment of developing bilinguals. Measures were taken from the language samples of thirteen school-aged bilingual Spanish-English speaking children who told a story …

Language-Deprived Environments: Neonatal Intensive Care Units And Hearing Loss, Margaret Caesar

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Adequate language exposure is crucial for speech-language development in children. Previous research suggests that decreased language exposure leads to an increased risk for speech-language developmental delays. This study aims to explore the language exposure of two arguably language-deprived environments: Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) and severe-to-profound hearing loss. This is a two-part study that examines caregiver-infant interactions through the analysis of infant-directed speech (IDS). In the first part of the study, researchers transcribed and analyzed pre-recorded Language Environment Analysis (LENA) audio recordings of five (5) infants with severe-to-profound hearing loss (6-months post cochlear implantation). These LENA recordings collected speech, language, …

2020-2021 Common Data, Morehead State University. Institutional Research & Analysis.

Office of Institutional Research & Analysis Publication Archive

2020-2021 issue of the Common Data.

Girls' Right To Education In India: Bridging The Gap Between Intention And Implementation, Caroline Sandleitner

Research Days Posters 2020

We "must recognize that women will never gain full dignity until their human rights are respected and protected." Hillary Clinton's words at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing reverberated throughout the globe. Despite international legal documents such as CEDAW, legal frameworks commonly prove ineffective in substantially safeguarding the rights of women because of their ambiguous language and the inability of the international community to enforce these expectations. My research is rooted in women's right to education, as education is a vital mobilizer when uplifting marginalized groups. I am focused on evaluating the reformed Indian public education …

The Gamification Of Code: Programming Through Play In Blended Classrooms, Kristin Carlson, Rick Valentin

Faculty Publications - Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Teaching an introductory web design course is already a blended environment. Students meet face-to-face, yet have access to a myriad of online resources, YouTube videos, blogs, and forums to support their learning. However, the challenges of learning to understand code can inhibit students and diminish their motivation to look for resources. The authors have attempted to address this issue by focusing on the use and design of games for learning to code, as well as providing video lecture material in combination with the traditional face-to-face learning environment. By using games and gamification in the course design, the authors have found …

Seeding Shakespeare And Drama In Diverse 21st-Century Classrooms Through A Cross-National Partnership: New Teachers’ Challenges And Early Practices, Steven Z. Athanases, Sergio L. Sanchez

Benerd College Faculty Articles

Classroom drama holds promise for student learning across disciplines. When Shakespeare’s works are included in diverse classrooms, supported by drama activities, students can embody, voice, and explore themes and societal issues, bringing such themes alive. This study documents challenges and opportunities reported by teachers in their first-year teaching as they participated in an innovative cross-national partnership between Globe Education, Shakespeare’s Globe, London and the School of Education, University of California, Davis. Survey results found new teachers’ value exceeded their self-confidence in implementing Shakespeare and drama-based practices in their teaching. Teachers managed to infuse drama activities in classrooms, conducted inquiry into …

Evaluation Of Psychometric Properties And Factorial Structure Of Adhd Module Of K-Sads-Pl In Children From Rural Kenya, Symon M. Kariuki, Charles R. J. C. Newton, Amina Abubakar, Mary A. Bitta, Rachael Odhiambo, Jacqueline Phillips Owen

Institute for Human Development, East Africa

Objective: We determined the reliability of The Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children–Present and Lifetime (K-SADS-PL) for screening and diagnosing ADHD in children.

Method: K-SADS-PL was administered to 2,074 children in the community. Psychometric properties, factorial structure, and clinical validity of K-SADS-PL in screening or diagnosis of ADHD were examined.

Results: Internal consistency was excellent for items in the screening interview (Macdonald’s Omega [ω] = 0.89; 95% confidence interval [CI] [0.87, 0.94]) and diagnostic supplement (ω = 0.95; 95% CI [0.92, 0.99]). The standardized coefficients for items in the screening interview were acceptable (0.59-0.85), while fit indices …

Upskirting, Bitcoin, And Crime, Oh My: Judicial Resistance To Applying Old Laws To New Crimes – What Is A Legislature To Do?, Michael Whiteman

Indiana Law Journal

As technology continues to advance at a break-neck speed, legislatures often find themselves scrambling to write laws to keep up with these advances. Prosecutors are frequently faced with the prospect of charging a defendant with a crime based on an existing law that does not quite fit the circumstances of the defendant’s actions. Judges, cognizant of the fact that legislatures, and not the judiciary, have the primary responsibility for creating crimes, have pushed back. Judges routinely refuse to convict a defendant if the statute does not fairly criminalize the defendant’s actions. To determine if a defendant’s actions fit within a …

Brick Or Mortar: The Students Who Pursue A Degree Instead Of A Roof, Nicholas Stotter

University of the Pacific Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Eternal Task Of Understanding Terry V. Ohio, Robert Weisberg

University of the Pacific Law Review

No abstract provided.