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Discourse Of Fundamentalists: Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziya As A Model, Yusuf Alayan

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This study sheds light on the jurists’ linguistic study, particularly Ibn‏ Al-Qayim, from a modern linguistic perspective. The study shows that Ibn‏ Al-Qayim through his acquaintance of language, syntax, Fight , logic and‏ his rely on the mental and quoted clues etc...Made the discourse an open‏ linguistic text whereby he can analyses the intended meaning of the speaker-‏ addressed to those who are in charge with. So, he depended on important 1‏ elements of the discourse analysis, such as the linguistic and paralinguistic‏ features of the contextual elements, i.e. imperative, non-imperative,‏ repetition, exception, condition and presumptions

Implementing Process Pedagogy In The High School Classroom: How To Improve Student Writing While Helping Students Enjoy Writing, Laura Mahaney

English Theses

Traditionally and currently, teachers also focus on the product and not the process in their own classroom. They will assign a paper with a final due date, students turn in their papers without having anyone else look at it beforehand, and students will get a final grade on what is their first draft. This way of teaching writing does not show students how to improve their writing. With this type of assessment, the natural processes of a person’s mind while writing is ignored; students are expected to have everything in their paper in the first draft and without support. Process …

A Multiplicity Of Journeys: Stem Education Ecosystems As Sources Of Cultural Sustenance, Christopher Louis Beauprey Cardiel

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In this document, I outline the context and significance of a research problem faced by both formal and informal science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educators in the Portland metro area--specifically, the need for greater understanding of the individual and cultural motivations, needs, and agentic behavior of learners, as well as the ways in which these factors intersect with learners' experiences of cultural sustenance within their holistic STEM education ecosystems. I base the significance of this problem on the racial and gender inequities evident in the STEM fields and the social and cultural dynamics that discourage members of these groups …

Classification Of Explainable Artificial Intelligence Methods Through Their Output Formats, Giulia Vilone, Luca Longo

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Machine and deep learning have proven their utility to generate data-driven models with high accuracy and precision. However, their non-linear, complex structures are often difficult to interpret. Consequently, many scholars have developed a plethora of methods to explain their functioning and the logic of their inferences. This systematic review aimed to organise these methods into a hierarchical classification system that builds upon and extends existing taxonomies by adding a significant dimension—the output formats. The reviewed scientific papers were retrieved by conducting an initial search on Google Scholar with the keywords “explainable artificial intelligence”; “explainable machine learning”; and “interpretable machine learning”. …

Semantic Matching Evaluation: Optimizing Models For Agreement Between Humans And Autotutor, Colin Mackenzie Carmon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the answers that students give to questions asked by an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) on electronics, called ElectronixTutor. One learning resource of ElectronixTutor is AutoTutor, an instructional module that helps students learn by holding a conversation in natural language. The semantic relatedness between a student’s verbal input and an ideal answer is a salient feature for assessing performance of the student in AutoTutor. Inaccurate assessment of the verbal contributions will create problems in AutoTutor’s adaptation to the student. Therefore, this thesis evaluated the quality of semantic matches between student input and the …

Volume 28, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, Fall 1990/Winter 1991/Spring 1991/Summer 1991 Speaker & Gavel

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 28, issue 1-4, Fall 1990/Winter 1991/Spring 1991/Summer 1991) of Speaker & Gavel.

Volume 27, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, Fall 1989/Winter 1990/Spring 1990/Summer 1990 Speaker And Gavel

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 27, issues 1-4, Fall 1989/Winter 1990/Spring 1990/Summer 1990) of Speaker & Gavel.

Empirical Drawings: Utilizing Comic Essays In The Social Studies Classroom To Teach Citizenship, Angelo Letizia

SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

This article posits that the comic medium, wedded with traditional essay assignments, may be a powerful tool for social studies teachers, those who prepare social studies teachers at the collegiate level and other teachers and professors who desire to teach about citizenship in an era of "fake news" and alternative facts.

The Impact Of Background Noise On The Spoken Language Of People With Mild To Moderate Aphasia: A Preliminary Investigation, Brenna Delyn Scadden

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined how different background noise conditions affected the spoken language production of people with aphasia (PWA) when performing a story retell task. Participants included 11 adults with mild to moderate aphasia and 11 age- and gender-matched controls. Participants retold stories in a silent baseline and five background noise conditions (conversation, monologue, phone call, cocktail, pink noise). Dependent measures of speech fluency and language production measures (correct information units, lexical errors, lexical diversity, and cohesive utterances) were compared between groups and across conditions. Results reveal that background noise results in significantly lower communication efficiency (i.e., correct information units) for …

Subjetividad E Intersubjetividad De Los Diminutivos En -It En El Español Amazónico Peruano, Margarita Jara Yupanqui

Department of World Languages Faculty Research

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El español peruano amazónico (EPA) es una variedad formada en intenso contacto con lenguas amerindias y en relativo aislamiento de centros urbanos de estandarización lingüística. La presente investigación ofrece una descripción del uso del diminutivo -it en EPA sobre la base de la clasificación de Reynoso 2005 y de propuestas teóricas de la gramaticalización (Traugott y König 1991), en relación a las nociones de subjetividad e intersubjetividad (Traugott y Dasher 2002, Traugott 2003, 1995). Los datos consisten en treinta entrevistas sociolingüísticas a hombres y mujeres adultos, hablantes de EPA y con distintos grados de escolarización primaria y secundaria. Se …

Introduction To Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Theory (Ipartheory) And Evidence, Ronald P. Rohner

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

Interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory (IPARTheory) is an evidence-based theory of socialization and lifespan development. It is composed of three subtheories, each of which deals with a separate but interrelated set of issues. IPARTheory’s personality subtheory – which is the most highly developed component of the theory – deals primarily with the pancultural nature and effects of interpersonal acceptance and rejection. Coping subtheory explores the fact that some individuals are better able to cope with experiences of perceived rejection than are other individuals. Finally, IPARTheory’s sociocultural systems subtheory attempts to predict and explain major causes and sociocultural correlates of interpersonal acceptance-rejection worldwide. …

Tweet-To-Act: Towards Tweet-Mining Framework For Extracting Terrorist Attack-Related Information And Reporting, Farkhund Iqbal, Rabia Batool, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Saiqa Aleem, Ahmed Abbasi, Abdul Rehman Javed

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The widespread popularity of social networking is leading to the adoption of Twitter as an information dissemination tool. Existing research has shown that information dissemination over Twitter has a much broader reach than traditional media and can be used for effective post-incident measures. People use informal language on Twitter, including acronyms, misspelled words, synonyms, transliteration, and ambiguous terms. This makes incident-related information extraction a non-trivial task. However, this information can be valuable for public safety organizations that need to respond in an emergency. This paper proposes an early event-related information extraction and reporting framework that monitors Twitter streams, synthesizes event-specific …

Embodied Engineering : Gendered Labor, Food Security, And Taste In Twentieth-Century Mali, Laura Ann Twagira

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

Foregrounding African women’s ingenuity and labor, this pioneering case study shows how women in rural Mali have used technology to ensure food security through the colonial period, environmental crises, and postcolonial rule.

By advocating for an understanding of rural Malian women as engineers, Laura Ann Twagira rejects the persistent image of African women as subjects without technological knowledge or access and instead reveals a hidden history about gender, development, and improvisation. In so doing, she also significantly expands the scope of African science and technology studies.

Using the Office du Niger agricultural project as a case study, Twagira argues that …

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Queer Rhetorical Agency In Fort Lauderdale Tourist Lgbtq+ Advertisements, Jordan I. Guido

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The following case study focuses on the implicit and explicit rhetorical messages in LGBTQ+ focused travel advertisements following Waitt and Markwell’s (2014) observations of LGBTQ+ advertisements increasingly gaining prominence within the mainstream promotional material. The case study investigates the queer messaging within Fort Lauderdale’s national 2015-2017 Hello Sunny Campaign; heralded for its groundbreaking LGBTQ+ and Trans representation. The scholarship that informs this study are at the intersections of composition and rhetoric, queer composition, and queer tourism studies. The methodology for the case study includes a rhetorical analysis incorporating a new materialistic lens. The two promotional images were analyzed for their …

Analysis Of Interactions In A Synchronous Hybrid English Class, Chaoran Wang, Ying Luo

Faculty Scholarship

Interaction plays an essential role in teaching and learning, whether in face-to-face, online, or blended-hybrid settings (Anderson, 2003; Smith & Kurthen, 2007). While hybrid learning has gained in popularity since the COVID emergency, the discourse nature of hybrid classrooms remains less explored. Current literature mainly focuses on the discourse analysis of hybrid interactions in higher education. However, there is limited research in the context of synchronous hybrid instruction for young English language learners (Lin et al., 2017).

50th Anniversary Linguistics Colloquium | Chris Thompson On Folk Spirituality Matchlock Muskets And The Asuke Fall Festival In Japan, Nov. 5, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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50th Anniversary Linguistics Colloquium | Dawn Bikowski And Keira Park Teaching Large-Enrollment Online Language Courses, Oct. 8, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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50th Anniversary Linguistics Colloquium | University Policies Prohibiting Discrimination In The Context Of Title Ix, Sept. 10, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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50th Anniversary Linguistics Colloquium | Gabriela Castaneda-Gleason And Ana Deumert The Coloniality Of Language, Oct. 23, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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50th Anniversary Linguistics Colloquium | Mike Dombroski On Microsoft Teams And Instruction, Oct. 1, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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50th Anniversary Linguistics Colloquium | Carla Consolini On Spanish L2 Writing Assessment, Oct. 29, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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50th Anniversary Linguistics Colloquium | Hiro Oshita On A Big Earthquake Occurred Many People To Sudden Death, Sept. 24, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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50th Anniversary Linguistics Colloquium | Surviving And Thriving In The First Year Of Graduate School, Sept. 3, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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50th Anniversary Linguistics Colloquium | Jesus Toapanta On Second Language Listening From The Learners Perspective, Sept. 17, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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"Like I Was An Actual Researcher": Participation And Identity Trajectories Of Underrepresented Minority And First-Generation Stem Students In Research Training Communities Of Practice, Jennifer Lynn Lindwall

Dissertations and Theses

Although calls for a more diverse workforce in biomedical fields have been widespread, racial and ethnic gaps in biomedical degree attainment remain. Contextualist perspectives seek to understand persistent STEM inequities by examining person-in-context experiences and how systemic factors filter into students' proximal contexts shaping their participation and science identity trajectories. Research training communities of practice aim to offer underrepresented minority and first-generation students support, guidance, and opportunities to learn the practices of science and construct their science identity. However, many students still choose to leave these programs. There is limited research on these students' science identity construction process and their …

50th Anniversary Linguistics Colloquium | Elizabeth Ray On Gestures Used By Bilingual Teenagers To Resolve Lexical Ambiguity, Nov. 12, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Critical Race Theory: Convening 2, Kathy Harris, Jen Vanek,, Jill Castek, Gloria Jacobs

21CLEO Presentations and Publications

We seek to identify the factors that incentivize frontline service workers to engage in workplace-sponsored learning activities that support development of 21st century skills, including specific workplace skills, digital literacy, English language and literacy, problem solving, and adult basic skills. Central to this study is elevating the voice of the working learner.

A Bibliometric Content Analysis Of Do-It-Yourself (Diy) Science: Where To From Here For Management Research?, Peter Galvin, Anton Klarin, Richard Nyuur, Nicholas Burton

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Do-it-yourself (DIY) science research is currently in an expansion phase both in terms of its depth (with an increasing number of papers published each year) and its scope (with the core ideas being linked to an increasing number of constructs). To develop a more holistic appreciation of how the field has developed and to identify potential avenues of future research we undertake a bibliometric content analysis of the DIY science literature post 1980. We find four major clusters pertaining to education, culture, the operationalising of DIY science (including commercialisation) and technology-related issues. We review each of these clusters and the …

Fashion In Focus: Women And Textiles In Rural America, 1920-1959, Autumn Langemeier

History Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

This thesis examines the textile work and related fashion ephemera and attitudes of rural women in the United States in the first half of the 20th century. It considers rural women from the 1920s through the 1950s and examines their lives and their relationship with textiles and, by extension, fashion. Textiles and related ephemera, when properly utilized, provide sources for historical analysis within broader historical research. Through an examination of the developments in early to mid-twentieth century economic, material culture, and domestic spheres, the importance of clothing analysis and the value of textile work as a historical source material proves …