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Publishing In The Teaching Linguistics Section Of Language, Kazuko Hiramatsu, Michal Temkin Martinez

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

The mission of the Teaching Linguistics section of Language is to publish high-quality peer-reviewed articles in the area of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Publications in the section focus on issues that relate not only to the direct teaching of linguistics, but also to the application of linguistic concepts and theories and the insight it provides about teaching and education more broadly.

Issue 20: Building Inclusivity In Linguistically Diverse Communities: A Role For Interpretation And Translation Services, Emma Dufour, Samaa Kabbar, Anmol Rana, Noah Ricciardi, Kim Rygiel

International Migration Research Centre

This paper investigates the importance of interpretation and translation services in resettling and integrating refugee and immigrant newcomers within the Waterloo Region. According to Waterloo’s Immigration Partnership, immigrants account for 22.6% of the region’s population (Folkema and Vandebelt 2019, 17). This places the Region’s proportion of immigrants as the eighth highest in Ontario (Folkema and Vandebelt 2019, 5). In 2016, the Region of Waterloo recorded over 120 languages as the mother tongue of more than 120,000 residents (Languages Census Bulletin 2016), including Arabic, Tigrinya, Spanish, Somali, Farsi, and Mandarin (IP 2018, 6). Celebrating living in a vibrant, multilingual community necessitates …

Cognitive Development & Art Education: Relationship, Suitability, And Future Implications, Zheng Yao

Masters Theses

In this thesis the author sought to discover linkages between Art, Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Cognitive Science through a review of scholarship surrounding the integration of cognitive theories, art, and education. There have been numerous studies that claim that art education in elementary and secondary schools improves students' academic performance, interpersonal skills and improves attitudes to life. Nations meanwhile constantly modify standards and frameworks for teaching and learning in the visual arts. However, despite these changes, the author wondered to what extent, if at all, new standards-based visual arts curriculum frameworks were responsive to concepts within cognitive theory. This qualitative study …

Présentation, Josias Semujanga

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Sociopoétique De Littératures Francophones En 3d, Désiré Nyela

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

What is a Francophone text? Every scholar of French-language literatures is confronted with this question which involves two issues: legitimization and specification. The reflection of the question of legitimization emerges from the need to come out of the shadow of metropolitan French literature; examining the question of specification is necessary because, although a “Francophone text” may leave its readers curious, bewildered, suspicious or even contemptuous, it must be regarded and valued as a literary work whose cogs and milestones must be correctly assessed. This article aims to lay the foundations for a critical approach to Francophone literatures which considers their …

Index (N° 96/97)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Abstracts (N° 96/97)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Lieux Fictifs, Réelles Critiques : Kaveena De Boubacar Boris Diop, Morgan Faulkner

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article examines the relationship between invention and reality in Boubacar Boris Diop’s novel, Kaveena (2006). The author intertwines the postcolonial story of a fictional African country with that of the real history of the continent. The fictional city of Maren and the region of Nimba are described in relation to Cameroun, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, among other concrete locations. Invented characters and those known by the reader (Patrice Lumumba, Idi Amin, etc.) both occupy space in the text. What narrative practices allow this association of the fictional story and historic details? What are the effects? How does this mix …

Professional Development Of Efl Teachers In Tanzania: Ubinafsi Or Ujamaa?, Ann E. Roemer

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

This small descriptive study examined the professional development activities of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers at a university in Tanzania, in particular their awareness of professional organizations such as the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language and TESOL International Association. Basing her inquiry on English language teaching as a community of practice, the researcher used a questionnaire, interviews, and personal observations. University lecturers were asked about their personal professional development practices, which represented the value of individualism (ubinafsi in Swahili), as well as their interest in becoming involved in professional organizations for EFL teachers, …

Beyond Streamflow: Call For A National Data Repository Of Streamflow Presence For Streams And Rivers In The United States, Kendra E. Kaiser

Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Observations of the presence or absence of surface water in streams are useful for characterizing streamflow permanence, which includes the frequency, duration, and spatial extent of surface flow in streams and rivers. Such data are particularly valuable for headwater streams, which comprise the vast majority of channel length in stream networks, are often non-perennial, and are frequently the most data deficient. Datasets of surface water presence exist across multiple data collection groups in the United States but are not well aligned for easy integration. Given the value of these data, a unified approach for organizing information on surface water presence …

The Text Of The "Abc Of Aristotle" In The ‘Winchester Anthology’, Ian Cornelius

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Middle English ABC of Aristotle is an alliterative abecedary poem that survives in fifteen manuscript copies dating between the mid-fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The most eccentric copy, bearing the greatest number of unique textual variants, is in London, British Library, Additional 60577, a commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose known today as the ‘Winchester Anthology’. The Winchester copy of the ABC of Aristotle is distinguished from all others by changes to vocabulary, idiom, and prosody. The result is a unique redaction, illustrating the kind of literary composition that could be expected to grow out of late …

Isu Today- June 30, 2021, Indiana State University, Communications And Marketing

University Announcements - ISU Today

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Parcours De Lectures D’Hier À Aujourd’Hui : Trois Siècles De Littératures Francophones, Christiane Ndiaye

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Forty years ago, the francophone literatures of Africa and the Caribbean were still taught as “emerging” literatures having allegedly entered the international literary scene with the Negritude movement. Since then, critical perspectives have evolved, considerably modifying this way of presenting the history of francophone literatures of the South. Today it is rather the history of a constant questioning of the various pernicious boundaries drawn since colonial times, a history of constantly renewed inventiveness. I retrace some facts of interest retained from my own continuous discovery of this multifaced territory, starting with the still little-known history of Haitian literature of the …

Qu’Est-Ce Qu’Un Texte Francophone? Reconstruire Une Histoire Oubliée: Bakary Et Lucie... Qui Est Le « Nègre » ?, Eloise A. Brière

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

After World War I, writing by France’s colonial subjects began disrupting the French literary field. Among the first in this early literary series, Force-Bonté (1926) by Bakary Diallo was tainted from the start because it was associated with Lucie Cousturier. It was speculated/surmised she was Diallo’s “godmother” or ghost-writer, since she was known for having taught French to the Senegalese soldiers billeted near her home during the war. Changes within the contexts available to critics since Lebel’s L’Afrique Occidentale dans la littérature française, the first work devoted to African literature, as well as new information studied here, enable a clearer …

La Critique Des Littératures Francophones Et Quelques-Unes De Ses Fictions « Modernes » Et Culturalistes : L’Exemplarité De La Fiction Haïtienne Contemporaine, Yolaine Parisot

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Critics of Francophone literature from the south have long Critics of Francophone literature from the South have long attracted several clichés or fictions around notions of nation, oral tradition, modernity, and culture. For a long time, they reproduced the hierarchies of Western literary genres and the exclusion of pop culture. However, contemporary critical discourses on literary fiction and fictionality in the Caribbean, Africa and the Indian Ocean literatures tend to renew this culturalist perspective. Heir to both the critical discourse of the 19th century and the local genre of Lodyans, ultra-contemporary Haitian fiction offers an epistemic exemplarity that undermines …

Présence Francophone, Numéro 96/97

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Écritures Génésiaques : Violences, Ruptures Et Recommencement Dans Le Roman Africain Francophone, Isaac Bazié

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This study analyzes the writing of crises in African novels and makes following observation: the novels listed do not represent crises and ruptures to obey a need for mimicry and authenticity in the representation through the art of real violence. The main objective of these novels by staging African crises and violence is rather to reflect a tension: that of a charged present situation, a real historical or imaginary crisis, and the equally important situation of a genesis, a new beginning, the terms of which sometimes remain to be defined.

Désexualiser Le Texte Féminin Francophone?, Mbaye Diouf

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This study shows that a recurring criticism of Francophone literatures often borrows from the essentialist theses of colonial anthropology, and that tendency is even stronger when it comes to the novels by Francophone women writers. The overwhelming majority of critical studies devoted to the subject continue to consider their works as the simple feminist discourses or even the naive testimonies. However, this criticism forgets that since the 1990s, Francophone women’s writing has been part of a world literature that articulates deep postcolonial mutations, both generic and discursive, and reassesses the sexual etiology of fictional societies. This is the subject of …

Combat Esthétique Et Mémoire Militante: Le Double Engagement De Boubacar Boris Diop, Serigne Seye

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

In this article, I argue that in Boubacar Boris Diop’s work, the articulation between aesthetic experimence and writing from memory confers on his character-narrators the functions of “écrivain-écrivain” and “écrivain porte-parole”. This sheds light on both aspects of the Senegalese’s author commitment through his main characters, as most of them are writers who themselves show the mechanism of creation of the novel. This text is resulting from a writing resolutely writing focused turned towards its own materiality. This article aims to demonstrate that the representation of the memory in Diop’s fiction is doubly militant. It testifies …

Rosélie Thibaudin Et L’Expérience Picturale Dans Histoire De La Femme Cannibale De Maryse Condé, Kanaté Dahouda

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Maryse Condé is a renowned French Caribbean writer from Guadeloupe. She is the author of numerous novels, including The Story of the Cannibal Woman. This novel follows the life of Rosélie Thibaudin and portrays her obsession with being part of the gallery of famous artists like Modigliani, Wifredo Lam and Roberto Matta. As she strives to fulfill her quest for artistic recognition and freedom, Roselie faces social constraints that shape the nature of her relationships with her family and Stephen, as well as with her colleagues and students at the academy of the arts called La América. Through …

Gender And Identity Reflected In The Works Of Nawāl Al-Sa‘Adāwī And SamīḥAh Khrais, Zachary Oesterreicher

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, I examine two novels: Woman at Point Zero (1975) written by Nawal El Saadawi (1931-2021), Egyptian writer, physician, and activist and The Tree Stump: An Arabic Historical Novel (1998) by Samiha Khrais (1956-present), Jordanian writer whose works blur the lines between historiographies and fiction. In doing so, I analyze the ways in which these two writers depict gender and identity. Paying careful attention to El Saadawi and Khrais' use of these concepts within the context of their respective societal milieus and cultural backgrounds (or those of the novels)—the former coming from Egypt's lower class and the latter …

Interpreting Attention-Based Models For Natural Language Processing, Steven J. Signorelli Jr

Dartmouth College Undergraduate Theses

Large pre-trained language models (PLMs) such as BERT and XLNet have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP). The interesting thing is that they are pre- trained through unsupervised tasks, so there is a natural curiosity as to what linguistic knowledge these models have learned from only unlabeled data. Fortunately, these models’ architectures are based on self-attention mechanisms, which are naturally interpretable. As such, there is a growing body of work that uses attention to gain insight as to what linguistic knowledge is possessed by these models. Most attention-focused studies use BERT as their subject, and consequently the field …

Exploring The Structural Relationships Between Course Design Factors, Learner Commitment, Self-Directed Learning, And Intentions For Further Learning In A Self-Paced Mooc, Dongho Kim, Eulho Jung, Meehyun Yoon, Yunjeong Chang, Sanghoon Park, Dongsim Kim, Fatih Demir

Public and Population Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

The open and massive characteristics of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) lead to a lack of instructor presence, which potentially hinders learners' commitment and learning processes. As a result, the effectiveness of MOOCs is contingent upon the extent to which learners direct their own learning. However, learners' self-directed learning and commitment are largely influenced by course design factors due to lack of direct learner-instructor interactions. In order to address the current gap in the literature with regard to how course design factors influence learning processes and outcomes, this study investigated the relationships between MOOC design factors, learner commitment, self-directed learning, …

Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources, Patent Law And Its Protection: A Legal Analysis Of Africa, Latin America, And India. How India Can Protect It Fiercely, Avantika Bhandari

SJD Dissertations

Traditional knowledge (TK) is comprised of the know-how, skills, and innovations that are practiced by Indigenous and local communities; these are passed down form generation to generation and form a part of the communities' cultural and spiritual identity. The concept and scope of TK are vast; therefore, it has been a subject of heated debate in international forums for decades. TK includes both traditional and cultural expressions and genetic resources; however, this dissertation covers only TK associated with genetic resources. TK has proven to be helpful as an input in modern industries. For instance, many pharmaceutical companies have utilized traditional …

Evidence For Complementary Effects Of Code- And Knowledge-Focused Reading Instruction, Meghan Vollebregt, Jana Leggett, Sherry Raffalovitch, Colin King, Deanna Friesen, Lisa M.D. Archibald

Paediatrics Publications

There is growing recognition of the need to end the debate regarding reading instruction in favor of an approach that provides a solid foundation in phonics and other underlying language skills to become expert readers. We advance this agenda by providing evidence of specific effects of instruction focused primarily on the written code or on developing knowledge. In a grade 1 program evaluation study, an inclusive and comprehensive program with a greater code-based focus called Reading for All (RfA) was compared to a knowledge-focused program involving Dialogic Reading. Phonological awareness, letter word recognition, nonsense word decoding, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, …

China And Comparative International Law: Between Social Science And Critique, Matthew S. Erie

Chicago Journal of International Law

This Essay brings Abebe, Chilton, and Ginsburg’s Lead Essay into conversation with the literature on comparative international law to ask whether the social scientific approach to international law is “international.” In particular, this Essay takes the case of scholarship on international law in China to examine why or why not particular methodological and theoretical perspectives on international law may gain traction in certain jurisdictions’ legal academies. There are a number of linguistic, pedagogic, institutional, and, ultimately, political reasons why the Chinese scholarship that uses social science to understand international law is still nascent. At the same time, critical approaches to …

Risks Posed By Sars-Cov-2 To North American Bats During Winter Fieldwork, Jonathan D. Cook, Evan H. C. Grant, Jeremy T. H. Coleman, Jonathan M. Sleeman, Michael C. Runge

KIP Articles

The virus that causes COVID‐19 likely evolved in a mammalian host, possibly Old‐World bats, before adapting to humans, raising the question of whether reverse zoonotic transmission to bats is possible. Wildlife management agencies in North America are concerned that the activities they authorize could lead to transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 to bats from humans. A rapid risk assessment conducted in April 2020 suggested that there was a small but significant possibility that SARS‐CoV‐2 could be transmitted from humans to bats during summer fieldwork, absent precautions. Subsequent challenge studies in a laboratory setting have shed new information on these risks, as has …

A Qualitative Analysis Of Translanguaging By Colombian Migrants In North Carolina, Scott Lamanna

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

This study examines the usefulness of the theoretical construct of translanguaging in analyzing the linguistic production of twenty-four Colombians (originally from Bogotá) residing in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. Translanguaging maintains that bilinguals and multilinguals have a single linguistic repertoire consisting of features traditionally associated with different named languages (English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, etc.), and that they freely select from among these features according to their communicative needs in specific contexts. In terms of named languages, participants utilized varying amounts of English during sociolinguistic interviews conducted primarily in Spanish by the investigator. The study presents a qualitative analysis …

The Political Economy Of American Militarism: The Military- Industrial Complex, Power Elite, And The 2003 Invasion Of Iraq, Randy S. La Prairie

Dissertations

Sociologists have paid little attention to the structural causes of American participation in wars. Consequently, the discipline offers few theoretical perspectives on American war making. Sociological theories that do exist fall under two headings: state-centric and Marxist theories. Both lack prima facie plausibility. In this dissertation, I advance a unique, alternative theoretical framework that I argue offers a more tenable theory of American militarism in the post-World War II period. The elite model of war mobilization, as I refer to it, consists of five interrelated structural causes of American participation in wars: (1) state-capitalist imperialism; (2) elite control of public …

2021-June-01-Meet Rochelly Rivera Matos, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Rochelly Rivera Matos grew up speaking Spanish as her primary language in her hometown of Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. 

However, language has not been a significant barrier for her at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy. The third-year student pharmacist has immersed herself in student organizations and helped her peers from different cultures and languages adapt to life in East Tennessee.

“My best friends in pharmacy school are from different cultures,” Rivera Matos said. “One is from China, one is from Vietnam, and another friend is Filipino/Mexican. I love that because we learn from different cultures, …