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Cognitive Effects Of Grammatical Gender In L2 Spanish Acquisition: A Study Among Latter-Day Saint Returned Missionaries, Hannah Cagle

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The current study aims to explore the cognitive effects of L2 Spanish acquisition and the role that spending time in the target language country has on L2 learners’ categorization of inanimate objects. Three groups of participants were analyzed: monolingual English speakers, L2 Spanish speakers that learned their Spanish while serving missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) abroad, and L2 Spanish speakers that learned their Spanish while serving LDS missions in the United States. Using a Qualtrics survey, participants were tasked with pairing a list of adjectives stereotypically associated with males or females (Williams & Bennett, …

Desire And Marketizing English Version Of Education As A Commodity In The Linguistic Market In Bangladesh, Mohammod Moninoor Roshid Professor, Shaila Sultana Professor

The Qualitative Report

In recent years, the globalization of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) policy has grown exponentially, driven by socio-economic, political, cultural, and educational desires and forces. Despite having a well-established elite English-medium education in Bangladesh, EMI-based, a new type of education system has emerged recently at primary and secondary levels called English-version (EV) education. This paper investigates parents' desires to choose EV schools for their children and how those desires contribute to marketizing EV schools as a new and popular commodity in the education market of Bangladesh. Data were collected using open-ended questionnaires from 120 parents of primary school …

An Exploratory Study Of Healing Circles As A Strategy To Facilitate Resilience In An Undocumented Community, Frances Morales, José Manuel González Vera, Michelle A. Silva, German Cadenas, Jenifer García Mendoza, Luz M. Garcini, Manuel Paris, Amanda Venta, Melanie M. Domenech Rodriguez, Alfonso Mercado

Psychological Science Faculty Publications

Within the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted critical inequalities affecting undocumented communities and resulting in particularly heightened stress for members of these communities. In addition to the stress associated with COVID-19, immigrants in the United States were more than ever subjected to a hostile antiimmigrant climate under Trump’s administration. Given this compounded stress, the impact of the pandemic on mental health is likely to be disproportionately experienced by undocumented immigrants. In response, a group of psychologists partnered with a leading immigrant rights advocacy organization and formed a reciprocal collaboration to support undocumented communities. A major focus of the collaboration …

The What And How Of Existential Phenomenological Research, Moses Pandin Mop, Elih Sutisna Yanto

The Qualitative Report

In this book, Scott D. Churchill introduces readers to existential phenomenological research, an approach that explores a comprehensive, embodied knowledge of subjective human life that reflects a person's values, goals, ideals, intents, emotions, and relationships. This approach helps researchers understand people’s and needs by identifying and resolving theoretical and ideological misconceptions. In this book, Churchill defines important aspects of EPR as: a method based on empirical data for evaluating the mental life of individuals. In this case, the researchers are concerned with the evidence and access to it, which is based on first-person narratives of experience and the researchers' reflections …

Patching The Patchwork: Moving The Civil Right To Counsel Forward With Key Data, Maria Roumiantseva

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

(Excerpt)

While the pandemic has exposed many long-standing realities about the United States, the destructive everyday crisis of eviction is top of mind as moratoria have now expired and rental assistance funds dissipate with no anticipated replenishment. Therefore, though this piece addresses legal representation in civil legal proceedings more broadly, we will start with an eviction story.

It can be taken as fact that not too far from where you are reading this piece, a tenant is facing an eviction unrepresented. She cannot afford a private attorney. She is income eligible for legal aid, but the office near her home …

Global Scientific Trends On Healthy Eating From 2002 To 2021: A Bibliometric And Visualized Analysis, Te Fang, Hongyi Cao, Yue Wang, Yang Gong, Zhongqing Wang

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Diet has been recognized as a vital risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), climate changes, and increasing population, which has been reflected by a rapidly growing body of the literature related to healthy eating. To reveal a panorama of the topics related to healthy eating, this study aimed to characterize and visualize the knowledge structure, hotspots, and trends in this field over the past two decades through bibliometric analyses. Publications related to healthy eating between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2021 were retrieved and extracted from the Web of Science database. The characteristics of articles including publication years, journals, …

Peripheral Minds: An Abridged Phenomenological Analysis Of Dyslexia, John Henry Reilly

Graduate Student Research Symposium

This paper endeavors to provide a novel way of understanding Dyslexia through the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. Dyslexia is currently defined as a neurodevelopmental disorder. It is “a specific and persistent learning disability affecting the acquisition and development of the written language code (reading and spelling) and causing significant handicap to academic achievement and/or activities of daily life.” This medicalized definition has several conceptual problems and does not commensurate with the lived experience of Dyslexic people.

Dyslexia is therefore defined by negation—it is defined through what it is not. This paper utilizes Husserlian phenomenology to work toward a definition …

Trapped By The Past: A History And Translation Of An Equatoguinean Poet, Paul A. Guajardo

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Atrapado por el pasado (Trapped by the Past in English) is a collection of Spanish-language poetry and prose by the Equatoguinean poet Zankús Mázé Menemádjimol. Menemádjimol’s work has never received an English translation, and this thesis provides a poetic rendition of three of his poems. It also offers a brief historical introduction, literary overview, and commentary on the poems. While the main goal of this project is artistic and creative, it also aims to introduce readers to an oft-overlooked culture. Equatorial Guinea and the poet’s home island of Annobón are frequently ignored in the fields of both literature and history. …

Christianity On Homebrew: Alessandro Valignano, Indigenization, And Japan's Hidden Christians, Brayden Lane

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis examines the historiographical connections between Alessandro Valignano and the localized tradition of Christianity that produced the hidden Christian communities of Japan in the seventeenth century. Valignano, as overseer of Jesuit missions in Asia in the late sixteenth century, implemented policy changes designed to bolster the number and quality of laymen clergy assisting the Westerners with missionary duties. Valignano faced criticism for his overestimation of the time needed for training and for his methodology, but his efforts to train and support laymen clergy contributed to a rising trend of Christianity as a unifying tradition for local communities. The laymen …

An Intelligent Decision Support Model For Optimal Selection Of Machine Tool Under Uncertainty: Recent Trends, Ibrahim M. Hezam

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

Many scholars have been interested in the subject of machine tool selection as a result of the growing number of different machines and the continuous advancement of technology associated with these machines. The selection of an unsuitable machine tool may lead to a variety of issues, including limitations on production capacities and productivity indicators when taking into account both time and money from an industrial and practical perspective. The present strategy of selecting machine tools, known as multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM), relies on the subjective viewpoint the vast majority of the time. When selecting an appropriate machining tool, however, it is …

The Efficacy Of Accommodating Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Employees In The Workplace Via Note Taking, Linda M. Balsamo

Journal of the North American Management Society

Deaf and hard-of-hearing employees often find it difficult to learn about important information, which is disseminated informally in their employing organizations. The purpose of this study was to examine information, which is impromptu or short in duration, that is transcribed by note takers. It examined the quality of the note taking both in quantity and content. The participants included 65 individuals with varying levels of contact with deaf and hard-of-hearing co-workers. Results indicated that note takers attend to verbal messages more than to textual or visual messages. Note takers tend to prioritize messages and transcribe those with a higher perceived …

2023.03.16 - Academic/Student Affairs, Enrollment, And Technology Committee Meeting Miutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2023

Meeting materials for the NEIU Academic/Student Affairs, Enrollment, and Technology Committee

2023 Academic & Creative Excellence Reception Program, Lynn University

Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE) Reception Programs

The program for the 2023 Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE) Reception - the 15th annual - organized by the Lynn Library, working in conjunction with the Office of Academic Affairs. The reception is held on March 16, 2023 in the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center.

The Faculty Scholarship and Creative Activities Award is presented to Dr. Begum Kaplan.

A Critical Analysis Of The Graduate Socialization Of Racially Minoritized School Psychology Students, Tatiana J. Broughton

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

By centering the voices of racially/ethnically minoritized school psychology graduate students I sought to understand how racially minoritized individuals experience their socialization process into the field, to critique and expose oppressive structures in place in their graduate programs, and to utilize garnered information to provide implications to address and dismantle oppressive structure within school psychology programs. Additionally, I sought to provide insight for school psychology training programs by identifying antiracist practices that minoritized graduate students view as supports in their training programs. Participants were eight racial/ethnic minoritized graduate students who participated in one to two virtual interviews discussing their experiences …

Wreckage, Wonder & Ways Through The Impossible: Writing About Life's Hard Stuff, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Workshop Handouts

A workshop handout or other teaching material created by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Kansas Poet Laureate 2009-2013.

Speech Beyond The Binary: Some Acoustic-Phonetic And Auditory-Perceptual Characteristics Of Non-Binary Speakers, Brandon Merritt

Departmental Papers (Speech)

Speech acoustics research typically assumes speakers are men or women with speech characteristics associated with these two gender categories. Less work has assessed acoustic-phonetic characteristics of non-binary speakers. This study examined acoustic-phonetic features across adult cisgender (15 men and 15 women) and subgroups of transgender (15 nonbinary, 7 transgender men, and 7 transgender women) speakers and relations among these features and perceptual ratings of gender identity and masculinity/femininity. Differing acoustic-phonetic features were predictive of confidence in speaker gender and masculinity/femininity across cisgender and transgender speakers. Non-binary speakers were perceptually rated within an intermediate range of cisgender women and all other …

Doing Death Work: A Mixed Method Examination Of Imprinted Events And Behavioral Responses Of Medical Examiner's Office Employees, Elizabeth L. Gilmore, Kevin Buckler

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"This study provides a qualitative and quantitative data analysis from interviews of current and former employees of medical examiner offices. These employees’ current and former positions required that they arrive at scenes of natural, accidental, suicidal, undetermined, and homicidal deaths, document and retrieve the decedent(s), and assist in eviscerating the remains to aid forensic pathologists during autopsy procedures. The authors interviewed 14 current or past employees of different medical examiner offices to understand what they liked and disliked about this curious profession and aimed to understand professional struggles. Additionally, study participants answered questions about imprinted events, how they and colleagues …

How The Taiwanese Podcast Bailingguo News Framed The 2019 Hong Kong Movement: A Framing Analysis Of The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill, Yu-Fei Chiu

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Nowadays, people can access different types of media to get information. Podcast is one of them and became more popular in recent years. In Hong Kong, the anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill movement took place in 2019. In this research, we are looking for the frames that Kylie and Ken as the hosts of the Taiwanese podcast - Bailingguo News used when they talked about the movement. The researcher applied framing theory to conduct this study, using textual analysis to analyze five episodes that mentioned the movement on Hong Kong from Bailingguo News. The researcher extracts the themes in the podcasters' …

Love In Narrations In Terms Of Semiotics, Zahra Moazami, Soraya Ghotbi, Farideh Davoudy Moghadam

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The Imams' words include epistemological and ontological foundations to examine various perspectives, including sign-semantics. Sign-semantics is one of the contemporary theories in the interpretation and explanation of thought systems and linguistic features. It is also a scientific tool for analyzing discourse systems that study the meaning formation and production mechanisms in texts. One of these trends is Pierce semiotics, which has extensive dimensions in the analysis of linguistic signs. The present study aimed to analyze the sign-semantic of love in the hadiths based on Pierce's semiotic approach. First, we explored some narrations concerning "love" from the perspective of substitution, companionship, …

The Poem (We Drank On The Remembrance Of The Beloved Madamah) By Ibn Al-Farid: A Reading In Preparation: In The Light Of The Criteria Of Coherence And Textual Harmony, Salah Rahi Ibrahim Hamza

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research studies the two standards of textual consistency and harmony by standing on the two elements (casting and knitting) between the word and the meaning on which the Sufi poet’s speech is based as it parallels the literary discourse. Several readings, including the aspect of language that has not been studied in all its parts and manifestations. This research came to shed light on this aspect and shows the words and meanings that are formed with the set of seven criteria that occupied the rhetorical and critical lesson, ancient and modern, although there is no place for agreement in …

Ways Of Assessing Students' Progress In School Learning By Language Teachers During The Lockdown And Remote Learning In Poland, Małgorzata Przybysz-Zaremba Puz, Krzysztof Polok

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The aim of the study was to check how language teachers employed in Polish schools assessed students' progress in learning during the period of remote learning. This study used the original questionnaire, which consisted of 15 questions regarding the implementation of a specific research goal. 110 language teachers employed in state primary, secondary and vocational schools located in the central and northern part of Poland participated in the study. In assessing students' progress in school learning during the remote learning period, language teachers most often used: homework assigned to students; various types of oral and written assignments (essays, tests, oral …

Teachers’ And Learners’ Attitudes Towards The Place Of The Speaking Skill In The Efl Curriculum, Ahmed Hamid Abdulrazzaq

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The teaching of the speaking skill is given very little weight in the EFL curriculum at many educational institutions due to decision makers' conviction that listening and speaking are not as important as the "academic" skills of reading, writing, and grammar. The present study investigates the attitudes of students and English teachers toward the importance of teaching the speaking skill within the EFL curriculum. Forty-two students and ten English teachers participated in the study, which was designed on a survey basis using an open-ended questionnaire. Analysis of the data revealed participants' appreciation of the role that this skill plays in …

Tender Is The Night And Scott Fitzgerald’S Artistic Creativity, Narges Bayat, Ali Taghizadeh

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Scott Fitzgerald’s perspective on the film industry is very complicated. His interest in the visual discourse of the cinema can be regarded as an aesthetic yearning for a meaningful and deliberate discourse that would highlight the importance of visual and spatial descriptions over linguistic ones. This research paper aims to provide some new insight into Tender Is the Night (1934). The argument of this article is based on the fact that Fitzgerald’s familiarity with the cinematic sphere did not guarantee him artistic success. Nevertheless, he used the cinematic strategies of visual description to add meaning and imagination to his fiction …

Negation In English, Arabic And Kurdish: A Contrastive Study, Nafal Salih Islam, Ajwad T.

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The present study focuses on the points of similarities and differences found in English, Arabic and Kurdish languages in terms of negation. The three languages belong to different families and they all exist in the researchers own country (Iraq). Arabic is spoken natively in the middle, the western and the southern parts. Kurdish is spoken natively in the northern part called Kurdistan Region. English is a foreign language in all parts of Iraq. All the three languages under study are taught as school subjects all over Iraq in general and higher education. Negation is dealt with in the three languages …

The Using Vark In Teaching Idioms To Iraqi Efl Students, Tamara Adil Mekki

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The major goal of this research is to determine the impact of using the Vark learning style to teach idioms to Iraqi EFL university students. To fulfill the study's goal, the Vark learning style tactics and features were presented as a style for teaching Iraqi EFL idioms, with the goal of determining if there is a statically significant difference in the experimental group's achievement and the control group's achievement in the posttest. In fact, there is a large disparity in the degrees of recognition and productivity. The study's sample consists of 35 EFL Iraqi students in their 3^rd year …

Self-Efficacy In The Arabic Language Among Intermediate School Students And Its Relationship To The Attitudes Towards Its Learning, Mahmood Halal Abdulalbst Abdulalqader

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The objective of the current research is to reveal the level of self-efficacy and its relationship with the trend towards learning Arabic language among the third grade students. Then, the selection of the research sample from the third grade students in the city of Abha, Saudi Arabia, and then apply the study tools to the research sample, and then statistical analysis and interpretation of the results and provide recommendations and proposals. Level of trend towards learning Arabic, and there is a relationship between the level of self-efficacy and the trend towards learning Arabic.

Manifestations Of The Question In Al-Baradouni's Poetry, Amin Saleh Ahmed Al-Olayani

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This research aims to read the structure of the question in Al-Baradouni's poetry, because the question constitutes a major phenomenon that appears in objective and artistic forms and formations contained in poetry, which in itself constitutes a great question looking at the interpretation of the world, and standing on the secrets of life, homeland, history and the universe in all its details. The research concluded with the following results: The question in Al-Baradouni’s poetry is an objective phenomenon through which the homeland is composed and poetically formed, and reality is exposed with the aim of reforming and purifying it from …

Ferdinand De Susseur: The Known That Is Not Known About, Asmaa Hassan Shalash

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The studies that dealt with Su Sir’s thought and its truth were equal to the studies that dealt with his theory of language, in their abundance. Indeed, many of them were found to deal with Su Sir’s thought and theory under one research, and yet this linguist is still a subject of curiosity and suspicion by scholars; because he did not publish what he wrote, nor did he write what was published about him. Therefore, this research deems that Su Sir did not intend to put the concepts of the language that he studied in contrasting binaries, and perhaps this …

The Translatability Of Qur’Anic Allusions In Darwish’S Poetry: A Comparative Transtextual Approach, Belqes Saif Abdulelah Al-Sowaidi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This study investigates the translation of the Qur’anic allusions in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and how transtextuality has shaped his literary work. This study’s analysis of the translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s poem, ʾanā Yūsuf yā ʾabī incorporated Ritva Leppihalme’s (1994) classification of references as well as Julia Kristeva’s (1980) and Gérard Genette’s (1992) transtextuality models to construct a translation transtextual- based model. It is mainly qualitative in nature, which allows the translation to be analyzed based on an eclectic approach. This study concludes that the literal translation of the poem captures only the surface meaning of the …

Use Of The Theory Of Conceptual Metaphor In Two Sonnets By Victorian Female Poets, Baidaa Abbas Ghubin

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This paper has applied the theoretical framework of conceptual metaphor theory to the analysis of the source and target domains of metaphors that are used in two English nineteenth century sonnets, both written by contemporaneous female poets. The quantitative and qualitative results of the textual analysis have clearly revealed that Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 23 centres around the conceptual mapping of the journey of love and life with that of possession. In contrast, Christina Rossetti’s sonnet Remember tackles the central conceptual mapping of death as a journey in relation to its further experiential connections. In addition, the application of conceptual …