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Jcctl Mailer - August 10, 2022, Josef Brandauer

JCCTL Mailers

Updates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on August 10, 2022.

Contents:

Upcoming Events:

• 30 minutes with Kelli Murphy – Effective and Efficient Moodle Course Design Strategies
• Supporting International and Multilingual Student Writers
• Practical Ideas for Creating Effective Syllabi
• Trauma-Informed Approaches in Teaching

Other Recommended Resources:

• Creating Videos from PowerPoint
• Panopto Video Tutorials

Three Professors Land Fulbright Awards, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Faculty members will travel to Spain, Morocco, Romania and Israel for innovative research

The Intersectionality Of Stuttering And Aging, Mary Elizabeth Herring

University Honors Theses

The purpose of this study is to explore relationships between stuttering and aging so that speech-language pathologists can be informed about the intersectionality of these identities.

Three adult men who stutter, all over the age of 65, were interviewed in semi-structured interviews. Interview transcripts were analyzed with in-vivo coding to find codes and themes between participants. From the interviews, 20 categories were identified. These categories were then funneled into four overarching themes: 1) Personal factors impacted by stuttering, 2) Stuttering perspectives across the lifespan, 3) Stuttering therapy experiences, and 4) Covert stuttering.

This study shows that attitudes, perspectives, and experiences …

Multimodal Vocabulary Instruction: An Approach For Supporting Reading Comprehension, Mary K. Van Singel

Masters Theses

Children bring a wide range of vocabulary knowledge and prior experiences with them when they enter school. Research suggests that in order to bridge childrens’ word knowledge and the word knowledge needed for academic success, teachers must take on a multimodal instructional approach to foster vocabulary development and reading comprehension in students. This project explores how word knowledge develops in children as well as various research based features of vocabulary instruction to support word learning in the classroom. The project is designed to offer teachers professional development that works to grow teacher expertise for what effective vocabulary instruction is, the …

Demystifying Implied Terms, Marcus Moore

All Faculty Publications

Recent years have witnessed significant interest in demystifying the implication of contract terms. Whilst the discussion thus far has elicited some answers, the subject remains notoriously ‘elusive'. This article advances discussion in the field. It argues that underlying recent debates are deeper issues that must be brought to the surface. These include theoretical incoherence regarding the nature/purpose of implication tracing back to The Moorcock (1889), and analytical indeterminacy in applying the established ‘tests' for implication, as courts vary between conflicting instrumental and non-instrumental approaches. Feeding both issues is inconsistent linguistic use of core terminology. This article helps demystify implication by …

Building On Best Practices And Organizational Expertise: Informing Curriculum Design For Refugee And Asylum-Seeking Youth At Philadelphia Outward Bound School, Emily Della Fera

Capstone Collection

Refugee and asylum-seeking youth experience a variety of barriers within education, social adjustment and inclusion, and mental and physical health when resettling to a new country. These barriers which can be mitigated with outdoor education programs that supplement existing resettlement programs. Outdoor education has proven positive outcomes in youth’s self-perception and confidence, school performance, community and relationship building, and physical and mental health. This course-linked capstone designs curriculum for an outdoor education program that will be proposed to the Philadelphia Outward Bound School. Designed specifically for refugee and asylum-seeking youth, the curriculum fosters environments for participants to build relationships, gain …

C60 Hydrofullerene Induced Autophagy And Ameliorated Gfap In H2o2 Treated Human Malignant Glioblastoma U-373 Cell Line, Aryan M. Faraj, Can A. Agca, Victor S. Nedzvetsky, Artem A. Tykhomyrov

Karbala International Journal of Modern Science

Glioblastoma is one of the most combative astrocytoma that is resistant to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This resistance makes it very difficult to treat. However, researches have shown that nanoparticles especially C60 hydrofullerene have antioxidant and anticancer activity. The effect of C60 hydrofullerene in cancer has been extensively studied; however, the potential regulation of autophagy and modulation of the Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) gene has not been addressed in glioblastomas. Glioblastoma U-373 cell was treated with 0.5 µM of C60 hydrofullerene and/or 1 mM of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) for 24 hours. This study demonstrated that C60 hydrofullerene and H2O2 significantly …

Arabic Compliment Responses: A Transfer Of Strategies?, Jathla A. Mahmood, M.A

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تهدف هذه الدراسة الى الكشف عن ما اذا كان الناطقين بالعربية من العرب ينقلون ستراتيجياتهم العربية التقليدية المستخدمة في الرد على الاطراء عندما يقوم شخص لغته الام هي الانكليزية الامريكية بالثناء عليهم. تم اخذ الفروقات بين الجنسين بنظرالاعتبار. جمعت البيانات عن طريق استخدام الاستبيانات والتي اعطيت لمشتركين عرب من مختلف الدول العربية والذين يعيشون في الولايات المتحدة الامريكية من مدة اقلها شهرين. على العموم, لم يظهر المشتركين نقلا لستراتيجياتهم العربية وانما قاموا باستخدام ردود الاطراء الامريكية التقليدية بدلا عنها. تم مناقشة وتحليل النتائج من وجهة نظر لغوية- اجتماعية مختلفة الثقافات واخذ بنظر الاعتبار مالهذه النتائج من اثر في ابراز اثار …

تطور القدرة اللغوية لدى الأطفال, أ.م.د. نبراس مجبل صالح

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تحتل القدرة اللغوية مكانة بارزة في التنظيم العقلي للإنسان (الشيخ،1982: 240). وأكدت البحوث والدراسات على أن القدرة اللغوية هي أكثر العوامل مسؤولية عن الفروق الفردية في النشاط العقلي – بعد العامل العام – (أبو حطب، 1973 : 295) ، إذ يشير " سكنر" إلى وجود معامل ارتباط ايجابي بين نتائج الذكاء والقدرة اللغوية. ويؤكد " تيرمان " إن الاختبار اللغوي له قيمة أفضل من أي اختبار للذكاء (هرمز،1989:11).

ثبات حروف الوحي ودعوات التغيير دراسة نقدية, د. أحمد علي نعمة

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تعرَّض البحثُ لبيان أحد أهمِّ الجوانب التي تتَّسم بها حروف الوحي التي دُوِّن بها تراث اللغة ووحي السماء قرآناً وسنَّة، وتعرَّض لما لثبات تلك الحروف رسماً ونطقاً من أثر عظيم على التراث الذي تحمله، وعرَّج على تداعيات الأصوات المنبعثة من هنا وهناك والداعية إلأى تغيير تلك الحروف والتلاعب بها، وعلى بعض الإفرازات غير المقصودة التي خطت خطوات نحو ذلك التغيير المحظور؛ فجاء على ثلاثة مباحث، درستُ في الأول منها أهمَّ التحديات الدَّاهمة لحُرُوف الوحي الحكيم وسُبُل مواجهتها، في حين يعرض المبحث الثاني لأهمِّ الأقوال والمزاعم التي تبنَّاها دُعاة التغيير، وجاء المبحث الثالث لعرض بعض الأخطاء الفردية والمجتمعية السَّائدة لطائفة من …

Apologies Between Married Couples Apologies Between Married Couples: Iraqis And Americans, Jathla A. Mahmood

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

This study aims at examining the apology behavior of married couples; Iraqis and Americans. Gender- based differences are taken into consideration. The data is collected by means of DCTs (discourse completion tasks). The findings show that both American and Iraqi couples are in favor of long apologies. Yet, more Iraqi wives than Americans used long apologies. The American and Iraqi husbands used long apologies at the same rate. As to gender differences, they are more obvious in the American than Iraqi data. However, it is hard to say that women are more apologetic than men. The findings are interpreted and …

Assessing The Translations Of The Qur'anic Word (Jazā') Into English, Assistant Instructor Ibrahim Talaat Ibrahim Abdulbaqi

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

style and important topics. Besides, the Glorious Qur'an is of divine authorship. The current paper is divided into four parts. The first is about the relation between ambiguity, context and translation. Part two deals with translation and its relation to the Glorious Qur'an, whereas the third part is concerned with the ayas chosen for the paper and their commentaries. Finally, Part Four is the practical part. It is about assessing the translations of the Qur'anic word (jazā') depending on existing Qur'anic translations to see how far those translators are successful in rendering the said word, especially the word …

جمالية السخرية في شعر أحمد مطر دراسة أسلوبية, د. بشرى عبد المجيد تاكفراست

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

للشاعر أحمد مطر تيمة أسلوبية متميزة في اختيار الألفاظ وتوزيعها وترتيب أجزاء الجملة لغايات فنية جمالية، تهز القارئ بانحرافاتها وتنافر حمولاتها وتشظي قراءتها وكثافة دلالتها، تستدعي قارئا متقنا للعبة الألغاز اللغوية بحمولة ثقافية عالية حتى لا ينزلق في متاهات الدلالات... فلغته خاصة ضمن اللغة العامة، وخطابه غير عاد ضمن الخطابات التواصلية العادية . يؤسس ذاته وجماليته في تمرده عن التأثير القواعدي /النحوي، وعن السنن اللغوية الشائعة.

وتبغي هذه المداخلة التي تحمل عنوان: " جمالية السخرية في شعر أحمد مطر، دراسة أسلوبية " الكشف عن مظاهر شعرية وتجليات جمالية في شعر أحمد مطر الساخر، وذلك للوقوف على الإيماضة الفنية، وجمالية الانصهار …

البديع بين أصالة المعنى وتبعيته, أ.م.د. مثنى نعيم حمادي, أ.م .د. عبد الناصر طه مزهر

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

لم يكن يعني مصطلح البديع ما يتبادر إلى الأذهان منه عند المتأخرين من علماء البلاغة، وهو أنه ((علم يعرف به وجوه تحسين الكلام بعد رعاية تطبيقه على مقتضى الحال، ووضوح الدلالة))^([i])، وإنما كان يراد به طرق الأداء اللغوي، ووسائل التصوير الفني وعلى هذا فقد دخل تحته كثير من الأساليب البلاغية التي لا تقتصر على علم بعينه.

يتضح من خلال التعريف الآنف الذكر أن المراد بالبديع هو (التحسين والتزيين)، وأن وظيفته مقصورة على الطلاء والزخرفة.

وبهذا يكون البديع قليل الجدوى في البحث عن القيمة في العمل الأدبي؛ لأنه يقف عند حدود التحسين والتزيين.

ولكن هل هذا الفهم …

A Socio-Pragmatic Study Of Request Modification In Iraqi Non-Standard Arabic., Ass. Lecturer Maysoon Khaldoon Khattab

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

This study aims at finding out whether there are any gender-based differences in the use of external modification devices in request by native speakers of Iraqi non-standard Arabic. The data is collected by means of DCTs (discourse completion tasks). The subjects are Iraqi students and all of them are native speakers of Iraqi non-standard Arabic representing both males and females. The result shows that there are differences between Iraqi males and females in the rate of frequencies of the external modification devices. The results are discussed , analyzed and pedagogical implications are highlighted.

المهارات اللغوية ودورها في التواصل اللغوي, م.رافـد صباح التميميم, بلال إبراهيم يعقوب

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يرمي هذا البحث معرفة أهمية المهارات اللغوية في التواصل اللغوي .

وتضمن البحث مشكلة البحث المتضمنة أهمية اللغة والوضائف التي تؤديها من وجهة نظر فلسفية واجتماعية والتي تنعكس على ضعف الاداء اللغوي الذي يقدمه المتعلمون ، واشار البحث إلى مفهوم التواصل اللغوي المبني على اساس اللغة أحد أهم المفاهيم المرتبطة بالانسان وعدّ التواصل هو الحياة التي لا يمكن الاستمرار بها دون تواصل والتي تهدف الى والاقتراب من خلال عناصر التواصل المتمثلة بالمرسل والرسالة والمستقبل وبيئة الاتصال وعناصره وقنواته وصياغته الممكن اجراؤها من خلال الاتصال الذاتي والاتصال الشخصي والاتصال العام الجماهيري والثقافي ومهاراتها الاربعة (الاستماع والحديث والقراءة والكتابه) ودور كل مهارة …

مبتكرات القرآن في الألفاظ والتراكيب, ا .د. دريد حسن أحمد

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

هذا بحث جمعت فيه الألفاظ والتراكيب المبتكرة التي أشار اليها المفسر الكبير ابن عاشور في موسوعته التفسيرية (التفسير والتنوير) والوقوف على الألفاظ أو التراكيب المبتكرة من أصعب الأمور لأنها تحتاج إلى اطلاع واسع جدا عن علوم الأولين و الأخرين وعلى كلام العرب شعرا ونثرا قبل الإسلام وبعده، وهذا مالايقوم به إلا العلماء الكبار ومنهم العلامة ابن عاشور، فقد تصدى لهذه المهمة وهو أهل لها فهو أديب ونحوي وبياني ومفكر إسلامي من طراز رفيع تشهد له مؤلفاته في شتى المجالات .

أثر القراءات القرآنية في تعدد الأوجه الإعرابية (المفاعيل إنموذجاً), م.د. عباس حميد سلطان

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

استأثرت القراءات باهتمام الدارسين القدامى منهم والمحدثين، لِمَا تمثله من الظواهر المتعددة، ولِمَا تضعه بين أيدي دارسي النحو واللغة من وجوه الاستشهاد المختلفة، وهي فضلاً عن ذلك أعلى الشواهد رتبةً وأصحها سنداً، وأدقها ضبطاً، ثُمَّ أنَّ كثرة وجوهها وتباينها سبعيةَّ كانت، أو عشرية، أو ما زاد على ذلك أو شاذةً، يجعل منها الميدان الرحب والمعين الثر الذي يمد الدارسين بما يتطلبونه لإثراء دراساتهم وتوثيقها.

وانطلاقاً مِمَّا تقدم ذكره، فقد أردنا في بحثنا هذا أن نقف عند أثر هذه القراءات القرآنية في تعدد الوجوه الإعرابية للألفاظ التي وقع الخلاف في قراءتها بين القراء، وكذلك للنظر في بيان الأسس التي تقوه عليها …

Conventionally Indirect Requests In The Press Conferences Of U.S. Presidents Barack Obama And John F. Kennedy, Maysoon Khaldoon Khattab

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

No abstract provided.

A Linguistic Analysis Of Parallelism In Marianne Moore's Poems (Nevertheless, A Face, What Are Years?), Ghufraan Abdul-Hameed Ali

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

No abstract provided.

التعدد الوظيفيللبدل بين النحويين والمفسرين, م.عماد علوان حسين

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

No abstract provided.

الاتباع Reduplication في اللغتين العربية واللانكليزية - دراسة مقارنة, أ.م.د. هيام فهمي ابراهيم, أ.د صباح صليبي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

No abstract provided.

Farming As A Poetic Process: A Study In Robert Frost’S “After Apple-Picking” And Seamus Heaney’S “Digging”, Asst. Inst.: Hamid Badry Abdul Salam

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

Every poet has his own conception of writing poetry. If we trace back the history of poetry, we can see that poets have been taking many roles and assigned themselves different missions. Sometimes they are introduced as teachers, moralists, educationalists and guardians of society. On other occasions, they appear as philosophers and prophets who are concerned with moral values and the good of society. While in some other times they act like leaders and politicians who take the responsibility to guide people to better future. As far as this paper is concerned, the poet appears as a farmer who plants …

Manipulation Of Meaning In Political Discourse, Asst. Ins. Shawqi K. Ismail (M. A.)

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

No abstract provided.

Leveraging Large Language Models Trained On Code For Symbol Binding, Joshua Robinson

Theses and Dissertations

While large language models like GPT-3 have achieved impressive results in the zero-, one-, and few-shot settings, they still significantly underperform on some tasks relative to the state of the art (SOTA). For many tasks it would be useful to have answer options explicitly listed out in a multiple choice format, decreasing computational cost and allowing the model to reason about the relative merits of possible answers. We argue that the reason this hasn't helped models like GPT-3 close the gap with the SOTA is that these models struggle with symbol binding - associating each answer option with a symbol …

A Christian Perspective On Islam's Origins: Its Religion, Founder, And Practices, German Matos

Masters Theses

The many years of exposure to Islamic believers in the five boroughs of New York State, but more specifically, the Bronx, set a precedent for this thesis to comprehensively analyze the religion of Islam by investigating the Abrahamic monotheistic connection to its historical origins and religious practices. The methods used in this thesis to prove Islam’s legitimacy as an Abrahamic monotheistic heir consisted of sources like the Qur’an, hadith, and tafsir texts translated from Arabic into English. The simultaneous usage of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and authoritative secular sources was used to scrutinize Islam’s theological and historical claims to formulate a …

A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Of Culturally-Adapted, Telehealth Group Acceptance And Commitment Therapy For Iranian Adolescent Females Reporting Symptoms Of Anxiety, Mehdi Zemestani, Mojgan Hosseini, Julie M. Petersen, Michael P. Twohig

Psychology Faculty Publications

While the efficacy of internet-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has been examined for different mental health concerns in high-income countries, evidence for the potential efficacy of culturally-adapted ACT in non-Western, low- and middle-income countries is scarce. The present study is a randomized, waitlist-controlled trial of culturally-adapted, online, manualized group ACT for anxiety in Iranian adolescent females. To participate, adolescents had to identify as female, report interfering anxiety symptoms, be currently attending high school, and be within the age range of 15–18 years old. Individuals in the active condition (n = 24) participated in eight group sessions delivered over the …

Assessing The Usefulness Of The Livingroom Learning Gardens At Galloway Elementary School, Partnership Middle School, And Leland Park Middle School For Teaching, Benjamin Little Gunter

Theses and Dissertations

As more schools incorporate learning gardens into their campuses to help educate school children on nutrition (Parmer and Stuempler, 2009), connect students to nature (Bucher, 2017), and grow healthy food; there is a need to better understand how the physical design and components of the garden facilitate the use and programming of the gardens for teaching. There is little research on how the physical characteristics of a garden influence those benefits and challenges. This study seeks to assess the usefulness of an intentionally designed garden typology that has been implemented at three different school sites. By documenting the differences between …

Examining The Barriers To Building Multicultural Competence Of School Psychology Graduate Students, Jasmine C. Gray

Theses and Dissertations

Historically, school aged students from diverse backgrounds have experienced detrimental effects as a result of school psychologists who fail to consider cultural differences when providing services. The demographics of students in K- 12 schools have increasingly become more diverse which only exacerbates the need for multiculturally competent school psychologists. Research has identified graduate programs as an area to intervene and ensure future school psychologists are receiving training necessary for developing multicultural competence. Within the literature, graduate student attitude towards multiculturalism and program climate have been identified as barriers to developing multicultural competence in graduate students. Therefore, the purpose of the …

Let’S Talk: The Dual Process Model Of Supportive Communication In Peers, Erica Marie Szkody

Theses and Dissertations

Supportive messages occur within most relationships. Researchers have found strong relationships between social support and various physical and psychological health outcomes, but the specific mechanisms at work have yet to be fully explored. Many factors contribute to whether a supportive interaction is processed as helpful or supportive by the recipient including relational factors, message content, past experiences, etc. For peer dyads, the context and supportive messages individuals provide their peer may inhibit or contribute to their perception of their peer’s supportive behavior. The current study examined the impact of contextual factors (such as family communication patterns and relationship quality) on …