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A Closer Look At Using Stringer’S Action Research Model In Improving Students’ Learning, Mohammad Ali Nasrollahi Jul 2015

A Closer Look At Using Stringer’S Action Research Model In Improving Students’ Learning, Mohammad Ali Nasrollahi

Mohammad Ali Nasrollahi(Ph.D)

Action research is a systematic approach to investigation that enables people to find effective solutions to problems they confront in their everyday lives. A significant feature is that action research lays claim to the professional development in education. Action research as any systematic inquiry conducted by teachers, administrators, and counselors with a vested interest in the teaching and learning process, for the purpose of gathering data about how their particular schools operate, how they teach, and how their students learn. Education is perhaps the most prolific source of action research resources. Action research can be done by teachers in their …


Artistic Synergism And Disruptive Continuity In Nol Alembong's "The Beginning", Oscar C. Labang Jun 2015

Artistic Synergism And Disruptive Continuity In Nol Alembong's "The Beginning", Oscar C. Labang

Dr. Oscar C. Labang

The analytical trajectory of this paper narrows the general, complex and complicated spectrum of intertextuality discourses to a form of intertextual reworking and playfulness, which is called narrative intertextuality. It examines the intertextual matrix upon which the Anglophone Cameroon poet, Nol Alembong, engages a dialogue between texts from different cultural, mythological, philosophical and narratological perspectives. Through textual exegeses of the short poem “The Beginning”, this paper argues that Alembong develops a poetic narrative on the frame of older narratives not necessarily to invite the reader to contemplate the old text but intriguingly to situate the poetic piece within the collective …


Toward A Postcolonial African Ecopoetics, Oscar C. Labang May 2015

Toward A Postcolonial African Ecopoetics, Oscar C. Labang

Dr. Oscar C. Labang

No abstract provided.


Humanization Of Forest: The Postcolonial African Ecopoetics Of Emmanuel Fru Doh, Oscar C. Labang May 2015

Humanization Of Forest: The Postcolonial African Ecopoetics Of Emmanuel Fru Doh, Oscar C. Labang

Dr. Oscar C. Labang

No abstract provided.


Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, Gang Zhao Mar 2015

Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, Gang Zhao

Gang Zhao

No abstract provided.


English Poems With Oriental Flavors, Sugeng Purwanto Jan 2015

English Poems With Oriental Flavors, Sugeng Purwanto

Sugeng Purwanto

Just a collection of Self-Written Poems for Fun


"Not I!": Strategies Of Post-Millennial Confessionalistic Poetry, Charlotte J. Pence Jan 2015

"Not I!": Strategies Of Post-Millennial Confessionalistic Poetry, Charlotte J. Pence

Charlotte Pence

With the technological ability and pop-cultural fascination to record private moments and distribute them, poetry that reveals personal details and conflates the identity between speaker and author must feel the effects of what could be viewed as an over-saturation of the confessional—which was during the 1950s and 1960s with Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath a political, rebellious act. It is far from that now. In this Kim Kardashian era, revealing sex tapes are used as marketing tools to launch careers whereas once they destroyed careers. Considering the hyper-confessional climate of our era and that “Confessional” is something of …


Process Of Implementing Critical Reading Strategies In An Iranian Efl Classroom: An Action Research, Mohammad Ali Nasrollahi, Pramela Krish N.Krishnasamy, Noorizah Mohd Noor Jan 2015

Process Of Implementing Critical Reading Strategies In An Iranian Efl Classroom: An Action Research, Mohammad Ali Nasrollahi, Pramela Krish N.Krishnasamy, Noorizah Mohd Noor

Mohammad Ali Nasrollahi(Ph.D)

Action research designs are systematic procedures used by teachers to gather quantitative and qualitative data to address improvements in their educational setting, their teaching, and the learning of their students. Action research enables teachers to keep track and take account of the many aspects of their work with students through a systematic routine. This study aims to investigate the critical reading strategies employed by Iranian EFL students. To achieve the aim of the study, the Stringer’s Action Research Model that is a cyclical and repetitive process of inquiry i.e. Look, Think, and Act was utilized. This study used Bloom’s taxonomy …


Identifying The Critical Reading Strategies Employed By Iranian Efl Learners, Mohammad Ali Nasrollahi, Pramela Krish N.Krishnasamy, Noorizah Mohd Noor Jan 2015

Identifying The Critical Reading Strategies Employed By Iranian Efl Learners, Mohammad Ali Nasrollahi, Pramela Krish N.Krishnasamy, Noorizah Mohd Noor

Mohammad Ali Nasrollahi(Ph.D)

Critical reading refers the way in which the students and teachers interact in the classroom to practice a higher form of comprehension. The study focuses on the introduction of critical reading strategies, and attempts to show how much Iranian EFL student use the level of thinking (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) as expounded in the cognitive domain of Bloom’s taxonomy during reading.The objective of this research is to identify the critical reading strategies employed by Iranian EFL students. In order to achieve the aim, this study employed the first phase of Stringer’s Action Research Model that is Look.The qualitative approaches including …


The Vault At Pfaff's: An Archive Of Art And Literature By The Bohemians Of Antebellum New York., Edward Whitley, Robert Weidman Jan 2015

The Vault At Pfaff's: An Archive Of Art And Literature By The Bohemians Of Antebellum New York., Edward Whitley, Robert Weidman

Rob Weidman

The Vault at Pfaff's is an online collection of primary and secondary source documents about the community of bohemian artists, writers, journalists, actors, and critics who joined with Walt Whitman at Charles Pfaff's beer cellar in midtown Manhattan during the years 1855-65. While the Pfaff's bohemians have always held a small place in American literary history thanks to their association with Whitman, there are many unanswered questions about the impact that they had--either as individuals or as a group--on the literary, artistic, and theatrical culture of the antebellum United States. The mission of The Vault at Pfaff's is twofold: (1) …