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The Impact Of Teacher Empowerment On Burnout And Intent To Quit In High School World Language Teachers, Jessica Wallis Mcconnell, Peter Swanson

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

The burnout and attrition of teachers is a critical issue both in the United States and internationally. However, there is insufficient empirical research addressing these concerns among world language teachers. This paper reports the results of surveying high school world language teachers across all regions of the United States (N= 313) to investigate the relationship between three constructs: burnout, intent to quit, and teacher empowerment. The results of descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis suggest that teacher empowerment significantly impacts levels of burnout and intent to quit. More specifically, higher levels of professional growth, self-efficacy, and autonomy may predict lower …

Operationalizing The Human Condition, Cultures, And Societies Outcome Through The National Character And Leadership Symposium, Peter Swanson, Rouven Steeves, Michele Johnson

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

This paper focuses on the Human Condition, Cultures, and Societies institutional outcome at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) and highlights the connection between the outcome and the 2024 National Character and Leadership Symposium (NCLS) theme. Each year, the symposium provides the USAFA community and visitors the opportunity to learn from and engage with nationally recognized speakers. Interactions allow participants to contemplate not only the importance of valuing the human condition but also engage concertedly and compassionately with others. Every four years, the NCLS theme is rooted in the institutional outcome of the Human Condition, Cultures, and Societies. This …

Removing Barriers To Wl Teacher Certification: A Closer Look At Edtpa Ratings, Francis John Troyan, Peter Swanson, Victoria Russell

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

Both within the field of world language (WL) teacher education and across teacher education in other disciplines, critiques of the edTPA have increased over the past several years. In WL language education, scholars have identified issues related to raters' use of edTPA rubrics and a serious lack of transparency about rater expertise. To better understand this issue, this study examined the problematic WL edTPA rubrics 8, 9, and 12 to compare the official performance ratings of eight candidates in one WL education program in the Southeastern United States with their performance as determined by three experts using detailed content analyses …

Making Herstory: Admission Of Women To The Evening School Of Commerce, Laurel Bowen

Selections from the University Library Blog

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A Return To Local Governance Of World Language Teacher Preparation Is Needed, Peter Swanson, Jean W. Leloup

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

Given the call by Krashen (2012) and others advocating for shorter, easier to digest research papers, we provide a shorter than usual summary of the World Language edTPA via empirical findings from the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity and researchers in the field. We argue in favor of abandoning the World Language edTPA for manifold reasons in favor of placing world language teacher preparation and subsequent teacher candidate recommendation for certification and licensure where it belongs—in the competent hands of the teacher educators who prepare these individuals.

Sin In A Southern City: The Unearthed History Of Atlanta’S Postbellum-To-Progressive Era Prostitution Trade, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D., Allyson Stephens

University Library Faculty Presentations

This presentation was given by Dr. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh (Georgia State University Library faculty member) and Allyson Stephens (Georgia State University Sociology graduate student) at the 2022 Atlanta Studies Symposium. The presenters describe the methodology and share preliminary analyses of US Census data on Atlanta’s prostitution trade from 1880 through 1910. The presented research is a component of a larger project to reconstruct the lost history of the rise and fall of Atlanta’s prostitution trade from the Postbellum Era through the Progressive Era, drawing from newspapers, US Census data, city directories, property records, maps, and more. This site provides a …

The World Language Shortage Can Be Solved, Peter Swanson

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

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Language Teachers’ Sense Of Efficacy During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Peter Swanson

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

To say that the COVID-19 global pandemic quickly changed the educational landscape in an understatement. The pandemic added another challenging hurdle for educators and students alike as they had to pivot almost immediately from one week to another from traditional face-to-face teaching practices to unfamiliar remote, online environments. Research shows that few teacher education programs in the United States of America (USA) prepared pre-service teachers to deliver instruction remotely (Archambault et al., 2016). In an effort to explore world language teachers’ sense of efficacy during the pandemic, the author surveyed in-service world language teachers (N = 497) in the …

Communicative Online Language Teaching In Disruptive Times: A Redesign Of The Introductory Spanish Curriculum, Peter Swanson, Victoria Russell

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

In this article, the authors describe the redesign of a first-semester Spanish course at the United States Air Force Academy due to the COVID-19 crisis and the subsequent transition from traditional, face-to-face instruction to fully online language teaching during the fall of 2020. More than 200 cadets were enrolled across 11 course sections that were taught by eight different instructors who were required to use the same syllabus, learning platforms, lesson plans, and assessments under the supervision of a course director. The developers integrated a series of pedagogical interventions—such as online integrated performance assessments, lessons and content that were infused …

Proficiency Benchmarking In Spanish, Peter Swanson, Jean-Philippe Peltier, Jean W. Leloup, Darin Earnest, Margaret E. Malone

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

The Language Flagship programs were established at the turn of the century with the goal of creating programs that would move language learners to advanced levels of proficiency in a select number of critical languages (Winke & Gass, 2019). Later, the Flagships called for institutions of higher education to create a viable process to assess proficiency learning in high quality, well-established academic language programs. To answer that call, the present study examines outcomes via end of year proficiency testing in Spanish at the first and second levels of Spanish instruction at the United States Air Force Academy using the Adaptive …

Performing While Black: Disrupting Gender And Sexuality From Trinidad To Norway The Artivism Of Thomas Prestø, Gladys M. Francis

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

In this interview, artistic director and choreographer Thomas Prestø speaks with cultural studies scholar Dr. Gladys M. Francis about his personal journey as a hyper visible black boy who grew up in a Norwegian region known as the hub for neo-Nazi groups that subjected him to various forms of torture. Prestø discusses how these experiences shaped his politics of arts when he founded the Tabanka Dance company to promote “a sustainable black identity” that converges both Caribbean and African movement aesthetics to tell the stories of blacks in Norway. Prestø presents how is body of work informs Black Diaspora studies …

Remapping Disability Through Contested Urban Landscapes And Embodied Performances, Gladys M. Francis

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

Through the themes of disability, fear of contamination, displacement, and race, this article provokes a critical conversation on the political implications and mechanisms of socialization that form Blackness within the fields of cultural, Francophone, and postcolonial studies. An exploration of unchoreographed movements, dance, and textual representations of dance provides new forms of understanding and visibility to socially sanctioned Afro-Diasporic movements in contested urban spaces. Are also revealed the ways in which black bodies and their “alter kinetic aesthetics” are othered within racialized biologics and inscribed in politics of transfiguration. Are explored: 1) the racialized misappropriations and epidemiological implications that link …

The 4 R’S Of Edtpa: Rationale, Roadblocks, Remediation, And Recommendations, Peter Swanson

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

In use in 954 educator preparation programs in 41 states and the District of Columbia (American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, 2021), edTPA seeks to measure beginning teacher effectiveness. While used by many states to inform teacher licensure or certification decisions, this high-stakes assessment is highly problematic. In this article, the authors provide an overview of the World Language edTPA and Communicative Language Teaching approaches, on which the World Language edTPA is based, before specifically noting its shortcomings as an effective instrument to measure novice teacher prowess. Citing longitudinal national data, the authors call attention to the Stanford Center …

"A Friend, A Nimble Mind, And A Book": Girls' Literary Criticism In Seventeen Magazine, 1958-1969, Jill E. Anderson

University Library Faculty Publications

This article argues that postwar Seventeen magazine, a publication deeply invested in enforcing heteronormativity and conventional models of girlhood and womanhood, was in fact a more complex and multivocal serial text whose editors actively sought out, cultivated, and published girls’ creative and intellectual work. Seventeen's teen-authored “Curl Up and Read” book review columns, published from 1958 through 1969, are examples of girls’ creative intellectual labor, introducing Seventeen's readers to fiction and nonfiction which ranged beyond the emerging “young-adult” literature of the period. Written by young people – including thirteen-year-old Eve Kosofsky (later Sedgwick) – who perceived Seventeen to be an …

Invited Lecture Series On L2 Pragmatics (2020): Lecture 1, Shuai Li

World Languages and Cultures Invited Lectures / Talks

Part 1: An introduction to L2 pragmatics

Part 2: The construct of pragmatic competence

Invited Lecture Series On L2 Pragmatics (2020): Lecture 8, Shuai Li

World Languages and Cultures Invited Lectures / Talks

Session 1:

• Survey of pragmatic development in multiple learning contexts: study abroad, virtual, and workplace.

Session 2:

• An empirical study pragmatic development in L2 Chinese during study abroad.

Invited Lecture Series On L2 Pragmatics (2020): Lecture 7, Shuai Li

World Languages and Cultures Invited Lectures / Talks

Session 1:

• Survey a selection of individual difference (ID) factors (i.e., proficiency, aptitude, motivation, identity/agency) in L2 pragmatics.
• Discuss research on individual learner differences in L2 pragmatics.

Session 2:

• An empirical study on the role of foreign language aptitude factors in mediating pragmatics instruction in L2 Chinese.

Invited Lecture Series On L2 Pragmatics (2020): Lecture 3, Shuai Li

World Languages and Cultures Invited Lectures / Talks

Implicature and L2 pragmatics research

Invited Lecture Series On L2 Pragmatics (2020): Lecture 2, Shuai Li

World Languages and Cultures Invited Lectures / Talks

Speech act & politeness in L2 pragmatics research

Invited Lecture Series On L2 Pragmatics (2020): Lecture 6, Shuai Li

World Languages and Cultures Invited Lectures / Talks

Session 1:

• Overview
• Aspects of instructed L2 pragmatics learning
• Pragmatics teaching in L2 Chinese

Session 2:

• An empirical study on instructed L2 pragmatics learning

Invited Lecture Series On L2 Pragmatics (2020): Lecture 4, Shuai Li

World Languages and Cultures Invited Lectures / Talks

Research on L2 pragmatic routines

Invited Lecture Series On L2 Pragmatics (2020): Lecture 5, Shuai Li

World Languages and Cultures Invited Lectures / Talks

Session 1: Data collection methods, pragmatics assessment, pragmatic competence

Session 2: An empirical study on assessing speech acts in L2 Chinese

Quality Videos And Integrated Performance Assessments Are Essential In The World Language Edtpa, Peter Swanson, Jean W. Leloup

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

For more than 60 years, educational reform in the United States of America has been driven by four major questions revolving around teacher attributes, effectiveness, knowledge, and outcomes. Today, outcomes for not only students but also for those who teach them have become a focal point. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the World Language edTPA—a performance-based, subject-specific assessment for pre-service teachers in 27 content areas that is now in place in 41 states and the District of Columbia. The authors begin by highlighting educational policy and best practices in teaching languages before providing research-based suggestions regarding the …

An Ethical Response To The “Gender Trouble” In Choral Music, Patrick K. Freer

Music Faculty Publications

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Variations In Rating Scale Functioning In Assessing Pragmatic Performance In L2 Chinese, Shuai Li, Naoko Taguchi, Feng Xiao

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

Adopting Linacre’s guidelines for evaluating rating scale effectiveness, we examined whether and how a six-point rating scale functioned differently across raters, speech acts, and second language (L2) proficiency levels. We developed a 12-item Computerized Oral Discourse Completion Task (CODCT) for assessing the production of requests, refusals, and compliment responses among 109 examinees of L2 Chinese. Their oral productions were evaluated by two L1 Chinese raters based on a holistic rating scale simultaneously tapping communicative function, situational appropriateness, and grammaticality. Rating scale functioning differed across raters, speech acts, and proficiency levels. Such variations were caused by multiple factors: (1) the two …

Transnational Black Politics And Resistance From Enslavement To Obama Through The Prism Of 1619, Frank Obeland, Nele Sawallisch, Elizabeth J. West

English Faculty Publications

Four centuries after the 1619 arrival of forty Africans to Jamestown, marking the birth of US slavery, the year 2019 reminds us that the presence, triumphs, and struggles of African-descended people in the Atlantic world represent a history whose roots extend deep and long into the transnational origins of the so-called new world.

Whiteness In African American Antebellum Literature: An Enduring Imprint In The Lived And Literary Black Imagination, Elizabeth J. West

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

In Dialogue: Response To Graham Mcphail, “Too Much Noise In The Classroom? Towards A Praxis Of Conceptualization”, Patrick K. Freer

Music Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Cognitive Approaches In L2 Pragmatics Research, Shuai Li

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

This chapter reviews L2 pragmatics research informed by cognitive SLA theories. Following R. Ellis’s (2008) classification, the chapter first introduces two theories — the two-dimensional model, and the skill acquisition theory or ACT-R, which focus on the mental representation of L2 knowledge and then reviews empirical evidence in L2 pragmatics under these theories. The chapter then shifts to the Noticing Hypothesis that concerns cognitive processes that can lead to changes in mental representation of L2 knowledge. Suggestions for future research under each of the three cognitive SLA theorizations are provided. This chapter ends with a call for more studies that …

Contextual Variations Of Mitigations In Chinese Requests, Shuai Li

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

This study investigates contextual variations in mitigation production (consisting of internal and external modifications) in idealistic Chinese request-making (i.e., what native Chinese speakers consider appropriate to say in hypothetical scenarios). The participants were 22 native Chinese speakers recruited from a university in China. They completed a 20-item Oral Discourse Completion Test (ODCT) tapping two contextual variables: power and imposition. The results show that: (1) both power and imposition exerted significant influence on the frequency of producing internal and external modifications, (2) the various internal and external modifiers were differentially associated with the two contextual variables, and (3) the preferred sequential …