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Slow Emergencies, Jordyn N. Rhorer Jan 2016

Slow Emergencies, Jordyn N. Rhorer

Theses and Dissertations--English

Like the ever-circling lines in the skin of trees, sometimes the whole of a person is peeled back, layer by layer, until only seeds remain. Names, faces, stories, and relationships are unmade and molded into new shapes. Without warning, those left at the base, at the roots, can’t recognize this maple’s form. They hold a pile of leaves, a bottle of glue, and the hope that something familiar will take sprout again. The tree becomes new, and its tangled branches reach out. These poems explore the lives of those living with and caring for those with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. …


Criterion, Volume 34, 2016, Loyola Marymount University English Department Jan 2016

Criterion, Volume 34, 2016, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Editor-in-Chief: Megan Brown


Contact Improvisation: Concepts Of Physics Transformed Into Art, Gianna F. Todisco Jan 2016

Contact Improvisation: Concepts Of Physics Transformed Into Art, Gianna F. Todisco

Dance Department Best Student Papers

No abstract provided.


Killer Feminism, Patricia White Jan 2016

Killer Feminism, Patricia White

Film & Media Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Figure Of An Anartist: Keeping Local Francophone Literature Engaged With Mustapha Benfodil's Literature-Action, Alexandra Gueydan-Turek Jan 2016

Figure Of An Anartist: Keeping Local Francophone Literature Engaged With Mustapha Benfodil's Literature-Action, Alexandra Gueydan-Turek

French & Francophone Studies Faculty Works

At a time when the Algerian Francophone publishing market remains dominated by Paris and the readership of French is said to be dwindling in Algeria, the future of Algeria's Francophone literary culture appears bleak. Through the writings of Mustapha Benfodil, perhaps the most unavoidable author from the post-Civil War generation, this article analyzes the ways in which contemporary Algerian literature asserts its autonomy from the Parisian “center” and redefines the literary sphere as a cornerstone of social change in Algeria. Paying particular attention to the figure of the “anartiste” first described in Archéologie du chaos (amoureux) (Barzakh, 2007), and later …


Somebody’S Saints March In, Nathalie Anderson Jan 2016

Somebody’S Saints March In, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Minding The White Horse, Nathalie Anderson Jan 2016

Minding The White Horse, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Agency From A Stone: Shelley’S Posthumanist Experiments In "Mont Blanc", Betsy Bolton Jan 2016

Agency From A Stone: Shelley’S Posthumanist Experiments In "Mont Blanc", Betsy Bolton

English Literature Faculty Works

This article reads Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ as an extended exploration into possible modes of relationship linking the human mind to the material world. The modes of relationship considered by Shelley anticipate many of the structures and strategies developed by posthumanist theory, including structural coupling, strategic anthropomorphism, imagistic translation, and human-nonhuman assemblages. After summarizing Kantian and post-Kantian readings of ‘Mont Blanc,’ the essay works through an extended close reading of the poem to elucidate its proto-posthumanist elements.


Jill Gladstein: A Data-Driven Researcher, C. Rutz, Jill M. Gladstein Jan 2016

Jill Gladstein: A Data-Driven Researcher, C. Rutz, Jill M. Gladstein

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


“Animal Spirits”, Peter Schmidt Jan 2016

“Animal Spirits”, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

In “Animal Spirits” looks in some depth at several of Williams’s poems about dogs or cats written over the course of his career, from “Sub Terra” (1917); “Poem (As the cat)” (from the 1930s); the dogs of Paterson; and “To a Dog Injured in the Street,” which exemplifies the elegiac poetics and representational paradoxes of Williams’s late triadic style. Cats for Williams exemplify energy in precise control, its perfection in form—and that was his lifelong quest. Dogs, on the other paw, embodied for Williams the boundary-breaking force of uncorraled creativity breaking form. Both spirits, figured as animals, were totems central …


Implementing Clil In Higher Education In Thailand: The Extent To Which Clil Improves Agricultural Students' Writing Ability, Agricultural Content, And Cultural Knowledg, Charinee Chansri, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi Jan 2016

Implementing Clil In Higher Education In Thailand: The Extent To Which Clil Improves Agricultural Students' Writing Ability, Agricultural Content, And Cultural Knowledg, Charinee Chansri, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi

PASAA

The present study aimed to investigate the extent to which a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) course at university level in Thailand improves undergraduate Agricultural students' writing ability, agricultural content, and cultural knowledge. The study sample consisted of 27 students majoring in Agriculture at a public university in Thailand. Data were collected in the forms of writing, agricultural content, and cultural knowledge pre- and post-tests. The study findings suggested that after attending the CLIL course, the students showed significant improvement in their English writing abilities in both of the two text types: process and cause and effects, with better …


The Impact Of Teaching Communication Strategies On English Speaking Of Engineering Undergraduates, Tiwaporn Kongsom Jan 2016

The Impact Of Teaching Communication Strategies On English Speaking Of Engineering Undergraduates, Tiwaporn Kongsom

PASAA

This study investigates the impact of teaching communication strategies on Thai engineering undergraduate students' communication strategy use and strategic competence. Fifty-seven engineering undergraduate students were taught ten communication strategies for ten weeks and responded to a self-report communication strategy questionnaire before and after the communication strategy instruction. In order to elicit the students' use of communication strategies, 12 of 57 students completed four speaking tasks before and after receiving the instruction. Data were collected using a self-report communication strategy questionnaire, four speaking tasks, and a rating form indicating the level of strategic competence. The findings from this questionnaire showed that …


An Analysis Of Intercultural Communicative Competence: Hotel Front Office Personnel In Bangkok, Manachai Inkaew Jan 2016

An Analysis Of Intercultural Communicative Competence: Hotel Front Office Personnel In Bangkok, Manachai Inkaew

PASAA

When we consider a strategy for dealing with globalization, it can be seen that intercultural interactions and encounters are very important and appropriate as effective outcomes are expected. Therefore, the need to assess the intercultural communicative competence (ICC) of those expected to achieve these outcomes is worth consideration. This study examined the intercultural communicative competence of front office personnel working in hotels in Bangkok. The study aimed to find out whether or not these hotel front office personnel were equipped with and/or have adequate intercultural competence to deal with interculturally diverse interactions within their workplace. The intercultural competence framework of …


In The Right Place At The Right Time: Asian English Accents In A Listening Test For Healthcare Professions, Khwanchanok Suebsook, Dumrong Adunyarittigun Jan 2016

In The Right Place At The Right Time: Asian English Accents In A Listening Test For Healthcare Professions, Khwanchanok Suebsook, Dumrong Adunyarittigun

PASAA

The rise of medical tourism and the increasing number of international patients from Asian countries have led Thai healthcare professionals to serve a lot of Asian patients and to encounter a complexity of language use in their workplace. There is a necessity for these professionals to strive for an understanding of Asian accents spoken by the patients in order to ensure successful communication and subsequently to best provide them with highquality medical services. Therefore, the ability to understand Asian accents has become necessary for healthcare professionals. To enhance test validity and authenticity and promote beneficial washback, English proficiency tests used …


Idea Sharing : Do Students Learn Better Through A More Entertaining Way? The Case Of Taiwan Efl Students, Chin Min Lin, Chita Wu Jan 2016

Idea Sharing : Do Students Learn Better Through A More Entertaining Way? The Case Of Taiwan Efl Students, Chin Min Lin, Chita Wu

PASAA

This article aims at sharing with the readers two ways of English vocabulary learning based upon a small-scale study conducted in Taiwan. The participants of this study were one hundred and three university students randomly chosen from universities in Taiwan. They received questionnaires and vocabulary teaching videos through e-mail or Facebook. The distributed questionnaires contained demographic questions and vocabulary pre-tests and post-tests. The videos were composed of two different modalities of vocabulary teaching. In modality one, the vocabulary was presented with an explanation of the roots of the words, similar words, and related words. In modality two, the vocabulary was …


Variable Production Of English Past Tense Morphology: A Case Study Of A Thai-Speaking Learner Of English, Chariya Prapobaratanakul, Nattama Pongpairoj Jan 2016

Variable Production Of English Past Tense Morphology: A Case Study Of A Thai-Speaking Learner Of English, Chariya Prapobaratanakul, Nattama Pongpairoj

PASAA

The study investigated variable production of English past tense morphology by an L1 Thaispeaking learner of English. Due to the absence of the past tense inflectional morphology in the Thai language, production of English past tense morphemes poses a persistent problem for L1 Thaispeaking learners of English. Hypotheses have been made in accordance with Lardiere's (2003) Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (MSIH), which predicts that the participant possesses the syntactic knowledge of the English past tense morphology. The participant's variability in L2 production of English past tense morphology was not due to a lack of L2 grammatical knowledge but rather the …


English-Thai Code-Switching Of Teachers In Esp Classes, Korawan Promnath, Chamaipak Tayjasanant Jan 2016

English-Thai Code-Switching Of Teachers In Esp Classes, Korawan Promnath, Chamaipak Tayjasanant

PASAA

The term code-switching (CS) that occurs in everyday situations, or naturalistic code-switching, has been a controversial strategy regarding whether it benefits or impedes language learning. The aim of this study was to investigate CS in conversations between teachers and students of ESP classes in order to explore the types and functions of CS usually used in the teaching and learning process, and to investigate the teachers' and students' opinions about CS in classroom practice, particularly in English for nursing and tourism classes.


The Development And Validation Of Willingness-To-Listen In L2 (Wtl) Scale, Ahmet Selçuk Akdemir Jan 2016

The Development And Validation Of Willingness-To-Listen In L2 (Wtl) Scale, Ahmet Selçuk Akdemir

PASAA

This study aims to develop and validate a willingness to listen (WTL) scale for second language (L2) contexts. There are several studies on willingness to communicate (WTC) in L2. However, most of these studies are based on the speaking dimension of communication. As an ignored dimension, listening in L2 is underestimated in WTC research. The study is based on the fact that listening, along with speaking, composes an important part of communication in L2 contexts. In order to develop a valid and reliable WTL in L2 scale, a series of analyses has been carried out after creating the items for …


Rhetorical Structure Of Education Research Article Methods Sections, Baoya Zhang, Anchalee Wannaruk Jan 2016

Rhetorical Structure Of Education Research Article Methods Sections, Baoya Zhang, Anchalee Wannaruk

PASAA

This study investigated the rhetorical move structure of the education research article genre within the framework of Swales' (1981, 1990, 2004) move analysis. A corpus of 120 systematically sampled empirical education research articles served as data input for the analysis. The results indicate that the education research article methods section is characterized by structural complexity and rich, nuanced description. Education researchers generally employ three rhetorical moves to realize the overall communication purpose of the methods section: 1) Describing the research design, 2) Describing data collection procedures, and 3) Describing data analysis procedures. While the first is optional and has no …


Conceptualization Of Depth Of Vocabulary Knowledge With Academic Reading Comprehension, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Ahmad Affendi Shabdin Jan 2016

Conceptualization Of Depth Of Vocabulary Knowledge With Academic Reading Comprehension, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Ahmad Affendi Shabdin

PASAA

The present study embodies a conceptual framework, and it studies the concept regarding the depth of vocabulary knowledge. Literature review is employed as a foundation for developing the conceptual framework for the present study. The current study suggests that different dimensions of depth of vocabulary knowledge, namely paradigmatic relations, syntagmatic relations, analytic relations and morphological knowledge need to be included as integral parts of depth of vocabulary knowledge to examine their correlation and prediction on academic reading comprehension. In addition, different relationships of paradigmatic relations, syntagmatic relations, analytic relations and morphological knowledge with reading comprehension are explored.


Book Review : Exploring Psychology In Language Learning And Teaching, Chamaipak Tayjasanant Jan 2016

Book Review : Exploring Psychology In Language Learning And Teaching, Chamaipak Tayjasanant

PASAA

This book, written by acknowledged experts in the field of psychology and language learning, is a welcomed addition to the EFL literature. Unlike many books in the field of EFL/TESOL which tend to focus on introducing new trends in teaching with little account of psychology, the aim of this book is to encourage language teachers to manage their classrooms with awareness of the feelings and sensitivities that different learners bring to the learning process. Major concepts of social and educational psychology related to language teaching and learning have been carefully selected and discussed in the eight chapters of the book, …


Anglim's "Encyclopedia Of Religion And The Law In America, 2nd Ed." (Book Review), John D. Laing Jan 2016

Anglim's "Encyclopedia Of Religion And The Law In America, 2nd Ed." (Book Review), John D. Laing

The Christian Librarian

A review of Anglim, C.T. (2009). Encyclopedia of religion and the law in America, 2nd ed. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing. 847 pp. $165.00. ISBN 9781592372980


Book Review: Hugh Glass: Grizzly Survivor, Thomas Simmons Jan 2016

Book Review: Hugh Glass: Grizzly Survivor, Thomas Simmons

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Little Bird, Adnan Hashtam Jan 2016

Little Bird, Adnan Hashtam

Calliope

No abstract provided.


A Heavy Burden, Sarah Yung Jan 2016

A Heavy Burden, Sarah Yung

Calliope

No abstract provided.


What Is A Fairytale, Brittany Bustos Jan 2016

What Is A Fairytale, Brittany Bustos

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Dragon Scale, Brian Farr Jan 2016

Dragon Scale, Brian Farr

Calliope

No abstract provided.


The Seeing Circle, Armand Matossian Jan 2016

The Seeing Circle, Armand Matossian

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Perspective, Kathryn Harlan-Gran Jan 2016

Perspective, Kathryn Harlan-Gran

Calliope

No abstract provided.


Iambic Metapoetics In Horace, Epodes 8 And 12, Erika Zimmerman Damer Jan 2016

Iambic Metapoetics In Horace, Epodes 8 And 12, Erika Zimmerman Damer

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

When in Book 1 of his Epistles Horace reflects back upon the beginning of his career in lyric poetry, he celebrates his adaptation of Archilochean iambos to the Latin language. He further states that while he followed the meter and spirit of Archilochus, his own iambi did not follow the matter and attacking words that drove the daughters of Lycambes to commit suicide (Epist. 1.19.23–5, 31).1 The paired erotic invectives, Epodes 8 and 12, however, thematize the poet’s sexual impotence and his disgust during encounters with a repulsive sexual partner. The tone of these Epodes is unmistakably that of …