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Scaffolding Strategies That Benefit And Support Adult English As A Foreign Language Reading Comprehension: A Literature Review, Walkiris Mejia Ortega Dec 2023

Scaffolding Strategies That Benefit And Support Adult English As A Foreign Language Reading Comprehension: A Literature Review, Walkiris Mejia Ortega

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The poor reading proficiency and the lack of reading comprehension strategies have been a major flaw for adult university learners in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts, particularly in the case of English majors at the School of Foreign Languages in the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Research has shown this reading gap can be improved through suitable instructional strategies and assistance referred to as scaffolding. The purpose of this literature review was to investigate how beneficial scaffolding is for EFL adults´ reading comprehension, which scaffolding strategies prove effective in supporting EFL reading comprehension, and how those …


Interrogating Silences In The Postcolonial Classroom, Sheema Khawar Oct 2023

Interrogating Silences In The Postcolonial Classroom, Sheema Khawar

Feminist Pedagogy

In this paper I explore my experiences as visiting faculty teaching English language and Feminist Studies courses at a private university in Karachi, Pakistan. While balancing these different fields I aimed to integrate feminist pedagogies (Keating, 2007; Hooks,1994; Swarr and Nagar, 2010) and strategize with other politically aligned faculty to draw out important issues in our courses. I was faced with the challenging task of constructing syllabi attendant to the training of students in the ‘canons’ of the field and finding course content that allowed us collectively to engage with critical conversations on regional issues. Formal academic publication processes have …


On Gary Snyder’S Tradaptation Of Cold Mountain Poems And Its Spiritual Salvation And Literary Enlightenment In Postwar America, Hu Anjiang Oct 2023

On Gary Snyder’S Tradaptation Of Cold Mountain Poems And Its Spiritual Salvation And Literary Enlightenment In Postwar America, Hu Anjiang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Cold Mountain Poems (CMPs), which have been neglected in the history of Chinese literature for ages, captured the attention of most Americans immediately after its being translated into America by the American poet Gary Snyder in 1950s, however. It is Snyder that reconfigured and recreated a sagacious Chinese Chan Buddhist poet Han-shan (literally, Cold Mountain), the acknowledged author of Cold Mountain Poems, in his translation for the postwar Americans in the midst of varied social problems and cultural identity crisis after World War II. Snyder eventually found in his translation of Cold Mountain Poems a back-to-nature remedy of …


Topological Tropology Of V.S. Naipaul’S Islamic Travelogues And Daniel Pipes’ Islamic History: Ahistorical Historicism, Md. Habibullah Oct 2023

Topological Tropology Of V.S. Naipaul’S Islamic Travelogues And Daniel Pipes’ Islamic History: Ahistorical Historicism, Md. Habibullah

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s (1932-2018) first Islamic travelogue Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981) contains his experience of a visit from August 1979 to February 1980 to the four non-Arab Muslim-majority countries – Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Similarly, his last Islamic travelogue Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples (1998) has a description of another visit to the same countries for five-month in 1995. Concurrently, Daniel Pipes (1949-), an American historian, published his doctoral dissertation, Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System (1981), which represents Islamic culture as the first instigator of …


Children’S Gothic In The Chinese Context: The Untranslatability And Cross-Cultural Readability Of A Literary Genre, Chengcheng You Oct 2023

Children’S Gothic In The Chinese Context: The Untranslatability And Cross-Cultural Readability Of A Literary Genre, Chengcheng You

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

As an emerging literary subgenre in the twenty-first century, Children’s Gothic challenges and blends the norms of both children’s literature and Gothic literature, featuring child characters’ self-empowerment in the face of fears and dark impulses. The foreignness and strangeness that pertain to the genre haunt the border of its translatability. Daniel Handler’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999­–2006), written under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket, poses a chain of translational challenges due to its linguistic creativity, paratextual art, and mixed style of horror and dark humor intended for a child readership. To investigate the interplay between Children’s Gothic and its (un)translatability …


A Gentle Introduction To Chatgpt, Steven W. Holloway Sep 2023

A Gentle Introduction To Chatgpt, Steven W. Holloway

Libraries

A guest lecture on the state of commercial generative transformer technology, mid-2023, to a general audience at Staunton Public Library.


Effects Of Language Status, Community Advice, And Parent Beliefs On Heritage Language Maintenance In The U.S.: A Scoping Review, Jasmine Loeung Aug 2023

Effects Of Language Status, Community Advice, And Parent Beliefs On Heritage Language Maintenance In The U.S.: A Scoping Review, Jasmine Loeung

University Honors Theses

This scoping review examines the effects of language status, community advice to parents, and parents' beliefs on heritage language maintenance within a U.S. context. A total of 34 articles met the inclusion criteria. Four key themes were identified as follows: (1) status of a language in society affects maintenance, (2) parents' beliefs about the impact of the heritage language affect family language practices, (3) community advice impacts parents' beliefs and practices, (4) other factors affecting maintenance of the heritage language across generations. Overall, HL maintenance was observed as a dynamic relationship between a variety of factors, with individuals as well …


Supporting Multilingual Learners’ Reading Competence: A Multiple Case Study Of Teachers’ Instruction And Student Learning And Motivation, Melissa A. Gallagher, Jori S. Beck, Erin M. Ramirez, Ana Taboada Barber, Michelle M. Buehl Aug 2023

Supporting Multilingual Learners’ Reading Competence: A Multiple Case Study Of Teachers’ Instruction And Student Learning And Motivation, Melissa A. Gallagher, Jori S. Beck, Erin M. Ramirez, Ana Taboada Barber, Michelle M. Buehl

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

Supporting students’ reading competence (i.e., their comprehension and vocabulary) is complex, particularly when working with multilingual learners, and involves implementing instructional practices to support their behavioral engagement in reading as well as their reading motivation. The purpose of this mixed methods case study was to examine changes in multilingual learners’ reading comprehension, academic vocabulary, reading engagement, and reading motivation after participating in a 7-week intervention called United States History for Engaged Reading (USHER) and then examine qualitative data to explain why these changes may have occurred. We found changes in the reading comprehension of MLs across all four teachers’ classes, …


Back Pages Jul 2023

Back Pages

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


The Language Of English, Sasha Ortiz Bazan Jul 2023

The Language Of English, Sasha Ortiz Bazan

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


This Is Me, Kimberly Piñon Jul 2023

This Is Me, Kimberly Piñon

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Querida Niña, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey Jul 2023

Querida Niña, Georgina Cerda Salvarrey

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Being Part Of The Lgbtq+ Community, Genevive Cerda Jul 2023

Being Part Of The Lgbtq+ Community, Genevive Cerda

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Nopayele, Cayele Ameyalli Esteva Jul 2023

Nopayele, Cayele Ameyalli Esteva

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


El Primer Dia, Erick Esparza Jul 2023

El Primer Dia, Erick Esparza

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


From Roots To Wings, Anonymous Author Jul 2023

From Roots To Wings, Anonymous Author

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Here We Stand, Nelsy Ramirez Pacheco, Chelsea Rios Gomez Jul 2023

Here We Stand, Nelsy Ramirez Pacheco, Chelsea Rios Gomez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


I Am, Kyra Alway Jul 2023

I Am, Kyra Alway

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


I Am Who I Am, Claudia Lopez-Hernandez Jul 2023

I Am Who I Am, Claudia Lopez-Hernandez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


¡Viva México!, Diego Vega, Georgina C. Salvarrey Jul 2023

¡Viva México!, Diego Vega, Georgina C. Salvarrey

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Mis Motivadores, Eduardo A. Moreno-Ortiz Jul 2023

Mis Motivadores, Eduardo A. Moreno-Ortiz

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


No Effect On Me, Brenda Santos Jul 2023

No Effect On Me, Brenda Santos

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Our Need For Space, Alicia Lopez Jul 2023

Our Need For Space, Alicia Lopez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Por Mi, Destiny Rodriguez Jul 2023

Por Mi, Destiny Rodriguez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Remembering My Home, Brittany Arzola Jul 2023

Remembering My Home, Brittany Arzola

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Rosa Parks, Isabella Garcia Figueroa Jul 2023

Rosa Parks, Isabella Garcia Figueroa

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Summer: An Accordion Poem, Kyra Alway, Paolo Bosques-Paulet Jul 2023

Summer: An Accordion Poem, Kyra Alway, Paolo Bosques-Paulet

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Fruit Salad, Nayali Abarca Jul 2023

Fruit Salad, Nayali Abarca

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


The Puzzle Of Me, Matt Aung Jul 2023

The Puzzle Of Me, Matt Aung

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Our Connection, Maria C. Rodriguez Jul 2023

Our Connection, Maria C. Rodriguez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.