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Bias And The Teachable Moment: Revisiting A Teacher Narrative, Darren Crovitz

Faculty and Research Publications

Such responsibility may be vital for English teachers, especially, as we strive to establish communities of writers and spaces for critical thinking and conversation. When I sat down to write about this experience, I saw it as an opportunity to discuss a taboo situation and its positive aftermath, with the aim of demonstrating how it might be possible to use such events as points of departure in creating engaging writing assignments.

Reading Matters: What The Research Reveals About Reading, Libraries And Community, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, Lynne (E.F.) Mckechnie, Paulette Rothbauer

Paulette Rothbauer

A Special Talk With Professor Leo Van Lier Graduate School Of Language And Educational Linguistics, Monterey Institute Of International Studies

PASAA

Presumably there is more than a metaphor behind the ecological approach to language learning. What theory of language is behind the ecological approach to language learning?

An Investigation Of Listening Proficiency Levels In English For Service And Hospitality Industry Of Thai Students In Public And Private Universities, Wannana Soontornnaruerangsee

PASAA

The objectives of this study were (1) to investigate graduating students' listening ability in English for service and hospitality industry, (2) to find the cut-off scores for eight levels of the listening ability, and (3) to find ability descriptors for each level of the listening ability. The subjects in this study included the interviewee group and the test taker group. The former consisted of hotel personnel, Heads of Tourism and Hotel Industry Department and teachers from selected public and private universities, specialists in ESP test development, and hotel guests; the latter group consisted of students, majoring in tourism and hotel …

Cull Instructors' Use Of And Attitudes Toward The Self-Access Learning Center, Pornpim Kusiripanth

PASAA

Learner autonomy should be promoted in order that students can learn more by themselves. Teachers play very significant roles in guiding students to this rather new concept. The Self-Access Learning Center at CULI can be a good start for English teachers to enhance the concept of learner autonomy to CU students. However, it seems that both the teachers and students here have not been motivated enough to use the center. The current study shows that most instructors at CULI believe that the SALC has an important role in promoting independent learning and students should be encouraged to come and work …

What Is Happening To What Was Happened?, Nirada Simargool

PASAA

Unaccusative verbs such as happen, occur, and appear are intransitive verbs that have theme subjects and are particularly prone to passivization by EFL learners. Some scholars attribute this to L1 influence, some attribute it to learners not distinguishing between transitive and unaccusative verbs, and others attribute it to the absence of an agent or the presence of a theme object. Like other research, this study shows that Thai students produce passive unaccusative constructions for more than one reason.

Web-Based Instruction (For Teaching/Learning English) Evaluation, Suphat Sukamolson

PASAA

With the ever increasing significance of the Internet and the World Wide Web in the present Age of Information Technology and Communication taken into account, the author of this paper discusses the evaluation of web-based instruction (WBI) for teaching and learning of English. He also proposes a WBI Evaluation Form which can be of great use for English teachers who are considering venturing into the computerized world of language teaching.

Idea Sharing: Teaching Entertainment Or A Second Language?: Reflections On Learner Expectation And Learner Behavior In And Out Of The Classroom, Phil Stokes

PASAA

I make two explicit assumptions and two unfashionable arguments in this paper. The first assumption is that learning a skill necessarily involves repetition, and repetition is boring. The second assumption is that mastering a skill requires a certain discipline of patience, dedication and practice, and that mistakes and 'failures' are an inevitable part of the learning process. From these assumptions I argue first, somewhat unfashionably, that students should not be misled into expecting all language learning to be 'fun'; believing that one can master a second language by only playing games and engaging in ever-entertaining activities is, I argue, counter-productive …

Teaching Communicative English Skills Through Video, Daphne Liu-Yi

PASAA

No abstract provided.

Macmillan Books For Teachers (Series Editor: Adrian Underhill), Michael Alroe

PASAA

Perhaps like me, you occasionally have the chance to browse some of the numerous academic journals devoted to EFL, ESL and CALL. Normally, your time will have been devoured by competing demands of preparation, teaching, correction, consultation and collaboration. But sometimes, between semesters or after exams you are troubled by the realization that your teaching methods have been running on automatic for quite some time and you feel you ought to be refueling from that growing body of academic research you believe is constantly generating new insights into how to teach English. And for your own sake, and. that of …

Ade Committees 2005-2006

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Officers--Committees

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 3, Fall 2006--Front Matter

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Cover--Photo of Adams National Historical Site--Title page--Publication information--Contents--Contributors

Review Of The Correspondence Of William James. 12 Vols. Ignas K. Skrupskelis And Elizabeth M. Berkeley, Eds., Cornelis De Waal

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

he correspondence of William James has come a long way since his ·1 son, Henry James, published the two-volume set The Letters of William James in 1920.1 The recently completed Skrupskelis Berkeley edition boasts twelve bulky tomes, all carrying the seal of the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association. The first three volumes cover the correspondence between William and his brother Henry, whereas the remaining nine volumes contain the correspondence with others, arranged chronologically. The volumes include letters to as well as from James. The last volume, which appeared in 2004, covers the period April 1908 to …

Indexing: Philosophy Of, André De Tienne

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Critical editions of great thinkers and writers need excellent, comprehensive indexes. The denser the text, the deeper the index. Having indexed several volumes of the writings of the polymathic, dense-and-deep philosopher Charles S. Peirce, I have had occasion to reflect numerous times both upon the art of indexing and upon its logic. This essay will discuss less the art of it (or its mechanics) than its logic-and, by the same token, its ethics. I have good reasons to do so: first, Peirce is the American founder of the logic of signs (also known as semiotics), and one of the major …

Last Words: Documenting The End Of Lives, Cathy Moran Hajo

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

The above scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail can be contorted into an illustration of the dilemma faced by documentary editors when dealing with the death of the subject of their edition. We want to use documents to chronicle the lives of our subjects, but, as King Arthur rightly exclaimed, few record their dying moments in print. In most editions, the death of the subject also ends the editor's work, adding another layer of significance to the event. In this article, I will explore the different ways editors have recorded and contextualized these deaths and discuss how the …

Recent Editions--Fall 2006

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

This quarterly bibliography of documentary editions recently published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English language works. In addition to the bibliographical references, Internet addresses are provided for the editorial project or the publisher.

Three Letters Of María Antonia Bolívar And Simón Bolívar, Evelyn M. Cherpak

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Maria Antonia's letters to her brother are full of political news and advice, family news, information on the status of their lawsuits, and the condition of his rural and urban properties, including the Aroa mines. One of the topics that consistently appears in their correspondence was the rental, sale, and the lawsuit over the copper mines at Aroa. The mines were part of the Bolivar family patrimony and came to the Liberator upon the death of his brother Juan Vicente in 1810. They had been abandoned in 1804 and taken over by two women, Maria de la Cruz Urquia and …

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 3, Fall 2006

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

No abstract provided.

Obituary--Joel Porte

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Joel Porte, 72, Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Emeritus at Cornell University, died of esophageal cancer on 1 June 2006. He came to Cornell in 1987 after twenty-five years in the Harvard English Department, including service as its chair. Through a forty-year career at both universities he gained international recognition as a scholar of American literature and a specialist in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Review Of Henry S. Turner, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, And The Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630, Elizabeth Spiller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

In The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, Henry Turner argues that English stage practice emerged out of practical geometry and related mechanical arts. The book is part of a new critical attention to the interconnections between literature and science, one that depends on the recognition that art involved the creation not just of aesthetic objects but also of knowledge itself. Stage practice drew from geometry to develop the concepts of plat-plot and to define its use of scenes as both spatial divisions and dramatic structures. Drama also provided audiences with forms of practical knowledge …

Obituary--David W Hirst

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Subscribers to SEDIT-L will best remember David for his distinguished career with The Papers of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University where he served as Assistant Editor from 1959 to 1965, Associate Editor from 1965 to 1979, and Senior Associate Editor from 1979 to 1989.

Achieving Balance In Graduate Programs: Negotiating Best Practices, Dawn Latta Kirby

Faculty and Research Publications

The narrative introduction to the graduate catalogue at the state university where I work probably reads pretty much like the one at your college or university. The program of study for the masters degree specifies that inservice graduate students are to engage in an extensive study of content- related literature, theory, and research. Despite the rhetoric of graduate catalogs, teachers who enter graduate school programs begin their advanced studies, expecting- and sometimes vociferously demanding- coursework that will provide them with a practical framework for teaching English language arts in secondary schools. Their interest in studying theory and research is often …

Announcement--Summer 2006

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

2006 ADE Annual Meeting Program and Schedule--ADE Session at MLA

Awards--Ade Member Projects Honored

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Edison Papers Honored as the Outstanding History of Technology Reference Work of the Past Century--The American Historical Association Named the Charles Carroll of Carrollton Papers as the Recipient of the 2005 J. Franklin Jameson Award

Review Of The Modern World Of Neith Boyce: Autobiography And Diaries. Ed. Carol Deboer-Langworthy., Mary Jo Binker

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Recent scholarship has focused on Boyce's relationship with Hapgood as the prototype of the modern open marriage. In her book, Intimate Warriors, editor Ellen Kay Trimberger uses portions of both writers' works to argue that the couple's "warfare" (33)-over his affairs, her desire to work, and his aversion to working at all-enhanced her creativity and kept the marriage alive. l Carol DeBoer-Langworthy takes the opposite view. In her book, The Modern World of Neith Boyce, she argues that Boyce's difficult marriage jeopardized her health, sapped her creative energy, and ultimately shortened her career. She maintains that Boyce's autobiographical writings, published …

The Missing Link: The Legacy Of Martin Luther King, Jr.'S Early Sermons, Susan Englander

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

In 1997 King Papers Project director Clayborne Carson obtained a substantial body of such materials. Mrs. Coretta Scott King granted the King Papers Project permission to examine papers kept in boxes in the basement of the home that became the King residence in 1965 and to identify items that were appropriate for the Project's mission. The most significant discovery resulting from this exploration was a private file of sermon materials King kept in his study. A battered cardboard box held over two hundred folders containing handwritten outlines, drafts, and prayers as well as academic papers, published articles, and correspondence. The …

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 2006--Front Matter

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Cover--Photo of Adams National Historical Site--Title page--Publication information--Contents--Contributors

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 2006.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

No abstract provided.

Recent Editions--Summer 2006

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

This quarterly bibliography of documentary editions recently published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English language works. In addition to the bibliographical references, Internet addresses are provided for the editorial project or the publisher.

A Great Lady: Review Of The Selected Letters Of Dolley Payne Madison. Edited By David B. Mattern And Holly C. Shulman., Beverly Wilson Palmer

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Why is Dolley Madison considered one of the most important nineteenth-century American women and the greatest First Lady until Eleanor Roosevelt assumed the position in 1933?" In their introduction to Chapter Three, editors Mattern and Shulman pose this question as the thesis of The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison (92). The editors' question is a provocative one. Who remembers Sarah Childress Polk? Ida Saxton McKinley? Others, such as Abigail Smith Adams or Edith Bolling Wilson, come to mind but their roles were not like the ones Dolley Madison fashioned for herself as First Lady. In this volume we see …