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A Foundation Of Labor, José Manuel Hernández Sep 2016

A Foundation Of Labor, José Manuel Hernández

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Spanish To English, José Manuel Hernández Sep 2016

Spanish To English, José Manuel Hernández

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Past And Future, Magdalena Cortez Sep 2016

Past And Future, Magdalena Cortez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Stolen Innocence, Magdalena Cortez Sep 2016

Stolen Innocence, Magdalena Cortez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Así Es La Vida, Patricia Cortés Sep 2016

Así Es La Vida, Patricia Cortés

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Sábado, Patricia Cortés Sep 2016

Sábado, Patricia Cortés

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Remembering The Forgotten, Briana Corona Sep 2016

Remembering The Forgotten, Briana Corona

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Mis Berrinches: My "Otherness", Jacqueline Barrera-Pacheco Sep 2016

Mis Berrinches: My "Otherness", Jacqueline Barrera-Pacheco

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Those Hot Summer Days, Karla Amaya Sep 2016

Those Hot Summer Days, Karla Amaya

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Editors' Introduction, María Corral-Ribordy, Carlos Molina Sep 2016

Editors' Introduction, María Corral-Ribordy, Carlos Molina

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Table Of Contents Sep 2016

Table Of Contents

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Full Issue Sep 2016

Full Issue

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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"The Effort To Translate": Fan Film Culture And The Works Of J.R.R. Tolkien, Maria Alberto Sep 2016

"The Effort To Translate": Fan Film Culture And The Works Of J.R.R. Tolkien, Maria Alberto

Journal of Tolkien Research

In his 1940 preface “On Translating Beowulf,” J.R.R. Tolkien contends that “The effort to translate, or to improve a translation, is valuable, not so much for the version it produces, as for the understanding of the original which it awakes” (53). Though made with a specific literary tradition in mind, Tolkien’s assertion about the value of translation bears re-visitation in light of circumstances where the terminology has shifted. Specifically, Tolkien’s own work has since become the myth undergoing translation, and in popular parlance, translation itself has changed from simply describing the transference of a text between languages to now include …


A A Novel 40-45, Derek A. Beaulieu Sep 2016

A A Novel 40-45, Derek A. Beaulieu

The Goose

Poetry by Derek Beaulieu


Circus As Idée Fixe And Hunger, Anna-Sophie Jürgens Sep 2016

Circus As Idée Fixe And Hunger, Anna-Sophie Jürgens

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Circus as idée fixe and Hunger" Anna-Sophie Jürgens discusses circus fiction in which characters often display extreme, intense psychological traits. They are for example irascible, pyromaniac, sadistic, or megalomaniac. Particularly striking are protagonists with alternative psychological attitudes in fictional circus texts of the twentieth century such as Franz Kafka's hunger artist, Michael Raleigh's ringmaster Lewis Tully or Richard Schmitt's aerialist Garry, who can be seen as incubators of circus-related idées fixes. These literary circus characters develop fixations on circus that manifest themselves as a physical sensation of desiring circus like food, in other words: in circus …


Genre Categorization In Contemporary British And Us-American Novels, Carlos Ceia Sep 2016

Genre Categorization In Contemporary British And Us-American Novels, Carlos Ceia

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Genre Categorization in Contemporary British and US-American Novels" Carlos Ceia discusses a certain type of resistance to genre categorization in many novels in contemporary literature. Many British and US-American contemporary novels show patterns in narrative creativity where novel-writing techniques are sometimes more important than the traditional subject matter driven work of fiction. Ceia reviews experimental/metafictional novels which do not show intent to fulfil an aesthetic role pre-determined in a certain moment in history. Not having this kind of burden before them, many contemporary British and US-American novelists devote their artistic imagination more to the "potential" of the …


Contextualized Recognition Of Fingerspelled Words, Campbell Mcdermid, Lynn Finton, Alexis Chasney Aug 2016

Contextualized Recognition Of Fingerspelled Words, Campbell Mcdermid, Lynn Finton, Alexis Chasney

Journal of Interpretation

Fingerspelling, an aspect of American Sign Language, is difficult for second language English-speaking adults to learn (Bahleda, 1998), yet mastery is required by professional ASL-English interpreters. This study compared novice and expert interpreters’ interpretation of fingerspelled words under the assumption that exposure to priming material in their L1, English, would enable the interpreters to recognize those terms when fingerspelled in their L2, ASL. In this study, participants (15 novices, 15 experts) were asked to interpret an ASL text with 25 “carefully” fingerspelled words embedded. Ten subjects were not given priming materials, ten a list of words in printed English that …


A National Bilingual Education Policy For The Economic And Academic Empowerment Of Youth In St. Lucia, West Indies, Gabriella Bellegarde Aug 2016

A National Bilingual Education Policy For The Economic And Academic Empowerment Of Youth In St. Lucia, West Indies, Gabriella Bellegarde

Capstone Collection

This campaign portfolio argues the case for a national bilingual education policy on the island of St. Lucia, where youth speak both St Lucian Creole and St. Lucian standard English. The portfolio consists of a policy paper and brief, an advocacy plan, a communications plan, monitoring and evaluation plan. The Bilingual Education Taskforce (BET), made up of teachers, parents and principals, is an advocacy organization that discovered the need for a bilingual education intervention when they observed, assessed and analyzed the written work of struggling readers at their school, the Anse la Raye Infant School on the west coast of …


About The Concept Of "Gnosticism" In Fiction Studies, Fryderyk Kwiatkowski Aug 2016

About The Concept Of "Gnosticism" In Fiction Studies, Fryderyk Kwiatkowski

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

I In his article "About the Concept of 'Gnosticism' in Fiction Studies" Fryderyk Kwiatkowski notices that in the twentieth-century humanities the concept of Gnosticism has become a popular term for labelling tendencies in modernity and postmodernity. Kwiatkowski argues that the majority of scholars in fiction studies base their research on outdated methodologies. In consequence, Kwiatkowski presents an overview of contemporary approaches in Gnostic studies and discusses how they can be adapted in studies of literature, film, video games, comic books, etc. By outlining advantages and disadvantages of methodological approaches, Kwiatkowski posits that in studies of fiction with Gnostic components it …


Nebraska's Wedding Crasher, Jennine Capó Crucet Jul 2016

Nebraska's Wedding Crasher, Jennine Capó Crucet

Department of English: Faculty Publications

My building thinks of itself as Lincoln's premier wedding venue. I was not told this when I signed the lease. A glitch of duct work sends the sounds of every single party straight through the exhaust fan of my apartment's bathroom, so loud and clear that I can hear the names of everyone in the wedding party as they are announced -- not just in the bathroom, but from the living room. I can hear when people are clapping, can hear the claps as individual sonic events: I can almost always make out the crisp echo of the last person …


Palpable Hits: Popular Music Forms And Teaching Early Modern Poetry, Stephen M. Buhler Jul 2016

Palpable Hits: Popular Music Forms And Teaching Early Modern Poetry, Stephen M. Buhler

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Recent pedagogical scholarship has engaged strenuously with the use of YouTube and other online platforms in the literature classroom. Stephen O’Neill, for one, champions video-sharing and similar media “in the interests of fostering various experiential, collaborative and peer-learning scenarios,” especially in tandem with the “array of Shakespeare content, which can potentially illuminate and deepen [learners’] understanding of the text and its diverse contexts” (190). In this essay, I discuss the advantages of sharing for this purpose online materials that have been developed by artists, instructors, students, and others—specifically, materials with a musical orientation. Along the way, I shall explain my …


Adaptation Of Communicative Language Teaching Methodology To An English Textbook For English Language Learning Of Nida Students, Andrew J. West Jul 2016

Adaptation Of Communicative Language Teaching Methodology To An English Textbook For English Language Learning Of Nida Students, Andrew J. West

PASAA

In this paper, the researcher focuses on assessing the language learning benefits for students of adapting the communicative language teaching (CLT) methodology to an English textbook, a methodology that, according to Richards (2006), Littlewood (2008) and others, is influential in shaping second language learning worldwide. This paper is intended to contribute to the understanding of the effectiveness of CLT when applied to a textbook and how the practical application of this methodology can lead to students' increased knowledge and understanding of the subject matter and target language of the textbook as well as assess students' attitudes and perceptions toward those …


Children's Voices And Positive Affective Outcomes Regarding Play-Based Language Learning, Rin Cheep-Aranai, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi Jul 2016

Children's Voices And Positive Affective Outcomes Regarding Play-Based Language Learning, Rin Cheep-Aranai, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi

PASAA

Learner-centeredness is a consistent theme in the field of education. Yet, the perspectives of young learners are still barely considered. Lightbown and Spada (2013) have pointed out that even though young children have not developed cognitive maturity and the metalinguistic awareness of adolescents or adults, they learn a language without any stress or anxiety. They have the freedom to speak, be silent, pause, and make mistakes when producing the language. It is extremely important, therefore, for teachers to consider presenting relaxing learning contexts and environments for young language learners. This paper reports the positive affective outcomes that have been found …


Testing University Learners' Interlanguage Pragmatic Competence In A Chinese Efl Context, Lan Xu, Anchalee Wannaruk Jul 2016

Testing University Learners' Interlanguage Pragmatic Competence In A Chinese Efl Context, Lan Xu, Anchalee Wannaruk

PASAA

Speech acts are the major concern of interlanguage pragmatists. The present study aimed to 1) examine the reliability and validity of an interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) competence test on speech acts in a Chinese EFL context, and 2) investigate EFL learners' variations of ILP competence by language proficiency. Altogether 390 students participated in the present study. The students were divided into three groups based on their language proficiency. The data were collected with an ILP competence test and semi-structured interviews. The ILP competence test was in the form of a written discourse completion task (WDCT), including ten speech acts and 30 …


Development And Use Of A Corpus Tailored For Legal English Learning, Jason Skier, Jutarat Vibulphol Jul 2016

Development And Use Of A Corpus Tailored For Legal English Learning, Jason Skier, Jutarat Vibulphol

PASAA

While corpus linguistics has been applied towards many specific academic purposes, reports are few regarding its use to facilitate learning of legal English by non-native English speakers. Specialized corpora are required because legal English often differs significantly from ordinary usage, with words such as bar, motion, and hearing having completely different meanings and use. This paper documents the process of creating and validating a sixteen million-word corpus of (American) legal English, and provides examples of analyses available for language learners. Written decisions and oral argument transcripts from the U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate courts were ultimately chosen to comprise …


Book Review: 100 Questions (And Answers) About Qualitative Research, Sirawit Apairach Jul 2016

Book Review: 100 Questions (And Answers) About Qualitative Research, Sirawit Apairach

PASAA

Given, L. M. (2016). 100 Questions (and Answers) About Qualitative Research. California: SAGE Publications As researchers, scholars, professors, or educators, both new and experienced, we all seek to understand a myriad of occurrences, oftentimes with an attempt to tackle pressing and emerging problems or even improve our knowledge by means of research. If our aims are to observe or explore human-related issues and experiences and to deepen our understanding about them, qualitative research is, then, an effective approach to study these inquiries we pose. However, to familiarize oneself with qualitative research can be quite perplexing for those who are new …


Teaching The Vocabulary Of Citation: Action Research In A Southeast Asian Context, Jena Lynch Jul 2016

Teaching The Vocabulary Of Citation: Action Research In A Southeast Asian Context, Jena Lynch

PASAA

This action research project sought to investigate the role of explicit citation vocabulary instruction in the learning of citation style guidelines for an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing course at an Englishmedium university in Northern Thailand. The participants consisted of 120 undergraduate students enrolled in the EAP writing class who were divided into an experimental group and a control group. The class included a step-by-step essay writing assignment that included source selection and use of quoted material from sources. Participants in the experimental group were exposed to a multi-week treatment in which citation vocabulary terms were reviewed in subsequent …


Is Online Learning Suitable For All English Language Students?, Settha Kuama, Usa Intharaksa Jul 2016

Is Online Learning Suitable For All English Language Students?, Settha Kuama, Usa Intharaksa

PASAA

This study aimed to examine online language learning strategies (OLLS) used and affection in online learning of successful and unsuccessful online language students and investigate the relationships between OLLS use, affection in online learning and online English learning outcomes. The participants included 346 university students completing a compulsory online English course. Based on the grade results at the end of the course, the participants were divided into two groups: successful online language students (SLs, n=262) and unsuccessful online language students (ULs, n=84). Participants rated their use of three OLLS: cognitive, metacognitive, resource management, and rated their perceptions of affection in …


The Practice Of "Grammar Naziness" On Facebook In Relation To Generating Grammar Learning: A Motivation Or Demotivation In Updating Statuses In English On Facebook, Noraziah Mohd Amin, Noor Azam Abdul, Mohamad-Noor Sharipudin, Mohd Saifulnizam Abu Bakar Jul 2016

The Practice Of "Grammar Naziness" On Facebook In Relation To Generating Grammar Learning: A Motivation Or Demotivation In Updating Statuses In English On Facebook, Noraziah Mohd Amin, Noor Azam Abdul, Mohamad-Noor Sharipudin, Mohd Saifulnizam Abu Bakar

PASAA

It is common for learners of English to make grammatical errors in their English Facebook posts that can be noticeable on their walls, which this perhaps as a result, influences the other Facebook users who know about the language to perform the unofficial duty as grammar Nazis and correct the errors. Thus, this research aims to examine if Malay learners of English from UiTM are motivated or demotivated to practice their English on Facebook by posting more statuses in English after receiving corrective feedback from their Facebook friends who act as grammar Nazis. Since the learners are aware that there …


Formulaic Sequences Used By Native English Speaking Teachers In A Thai Primary School, Sunee Steyn, Woravut Jaroongkhongdach Jul 2016

Formulaic Sequences Used By Native English Speaking Teachers In A Thai Primary School, Sunee Steyn, Woravut Jaroongkhongdach

PASAA

The use of formulaic sequences in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) lessons plays an integral role in language teaching and learning, but it seems still widely neglected in the Thai school context. To call attention to this issue, this study aims at identifying formulaic sequences used in a Thai primary school. The data were taken from three native English teachers in their young learners' EFL lessons, and were analysed with the use of corpus software to identify the formulaic sequences used according to their functions within the various situations in the lessons.The findings reveal that multiple formulaic sequences were …