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Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 7, Número 4, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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Mapa de España 2
Andalucía, Aragón y Asturias 3
Córdoba 4Cantabria, Castilla y León y Castilla La Mancha 5Toledo 6Actividad/ Concurso: Describir una Comunidad 7Cataluña, Extremadura y Galicia 8Barcelona 9Madrid, Navarra y Valencia 10País Vasco 11Actividad: Traducir al Inglés 12
Mapa de los Pueblos 13
Acoma, Cochití, Isleta, Jémez y Laguna 14The Abandoned Pueblos in Pecos 15Nambé, Picurís, Pojoaque, San Felipe y San Ildefonso 16The Salinas Pueblos 17Actividad: Preguntas sobre los Pueblos 18San Juan, Sandía, Santa Ana y Santa Clara 19Coronado State Monument 20
Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zía y Zuñi 21
The Gila Cliff Dwellings 22

Actividad: …

A Case Study Of Academic Achievement Of African American Males, Loistean Mason

Dissertations

Several areas are often identified as barriers to the academic achievement of African American males. They include racial inequality, segregation between schools, segregation within schools, cultural insensitivity to learning styles, the theory of cultural deprivation, teacher/student interaction, and the discipline of African American students. The study was conducted in a Midwestern school with a predominantly African American student body and faculty at the end of the final grading period before graduation. This study of 12th-grade males sought to determine if the climate of an African American high school with African American administrators and faculty would enhance the achievement of African …

Some Possible Sources Of Oral Foreign Language Anxiety (Fla) Among Japanese Students In The United States, Sawako Yoshikawa

Dissertations and Theses

This study attempted to locate some possible sources of oral Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) among Japanese students in the United States. This study proposed that the following three factors were possible sources of FLA: 1) the subjects' traitlike anxiety, which is carried by individuals across all communication-bound contexts; 2) the subjects' self-perceived oral proficiency levels in English and 3) the subjects' gapsize (i.e., the distance between their self-perceived and their self-expected oral proficiency levels in English) . This research examined whether the above three independent variables and the dependent FLA variable were significantly correlated, and if so, which one had …

A Preliminary Comparison Of Two Esl School Models For Newcomer Students, Elizabeth Carol Essex

Dissertations and Theses

Due to the ever growing numbers of immigrants entering this country, school districts are faced with ever greater challenges for educating newly arrived immigrant students. Often these students arrive with little to no English ability and little to no school experience. Several educational program models, including ESL and bilingual education, have been popularized in school districts experiencing immigrant population growth. Recently, a supplemental model, the newcomer center/program, has gained popularity. The newcomer model seeks to educate and nurture newly arrived immigrant students with little to no English ability in the social and school expectations of the United States. Due to …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 7, Número 3, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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La Virgen de Guadalupe 2
Una Canción: Buenos Días, Paloma Blanca 3
Otra Canción: Adios, Oh Virgen de Guadalupe 4
Las Posadas 5
Una Obra: Las Posadas 6
Una Obra: Las Posadas Continued 7
Una Obra: Las Posadas Continued 8
La Pastorela o Los Pastores 9
Una Obra: La Pastorela 10
Una Obra: La Pastorela Continued 11
Una Obra: La Pastorela Continued 12
Una Obra: La Pastorela Continued 13
Una Obra: La Pastorela Continued 14
Una Obra: La Pastorela Continued 15
Una Obra: La Pastorela Continued 16
Una Obra: La Pastorela Continued 17
Una Obra: La Pastorela Continued …

We Could Shape It: Organizing For Asian Pacific American Student Empowerment, Peter Nien-Chu Kiang

Institute for Asian American Studies Publications

With the doubling of the school-age population of Asian Pacific Americans during the 1990s, the unmet needs of Asian Pacific Americans are escalating dramatically in schools throughout the country. In most settings, teachers, counselors, and administrators do not share the ethnic, linguistic, and racial backgrounds of their Asian Pacific American students. Constrained by limited resources, an increasingly hostile, anti-immigrant climate, and their own stereotypical assumptions, educators have been unable to respond effectively to the full range of academic, social, and personal challenges that face growing numbers of Asian Pacific American students.

The Constraints Of A Typological Implicational Universal For Interrogatives On Second Language Acquisition, Dee Anne Bess

Dissertations and Theses

A typological implicational universal based on a diverse sample of the world's languages describes a hierarchy for interrogatives. The universal hierarchy states that in any given language, inversion in Yes-No questions (YNQs) implies inversion in information questions (WHQs in English), which, in turns implies the fronting of the information word pronoun to sentence-initial position.

Several researchers have proposed that typological implicational universals such as this one for interrogatives may constrain not only the primary languages on which they are based, but also the interlanguages of second language learners.

This study, a partial replication of one by Eckman, Moravcsik, and Wirth …

Humor Recognition: A Comparative Analysis, William T. Argent

Dissertations and Theses

There are various approaches to the explanation of humor in the field of humor research. Some of these theories, while providing interesting insight into the phenomenon known as humor, remain limited in their ability to account for how humor is recognized. Others do not even address the issue. This thesis compares five different theories in humor research by analyzing the humorous short story "My Watch" by Mark Twain. These theories are: 1. a typological approach to humor, 2. a social- functional model, 3. incongruity theory, 4. Grice's Cooperative Principle taken from linguistic pragmatics, and 5. the General Theory of Verbal …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 7, Número 2, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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Otro Día de Dar Gracias 2
Mas Sobre acontecimiento según Don Gaspar de Villagrá 3
Don Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá 4
Indians in New Mexico 5
Un Poema 6
Una Actividad 7
Comidas Tradicionales: ¿Son Buenas o Malas? 8
Unas Comidas Tradicionales Hispanas 9
Food Poisoning 10
Pumpkins 11
Indio 12
Una Actividad 13
Hispanos en Guerras de los Estados Unidos 14
La Segunda Guerra Mundial 15
Bernardo de Gálvez 16
The Civil War in New Mexico 17
No Madre, Lágrimas No 18
Una Actividad 19
Arthur Rodarte 20
Issues for the 1997 Session of the Legislature 21 …

Flarr Pages #4: Teaching Culture With The Web, Erica Rosch

FLARR Pages

Attention teachers! We are entering the age of technology! As many of us are just becoming acquainted with e-mail and the internet, we struggle to keep up with our more computer-literate students, who seem more adept with a keyboard than a pencil. Although the almighty "information superhighway" may seem intimidating, it holds great treasures of information that we, as foreign language teachers, can use to bring culture to life.

The Influence Of Student Gender On Teacher/Student Interactions In Esl Classrooms, Lisa Sybil Mann

Dissertations and Theses

Because teacher I student interactions provide opportunities for correction and comprehensible input, a major component of successful language learning, equitable distribution of teacher I student interactions in the language classroom is an important element for the success of all second language students. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether differences in teacher I student interactions based on student gender occurred in four college English as a Second Language instructors' classrooms. The role of instructor gender and student ethnicity in teacher I student interaction content and frequency were also examined. Informal interviews were designed to determine the instructors' …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 7, Número 1, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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La Cosecha en Nuevo México 2
La Cosecha en Nuevo México Continued 3
Valencia Peanuts- A New Mexican Specialty 4
Why is Milk so Expensive Sometimes? 5
Las Mañanitas Nuevo Mexicanas 6
Una Actividad- Llenar un Mapa 7
Técnicas Viejas de Siembra y Cosecha, Por Estevan Arellano 8
Un Poema: El Maíz 9
Community Gardens 10
Cotton- Another New Mexico Crop 11
Cortar Leña 12
Un Festival de la Cosecha- Dibujo y Ensayo 13
El Centro Cultural Hispano de Albuquerque 14
El Centro Cultural Hispano de Albuquerque Continued 15
Hispanic Heritage Month/ el Día de la Raza 16 …

Additional Evidence On The Cognitive Effects Of College Racial Composition: A Research Note., Ernest T. Pascarella, Marcia Edison, Amaury Nora, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Patrick Terenzini

Linda Serra Hagedorn

The relative cognitive impacts on Black students' attendance at historically Black versus predominantly White colleges were investigated. Controlling for individual precollege ability, average precollege ability of the students attending each institution, gender, socio-economic origins, academic motivation, age, credit hours taken, work responsibilities, place of residence, and types of coursework taken, Black students attending the 2 Black colleges did as well or better than their counterparts at the 16 predominantly White institutions on standardized measures of writing skills and science reasoning administered at the end of the second year of college.

An Exploratory Evaluation Of Language And Culture Contact By Japanese Sojourners In A Short-Term Us Academic Program, Elizabeth Anna Hartley

Dissertations and Theses

Short-term intercultural exchange programs provide a wealth of information and experiences for participants. Participants are given the opportunity to travel out of their native country and are exposed to new languages and cultures. This case study looks at the Japanese sojourners in the Northwest/Pacific Rim (NWPR) summer program. The purpose was to examine the language use of the Japanese sojourners throughout the course of the NWPR program. This case study sought to determine when the Japanese sojourners used English and/or Japanese, in which situations, what strategies the Japanese sojourners employed and who initiated contact with whom. All of the data …

The Socio-Cultural Content Analysis Of English As A Foreign Language Textbooks Used In Junior High School In Taiwan, Republic Of China, Vivian Yann-Ling Lu

Dissertations and Theses

The English textbooks evaluated are used to prepare students for the competitive high school entrance examinations in Taiwan, thus students spend a great deal of time studying them. Though the textbooks were stated to be designed for language and cultural learning purposes, it seems no study exists that examines to what degree there is clear articulation between the government's stated culture learning goal and actual textbook content. Therefore, this study examines to what degree the textbooks allow students to reach said goal, that is, "to increase culture awareness of the societies and cultures of foreign countries and our own" (Junior …

Investigating Vowel Duration As A Perceptual Cue To Voicing In The English Of Native Spanish Speakers, Becky Jean George

Dissertations and Theses

Researchers in the cognitive sciences, and in particular those in acoustic phonetics, investigate the acoustic properties in the speech signal that enable listeners to perceive particular speech sounds. Temporal cues have been found to convey information about the linguistic content of an utterance. One acoustic characteristic that is particularly well documented in American English is the difference in vowel duration preceding voiced and voiceless consonants, which has been found to play a role in the perception of the voicing of postvocalic word-final consonants. Research on vowel duration and its role in the perception of the voicing distinction of the following …

Preoccupational Segregation Among First-Year College Students: An Application Of The Duncan Dissimilarity Index., Linda Serra Hagedorn, Amaury Nora, Ernest T. Pascarella

Linda Serra Hagedorn

Annual earnings continue to be unequal across gender and racial lines. One reason for this disparity is occupational segregation, the overrepresentation of women and minorities in lower-paying jobs and occupations. This study involved an investigation of what could be considered the roots of subsequent occupational segregation among male and female minority and male and female non-minority first-year college students in relation to college major. A measure of preoccupational segregation was quantified through the use of the Duncan Dissimilarity Index. Findings indicated that preoccupational levels of segregation in the form of selection of college majors are not as prevalent as those …

An Evaluation Of English Spoken Fluency Of Thai Graduate Students In The United States, Sugunya Ruangjaroon

Dissertations and Theses

Fluency is generally recognized as speaking with a high rate of speech. This study provides a greater understanding of the notion of fluency that speech rate is not the only measure to determine the fluency level of a speaker. Particularly in a second language (L2), fluency involves other features and it can reflect non-native speakers' capacity in using L2. Fluency is comprised of the continuity and the smoothness of speech without a high occurrence of hesitation phenomena and repair mechanisms.

The purpose of the present study was to analyze English spoken fluency of Thai graduate students. This study sought to …

Correction Of Classroom Oral Errors: Preferences Among University Students Of English In Japan, Akemi Katayama

Dissertations and Theses

Correction of oral errors in foreign or second language classrooms has been an issue of great concern. Although the literature on error correction is abundant, the studies on student reaction to this pedagogical practice are few.

This study investigated the preferences for correction of classroom oral errors among university students of English in Japan. Data were collected from anonymous questionnaires. The study examined the students' attitudes toward the views about correction of oral errors which have been controversial among foreign and second language educators. The study also investigated the students' preferences for correction of different types of oral errors (e.g., …

The Use Of Authentic Reading Material In The Arabic Language Classroom, Magda Malouf-Campo

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

First Language Maintenance, Shift And Attrition Among Egyptian Immigrants In Houston, Texas, Tawhida Ahmed Askary

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Qualitative Study Of Friendships And Student-Faculty Relationships: Experiences And Perspectives Of Korean International Students Studying In The United States, Jinsook Kim

Dissertations

Experiences and perceptions among a group of Korean international students studying in the United States were examined in terms of friendships and student faculty relationships. The study used a qualitative approach and was guided by cross-cultural and cultural learning perspectives. Semi-structured interviews conducted in the Korean language were used for data collection. From a research population of 72 Korean international students enrolled at a large Midwestern university, 24 were selected using purposeful sampling, 6 from each of the four identified subgroups. These subgroups were male and female undergraduates and male and female graduates.

Participant experiences and perceptions concerning closest friendships …

Japanese Students' Perception Of Their Language Learning Strategies, Michiyo Ozawa

Dissertations and Theses

Students' use of language learning strategies (LLSs) is affected by their educational backgrounds and academic requirements, and so are their attitudes toward language learning. This study investigates Japanese students' perception of their English LLSs in different language environments: Japan and the United States. A group of 43 Japanese students from Otemae College participated in a cultural study program at Portland State University. The group consisted of 28 students who studied for two terms (ST Group) and 15 students who studied for three terms (LT Group). In this study, a combination of a self-assessment questionnaire, dialogue journals, and a card-ranking activity …

An Analysis Of Japanese Learners' Comprehension Of Intonation In English, Misako Okubo

Dissertations and Theses

Typically, most native speakers of Japanese, who have been taught English in Japan, have had limited exposure to prosodic features of English. Consequently, their ability to understand the meaning of different intonation patterns is limited as well. Though it is generally accepted that intonation plays a crucial role in English communication, comprehensive pedagogical materials for teaching English intonation to native speakers of Japanese are not widely available or used in Japan. This is, in part, due to the complexity of English prosodic features and their abstractness. A better understanding of these barriers requires that the extent and the nature of …

An Assessment Of The Needs Of International Students For Student Services At Southern Oregon State College, Molly K. Emmons

Dissertations and Theses

International students at our institutions of higher education have educational and personal needs which extend beyond the classroom. These needs are supposedly provided for by student personnel services, but little data has been collected which examines how international students use student services, and if their use differs significantly from use by American students. If their perceptions of students services and use of these resources does differ, what does that signify? This study measures the use and perceptions of student services by international and American students at Southern Oregon State College. Twenty-one philosophical objectives were examined for levels of importance, effectiveness, …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 6, Número 36, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

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El 4 de Julio/ Las Vegas 2
Canción de las Fiestas de Santa Fe 3
Who was de Vargas? 4
Who was de Vargas? Continued 5
Bean Day/ Wagon Mound 6
Un Dibujo y un Ensayo Sobre Verano 7
El Festival de Chile/ Hatch 8
Las Fiestas de Española 9
Española, Bellísimo Valle 10
Who was Don Juan de Oñate? 11
Who was Don Juan de Oñate? Continued 12
El Vals de la Escoba 13
Levels in Education 14
El Cuerpo Estatal de Educación 15
Noah Rodríguez 16
Some Tips on Learning a Language 17
Study Suggestions 18 …

A Study Of Why Some Learners Are More Successful Than Others At Acquiring A Second Language: The Roles Of Personality, Attitude & Motivation, Azah Yusof

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this thesis is to convey and to support my belief that learners' affective domain, which consist of their personalities, attitudes, and motivation are responsible for causing the variation in the levels of second language proficiency of second language learners. My concern is to point out or support others who believe that second language learners are not machines that are able and willing to be programmed; they have feelings and attitudes which in turn govern their personalities and motivation. I also believe that the main focus of second language teaching should be on the "persons" learning the language, …

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 6, Número 35, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Durante el Verano 1
Volveremos Otra vez para Las Vegas 2
Durante el Verano, Continuación 3
The Capital City of New Mexico- Santa Fe 4
Durante el Verano, Continuación 5
Harding: el cumpleaños de un condado 6
Durante el Verano, Continuación 7
Usando un Mapa 8

A Need For A Paradigm Shift In Today's Race Relations And Diversity Education, Franklin Titus Thompson

Teacher Education Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Although the ranks of human relations change agents have been temporarily depleted, there is training available for front-line diversity educators. “Changeagents do not have to always be born. They can also be taught.”

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 6, Número 34, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

El Lago Elephant Butte 1
Otras Comunidades Cerca de Elephant Butte 2
Jornada del Muerto 3
First Communion 4
Costumbres del Bautismo 5
Una Actividad 6