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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Knowledge And Language"”.
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What makes the red woman red: Cultural surveillance and the reassertion of indigenous sovereignty and identity through indigenous futurisms and decolonial practices
Wendy Red Star and Rebecca Roanhorse utilize art and literature to challenge negative stereotypes, but their work emphasizes Indigenous futurisms. I chose these two artists because Red Star responds to the historical legacies of Edward S. Curtis and his colleagues, and Roanhorse pays homage to John …
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What makes the red woman red: Cultural surveillance and the reassertion of indigenous sovereignty and identity through indigenous futurisms and decolonial practices
Wendy Red Star and Rebecca Roanhorse utilize art and literature to challenge negative stereotypes, but their work emphasizes Indigenous futurisms. I chose these two artists because Red Star responds to the historical legacies of Edward S. Curtis and his colleagues, and Roanhorse pays homage to John …
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Science Classroom Discourse for Fourth Grade English Language Learners' Scientific Literacy Development
… has shown that the construction of science knowledge involves students' development of science understanding and science language, particularly as it relates to intertextual connections to science terminology and concepts that teachers and students make in science classroom discourse. …
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A Poetic Response to Cancer: Scars, Mortality, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
… specifically focusing on scars, mortality and the doctor-patient relationship. I argue that the body standards society sets for women complicate how women wear scars; people read scars as imperfections on the female form. Because scars are visible markers on the body, they speak for …
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Gender (in)Query: Young Adults Learning, Unlearning, and Relearning Gender in a Queer Majority Space
… historical context for sexuality from ‘struggle and survive’ to emancipation, they still are confined by U.S. sexual norms assuming the authority of ‘truth’ while demanding heterosexuality. Consequently, sexuality and gender are linked inextricably as heterosexuality relies on the gender binary …
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Completing the knowledge lifecycle for language models
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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An Intelligent Agent Based Spoken Dialog System for Content Based Image Retrieval
Current spoken dialog systems are not robust and scalable. This is due to the lack of a systematic approach for studying natural language understanding problems. We hope to propose a method to build robust dialog systems by exploring the fundamental relationship between language and mind. We argue …
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Giving children the tools to participate: a case for the intercultural bilingual classroom in Peru
… research conducted by the author between May and August of 2011 in Laborpampa, Peru. Using this primary data, as well as supplemental texts, this thesis argues that native Quechua-speaking, primary students in Peru who learn in an effectively organized, intercultural, bilingual educational …
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Effective Knowledge Transfer: A Terminological Perspective - Dismantling The Jargon Barrier To Knowledge About Computer Security
… experience when they try to formulate their knowledge needs and attempt to access information contained in computer manuals or online help systems while building up their knowledge. This is the recognized but unresolved problem of communication between the specialist and the layman. The …
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Effective knowledge transfer: a terminological perspective - Dismantling the jargon barrier to knowledge about computer security
… experience when they try to formulate their knowledge needs and attempt to access information contained in computer manuals or online help systems while building up their knowledge. This is the recognised but unresolved problem of communication between the specialist and the layman. The …
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Exploring barriers to TB contact tracing and screening: health service providers’ perspective
… exacerbated by its intertwined battle with and the emergence of drug-resistant TB strains. The study conducted in iBhayi Township, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, aimed to explore and describe the barriers that impact TB contact tracing and screening efforts from the perspective of …
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Discourse, Practices and Historical Representations in Two Guerrilla Groups: the Eln and the Mpla, Colombia-Angola, 1956-1986
… guerrilla groups. The contexts of study, Angola and Colombia, in long internal conflicts during the second half of the twentieth century, witnessed the apparition of two guerrilla groups: the ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional/National Army of Liberation, 1963) and the MPLA (Movimento Popular …
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The Effects of Reading & Reading Strategy Training on Lower Proficiency Level Second Language Learning
… to investigate what effect reading in a second language has on the knowledge and language performance of young adult missionaries studying to learn a foreign language. It was hypothesized that reading would improve vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension, and it was further hypothesized …
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Brandvägg. Ord och handling i en yrkesutbildning
Brandvägg describes how a group of firefighters, who consistently maintain that they are “practitioners and not theorists”, relate to various forms of language based knowledge and language based “knowledging” in their vocational training, which is based on problem based learning. From a …
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Multilingual teacher-talk in Secondary school classrooms in Yola, North-East Nigeria: Exploring the interface of language and knowledge using legitimation code theory and terminology theory
… switching in the classroom, have been repetitive and descriptive, and have for a while not been underpinned by substantially new or different questions (Lin, 2013:15). First, many of the studies in the literature have, for instance, concluded that there is a functional allocation of languages …
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Museum education programming for linguistically diverse learners in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex : a qualitative multiple-case study.
Museums' offerings must adapt and broaden to satisfy the demands of its visitors as the number of the population designated as linguistically diverse learners rises. This multiple-case study looked at three museums in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex whose education departments creates …
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Investigating the Influence of Age and Language Aptitude on the Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of ESL Learners
Learning age and language aptitude have been identified as two of the most important individual difference factors that influence the long-term learning outcomes of second language (L2) learners. Language aptitude, as comprised of a set of cognitive abilities, mediates the negative influence of …
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Kaupapa Māori Science
This thesis investigates how Māori knowledge and language articulate with current discourses of Pūtaiao education, and possible alternative articulations. A Kaupapa Māori version of critical discourse analysis methodology is developed and applied to discourses relevant to Pūtaiao, or Māori-medium …
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The questioning of intuition; a post structural analysis of nurses’ stories
… The aim of this thesis is to question intuition, and analyse factors which influence Registered Nurses decision making, when recognising and responding to an acutely ill patient. Background. Two models of decision making are historically identified in the literature, the Hypothetical - Deductive …
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Julius Otto Kaiser and his method of systematic indexing: an early indexing system in its historical context
… Otto Kaiser (1968–1927) was a special librarian and indexer who developed, in last years of the 19th, and the first years of the 20th, centuries, an innovative method of subject indexing known as systematic indexing (SI). Although Kaiser has long been recognized as a pioneer in the field of …