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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Language Identity"”.
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Urhobo: Language, Identity, and Design
Urhobo: Language, Identity and Design is a 3D web-based game design project that explores how technology and digital storytelling can preserve and promote the endangered language and cultural heritage of the Urhobo people of Nigeria's Niger Delta in Delta State. Inspired by UNESCO's warning that …
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Performing the (un)inherited language, identity, performance
I will examine how language usage in Post-Apartheid South Africa is central to identity construction and discern in what ways this construction informs my approach to creating performance. I use this paper to offer a frame as to how a relationship to language is socially and historically …
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Language, Identity, and Power in Colonial Brazil, 1695-1822
Language, Identity, and Power in Colonial Brazil, 1695-1822 Luciane Cristina Scarato This dissertation investigates the diverse ways in which the Portuguese language expanded in Brazil, despite the multilingual landscape that predominated prior to and after the arrival of the Europeans and the …
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The Social Construction of Language: Identity, Reality, and Trauma in American Composition Courses
… and power in the composition classroom through language, writing, and rhetoric. I draw upon pedagogical and rhetorical theorists, to analyze how language closely interacts with identity and how it impacts an individual's understanding and perception of reality. I consider how texts utilize …
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Narratives of Latina Teacher Candidates on Subtractive Schooling Experiences and Their Language Identity
… in the United States has long impacted the language identities of Latinx students. Despite being raised in multilingual environments, many are schooled in systems that devalue their home languages and prioritize English-only instruction. This study explored how these dynamics influenced …
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Language, identity and parenting in acculturation: A case study of Saudi Arabian mothers sojourning in New Zealand
… way through an unfamiliar society in a foreign language, with a particular focus on how these women parent and educate their children in New Zealand while trying to maintain their own cultural values. This explorative case study was conducted from August 2016 and March 2018 in Hamilton, a …
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Cultivating Student Voice: Writing as a Tool for Multilingual and Multicultural Students to Develop Language, Identity, and Cultural Competence
… for youth learning English as their second language to be encouraged to value their first language, culture, and identity by writing. Unfortunately, many teachers overlook the significance of the writing activity, which can be greatly helpful to develop the English learners’ language and …
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Language, identity and nationhood: language use and attitudes among Xhosa students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
This thesis is a study of patterns of language attitudes and use among Xhosa home language speakers at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Speakers of Xhosa, according to Statistics South Africa 2000, form the second largest speech community in South Africa (17.9% of the total …
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Dual Lives Assimilation Literacy
… topics such as the effects of the dominant language on Latin immigrants, if it is possible to have a grounded native language identity and feel accepted in this society, and if Latin immigrants can hold on to their overall cultural identity. </p>
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Accommodation in email and the influence of organizational culture.
… individuals and explores the intersection of language, identity, and context. Organizational culture defines the context in which organizational members learn to thrive in organizations. This study tested the application of CAT, exploring the impact of context on email behavior among …
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We be talkin': Critical explorations into how Black adolescents experience a Black language book club
Deficit views about Black language have circulated throughout society since before desegregation. However, Black literary societies were used as a way to counter hegemony by developing the language of the Black community and continue to exist (Muhammad, 2021). This single case study sought to …
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One size does not fit all: exploring online-language-learning challenges and benefits for advanced English Language Learners
… platforms as instructional spaces for English Language Learners. The research presented shows that employing these platforms may supplement in-class work to give students opportunities and space to utilize English rhetorical tools, cultivate and express their second language identity, and …
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English learners or multilingual learners: To what extent does terminology even matter?
The field of language education in the United States is currently undergoing a transition from the term English learner to multilingual learner to refer to students whose home language is not English and qualify for language support services. While this change represents a broader sociopolitical …
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Sociolinguistic constructions of identity among adolescent males in Glasgow
… Vernacular which examines the nexus of language, identity, and violence using data collected from a group of working-class adolescent males from a high school in the south side of the city between 2005 – 2008, and aims to uncover whether adolescent males who identified as ‘neds’ or who …
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Identity development of Chinese graduate students in the United States : a phenomenological investigation
… study investigated the lived experiences of identity development of Chinese graduate students in the United States. Through in-depth interviews with 15 participants at a Midwestern research university, the study found that the majority of Chinese graduate students came with a strong student …
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Children of Ameriturk mothers and traditional Turkish fathers: perceived remote acculturation gaps between divorced coparents, and child well-being in Turkey
… remote acculturation gaps in behavior and identity domains on child well-being in divorced families in Turkey. Altogether, 177 divorced mothers from three cities in Turkey completed questionnaires reporting their remote acculturation to U.S. and Turkish cultures, and perceptions of their …
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Speaking The Subject: A Discourse Analysis Of Undergraduate Seminar Practice
… elements of seminar talk and links between language, identity, power and status was explored through an analysis of the discursive processes at work in the seminar events.An heuristic model of the seminar as a socio-pedagogic space, a site of hegemonic struggle, was used to aid concept …
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The effects of acculturation, age and years in the United States on RBANS performance in Russian bilinguals
… between acculturation, as measured by the Language, Identity, and Behavior Acculturation Scale (LIB); age, the number of years lived in the United States, and performance on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status Normative Update (RBANS) in a sample of …
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Arabic-speakers in Norman Sicily
… the Normans around 1060, Arabic was the dominant language but by 1250 prestigious Romance vernaculars could be heard almost everywhere. Of particular importance is the formative period of Norman rule (1061-1194), when the key transitions from an Arab-Muslim to a Latin-Christian island were made. …
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Latinas in Higher Education: Paving & Weaving Wholeheartedly
… complexities of higher education, culture, and identity. This study examines how Latina students incorporate cultural background, familial support, and personal agency to thrive academically while challenging systemic obstacles and societal expectations. The research question that guided this …
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