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Showing 1 to 20 of 194 for “"Language and culture"”.
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Polysynthetic sociolinguistics: the language and culture of Murrinh Patha Youth
This thesis is about the life and language of kardu kigay – young Aboriginal men in the town of Wadeye, northern Australia. Kigay have attained some notoriety within Australia for their participation in “heavy metal gangs”, which periodically cause havoc in the town. But within Australianist …
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An-Pan Man: Language and culture in a Japanese children's cartoon
… characterizations that are (a) defined by language use, especially politeness markers encoded in referents for self and other, and (b) exhibited through enacted nonverbal behavior. Since the episodic An-Pan Man story is directed toward a young audience, it can be considered as a …
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Power, language, and culture: Teresa de la Parra in Latin American feminism
… feminist ideology: novelistic events, subversive language, and the revision of historical women's stories. In Ifigenia and Las memorias de Mama Blanca, the mother figure symbolizes maternal authority and submission to paternal power, whereas the daughters, who are rebellious and liberal-minded, …
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Learning Language and Culture outside the Classroom: Korean Study Abroad Students' Experience
… study examined seven Korean students' language and culture learning experiences in a study abroad context. The purpose of this study is to gain insight about the processes of students' social interactions and development of communicative competence outside the classroom. My …
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A computational approach to spatial cognition: Representing spatial relationships in Tongan language and culture
… it follows the examination of the linguistic and psychological data obtained by the administration of a variety of tasks in order to investigate if one of the three types of frame of reference (relative, intrinsic, or absolute) has any specific status within Tongan spatial cognition. The …
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Learning From Teachers Serving Preschool English Language Learners: Perspectives on Integrating Home Language and Culture
… not able to differentiate between good teaching and effective practices for ELLs. Home language and culture were also not recognized as an important foundation for ELLs' learning. The study points to the need for teachers, and all other school staff, to have an educational background for working …
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Teaching, Learning, and Writing in the Third Space: A Study of Language and Culture Intersecting with Instruction
… dissertation was to compare the characteristics and attributes of an effective first grade teacher of writing to English learners through the lens of the "third space." The "third space" represents a place where sociocultural theory interacts with language and culture, and authentic, integrated …
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Telling stories and contextualizing lived experiences in the Cuban heritage language and culture: an autoethnography about transculturation
… her path to becoming a United States citizen and a language teacher. The lived experiences in both Cuba and the United States include (1) her father’s “one year, one month, and one day” in the Aid-to-Production Camp where young Cuban men—even the most educated— were “recruited” to work in the …
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Doing Italian as a Foreign Language: investigating talk about language and culture in three British university classrooms
… beginners taught by two teachers, one British and one Italian, in two British universities. The aims of the study are to: (1) investigate the views of language and of language teaching/learning that informed the teachers‟ practice; (2) identify the cultural worlds and images of Italian-ness …
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Teaching and learning German language and culture in higher education in Britain:problems, challenges and didactical implications. A case study
The aim of this thesis is to explore key aspects and problems of the institutionalised teaching and learning of German language and culture in the context of German Studies in British Higher Education (HE). This investigation focuses on teaching and learning experiences in one department of German …
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Language and culture as a societal asset: Strategic alignment of language policy to a sustainable socio-economic market for gaelic
Assuming that languages, in particular threatened or minority languages, require<br/>supportive socio-economic markets in order to thrive (Grin, 2003a), this thesis<br/>explores language and culture as societal assets, specifically for the extant<br/>Gàidhealtachd Gaelic-speaker group. The core of …
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An evaluative study of the perceptions of school personnel towards a training program involving the comprehension of basic Spanish language and culture
… system is the tenth largest in the United States and it has a student population of approximately 130,000. Because of the size of the FCPS system, it is divided into four administrative areas-Area I, Area II, Area III and Area IV. Area II of FCPS has a student population of approximately 26,000 …
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Language and culture: the importance of cultural language to enhance the teaching and learning of Persian language in a Persian heritage language school
… tries to investigate how the integration of culture and language or Cultural Language can enhance the teaching and learning of the Persian language in a Persian Heritage Language school. Furthermore, it aims to investigate the relationship between Persian Heritage Language and its effect on …
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Planning an employee Spanish training program at the community college level
… study was to research the process of planning and creating an employee Spanish training program. The researcher determined employees' previous knowledge of the language and culture as well as training preferences utilizing two surveys (n = 120) and a personal interview (n = 15). Surveys were …
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Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry into Language, Culture, and Identity Development of Three High School Female Immigrant Students and Their Mainstream Schooling Experience in Atlanta, Georgia
… students as they acculturated (learned a new language and culture) and enculturated (maintained the heritage language and culture) while developing new identities in an English-speaking public high school in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. I used a cross-cultural narrative inquiry method (He, 2003) …
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Daughter Tongue
… Tongue is a collection of poems about straddling cultures and languages as a Filipino-American. Divided into three sections, the book follows a single speaker who moves between sites of contradiction. In addition to language and culture, the speaker struggles to reconcile religion with sexuality.
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Measuring Japanese University Students' Readiness for Second-language Group Work and Its Relation to Willingness to Communicate
… of students' Readiness for L2 Group Work and its relationship to Willingness to Communicate in L2 Group Work in a Japanese university. Readiness for L2 Group Work is defined as learners' self-perception of the degree to which they are prepared cognitively and affectively for L2 group work. …
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Ideologies of deafness: Deaf education in Hispanic America
Minority language people are sometimes simplistically viewed as lacking the language of the majority, and Deaf people are simplistically viewed as lacking hearing, thus ignoring the sociocultural realities of both groups. It is only in the last two decades that attempts have been made to articulate …
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The German Canadians in Saskatchewan with Particular Reference to the Language Problem, 1900-1930
Today multi-culturalism and multi-lingualism are encouraged by legislation and government agencies both federally and provincially. In Saskatchewan the Department of Culture and Youth has been charged with the task of getting the varied ethnic groups to work together to provide a sense of community …
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