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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"identity and language"”.
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Identity and Language Use in Adolescent Latina/o Literature
… characters in adolescent Latina/o literature use and reflect on both English and Spanish languages, bilingualism and how language use informs a character’s identity. In this thesis a particular emphasis is placed on code switching as a literary device in adolescent Latina/o literature. …
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Audience, Power, Identity, and Language Ideologies in Graduate Writing Consultations
This project investigates how graduate writers and graduate writing consultants understand, negotiate, and talk about audience (such as advisors and reviewers, as well as the graduate writer and writing consultant themselves) and power during writing consultations, as well as what language …
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A Comparative Study of the Triadic Relation Between Time, Identity and Language in the Works of Julio Cortázar, Marcelo Cohen and Nāgārjuna
… with Buddhist philosophy can enrich our understanding of many aspects of his works, such as his treatment of relationality. I have chosen to compare both Argentine authors with the Indian Buddhist philosopher Nāgārjuna, who is considered the founder of the Madhyamaka school, which is …
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Language and Identity: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Caf and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony
… recognize Sky Lees "Disappearing Moon Cafe" and Wayson Choys "The Jade Peony" for breaking the silence over issues that Chinese Canadians faced in the 1990s such as racism and lack of representation. However, there has not been much discussion on Lee and Choy's exploration of language and …
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The Mirror Up to Nature: Identity Exploration through Drama for English Language Learners
<p>It is widely accepted that language acquisition through content, arts integration, and identity development in concert with foreign or second language development are all important and valid approaches to ESOL education. However, there is a lack of literature addressing these three elements in …
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Cultivating a Rainbow Median Through the Study of Sexuality in Second Language Acquisition: Identity Construction of Lesbian Women Native to the Southern Region of the United States
… concerning the dissimilarities between male and female speakers, there is a general consensus that there is relevance in the relationship between gender and language, especially when considering the sociolinguistic effects of gender in second language acquisition and for the L2 learner. While …
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Negotiating Ethnic Identity: Korean Americans in College Korean Language Classes
"Although ""heritage"" (or ""ethnic"") language has often been taken up as a symbol for group maintenance, my study shows that actual interaction with the language is complicatedly and heterogeneously experienced among the group members, especially in relation to the ethnic identity formation …
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Politics of nationalism, federalism, and separatism: The case of Balochistan in Pakistan
… is concerned with the principles of federalism and practice of federation in Pakistan, Baloch nation/nationalism and the politics of separatism. Since its inception, Pakistan adopted federalism as a system of government to manage a new country consisting of various ethno-national and linguistics …
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Parental Attitudes Towards Early Childhood Education in Lower Sorbian: Challenges in Developing Bilingualism in a Critically Endangered Language
… is a critically endangered West Slavic minority language spoken in the area around Cottbus, a town in eastern Germany near the Polish border. As intergenerational transmission of Lower Sorbian has virtually ceased, bilingual education in daycare centres and schools was selected as an option to …
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KALAMAZOO REVISITED: HERITAGE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AMONG LATVIANS IN NORTH AMERICA
… the entwined roles of schooling, family support and investment, and community contact in Heritage Language Learning (HLL), Heritage Language Maintenance (HLM) and identity formation among two groups of North American Latvians. One is made up of 49 teenagers at Gaŗezers language camp in Kalamazoo, …
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The Role Of Online Social Media In The Acculturation Process Of North Korean Refugee Young Adults In South Korea
… media. The study examined the acculturation and media patterns of the refugee young adults and found evidence that the use of South Korean media and North Korea-related media enhanced the acculturation domains of South and North Korean cultures, and therefore the utilization of both media as …
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The challenges and risks inherent in Welsh language revitalization and the Cymraeg 2050 Strategic Plan
The new Welsh Language Strategy, Cymraeg 2050 makes dramatic demands upon the resources, infrastructure and policies of Welsh language planning. To bring about the desired increase in Welsh speaker numbers there will need to be a complete rethink of Welsh language policy, and the challenges faced …
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Gated Entry and Code: A Critical Feminist Inquiry Into English as Gendered Symbolic Power Amongst Multilingual Indian Women
… from its historical connection to imperialism and its current connection to globalization and neoliberal capitalist expansion, the English language is wrapped up with socioeconomic, cultural, and postcolonial forms of power, manifesting in language ideologies that affect the way we perceive, …
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Te Mana Motuhake o Ngāi Tamarāwaho and the challenges of education. Whakapūmautia te tangata i tōna ake mana
… colonisation has deliberately suppressed and subordinated the knowledge, languages and identities of indigenous peoples. Colonial education policies were designed, at best, to domesticate indigenous children to create subjugated and compliant labouring classes. These historical policies …
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The Role Of Nostalgia In The Literature Of The Caribbean Diasporas – Linking Memory, Globalization And Homemaking
… Diasporas – Linking Memory, Globalization and Homemaking, investigates diverse manifestations of nostalgia in the literature of Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican diasporas. My study offers a comparative analysis of Esmeralda Santiago’s Cuando era puertorriqueña (1994), Gustavo Pérez …
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From Narration to Performance: The Study of Identity Development of EFL Students at Bejaia University, Algeria
… concerns, such as the development of English language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), students’ motivation, autonomous learning, and anxiety. However, no research has tackled the issues of ‘learner identity’, ‘learner’s voices’, nor looked at innovative teaching approaches …
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Die Idee der Verbindung von Musik und Poesie im Frankreich des 16. Jahrhunderts
… – among them Clément Janequin, Pierre Certon and Claude Goudimel. This supplement has often been cited as a symbol for the efforts of French humanists in the 16th century to realize a close union between music and poetry derived from the antique ideal of musiké. It arose from the ideas of the …
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Deaf pupils' experiences of inclusion within a mainstream primary school: a case-study
The aims of the study are: To research, and document, deaf pupils' experiences of inclusion, their perceptions of the way teachers view deafness, and to observe the effect of using sign language to educate the children within a mainstream setting. This study has as its focus 5 deaf pupils who are …
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Language attitudes and ideologies in Malta : a mixed-methods study
… of foreign conquerors together with its small landmass, has fostered an enduring history of bilingualism (in Maltese and English) on a societal level. In light of the value and status assigned to these two languages, this study sets out to investigate parents’ and their children’s language …
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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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