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Okamura, Akiko. "The roles of culture, sub-culture and language in scientific research articles." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313548.

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Mutu, Margaret. "Aspects of the structure of the Ùa Pou dialect of the Marquesan language." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2086.

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This thesis is made up of three parts; the first is an outline and discussion of the various approaches taken in the description of Polynesian languages in the last 30 years. It provides background discussion of the model of description used in the rest of the thesis. The second deals with the phonology of the 'Ua Pou dialect, concentrating in particular on two areas; the phonetics of the glottal stop phoneme, and penultimate vowel extension. The latter is a feature which has received no mention in any literature to date but is the most noticeable suprasegmental phonetic difference between the
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Xia, Li. "Exploring the understanding of culture specific body language among Chinese learners of English." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2010. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1205.

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Kralisch, Anett. "The impact of culture and language on the use of the internet." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15501.

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Diese Arbeit untersucht den Einfluss von Kultur und Sprache auf die Nutzung des Internets. Drei Hauptgebiete wurden bearbeitet: (1) Der Einfluss von Kultur und Sprache auf Nutzerpräferenzen bezüglich der Darstellung von Informationen und Nutzung von Suchoptionen; (2) Der Einfluss von Kultur auf Nutzerpräferenzen bezüglich des Inhaltes von Websiteinformationen; (3) Der Einfluss von Sprache auf die Nutzerzufriedenheit und Sprache als Informationszugangsbarriere Daten aus Logfile-Analysen, Onlinebefragungen und experimentellen Untersuchungen bildeten die Auswertungsgrundlage für die Überprüfung
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Charters, Areta Helen. "The second language acquisition of Mandarin nominal syntax." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2405.

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This thesis establishes a natural acquisition order for 18 nominal structures in Mandarin SLA, and assesses the extent to which that order can be explained as a consequence of cognitive processing demands. The natural acquisition order is based on a longitudinal study of three adults learning Mandarin in a classroom environment in Auckland, New Zealand. Two representatives of an average emergence order are derived from the three individual orders: a ranking of mean emergence times (RMT) and a ranking of mean emergence ranks (RMR). Processing demands are calculated in three different ways: once
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Iida, Eri. "Hedges in Japanese English and American English medical research articles." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99723.

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The present study analysed the use of hedges in English medical research articles written by Japanese and American researchers. The study also examined the relationship between Japanese medical professionals' employment of hedges and their writing process. Sixteen English medical articles: eight written by Japanese and eight by Americans were examined. Four of the Japanese authors discussed their writing process through questionnaires and telephone interviews.<br>The overall ratio of hedges in articles written by the two groups differed only slightly; however, analyses revealed a number of spe
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Strahlman, Harriet L. "Past and future| An interpretive study of Heritage Language and Culture parents' perspectives on their children's education." Thesis, Tennessee Technological University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3740837.

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<p> This qualitative research compared and contrasted the experiences, expectations, hopes, and dreams held by three dyads of Heritage Language and Culture (HLC) parents in three different countries concerning education. Sociolinguistic and sociocultural methods of analysis of narrative were used to code and analyze 63 stories selected from six participant interview transcripts. The context of each research venue, including economic, racial, and social positioning of each participant was explored, as were the researcher&rsquo;s subjectivities, as elements impacting the analysis and interpretat
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Potts, Annie. "The Science/Fiction of Sex. A Feminist Deconstruction of the Vocabularies of Heterosex." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2331.

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This research conducts a feminist poststructuralist examination of the vocabularies of heterosex: it investigates those terms, modes of talking, and meanings relating to sex which are associated with discourses such as scientific and popular sexology, medicine and psychiatry, public health, philosophy, and some feminist critique. The analysis of these various representations of heterosex involves the deconstruction of binaries such as presence/absence, mind/body, inside/outside and masculine/feminine, that are endemic to Western notions of sex. It is argued that such dualisms (re)produce and p
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Melzer, Annie Maria. "Language Reclamation, Food Systems, and Ethnoecological Revitalization: A Case Study on Myaamiaki Ethnobotany and Community-Based Participatory Research." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1416569796.

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Berardi-Wiltshire, Arianna. "Italian identity and heritage language motivation : five stories of heritage language learning in traditional foreign language courses in Wellington, New Zealand : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics and Second Language Teaching at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1170.

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The study explores the motivational role of the personal constructions of Italian identity (Italianità) of five learners of Italian descent studying their heritage language by means of traditional foreign language courses in Wellington, New Zealand. By adopting a social constructivist perspective on both language learning and the motivational processes underlying it, and by applying such concepts as investment (Norton, 2000), ideal L2 self (Dörnyei, 2009) and language learning as identity reconstruction (Pavlenko & Lantolf, 2000), the study aims to further our understanding of heritage languag
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Segerberg, Anita Kristina. "Christina Stead: the American years." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2046.

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CHRISTINA STEAD (1902-1983) is a major Australian woman writer, and this thesis explores one of the least known periods in her life and work, the years she spent in the United States (1937- 7946). During this time she wrote her two best known novels, The Man Who Loved Children and For Love Alone, both based on autobiographical material. This study explores contextual aspects of Stead's life and work in New York, drawing on a considerable amount of new material. (Chapters I and II) During this period Stead wrote partly out of a personal need to understand her own life situation, and psychologic
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Kelly, Frances (Frances Jennifer). "In "that Borderland Between": The Ambivalence of A. S. Byatt’s Fiction." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2059.

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This thesis explores the conceptualisation of subjectivity, the past and language in the work of one particular English novelist and critic, A. S. Byatt. In doing so, it examines significant points of overlap between Byatt's fiction and criticism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the discourses that have contributed to their formation. Whilst Byatt's work is inflected by recent critical examinations of the three concepts, this thesis is less concerned with how it reflects prevailing notions of subjectivity, the past and language, than with its participation in an ongoing examination of each
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Nola, Nina. "”My Two Countries Firmly Under My Feet”: Explorations of Multicultural Identity in the Fiction of Amelia Batistich and Yvonne du Fresne." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2137.

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This thesis offers a detailed reading of the fiction of the Dalmatian New Zealand author Amelia Batistich and the Danish New Zealand author Yvonne du Fresne from the perspective of multicultural literary criticism. It draws strongly throughout on interviews and discussions with the authors themselves, and on their personal papers. The Introduction explores the term "multicultural literary criticism", examines its significant development in theory and practice in Australia (especially in the writings of Sneja Gunew), and discusses the challenging issues raised by its use in a bicultural context
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Lalor, Daphne E. (Daphne Elaine). "An Edition of the Book of Sovereign Medicines MS X3346." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2281.

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This thesis is an edition of a manuscript of medical remedies, MS X3346 (now stored in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington) which belongs to the Medical Historical Society of the Auckland branch of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. The manuscript is one of five known copies of a compilation by a sixteenth century Benedictine monk, John of Feckenham, who became Abbot of Westminster during the reign of Mary Tudor. In the dedication to the manuscripts, which is almost identical in each, the Abbot states that 'This Book of Sovereign Medicines' Named for convenience throughout
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Kikuchi, Atsuko. "Translation and understanding: mental models as an interface in the process of translation." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2312.

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This thesis discusses two characteristics of language which affect translation, using English and Japanese examples. However, the general points made in the thesis are not specific to these two languages. One characteristic of language is that it encodes particular perceptions of experience by its users. Word meaning is defined in this thesis in terms of the typical experience the language user associates with a word. Concepts for which there are no single lexical items are encoded by putting together words which the speaker thinks best characterise the concept. This particular characterisatio
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Turner, Marianne. "The function, design and distribution of New Zealand adzes." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/26.

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The main objective of this thesis was to understand the function, design and distribution of New Zealand adzes, aspects little studied in Polynesia as a whole. Methodology involved functional and manufacturing replication experiments and comparisons of these results with statistics derived from the analysis of almost 12,000 archaeological adzes. Methodology was guided by technological organization theory which states that technological strategies reflect human behaviours and that artefacts like adzes are physical manifestations of the strategies employed by people to overcome problems posed by
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Lima, Ieti. "Tafesilafa'i: exploring Samoan alcohol use and health within the framework of fa'asamoa." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2171.

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This study seeks to establish how cultural change is transforming Samoan perceptions of alcohol and its role in social life by comparing understandings of, attitudes to, and patterns of alcohol use in successive generations of Samoans to establish how these are changing, and how trends in alcohol use might be expected to affect Samoan health status. It examines the complex relationships between alcohol and culture, and how such relationships interact to influence health. As well, it explores how Samoan culture, fa'asamoa, has changed since contact with Europeans, how, these changes have influe
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Kentner, Melissa A. "Successful teachers of Spanish who commit to the teaching of cultures two qualitative case studies /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1110209882.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 299 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Johnston, Patricia Maringi G. "He ao rereke : education policy and Maori under-achievement: Mechanisms of Power and Difference." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2194.

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In acknowledging continual educational under-achievement of Maori children, this thesis investigates the relationship between education policy and Maori under-achievement. It argues that under-achievement is framed within boundaries of changing recognitions and realisations of power and difference: that conceptions of difference have influenced education policy and schooling practices for Maori. Theoretically, the thesis examines 'what counts as difference' and 'what differences count'. In recognising that unequal power relations between dominant and subordinate groups produce distinct views a
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Humphrey, Bryan, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "Insider Research, the Process and Practice: Issues arising from professionals conducting research within their own working environments." Deakin University. School of Education, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040614.122119.

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This thesis explores the chaotic, dynamic, ambiguous, complex and confusing world of the insider researcher. The proliferating species of insider researcher is common in public sector organisations and is particularly prevalent among post-graduate students who have combined study with work. Insider researchers range from the in-house researcher employed to conduct research to those who are conducting research in addition to their normal duties. This thesis, through five illustrative case-studies, discusses, reflects upon, explains, and clarifies the possibilities, limitations and the issues
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Middleton, Angela. "Te Puna : the archaeology and history of a New Zealand Mission Station, 1832-1874." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2381.

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This thesis examines the archaeology and history of Te Puna, a Church Missionary Society (CMS) mission station in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Te Puna was first settled in 1832 following the closure of the nearby Oihi mission, which had been the first mission station and the first permanent European settlement in New Zealand. Te Puna, located alongside the imposing Rangihoua Pa, was the home of missionaries John and Hannah King and their children for some forty years. As well as being a mission station, Te Puna was also the site of the family’s subsistence farm. The research is concerned w
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Paul, Mary. "Reading readings: some current critical debates about New Zealand literature and culture." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/1974.

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This thesis examines contemporary interpretations of a selection of important texts written by New Zealand women between 1910 and 1940, and also a film and film script written more recently (which are considered as re-readings of a novel by Mander). The thesis argues that, though reading or meaning-making is always an activity of construction there will, at any given moment, always be reasons for preferring one way of reading over another-a reading most appropriate to a situation or circumstances. This study is motivated by a desire to understand how literary criticism has changed in recent ye
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Yang, Yu Stella. "Language practices of internet leaders and organizational culture :a multi-method study on the online discussion forum at www.Chinese-forums.com." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953773.

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Fox, Gwyn. "Hearts in the hearth: seventeenth-century women's sonnets of love and friendship in Spain and Portugal." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2132.

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This study contributes to the growing body of knowledge about the realities of women's lives in the seventeenth-century Iberian peninsula, through a socio-historical interpretation of the poetic production of five women. One is Portuguese, Violante del Cielo, and four are Spaniards: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, Marcia Belisarda and Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán. All are from the educated upper or noble classes and their lives span some one hundred and forty years, from 1566 to 1693. The thesis focuses particularly on their sonnets of love and friendship, both sec
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Baek, Mi-Kyung. "Insider at border interactions of technology, language, culture, and gender in computer-mediated communication by Korean female learners of English /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1110301321.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.<br>Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 275 p. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2006 Mar. 8.
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Davies, Faye Margarita. "Narratives of otherness: Masculinity and identity in contemporary Spanish literature for children and adolescents." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9841949.

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While members of any group of men may appear to be ordinary gendered examples of humanity, behind their physical similarities lie many socio-political and familial differences; thus it is only by knowing such men as individuals that their identities are revealed. Such is the aim of this thesis: to discover the 'real man' behind the statistics about sex-roles and the predominance of male characters in children's and adolescents' literature. From within a selection of Spanish texts a variety of male characters are analysed, focusing on six major roles: father, grandfather, imaginary friend, dete
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Carlyle, Diane P. (Diane Patricia). "Georges Bernanos, démolisseur d'impostures." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2379.

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The thesis is divided into five parts. The first consists of a revue of the opinions of the critics on the work of Georges Bernanos, and then proceeds to define the aims of the thesis: (i) to combat the pernicious idea that we are dealing with a "Catholic Opus", one where the term "Catholic" would imply "idealistic" or "out of touch with reality", and to arrive at a different way of approaching the work; (ii) to lay bare the hidden unity of the work since the new interpretation we are seeking will derive from the relation of the parts to the whole; (iii) to show the radical nature of Bernanos'
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Battista, Jon Lois. "Me he korokoro kōmako = ’With the throat of a bellbird’ : a Māori aesthetic in Māori writing in English." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2233.

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The primary aim of this thesis Me he korokoro kōmako [‘With the throat of a bellbird’] is to demonstrate the existence of a distinctive Māori aesthetic in Māori literature written in English. Its introductory section, of three chapters, investigates the ways in which mainstream critical discourse in various ways appropriates Māori literature to its own Western-derived models of meaning and values, and proposes instead a definition of a Māori aesthetic grounded in the principle of whakapapa, whose whole cultural components for Māori literature include distinctive textual functions for myth, ora
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Simon, Judith A. "The place of schooling in Maori-Pakeha relations." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2328.

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Recognizing the continual restructuring of Pakeha-Maori relations as dominance and subordination, this thesis sets out to gain an understanding, through a critique of ideology, of the place of schooling in the securing and maintenance of those relations. Theoretically, it draws mainly upon the concept of ideology as interpreted by Jorge Larrain but also upon Gramsci's concept of hegemony, the notion of social amnesia as presented by Jacoby and the concept of resistance as developed by Giroux. It also examines the historical development of the concepts of 'race' and 'culture' which are employed
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Edwards, Shane. "Titiro whakamuri kia marama ai te wao nei : whakapapa epistemologies and Maniapoto Maori cultural identities : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Massey University." Massey University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1252.

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The work I have presented here pulls together Maori epistemologies as evidenced in the whakapapa knowledge particularly of Ngati Maniapoto to see if and where connection lies with understandings of Maori cultural wellbeing. Whakapapa knowledge is the unbounded collection of theory, observation and experience as seen through Maori eyes. It is intricately connected by whakapapa, a tool for working with and extrapolating understanding and is the common thread that binds hapu, whanau and iwi (O’Regan, 2001). The aim is to investigate contemporary Maori realities with a strong interest in these tra
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Strickland, Klaira. "Defining Fan Subcultures within Dungeons & Dragons." Thesis, Western Illinois University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10809137.

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<p> First created in 1974, the largest table-top role-playing game (RPG) <i> Dungeons &amp; Dragons</i> (D&amp;D) started out as a war game where multiple players could join in and fight monsters. Grounded in fantasy conventions and as a way to explore fantasy genres, <i>Dungeons &amp; Dragons</i> popularity continued through new editions and add-ons. In addition, <i> Dungeons &amp; Dragons</i> legacy has lived on in the gaming world as the father of most RPGs and fantasy games with a large fan following across various editions and over multiple decades. The fan following is still evident toda
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Ruesch, Ashley. "Student and Teacher Perceptions of Motivational Strategies in the Foreign Language Classroom." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2961.pdf.

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Li, Xuemei. "Identity re/construction of cross-cultural graduate students." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1130.

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Williams, A. Lynn, Brenda Louw, Marcia Keske-Soares, et al. "Nexus of Research-Cultural Competence: A Twist on Study Abroad." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2046.

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Although study abroad programs often focus on academic and cultural experiences, research training can be the nexus between knowledge of the professions and development of cross-cultural competence. Development of a research-based study abroad program will be presented as a mechanism for students to develop scientific and cultural skills in tandem.
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Trimble, Celeste Leigh Helen, and Celeste Leigh Helen Trimble. "Entering into Particulars: Re-conceptualizing Adolescence through Young Adult Literature and Critical Narrative Pedagogy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621019.

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This qualitative multiple case study explores the intersection of young adult literature and adolescent memory narratives in an undergraduate course entitled Learning about Adolescence through Literature within an action research framework. This dissertation is motivated by two research questions: (1) What influence might young adult literature and memory narratives of adolescence have on undergraduate students' understandings of the cultural construction of adolescence? (2) How does the text we read affect how we perceive our lived experiences, and, in turn, how does this interchange of story
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Rhee, Eunsook Ha. "Complexities and Dynamics of Korean Graduate Students' Textual Borrowing in Academic Writing." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/83455.

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CITE/Language Arts<br>Ed.D.<br>Academic writing in U.S. higher education often involves textual borrowing, referred to as the integration and documentation of reading sources and carried out with summaries, quotes and paraphrases. Second language (L2) English students are likely to use sources inappropriately and consequentially are accused of plagiarism based on a moral judgment. A body of research on textual borrowing including this study has provided strong evidence that these students' inappropriate source use does not result from their intention to steal other's intellectual property and
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Green, Valerie Joyce. "Tupulaga Tokelau in New Zealand (the Tokelau younger generation in New Zealand)." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9928380.

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Tokelauans initiated a contemporary migration from their relatively remote Pacific atolls to New Zealand around 1960 and this population movement was assisted by government resettlement schemes. The broad objectives of the ethnographic research contributing to this thesis were to study the historical context of this small-scale voluntary migration, the establishment and social organisation of culturally distinguished urban communities in North Island centres, and post-resettlement outcomes experienced by migrant and descent populations. Each of the two studies incorporated in the thesis is pri
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Mohd, Nawi Abdullah. "Applied Drama in English Language Learning." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Literacies and Arts in Education, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9584.

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This thesis is a reflective exploration of the use and impact of using drama pedagogies in the English as a Second Language (ESL)/ English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. It stems from the problem of secondary school English language learning in Malaysia, where current teaching practices appear to have led to the decline of the standard of English as a second language in school leavers and university graduates (Abdul Rahman, 1997; Carol Ong Teck Lan, Anne Leong Chooi Khaun, & Singh, 2011; Hazita et al., 2010; Nalliah & Thiyagarajah, 1999). This problem resonates with my own experiences
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Liev, Man Hau. "Adaptation of Cambodians in New Zealand : achievement, cultural identity and community development /." e-Thesis University of Auckland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/3362.

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This thesis has two foci: how Cambodians with a refugee background manage their new life in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and how an identity as a Khmer Kiwi transnational community has developed. Analytic concepts— such as forced migration, cultural bereavement, adaptation, integration, diaspora, transnationalism, identification, and community of practice— are used to trace the trajectory of the contemporary way of life of Cambodians, their community development, and their cultural identity. The data gathered from mixedmethod research reveal the various opinions, strategies, coping mechanisms, and pa
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Cheng, Yu Ching, and 鄭侑青. "A Research on Integrating Wedding Culture into Teaching Chinese as a Second Language." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57246596922648861887.

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池蓉姬. "A Research about Recognition and Preferences of Public Symbols under Influences of Different Cultural Backgrounds: Compared Study of Taiwan (Chinese Language Culture) and Argentina (Spanish Language Culture) as an example." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79364384447854429589.

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碩士<br>國立交通大學<br>應用藝術所<br>91<br>Through questionaries answered by two groups of people with different cultural backgrounds, an attempt to identify the factors influencing the recognition and preferences of graphic symbols in different cultures was carried out. According to the objective, two groups of interviewee were randomly selected. The groups consist of 100 Taiwaneses and 111 Argentinineans. Five groups of graphic symbols were tested: nursery, WC, information, mechanical stairs and telephon. Test graphics were collected from public places; 15 symbols from Taiwan, 15 from Argenti
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Songsiri, Montha. "An action research study of promoting students’ confidence in speaking English." 2007. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/1492/1/Songsiri.pdf.

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This study investigated students’ attitudes towards language learning, especially speaking, at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, North Bangkok, Thailand. One of the important factors needing change in Thai education is the improvement of language teaching, especially speaking. The aims of the research are to improve Thai students’ motivation to speak English through a range of materials and activities used for promoting students’ confidence in speaking English. Action research procedures (plan, act, observe, reflect and revise) were used to study the processes and participant Three Engli
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Hohepa, Margie Kahukura. "Hei tautoko i te reo : Maori language regeneration and whānau bookreading practices." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/517.

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I nga rua tekau ma rima tau nei ka puta ake ētahi kaupapa mātauranga hei whakaora i te reo tūturu o Aotearoa, i te reo Māori me ōna tikanga. Ka tirohia e tēnei tuhinga roa te kaupapa, arā, ma te kōrero Māori o te hunga tata ki ngā tamariki e ako ana i roto i te reo e puawai ai te kaupapa ako i te reo Māori. Ka tirohia te kaupapa nei, te ārohi i nga kōrero pukapuka-a-whānau hei tautoko i te reo. He huarahi te 'ao tuhi' i roto i nga mahi o ia rā hei whakawhānui i te whakaora i te reo, ki te pupuri hoki i nga tikanga Māori. Ka rangahautia e rua nga mahi e pā ana ki nga ritenga kōrero pukapuka-a-w
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Shieff, Sarah. "Magpies: negotiations of centre and periphery in settings of New Zealand poems by New Zealand composers, 1896 to 1993." 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2413.

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The thesis will show that a distinctive New Zealand voice in the arts may be found not in an "essence", as has sometimes been suggested, but at chronologically specific intersections of discourses. Each of the six works I examine has been made in New Zealand and is a mixture of music and language. As generic hybrids, combinations of music and language make appropriate objects of study for a thesis that explores a specific local dialogue between the 'mixture' and the 'essence', the 'hybrid' and the 'authentic', the 'indigenous' and the 'exotic', the 'local' and the 'imported', the 'centre' and
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Kim, Sun Hee. "First language attrition in a second language learning environment: the case of Korean-English late bilinguals." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2366.

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This thesis explores L1 attrition among young Korean-English late bilinguals. Thirty Korean immigrants to New Zealand, who had arrived at the age of 12-13 years and had spent at least 2 years in New Zealand, participated in the study. Ten monolingual Korean children aged 12 years served as a comparison group for L1 data. Linguistic data in both L1 and L2 were elicited by a standardised picture-naming test and a story-retelling task supplemented by a stimulated recall protocol. Information related to social variables and language use patterns was elicited through a questionnaire and interviews.
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Varasarin, Patchara. "An action research study of pronunciation training, language learning strategies and speaking confidence." 2007. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/1437/1/Varasarin.pdf.

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English is a vehicle for international communication. In order to meet the demands of modern society, English teachers need to pay more attention to the development of learners’ competence and focus on a more effective and successful method. However traditional approaches to English language teaching still dominate Thai classrooms. Language teachers should not focus on reciting but should teach from their own understanding of language learning and help learners gain more competence with confidence. This study is a collaborative action research investigation to develop pronunciation training an
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Lam, Yung Adam. "Identity, tradition and globalism in post-Cultural Revolution Chinese feature films." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2178.

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After the Cultural Revolution officially ended in 1977, China began its reforms from 1978. Although the initial goal of the reforms was to improve the nation's economy, changes soon took place across other fields ranging from politics to culture, from society to the legal system. These changes throughout the 1980s and 1990s had a significant impact on the development of Chinese film. Contemporary Chinese films reflect these changes either directly or indirectly. This thesis studies the development of film in post-Cultural Revolution China to the mid-1990s. The thesis argues that Chinese film e
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Zaza, Wendy-Llyn. "Mujer, Historia Y Sociedad: La Dramaturgia Femenina De La Espana Contemporánea." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/694.

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This study examines contemporary Spanish women's theatre through three main inseparable themes: woman, history and society. Written from a feminine perspective, the works discussed contest a canonical History which marks the dawning of western civilization. It is then that the Judeo-Christian religion and ancient Greek thought create foundational "sins" which relegate woman to a condition of inferiority. Within a patriarchal structure, she is confined to a private sphere of action. Consequently, a public female presence implies adopting "masculine" values and any possibility of an autobiograph
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Knoch, Ute. "Diagnostic writing assessment: the development and validation of a rating scale." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2343.

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Whole document restricted, see Access Instructions file below for details of how to access the print copy.<br>Alderson (2005) suggests that diagnostic tests should identify strengths and weaknesses in learners' use of language, focus on specific elements rather than global abilities and provide detailed feedback to stakeholders. However, rating scales used in performance assessment have been repeatedly criticized for being imprecise, for using impressionistic terminology (Fulcher, 2003; Upshur & Turner, 1999; Mickan, 2003) and for often resulting in holistic assessments (Weigle, 2002). The aim
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Doty, Stephen Howard. "The paradigm shift in Bible translation in the modern era : with special focus on Thai." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2458.

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In the last two decades there has been a significant shift in Bible translation, away from the approach developed by Eugene A. Nida of the United Bible Societies. The practice of Bible translation in the modern era was greatly influenced by Nida, and still is to a great extent. His ‘functional equivalence’ approach to translation gave priority to communicating the meaning of the text instead of merely retaining the form. His approach also included testing the translation to ensure that average readers understood the meaning. Nida’s approach was expanded upon by the Summer Institute of Linguist
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