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Fall 2012
Many rural Alberta communities face critical issues of sustainability including rural-urban migration by youth and young adults. Drawing on research in Alberta, this thesis identifies the factors influencing rural-urban migration and discusses ways of empowering communities. A survey of youth...
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Graded effects of first and second language orthography on pronunciation during second language acquisition
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This study aims to assess how frequency-based and probabilistic measure describing the orthography-phonology relationship influence the accuracy of second language (L2) pronunciation in a phonological decoding task for native English learners of German, and a control group with no formal...
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L’utilisation du discours dialogique dans la construction du savoir mathématique des élèves dans le contexte d’enseignement en immersion
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In 2007 Alberta Education began implementing a new mathematics program aligned with the principles and standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM, 2000). The new curriculum places great emphasis on students’ communicating their cognitive processes while they acquire...
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2017-06-23
Filip Nenadić, Benjamin V. Tucker
Research on silent reading has shown that text genre influences the way texts are read, including differences between prose and poetry (e.g. Zwaan, 1994; Hanauer, 1998). There is little data examining whether text layout (prose vs. poetry) affects the way it is read aloud by non-expert readers,...
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2007-06-01
Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair
Script of a dialogue performed under the title “Reading Tools, or Text Analysis Tools as Objects of Interpretation”. This was presented at a session on “Representation and Analysis” at Digital Humanities 2007 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The dialogue discusses the...
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2022-01-01
Many theorists disagree on the correct interpretation of Marxism and Critical theory as it has evolved and developed throughout the progression of history. Some claim that Critical theory lacks incorporating diverse perspectives and individual agency while others claim that this is not the...
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Fall 2017
A socio-cognitive approach to language assumes language is multimodal, embodied in general cognition, and modulated by contextual cues (van Dijk, 2014). Research on situation models confirms that language is processed multimodally and experiences top-down influence from pre-existing knowledge in...