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- The real
thing?:
authenticity
and academic
listening: English for
Specific
Purposes, Vol.
19, No. 3. (1
September
2000), pp.
253-267.In
this article
we explore the
usefulness of
the criterion
of
authenticity
for the
selection and
evaluation of
EAP materials.
These
materials were
specialised
listening
texts used on
a first year
undergraduate
programme at a
U.K.
university.
Using a
student
questionnaire
and techniques
of discourse
analysis based
on Halliday's
concepts of
field, tenor
and mode, we
investigated
the levels of
difficulty and
relevance of
materials
using four
media:
published
audio tapes,
audio
recordings of
a live
lecture, video
materials and
a short,
simulated
lecture by the
teacher. We
found that the
texts which
related to the
students
experience and
permitted
learner
interaction
appeared to
have more
potential for
language
learning than
those which
merely
replicated the
discourse of
the target
situation.
Source: English for Specific Purposes, Vol. 19, No. 3. (1 September 2000), pp. 253-267. - Questioning
the importance
of
individualized
voice in
undergraduate
L2
argumentative
writing: An
empirical
study with
pedagogical
implications: Journal of
Second
Language
Writing, Vol.
12, No. 3.
(August 2003),
pp.
245-265.This
paper contends
that the L2
literature
yields little
empirical
evidence of a
relationship
between the
features
associated
with L1 voice
and the
quality of L2
academic
writing. In
fact, some of
these features
may be of
little
consequence in
certain L2
writing
contexts.
Writing
samples
requiring
learners to
argue in favor
of or against
an aspect of
Canada's
immigration
policy were
elicited from
63 students in
a
writing-intens
ive first-year
course. These
samples were
scored by (1)
three raters
for "voice,"
using a
special Voice
Intensity
Rating Scale
with four
components
(assertiveness
;
self-identific
ation;
reiteration of
central point;
and authorial
presence and
autonomy of
thought),
created
especially for
this study, as
well as (2)
three raters
for overall
writing
quality, using
Jacobs et
al.'s (1981)
ESL
Composition
Profile.
Interrater
reliability,
based on the
Spearman-Brown
Prophesy
Formula, was
found to be
0.84 for the
ratings of
voice
intensity and
0.73 for the
ratings of
overall
quality. Most
importantly,
no significant
correlation
was found
either between
overall
quality and
overall voice
intensity or
between
overall
quality and
any of the
four
components of
voice. The
results
suggest that
there may not
be a
connection
between the
linguistic and
rhetorical
devices
commonly
associated
with
individualized
voice (e.g.,
first person
singular or
intensifiers)
and the
quality of
writing, at
least within
some genres
and at some
levels of
writing
proficiency.
Source: Journal of Second Language Writing, Vol. 12, No. 3. (August 2003), pp. 245-265. - Prospects for
Pluralism:
Voice and
Vision in the
Study of
Religion: J Am Acad
Relig, Vol.
75, No. 4. (1
December
2007), pp.
743-776.This
paper
addresses
religious
pluralism as
an academic,
civic, and
theological
challenge.
Looking at
religious
communities in
their
connections
and
interrelations
is a critical
academic
challenge for
students of
religion who
would gain
insight into
the dynamics
of religious
life and
identities
today. The
encounter of
people from
different
religious
traditions in
hometown
America has
reshaped the
context of
religious
life, calling
for attention
and serious
study. In
short, the
study of a
complex city
like Fremont,
CA, might well
be the study
of today's
Silk Road,
today's
convivencia.
Religious
pluralism is
also a
critical civic
issue for
citizens of
increasingly
diverse
societies,
raising
fundamental
questions
about the
nature of
civic polity,
the "we" of
our civic
life. And, to
be sure,
religious
pluralism is a
critical
theological
issue for
people of
faith, raising
fundamental
questions
about one's
own faith in
relation to
the religious
other.
Scholarly,
civic, and
theological
issues have
their own
distinctive
realms of
discourse and
require us to
think
carefully
about the
meaning of
"voice" in our
work. We
cannot evade
the question
of voice in
thinking
theoretically
about
pluralism, for
diversity is
not only the
characteristic
of the worlds
we study but
of our own
identities,
our
multiply-situa
ted selves.
10.1093/jaarel
/lfm061
Source: J Am Acad Relig, Vol. 75, No. 4. (1 December 2007), pp. 743-776. - The Virtues of
Reading: Journal of
Aesthetic
Education,
Vol. 36, No.
1. (2002), pp.
60-67.
Source: Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 36, No. 1. (2002), pp. 60-67. - Field Guide to
Academic
Leadership
(Jossey Bass
Higher and
Adult
Education
Series): (09 October
2002)"Once
again, Bob
Diamond has
cut to the
heart of the
matter and has
given us a
field
guide?actually
a handbook?of
real, hands-on
academic
leadership. He
has assembled
an elite group
of
contributors
who provide
insights and
guidance,
which will be
useful for all
academic
leaders?new
and old,
public or
private, CEO
or assistant."
? Charles E.
Glassick,
senior
associate
emeritus, The
Carnegie
Foundatio
Source: (09 October 2002)
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