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Producción de cursos en-línea basados en objetos de aprendizaje: una propuesta metodológica orientada a estudiantes de carreras técnicas
Authors: Zambrano Margarita Elizabeth , Fuertes-Diaz Walter Marcelo , Pérez-Herrera Diego David , Villacís César Javier , Pérez-Estévez Ernesto
Published: January 2017

Introducción: Este estudio tiene como objetivo estimular la comprensión conceptual y procedural de estudiantes de carreras técnicas a través de una propuesta metodológica que se aplica durante el diseño e implementación de Cursos en-línea basados en objetos de aprendizaje (OA). Método: Se han aplicado de manera armonizada el método de diseño de hipermedia orientado a objetos (OOHDM) y la metodología para la creación de  OA (CROA) para  la producción de un curso de Seguridad de la Información, como prueba de concepto. El curso fue desarrollado bajo licencia académica Articulate Studio para contenidos y evaluaciones, y con Ardora para la elaboración de actividades de aprendizaje. Ambos fueron implantados  dentro de Moodle como entorno virtual de E/A (EVEA). Para las instancias de auto evaluación y reflexión, se aplicó el aprendizaje basado en problemas (ABP), que además promueve experiencias colaborativas entre estudiantes y aprendientes. Para la evaluación de la usabilidad del curso, se aplicó  la matriz para la evaluación de OA LORI. Resultados: Los resultados muestran, por un lado el procedimiento metodológico teórico y práctico validado, y por otro, muestran la satisfacción de los estudiantes con respecto a la organización, contenido y funcionalidad del curso. Conclusión: La aplicación conjunta de las metodologías OOHDM, CROA y ABP, permiten estructurar sistemáticamente y pedagógicamente los materiales educativos en base a OA de cursos en línea, para mejorar la comprensión conceptual y procedural de los estudiantes de carreras técnicas
Sleep deprivation in nursing students: The negative impact for quality and safety
Authors: Thomas Cynthia M. , McIntosh Constance E. , Lamar Ruth Ann , Allen Roberta L.
Published: January 2017

Objective: The purpose of this pilot study was to understand nursing students’ perception of the relationship between sleep deprivation and learning, and personal and patient safety when in a clinical or work setting.Methods: Design: The researchers used a cross-sectional correlational design. Setting: The study was conducted in a Mid-western state university school of nursing with an average of 400 undergraduate pre-licensure nursing students. Sample: All 328 undergraduate pre-licensure nursing students were invited to participate in the study. The convenience sample of 179 (response rate of 55%) pre-licensure, nursing students completed the study. Methodology: The Sleep Deprivation of Nursing Students, a 4-point Likert scale questionnaire, consisted of demographic questions and forty-five questions on personal sleep habits, caffeine/stimulant use, and sleep inducing aids, motor vehicle safety, spare time activities, and safety during work and clinical experiences.Results: One hundred and fifty-five (n = 155) students needed seven or more hours of sleep daily to feel rested, but received less than 5 hours/day. All participants reported (n = 179) feeling sleep deprived.  Sleep inducing aids were used by (n = 56) participants, and (n = 35) took stimulants to stay awake. Students (n = 166) worked 8 or more hours at a job, and (n = 158) had at some 12 hour school clinical rotations, and (n = 64) reported a combined clinical and work of five to greater than 12 consecutive days. Students (n = 172) believed they provided safe practice at work and (n = 174) and safe practice in a clinical setting. Some students reported being awake 17-19 hours. The majority of students (n = 144) believed 12-hour-clinicals were too long, yet more than half of the students preferred 12-hour work and clinical experiences.Conclusions: Nursing students may lack the knowledge that chronic sleep deprivation may result in personal and patient safety issues when in a clinical or work setting. Students are potentially exposing themselves to acute and chronic health problems as a result of sleep deprivation and the use of substances to remain awake or obtain sleep. Nurse educators and nurse managers must collaborate to reduce the number of consecutive clinical and work shifts, limit overtime hours, and better educate students on the negative impact of sleep deprivation.
De afwikkeling/vereffening van een fideicommissaire nalatenschap na de vervulling van de voorwaarde
Authors: Brinkman R.E.
Published: January 2017

De afwikkeling/vereffening van een fideï-commissaire nalatenschap na de vervulling van de voorwaarde

Dit artikel gaat in op de afwikkeling en vereffening van de fideicommissaire (of tweetraps)nalatenschap. Als de bezwaarde komt te overlijden, moet zijn eigen nalatenschap en die van de insteller worden afgewikkeld/vereffend. Voor de vraag wie welke nalatenschap afwikkelt of vereffent en wie in welke nalatenschap een vereffenaar kan laten benoemen, moet scherp onderscheid worden gemaakt tussen de beide nalatenschappen. Voor elke nalatenschap geldt een eigen regime, ook al zijn de nalatenschappen wellicht met elkaar verweven.
Toekomst voor toezicht: open samenleving, open toezicht?
Authors: Schram Jorgen , van Twist Mark
Published: January 2017

Toekomst voor toezicht: open samenleving, open toezicht?

Afgelopen voorjaar hielden twee hoogleraren een intreerede over het thema toezicht. Op 17 maart jl. gaf Judith van Erp aan de Universiteit Utrecht een oratie die de titel meekreeg: Toezicht in een open samenleving. Maatschappelijke controle op multinationale ondernemingen. Kort daarna, op 29 maart, hield Femke de Vries haar oratie aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, getiteld: Leidt transparantie tot meer vertrouwen in de toezichthouder? In dit artikel bespreken wij deze bijdragen in onderlinge samenhang, vanuit de verbindende vraag: is een open samenleving gebaat bij openheid over wat toezicht vermag?
LEXICAL BUNDLES IN LEGAL TEXTS CORPORA – SELECTION, CLASSIFICATION AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
Authors: Tománková Veronika
Published: January 2017

This paper analyzes lexical bundles with the aim of determining specific features of the linguistic competence of the selected research population and drawing some pedagogical implications from the fi ndings. The study focuses on lexical bundles retrieved from four legal genre-based corpora (Flowerdew 2005) compiled from texts submitted by respondents who are all legal professionals. In an eff ort to provide a more comprehensive view of lexical bundles, the phenomenon has been treated using both the conventional register analysis approach (Biber & Conrad 2009) and an approach adopted especially for legal texts by Breeze (2013). The study also attempts to submit proposals for the teaching of lexical bundles (O’Keeff e et al. 2007: 216) in the context of reading comprehension. Within the context of needs analysis, this study has been conducted as part of a larger study aiming to examine communicative competence of legal professionals from the four language skills perspective.
Weeding with ADDIE: Developing Training For Deselection At An Academic Library
Authors: O'Neil J. Lindsay
Published: January 2017

Weeding is a technically, emotionally, and politically difficult process for academic librarians, particularly when faced with a collection has not been weeded in years, if ever. Yet there is little research that examines how librarians can be supported in their deselecting activities with training. In this case study, a custom training resource enabled librarians at California State University, Fullerton, to more efficiently and confidently complete their weeding assignments. This paper describes a case study of use of instructional design model “ADDIE” (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) to design and develop a training resource built on the LibGuide platform for librarians tasked with weeding their subject areas. Use of the ADDIE model encouraged librarian buy-in and resulted in the development of thoughtfully designed training that met librarians’ needs and facilitated their success in weeding their subject areas. This paper fills a gap in the literature by describing a case study of using instructional design techniques and concepts to develop a local training resource on deselection.
From Committees of RUSA: Best of the Best Business Websites
Authors: Education Committee BRASS
Published: January 2017

The Best of the Best Business Websites Award was established in 2009 to recognize three websites relevant to information professionals providing business reference services. The websites are nominated and selected by the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) Education Committee members on the basis of their content quality, ease of use and technical execution. The winners are announced at the RUSA Book and Media Awards reception at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. You may view previous winners at www.ala.org/rusa/awards/bestofthebestbus. To access other BRASS-recommended resources, go to http://brass.libguides.com.
Book Review: Emerging Strategies for Supporting Student Learning: A Practical Guide for Librarians and Educators
Authors: Plungis Joan
Published: January 2017

Supporting student learning is the name of the game for academic librarians, but what that means in the dynamic arena of higher education is constantly evolving. Barbara Allan’s Emerging Strategies for Supporting Student Learning: A Practical Guide for Librarians and Educators presents a helpful overview of the many facets of the topic, with plenty of real-life examples and case studies, plus theoretical underpinnings and references to the literature for those wanting more depth.
Book Review: The Innovative School Librarian, 2nd edition.
Authors: Winterhalter Deidre
Published: January 2017

The Innovative School Librarian offers an in-depth analysis of the factors that create and perpetuate school environments conducive to library learning. The authors allow readers to consider ideas about enhancing their professional image, acquiring community support, relying on evidence, and seeking inspiration from an array of sources.
Book Review: The 21st-Century Voter: Who Votes, How They Vote, and Why They Vote
Authors: Deutsch Anne C.
Published: January 2017

The title of this two volume set suggests that the focus is on voters: their demographics, voting preferences, and motivations. However, the editors state “the aim . . . is to assemble many of the key concepts and issues that drive 21st century politics,” (xiii) a far more sweeping goal and one more difficult to attain. While not stated explicitly here or elsewhere, the entries that are related to voting focus on United States presidential and congressional elections. Taken as a whole, this work is a collection of loosely related entries, many of which don’t state a connection to voters or voting.
Book Review: At the Table: Food and Family around the World
Authors: Wexelbaum Rachel
Published: January 2017

Humans are losing their tradition of the daily family meal. When everyone in the family works multiple jobs or keeps different schedules, when people never learned how to cook, or when there simply is no money to buy enough food, the challenge of keeping a family intact becomes greater. The family dinner, once a daily ritual in countries around the world, has become a historical relic as well as a cultural phenomenon among cultures that can sustain such a tradition. One can publish a book about the challenges of keeping the daily family dinner alive, or one can publish an encyclopedia of the typical daily family dinner traditions of every culture. While Dr. Ken Albala has the expertise and connections to accomplish both feats, he has struggled to do so in his latest edited volume At the Table: Food and Family around the World.
Book Review: Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967
Authors: Koger Grove
Published: January 2017

Thanks to the Kurt Wallander novels of Henning Mankell, the Lisbeth Salander novels of Stieg Larsson, and their motion picture and television adaptations, crime fiction by Finnish and Scandinavian writers has soared in popularity with American readers over the past few years. In her Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction, Mitzi M. Brunsdale sets out to survey the growing field while offering a historical analysis of its development and importance. She argues that the region’s crime fiction “largely deals with the serious societal problems resulting from originally well-intentioned Nordic welfare state policies now proving problematic,” and believes that it “has enormous relevance to today’s dangerous world” (1).
Book Review: Gun Politics in America: Historical and Modern Documents in Context
Authors: Pritting Shannon
Published: January 2017

Gun Politics in America: Historical and Modern Documents in Context is an affordable two-volume set comprised of eight chapters ranging from the early eighteenth century to President Obama’s first term. Each chapter is made up of about fifteen primary source documents covering major periods in firearms and politics in the United States, with 134 sources total. In addition, each chapter has a roughly ten-page introduction that provides an overview of the social and cultural climate of the period covered by the chapter, with the focus on how the period connects with gun control and the politics surrounding firearms. The chapter introductions do an excellent job of connecting themes in gun control such as race relations, crime rates, organized crime, drugs, and other specific issues related to gun control such as the right to self-defense and concealed carrying of firearms.
Book Review: The Persian Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia
Authors: Lincove David
Published: January 2017

This encyclopedia is the first English language reference source to focus exclusively on ancient Iran during the period of its great empires before the arrival of Islam from 700 BCE to 651 CE. The major empires were the Medes, the Achaemenids, the Seleucids, the Arsacids (Parthians), and the Sasanians. Ancient Iran covered a geographic area that varied over time. At its greatest expanse the Achaemenid Empire (559–330 BCE) ruled territory continuous from Thrace in southeastern Europe to the Indus River in India. Almost as large was the Seleucid Empire (305–125 BCE) which was not Iranian or Persian but Macedonian, founded by one of Alexander the Great’s generals after his death. With the expansion of the empires through military conquests and the administrative control of vast geographic areas, Kia emphasizes that languages, ethnicities, religions, and cultures of the Persian empires were very diverse and that Persia itself was actually a southern province of Greater Iran.
Book Review: The Sage Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy
Authors: Krismann Carol
Published: January 2017

The purpose of this two-volume reference work is to provide a “comprehensive encyclopedia on the subject of quality and services” through contributions from more than two hundred of the world’s leading experts within the research areas of quality and service sciences” (xxix). The publisher’s goal is to explore major questions within the area of quality and service sciences. The volumes contain 240 entries written by international contributors described as leading academic experts on their specific topics.
Book Review: U.S. Conflicts in the 21st Century: Afghanistan War, Iraq War, and the War on Terror
Authors: Davis Evan
Published: January 2017

Professor Tucker has an especially topical theme this time, and the result is impressive. The prolific editor of military-related reference volumes provides an overview of the tumultuous first fifteen years of the century and helpful grounding in where events may go from here. Given that the series arrives at the end of a dramatic election cycle in which national security is a major concern, this is a product every library with a military or history reference collection should consider buying.
Management: Librarianship in the Proprietary Education Context
Authors: Rector Eric
Published: January 2017

For a variety of reasons, many of us have never considered librarianship in the for-profit sector. But as proprietary education continues to expand its reach, providing information services in that environment affords a range of new possibilities. In this column, Eric Rector presents an overview of what it’s like to manage a library at a for-profit institution. In a well-crafted overview of the proprietary context, he highlights both its challenges and opportunities. His frank perspectives offer a worthwhile alternative to working in a traditional-education setting. Rector makes a compelling argument for proprietary librarianship, suggesting that it may well be worth thinking about.—Editor
Exploring new horizons
Authors: Zacharia Vineetha M , Traxler Matthew F
Published: January 2017

Streptomyces bacteria employ a newly-discovered cell type, the "explorer" cell, to rapidly colonize new areas in the face of competition.
Image of Mustapha in Fulke Greville’s Mustapha (1594)
Authors: Mohammed Taleb Al-Olaqi Fahd
Published: January 2017

The image of the historical Turkish Prince Mustapha (1520-1566) is symbolic in Elizabethan Age as a reflection of paternal filicide.The tragedy of Prince Mustapha is portrayed in many plays. It is a unique portrait of subjugation in the Elizabethan eyes of the European fear of Turkey. Although some historians envisage Mustapha with admiration for his tragic fate by the Turkish tyrant, Greville stands by the side of the Turkish prince. Greville’s Soliman is an arrogant sultan with bloody hands who cares only for his crown. Roxolana is the evil sultana who plotted the demise of Mustapha to save the crown for her own son. By an irony of fate, Roxolana ends up a victim to her own plot. Though Greville expresses his allure in the Turkish court's affairs, he portrays his apprehension in the Turkish Sultan.Keywords: Mustapha, Soliman, Roxolana, Zanger, Ambition, Treachery, murder, filicide
Compiling an OPEC Word List: A Corpus-Informed Lexical Analysis
Authors: Saleh Aluthman Ebtisam
Published: January 2017

The present study is conducted within the borders of lexicographic research, where corpora have increasingly become all-pervasive. The overall goal of this study is to compile an open-source OPEC[1] Word List (OWL) that is available for lexicographic research and vocabulary learning related to English language learning for the purpose of oil marketing and oil industries. To achieve this goal, an OPEC Monthly Reports Corpus (OMRC) comprising of 1,004,542 words was compiled. The OMRC consists of 40 OPEC monthly reports released between 2003 and 2015. Consideration was given to both range and frequency criteria when compiling the OWL which consists of 255 word types. Along with this basic goal, this study aims to investigate the coverage of the most well-recognised word lists, the General Service List of English Words (GSL) (West ,1953)  and  the Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000) in the OMRC corpus. The 255 word types included in the OWL are not overlapping with either the AWL or the GSL. Results suggest the necessity of making this discipline-specific word list for ESL students of oil marketing industries. The availability of the OWL has significant pedagogical contributions to curriculum design, learning activities and the overall process of vocabulary learning in the context of teaching English for specific purposes (ESP).Keywords: Vocabulary Profiling- Vocabulary Learning- Word List- OPEC- ESPOPEC stands for Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Images of ‘Love’ and ‘Death’ in the Poetry of Jaláluddin Rumi and John Donne
Authors: Zare-Behtash Esmail
Published: January 2017

The purpose of this study is to compare the lives and literary careers of two great poets from the East and the West to find common grounds in their lives and writings. In comparing the poetic works of these two great poets, the study will focus on love and death as two major images in the poetry of these two great poets. Jaláluddin Moláná Rumi as he is called in the West, was a Persian poet-philosopher, and John Donne was a metaphysical poet-preacher from England. These two poets wrote much about their ideas with lucidity and wit. Love and death were both of supreme concern for these poets and a preoccupation of their hearts. Nothing is possible in “love” without “death”. Life for Donne is love, the love of women in his early life, then of his wife and finally the love of God. Love for Rumi is sweet madness, healing all infirmities and the physician of pride and self-conceit. Death for Donne is nothing but a transitory passage from here to the hereafter and union with God. Death for Rumi is also a wedding; it is a change from one stage to another as a seed planted in the earth dies in one form in order to be born in another. Both believe that we are from Him, and to Him we shall return.Keywords: Rumi, Donne, love, death, metaphysical poetry, Sufism
Case Markers in Mongolian: A Means for Encoding Null Constituents in Noun Phrase and Relative Clause
Authors: Otgonsuren Tseden
Published: January 2017

This paper focuses on the capacity of the case markers in the Mongolian language, as a relative element, to generate any finite noun phrase or relative clause based on their syntactic function or relationship. In Mongolian, there are two different approaches to generate noun phrases: parataxis and hypotaxis. According to my early observation, if the noun phrase generated through the parataxis, is the complement of the postpositional phrase, the head word of the relevant noun phrase can be truncated. In other words, since this head noun is governed by case marker in its null form to generate the postpositional phrase, the head noun can be encoded.  The second approach generates two different types of noun phrases in their structures: free structured and non-free structured noun phrases. Of them, the free structured noun phrase allows any syntactic transformations in their internal structure based on the senses of the case markers which denote a relation. That is to say, the null constituents in this type of noun phrases can be encoded to generate an extended alternative of the noun phrase and a relative clause.
Assessing Reliability of Two Versions of Vocabulary Levels Tests in Iranian Context
Authors: Bayazidi Aso , Saeb Fateme
Published: January 2017

This study examined the equivalence and reliability of the two versions of the Vocabulary Levels Test in an Iranian context. This study was motivated by the fact that the Vocabulary Levels test is increasingly being used in Iran for both research and pedagogical purposes without having been checked for validity and reliability in this context. The equivalence and reliability of the two versions of the test were examined through the parallel-form approach to reliability in Classical True Score theory. Seventy-five intermediate learners of English as a foreign language at the Iran Language Institute took the two versions of the test with one week interval between the two administrations in a counterbalanced fashion. To examine the equivalence of the two versions, the means and variances of the scores obtained for the two tests were compared using paired-sample t-test and one-way ANOVA, respectively. The results of the analyses indicated that the difference between the means of the two versions was significant, and the two versions cannot be considered as parallel forms. To assess the reliability of the two versions, the correlation between the scores obtained from them was estimated using Pearson Product Moment correlation. The results of the analyses showed that the two versions are highly correlated and are reliable tests. It is concluded that the two versions should not be treated as equivalent in longitudinal and gain score studies.
Changes in University Students’ Perceptions towards a Two-Week Summer English Immersion Program
Authors: Liu Meihua , Hu Yang , Peng Yan
Published: January 2017

The present research examined how university students perceived a 2-week summer English immersion program organized and designated by Chinese teachers of English in a highly prestigious university in Beijing and whether their perceptions changed during the period. Data included 208 surveys and 19 informal interviews in week 1 and 207 surveys and 19 interviews in week 2 (the participants were largely the same in both weeks). Analyses of the data showed that in both weeks, most students considered the courses interesting and liked most of them for similar reasons (e.g., being interesting and having much participation), that the program improved students’ English abilities in listening, speaking, reading and writing as well as overall English proficiency, and that the program enhanced students’ interpersonal communication ability, confidence in using English, knowledge of the culture of English-speaking countries, interest in and motivation to learn English. The results also revealed that the participants tended to become more positive about the program, have a more comprehensive view of the program and assess it more objectively toward the end of the program. Evidently, the program helped the students in various aspects. To better help students, it is useful to do needs analyses prior to the program so that more acceptable courses and activities can be designed and offered.Keywords: perception, change, immersion program
Discourse Interpretation: A Deconstructive, Reader-oriented Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis
Authors: Farid Khafaga Ayman
Published: January 2017

This paper is based on the premise that discourse is always under the influence of different ideological readings which not only formulate its meaning but inspire various interpretations as well; hence, it needs a theoretical cover that could justify its multiplicity of meaning. This paper, therefore, discusses the possibility of introducing a deconstructive, reader-oriented approach (DRA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a model of discourse interpretation. The paper tries to appraise the theoretical framework of CDA and to offer an overview of the fundamental propels of its interpretative task in the light of two poststructuralist literary theories: the deconstruction theory and the reception theory. The paper also endeavours to emphasize the deconstructive nature of CDA by shedding lights on its relationship with the above mentioned theories. The conclusion drawn from this paper shows that introducing a deconstructive, reader-oriented approach to CDA is relevant to the latter's interpretative nature enough to diminish a part of the criticism levelled against its interpretative framework concerning plurality of meaning; and to establish some sort of exoneration for its theoretical shortcomings. The paper recommends that DRA will bridge the gap between theory and practice as it offers a theoretical base to discourse which could advocate its critiques regarding diversity of interpretation.Keywords: Critical discourse analysis, deconstructive, reader-oriented approach, deconstructionism, interpretation, responsiveness
Social Trust and Types of Classroom Activities: Predictors of Language Learning Motivation
Authors: Khodabakhshzadeh Hossein , Kafi Zahra , Garmabi Hanieh
Published: January 2017

The present study examined the role of social trust and types of classroom activities as some probable significant predictors of language learning motivation on a sample of 200 Iranian EFL upper-intermediate learners who have been selected randomly. Consequently, the participants completed three questionnaires, Language Learning Motivation Inventory, Classroom and school Community Inventory, and Classroom Activities Inventory, the reliability and validity of each have been checked previously. After running Multiple Regression through SPSS Software, the results revealed that social trust and types of classroom activities accounted for 16.7% of the variance in language learning motivation. Although each of them had a unique impact on language learning motivation, "Deep Language Use" as one of the types of classroom activities had a greater contribution to English as a foreign language learning motivation (002< .05), outweighing social trust as a more important predictor, (.005 < .05). Finally, pedagogical implications along with suggestions for further studies are discussed.Keywords: Types of classroom activities, Social trust, Language learning motivation, EFL learners
The Effects of Enhancing Prospective EFL Teachers' Knowledge Management Strategies in Virtual Learning Environments on Their Ideational Flexibility and Engagement
Authors: Abdullah Mahmoud Ismail Ammar
Published: January 2017

The last few years have witnessed an increased interest in moving away from traditional language instruction settings towards more hybrid and virtual learning environments. Face-to-face interaction, guided practice, and uniformity of knowledge sources and skills are all replaced by settings where multiplicity of views from different learning communities, interconnectedness, self-directedness, and self-management of knowledge and learning are increasingly emphasized. This shift from walled-classroom instruction with its limited scope and resources to hybrid and virtual learning environments with their limitless provisions requires that learners be equipped with requisite skills and strategies to manage knowledge and handle language learning in ways commensurate with the nature and limitless possibilities of these new environments. The current study aimed at enhancing knowledge management strategies of EFL teachers in virtual learning environments and examine the impact on their ideational flexibility and engagement in language learning settings. A knowledge management model was proposed and field-test on a cohort of prospective EFL teachers in the Emirati context. Participants were prospective EFL teachers enrolled in the Methods of Teaching Courses and doing their practicum in the Emirati EFL context. Participants' ideational flexibility was tapped via a bi-methodical approach including a contextualized task and a decontextualized one. Their engagement in virtual language learning settings was tapped via an engagement scale. Results of the study indicated that enhancing prospective EFL teachers' knowledge management strategies in virtual learning environments had a significant impact on their ideational flexibility and engagement in foreign language learning settings. Details of the instructional intervention, instruments for tapping students’ ideational flexibility and engagement, and results of the study are discussed. Implications for foreign language teaching/learning along with suggestions for further research are also provided.Keywords: Knowledge management, ideational flexibility, student engagement
Autonomous Histories of Muslim Women Cultural Poetics; A Critical Reading of the Personal/Academic Narratives of Leila Ahmed and Amina Wadud
Authors: Abo El Nagah Hadeer
Published: January 2017

Louis Montrose's "Professing the Renaissance: the Poetics and Politics of Culture" renewed concern with the historical, social and political conditions of literary productions (1989). He suggested a platform through which autonomous aesthetics and academic issues to be understood as inextricably linked to other discourses. While autobiography is considered as a "writing back," I argue here that it is rather a strategic transitional act that connects the past with the present and remaps the future. Though a very personal opening, autobiography is seen as a documentation of public events from a personal perspective. Academic autobiographies like Arab American history professor Leila Ahmad's A Border Passage from Cairo to America; A Woman’s Journey (2012) and African American theology professor Amina Wadud’s Inside the Gender Jihad (2008) are two examples of the production of interwoven private and public histories. The personal opening in such narratives is an autonomous act that initiates cross-disciplinary dialogues that trigger empowerment and proposes future changes. In that sense, these autobiographies are far from being mere stories of the past. Conversely, they are tools of rereading one's contributions and thus repositioning the poetics and politics of culture as testimonial narratives. Employing post-colonial, Islamic feminism and new historicism, the aim of this study is to critically read the above academic/personal two autobiographies as examples of the private/ public negotiations of culture. It also aims to explore the dialogue between the literary, historical and social elements as they remap the future of women in Muslim societies and the diaspora.Keywords: New Historicism, Women in Islam, personal narratives, Amina Wadud, Leila Ahmed, post-colonialism, autobiography, non-white feminism
Spectacular Case of Wintry Dreams: A Debordian Reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams”
Authors: Mehdi Kimiagari Mohammad
Published: January 2017

A constant failure and frustration of relationships can be traced in most of Fitzgerald’s works of fiction. The most prominent instance seems to be the case of Gatsby and his elusive and obscure object of desire Daisy, yet Fitzgerald’s short stories can be considered as no exception. “Winter Dreams” is one of the short stories in which the prospect of an imminent downfall of relationship always haunts the protagonist. This essay attempts to shed light on the roots of this meltdown through Guy Debord’s theories. As a founding member of Situationist International (SI), Debord believed that the modern world’s defining characteristic is spectacle which mediates the relationships among the members of society. The lack of directness and immediacy which is caused by the Society of the Spectacle (La Société du Spectacle) seems to be the originator of the unremitting failure between the characters in the case of “Winter Dreams” and therein lies the rub.Keywords: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du Spectacle), Sign-value, Exchange-value
Exile and Self-Actualization in Pauline Kaldas’s “He Had Dreamed of Returning” and “Airport”
Authors: M. Sawwa Nisreen , S. Neimneh Shadi
Published: January 2017

Against common pessimistic readings of exile in postcolonial fiction, this article employs the notion of “self-actualization” that argues for people’s desire to accomplish everything they are capable of and their need to realize their potential. Within a comparative context and using identity theory and diaspora studies, the article illustrates how self-actualization keeps the immigrants from experiencing exile in two Arab American short stories by Pauline Kaldas: “Airport” (2009a) and “He Had Dreamed of Returning” (2009b). This article shows how the main characters of “Airport” and “He Had Dreamed of Returning,” Samir and Hani respectively, fulfill the American Dream and how Hoda, Samir’s wife, pictures America as the place where she can realize her ambitions. However, Nancy, Hani’s wife, achieves her potential in Egypt rather than America, where she feels needed as a teacher. Thus, Samir and Hani do not get dislocated in America, and Nancy has a sense of belonging in Egypt. Hence, the article utilizes the American Dream and a reverse side of it, and it shows how Samir’s, Hani’s, and Nancy’s self-actualization is a counter to feelings of exile. In other words, the three characters do not experience loss of identity and displacement in the countries they emigrate to. Rather, they fulfill their dreams there and find/create new identities which have been suppressed in their hometowns, which enhances a view of identity as fluid rather than fixed. Briefly put, this article presents the self-actualization of immigrants in new locales as a counter to different levels of dislocation and exile.Keywords: Pauline Kaldas, “He Had Dreamed of Returning,” “Airport,” Arab Americans, exile, self-actualization, identity, immigrant literature
Patriarchal Regime of the Spectacle: Racial and Gendered Gaze in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction
Authors: Pourya Asl Moussa , Farhana Low bt Abdullah Nurul
Published: January 2017

This article attempts to evince the political, cultural and affective consequences of Jhumpa Lahiri’s diasporic writings and their particular enunciations of the literary gaze. To do so, it details the manner in which the stories’ exercise of visual operations rigidly corresponds with those of the Panopticon. The essay argues that Lahiri’s narrative produces a kind of panoptic machine that underpins the ‘modes of social regulation and control’ that Foucault has explained as disciplinary technologies. By situating Lahiri’s stories, “A Real Durwan” and “Only Goodness,” within a historical-political context, this essay aims at identifying the way in which panopticism defines her fiction as both a record of and a participant in the social, sexual and political ‘paranoia’ behind the propaganda of America’s self-image as the land of freedom. We maintain that Lahiri’s fiction situates itself in complex relation to the postcolonial concerns of the late twentieth century, suggesting that through their fascination with a visual literalization of the panoptic machine, and by privileging the masculine gaze, the stories legitimate the perpetuation of socially prescribed notion of sexual difference.  Keywords: Gaze, Sexual difference, Panopticon, A Real Durwan, Only Goodness
Augmenting Tertiary Students' Soft Skills Via Multiple Intelligences Instructional Approach: Literature Courses in Focus
Authors: Eman El Sherief
Published: January 2017

The second half of the twentieth century is a witness to an unprecedentedly soaring increase in the number of students joining the arena of higher education(UNESCO,2001). Currently, the number of students at Saudi universities and colleges exceeds one million vis-à-vis 7000 in 1970(Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Washington). Such enormous body of learners in higher education is per se diverse enough to embrace distinct learning styles, assorted repertoire of backgrounds, prior knowledge, experiences, and perspectives; at this juncture, they presumably share common aspiration which is hooking a compatible post in the labor market upon graduation, and to subsequently be capable of acting competently in a scrupulously competitive workplace environment. Bunch of potentialities and skills are patently vital for a graduate to reach such a prospect. Such bunch of skills in a conventional undergraduate paradigm of education were given no heed, being rather postponed to the post-graduation phase. The current Paper postulated tremendous  merits of deploying the Multiple Intelligences theory as a project-based approach, within  literature classes in higher education; a strategy geared towards reigniting students’ engagement, nurturing their critical thinking capabilities, sustaining their individualistic dispositions, molding them as inquiry-seekers, and ending up engendering life-long, autonomous learners,  well-armed with the substantial skills for traversing the rigorous competition in future labor market.  Keywords: Multiple intelligences, teaching Literature, motivation, autonomous learning, critical thinking.
Enhancing Writing Ability and Self-regulation through Teacher-led Collaborative Modeling
Authors: Tahmasebi Reza , Khodabakhshzadeh Hossein
Published: January 2017

Teacher-led collaborative modeling can provide a condition through which the teachers and learners cooperate, negotiate, discuss, and provide different degrees of support to compose and edit written texts. The presupposition in this study was that this type of modeling can improve the writing ability of the EFL learners as well as their self-regulation in writing. To test the main hypotheses of the study, eighty five female upper-intermediate EFL students studying English as a foreign language at the Ayandehsazan Language Institute (A.L.C) in Torbat-e- Heydarieh , Iran, ranging in age from 14 to 20 sat for the Quick Placement Test (QPT) and 50 students were selected based on their scores on the QPT test. They were divided into two groups. The learners in the experimental group received instruction according to the stages of instruction using collaborative modeling. The participants in the control group, on the other hand, didn’t receive any collaborative modeling instruction. The participants in both groups sat for the writing test as well as a self-regulation test for writing. The results revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group concerning their writing performance. However, there was no significant difference between the self-regulation ability of the participants in these two groups. The findings of the study have implications for pedagogy as well as research.Keywords: Teacher-led collaborative modeling, self-regulation, writing performance
Exploring “Speak-O-Rama” as a Public Speaking Module: A Pilot Study in an Islamic Integrated Primary School
Authors: Ahmad Bukhari Nurul Iman , Omar Suhaida , Izzah Che Abas Atirah , Raihan Mat Shawal Bazilah , Adeeba Wan Ibrahim Wan Suzanna Aafanii , Afzan Hassan Ariezal , Hisham Md Nawi Noor
Published: January 2017

This paper describes the pilot study in implementing a public speaking module for a primary school level. The module development was structured according to ASSURE Model with the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) as the basis used in designing the module activities.  One group of Year 4 students from an Islamic integrated school was selected and the research method employed was the quasi-experimental research with pre and post-tests as well as interviews with the English teachers on the students’ performance and self-confidence.  Students were also interviewed to identify their self confidence level before and after the implementation of the public speaking module. This research project is hoped to increase students’ oral proficiency along with increasing self-confidence in public speaking at a young age, and to propose the implementation of this module as reference in primary education.Keywords: public speaking, primary school, oral proficiency, self-confidence, CLT
Review of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day
Authors: M Bani-Khair Baker , M Khawaldeh Imad , Al-Khawaldeh Nisreen
Published: January 2017

In this Review article, we have looked at different aspects that make Virginia Woolf's Night and Day one of the most interesting to read and analyze. We particularly focus on the familial and social patterns that distinguish this novel from other ones written by the same author. We also placed a good emphasis on the strength points the novel shows by looking at various elements such as themes of love relationships, modern treatment of plot and content, and more importantly on characterizations. The article revealed that Woolf's Night and Day is rich in terms of its modern and unconventional approach towards characters, plot, style, and thematic content which all make it a successful novel.Keywords: social stability, Virginia Woolf, Night and Day, techniques, styles, modernism, relationships, success, Marriage
Translation of Culture Specific Items: A Case Study of Persian Architecture Terminology
Authors: Bagheridoust Esmaeil , Mahabadi Mahabad Zahra
Published: January 2017

Architectural texts involve a great deal of CSIs that reflect the culture of a country.  Translating these CSIs from Persian into English seems one of the key issues in the translation of architectural texts.  This source-oriented descriptive study tried to investigate CSIs of the Persian architecture in order to examine the extent to which the translators/writers have succeeded in rendering CSIs, while translating them from Persian architecture into English or writing on the Persian Architecture in English.  In addition, it tried to investigate the most frequently used strategies by writers/translators according to Van Doorslaer’s (2007) model.  To serve research purposes, two textbooks on Iranian architecture (i.e., Introducing Persian Architecture by Pope and Abbasid Guest House by Ouliaienia) were sampled.  The findings indicated that the translator (Ouliaienia) and the writer (Pope) were successful in finding appropriate equivalents for SL architectural terms.  The comparison of Pope’s textbook and Ouliaienia’s translation demonstrated that they had made use of four of the strategies (i.e., Direct Transfer, Word for Word Translation, Interpretation, and Domestication).  Accordingly, in pope’s book, Interpretation was the most frequently used strategy, while Direct Transfer was the most frequently utilized one in Ouliaienia.  On the other hand, Word for Word Translation was the least frequently used strategy in Pope’s work, whereas Domestication was the least frequently utilized one in Ouliaienia’s work.  The findings of the present study may have some significant implications for translation theory and practice.Keywords: Translation, CSIs, Persian Architecture, Terminology
Simulated mussel mortality thresholds as a function of mussel biomass and nutrient loading
Authors: Bril Jeremy S. , Langenfeld Kathryn , Just Craig L. , Spak Scott N. , Newton Teresa J.
Published: January 2017

A freshwater “mussel mortality threshold” was explored as a function of porewater ammonium (NH4+) concentration, mussel biomass, and total nitrogen (N) utilizing a numerical model calibrated with data from mesocosms with and without mussels. A mortality threshold of 2 mg-N L−1porewater NH4+was selected based on a study that estimated 100% mortality of juvenileLampsilismussels exposed to 1.9 mg-N L−1NH4+in equilibrium with 0.18 mg-N L−1NH3. At the highest simulated mussel biomass (560 g m−2) and the lowest simulated influent water “food” concentration (0.1 mg-N L−1), the porewater NH4+concentration after a 2,160 h timespan without mussels was 0.5 mg-N L−1compared to 2.25 mg-N L−1with mussels. Continuing these simulations while varying mussel biomass and N content yielded a mortality threshold contour that was essentially linear which contradicted the non-linear and non-monotonic relationship suggested by Strayer (2014). Our model suggests that mussels spatially focus nutrients from the overlying water to the sediments as evidenced by elevated porewater NH4+in mesocosms with mussels. However, our previous work and the model utilized here show elevated concentrations of nitrite and nitrate in overlying waters as an indirect consequence of mussel activity. Even when the simulated overlying water food availability was quite low, the mortality threshold was reached at a mussel biomass of about 480 g m−2. At a food concentration of 10 mg-N L−1, the mortality threshold was reached at a biomass of about 250 g m−2. Our model suggests the mortality threshold for juvenileLampsilisspecies could be exceeded at low mussel biomass if exposed for even a short time to the highly elevated total N loadings endemic to the agricultural Midwest.