ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Teachers' Experiences with Literacy Instruction for Dual-Media Students Who Use Print and Braille
Author: Herzberg, Tina S.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Literacy Education,Teaching Experience,Teacher Surveys,Visual Impairments,Braille,Printed Materials,Student Motivation,Self Esteem,Special Education Teachers,Foreign Countries,Reading Rate,Time on Task,Student Characteristics,Reading Materials,Recreational Reading,Online Surveys

Introduction: This study analyzed survey responses from 84 teachers of students with visual impairments who had provided literacy instruction to dual-media students who used both print and braille. Methods: These teachers in the United States and Canada completed an online survey during spring 2015. Results: The teachers reported that they introduced braille to their students at the mean age of 7.8 years. The three most common reasons reported for introducing a student to braille were the student's diagnosis, print reading speed, and print reading stamina. The amount of instructional time in braille literacy varied widely, and slightly more than 60% of the students were initially introduced to uncontracted braille. The teachers reported that approximately half of their students were at or above grade level with their print literacy skills, but only about 25% were at or above grade level with their braille literacy skills. Discussion: Both contracted and uncontracted braille were used when beginning braille instruction for students reading both print and braille. The roles of student motivation and confidence appeared to be important considerations when designing and providing braille literacy instruction. Implications for practitioners: There are many factors that should be considered when determining if a student should transition from print to braille as a primary literacy medium. Motivating students to want to learn and use braille is critical. A comprehensive curriculum is needed for use with established print readers at various reading levels who are making the transition to braille.
The Effect of Using Authentic Task on Teaching Adjectives
Author: Rastegaran, Shadi
Date: 2016-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Form Classes (Languages),Pretests Posttests,Multiple Choice Tests,Computer Software,Vocabulary Development,Language Tests,Language Proficiency,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Statistical Analysis,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Teaching Methods

In this study the researcher tried to investigate whether tasks have any effect on &quot;adjective&quot; learning or not. To achieve this purpose, the following research question was set forth by the researcher: &quot;Does using 'authentic task' have significant effect on 'adjective' learning?&quot; A proficiency test was administered to minimize the individual difference among learners and to make certain the homogeneity of them. Then, before starting the treatment, a vocabulary test was given to the learners to see if the knowledge of vocabulary items already exists among participants or not. After the test, the known &quot;words&quot; even by one learner were omitted from the whole study. Subsequently, each group received an especial kind of treatment for 12 sessions. At the end, a multiple choice vocabulary post-test similar to the pre-test was administered. To analyze the findings of the study, SPSS (Statistical Package for social science) was utilized and the obtained results indicated that using &quot;authentic tasks&quot; contributed to the enhancement of &quot;adjective&quot; learning.
Adapting the Brief COPE for Chinese Adolescents with Visual Impairments
Author: Yuan, Wei
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Adolescents,Visual Impairments,Coping,Measures (Individuals),Media Adaptation,Psychometrics,Validity,Correlation,Self Esteem,Interviews,Foreign Countries,Self Concept Measures

Introduction: The present research pioneered the effort in assessing adolescents' coping with visual impairment through adapting the Brief COPE in an eastern context. The first study preliminarily explored the applicability of the Brief COPE to Chinese adolescent students with visual impairments. Based on the results, the Brief COPE was modified and renamed, COPE-Revised. The second study tested the internal psychometric properties and the criterion-related validity of the COPE-Revised. Criterion-related validity was obtained through investigating the correlation between coping and self-esteem. Method: The first study involved 176 adolescent students with visual impairments, comprising a survey using the Brief COPE and follow-up interviews. In the second study, another cohort of 170 adolescent students with visual impairments responded to the COPE-Revised together with an inventory assessing self-esteem. Results: The COPE-Revised showed adequate psychometric properties. Three higher-order factors, namely self-directed, other-directed, and relinquished-control coping, were identified. The way in which self-esteem was correlated with these three dimensions of coping provided evidence for the criterion-related validity of the COPE-Revised. Discussion: The findings indicate that the COPE-Revised has sound psychometric properties among adolescents with visual impairments. Limitations regarding the sample-selection bias and the means of questionnaire survey among visually impaired adolescents are noted. Implications for practitioners: This research tailored a coping inventory for educators, counselors, and researchers who are interested in investigating adolescents' ability to cope with visual impairments. The relationship between coping with visual impairment and self-esteem found in this research has reference significance for educational and counseling services for visually impaired adolescents.
Travel Writing in Children and Adolescent's Literature in Iran
Author: Jalali, Maryam
Date: 2016-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Travel,Writing (Composition),Childrens Literature,Adolescent Literature,Literary Genres

Today children's literature and its place have attracted in the collection of literature, according to many writers the world. Making fun of the text by writer is best way to communicate with the Children and Adolescents. Travel writing is considered as an interdisciplinary literature combined by literature, history, geography and sociology. It is written both in verse and prose. Writing Travel writing is well-established in adults' literature. Although several Travels writing have been written in adults' literature domain, it is not well-established in children and adolescents literature, so the experts and the writers of children and adolescents books should pay more attention to this issue. Children's Travels writing don't differ from the adults' one in first definition. However, there are some differences from structure and theme towards their special addressees with the adults' ones.
The Comorbidity between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Children and Arabic Speech Sound Disorder
Author: Hariri, Ruaa Osama
Date: 2016-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Comorbidity,Semitic Languages,Classification,Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,Learning Disabilities,Symptoms (Individual Disorders),Phonology,Articulation (Speech),Native Language,Speech Impairments,Foreign Countries,Intervention,Children,Developmental Stages,Phonemes,Testing,Speech Language Pathology

Children with Attention-Deficiency/Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) often have co-existing learning disabilities and developmental weaknesses or delays in some areas including speech (Rief, 2005). Seeing that phonological disorders include articulation errors and other forms of speech disorders, studies pertaining to children with ADHD symptoms who demonstrate signs of phonological disorders in their native Arabic language are lacking. The purpose of this study is to provide a description of Arabic language deficits and to present a theoretical model of potential associations between phonological language deficits and ADHD. Dodd and McCormack's (1995) four subgroups classification of speech disorder and the phonological disorders pertaining to the Arabic language provided by a Saudi Institute for Speech and Hearing are examined within the theoretical framework. Since intervention may improve articulation and focuses a child's attention on the sound structure of words, findings in this study are based on the assumption that children with ADHD may acquire phonology for their Arabic language in the same way, and following the same developmental stages as intelligible children. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses have proven that the ADHD group analyzed in this study had indeed failed to acquire most of their Arabic consonants as they should have.
The Effect of Virtual Language Learning Method on Writing Ability of Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners
Author: Khoshsima, Hooshang
Date: 2016-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Computer Simulation,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Writing Skills,Translation,Foreign Countries,Scores,Pretests Posttests,Experimental Groups,Control Groups,Language Tests,Computer Software,Language Proficiency,Writing Improvement,Statistical Analysis,College Students,Process Approach (Writing),Quasiexperimental Design

This study aimed at investigating the effect of virtual language learning method on Iranian intermediate EFL learners writing ability. The study was conducted with 20 English Translation students at Chabahar Maritime University who were assigned into two groups, control and experimental, after ensuring of their homogeneity by administering a TOEFL proficiency. The participants of the experimental group received virtual learning i.e. sending PowerPoint through their e-mails. The participants of the experimental group did not have to attend the classes, however they had to study the PowerPoint and send the assigned task on the mentioned deadline. A writing posttest was administered to find the impacts of both methods. A paired sample t-test and an independent sample t-test were run to analyze the posttest scores using SPSS. The findings of the study indicated that both groups showed some improvements in terms of their writing ability since the obtained p value of both groups were 0.000 which is smaller than 0.05. However using virtual method appeared to be a more fruitful tool since the mean score of the experimental group (12.75) was much higher than the mean score of the control group (9.8).
Review of &quot;A Dictionary of Global Huayu&quot;
Author: Li, Rui
Date: 2016-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Dictionaries,Chinese,Guides,Definitions,Cultural Context,Written Language,Oral Language,Foreign Countries

As the first Huayu dictionary published by the Commercial Press, &quot;A Dictionary of Global Huayu&quot; (Chinese Language) did a pioneer work in many aspects. It did expand the influence of Chinese and provided Chinese speaker abroad a valuable reference book for study and communication. Nevertheless, there are still some demerits. First of all, the amount of entries is less enough and balanced; the definitions are less accurate; the Chinese context is not adequately taken into consideration; and compared with written form, the spoken form is not paid enough attention.
Wordplay in English Online News Headlines
Author: Monsefi, Roya
Date: 2016-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Language Usage,News Reporting,Pragmatics,Rhetoric,Discourse Analysis,English,Persuasive Discourse,Check Lists,Text Structure,Literary Devices,Figurative Language

Within the endless stream of information available on the news media market, news headline language is characterised by several linguistic, pragmatic, rhetorical and functional features that distinguish it from other varieties of language that are not specialised. In the present study, the rhetorical features of English news headlines, through wordplay investigation, using a sample of 100 headlines were studied. Wordplay is investigated because it leads to the persuasiveness of message that is sometimes so subtle that the readers might not even recognise it. A taxonomy of wordplays was constructed according to Leigh's (1994) model which made it possible to access a comprehensive checklist. The way the persuasive element, i.e. wordplay, was presented for the English headline readers was examined using the descriptive method and in light of textual rhetorical analysis. The outcome of the study suggests that English news headlines are likely to contain one or more clearly defined wordplay. The most frequent wordplay is that of tropes or more specifically metonymy. However, there are some wordplays such as polysyndeton, anadiplosis, antimetabole, epistrophe and polyptoton that are absent in English headlines. The majority of unused categories fall under the category of schemes.
English Language Teaching in Rural Areas: A Scenario and Problems and Prospects in Context of Bangladesh
Author: Hossain, Md. Mahroof
Date: 2016-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Rural Areas,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Language Teachers,Teacher Education,Interviews,Employment Potential,Questionnaires,Student Attitudes,Secondary School Students,Libraries,Classroom Techniques,Check Lists,Time Management,Feedback (Response),Observation

Language is one of the medium of expressing our ideas, feelings and emotions. And if we think about language in present world then English is one of the most used languages in the world and English is used as a second language in Bangladesh. English is introduced here at the primary level and its inclusion continues till the tertiary level of education. Most of the students of the primary schools in rural areas are weak in English language due to lack of skilled and trained teachers who are familiar to the modern methods and approaches of teaching and lack of materials for teaching in the classroom. Primary level English curriculum implementation is essential in Bangladesh to achieve the set English language competency in the rural areas. Students in the rural areas are performing poorly in English compared to their urban counterparts. Statistics showed that there was a gulf of difference between the facilities enjoyed by rural schools and urban schools. The study explores the challenges of teaching English language in rural areas in context of Bangladesh. This study investigated the factors affecting student's performance in English language in rural areas. Data were collected using interviews, classroom observation and questionnaire. Result of the study reveals that students were highly motivated to learn English for future expectations such as local and international communication, academic advancement and employment prospects. It also provide a scenario of English teaching system in rural areas of Bangladesh as well as the problems and prospects of English language in perspective of Bangladesh.
Thematic Structure in Barack Obama's Press Conference: A Systemic Functional Grammar Study
Author: Kuswoyo, Heri
Date: 2016-04-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Presidents,News Media,Discourse Analysis,Language Patterns,Conferences (Gatherings),Communication Strategies,Language Research,Grammar,Linguistic Theory,Phrase Structure,Rhetoric

This article looks into the theme--rheme pattern of presidential press conference that can be employed by speakers to organize the text in order to have a texture. Since a message should be conveyed in clause contextually and co-textually. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to analyze and describe the theme-rheme pattern employed in President Barack Obama's press conferences. The collected data are taken from Barack Obama's speeches in his press conferences on January 14th and October 8th 2013. The collected data are analyzed based on the theory of Systemic Functional Grammar put forward by Halliday. The method and technique used in this study are an analytic descriptive. This descriptive research finds (1) two kinds of theme-rheme pattern; namely; &quot;simple&quot; theme-rheme patterns and &quot;multiple&quot; theme-rheme patterns. The simple theme-rheme patterns contain constant theme pattern, linear theme or zigzag pattern, and derived theme-rheme pattern, and the multiple ones contain combination of constant theme and constant rheme, combination of constant and linear theme, combination of split and constant themes and another pattern is proposed by the researcher himself, namely derived rheme. The findings show that (2) the combination of constant and linear theme patterns is distributed most in both press conferences. In the contrary, combination of constant and split theme is only found once. To sum up, thematic structure can be used in developing of a text and making the message easily to be understood. Besides, it also can be used to have an effective communication to achieve specifiable goals.
An Investigation of the Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners' Cultural Intelligence and Their Performance on the IELTS Listening Modules
Author: Rafie, Arezoo
Date: 2016-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Correlation,English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Cultural Awareness,Student Placement,Language Tests,Metacognition,Predictor Variables,Listening Skills,Multiple Regression Analysis,Majors (Students),Foreign Countries,Advanced Students,Measures (Individuals),Learning Motivation,Listening Comprehension Tests,Translation,College Students,Statistical Analysis

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between Iranian EFL Learners' Cultural intelligence (CQ) and their performance on the IELTS Listening Module. Sixty advanced EFL students majoring in English translation at University of Zanjan were matched for the study through the Oxford Quick Placement Test. Cultural Intelligence Scale developed and validated by Ang et al. (2007) was used to assess the participants' cultural intelligence. The IELTS Listening Module and the Cultural Intelligence Scale were administered to the participants who were willing to take part in this study. The correlational analysis of the results revealed that there exists a statistically significant relationship between EFL learners' CQ and their performance on IELTS Listening Module. Furthermore, running multiple regression analysis indicated that of the four components of CQ (i.e. metacognitive, cognitive, behavioral, and motivational CQs), motivational CQ is the best predictor for the listening ability of EFL learners. The findings of the study highlight the importance of incorporating programs for teaching culture in the EFL classroom, as enhancing cultural intelligence related skills at schools and universities can promote better communicational skills.
A Theory-Based Physical Education Intervention for Adolescents with Visual Impairments
Author: Haegele, Justin A.
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Adolescents,Visual Impairments,Physical Education,Intervention,Physical Activity Level,Physical Activities,Social Theories,Residential Schools,Blindness,Disabilities,Exercise,Measurement Equipment,Physical Education Teachers,Questionnaires,Leisure Time,After School Programs,High School Students

Regular physical activity participation can have a positive impact on overall health. However, school-aged individuals with visual impairments tend to be less physically active than their peers without disabilities (Haegele &amp; Porretta, 2015). Fortunately, preliminary intervention research suggests that physical activity levels of those with visual impairments can be improved (Haegele &amp; Porretta, 2015). For example, Cervantes and Porretta (2013), using a social cognitive theory-based intervention, examined the effect of an after-school physical activity program on adolescents with visual impairments. Their study offered a nine-lesson program to four students at a residential school over a five-week period. Results indicated that leisure-time physical activity levels were enhanced by the intervention (Cervantes &amp; Porretta, 2013).
The Use of Music to Promote Purposeful Movement in Children with Visual Impairments
Author: Coleman, Jeremy
Date: 2017-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Music,Visual Impairments,Children,Music Education,Movement Education,Teaching Methods,Music Therapy,Music Techniques,Disabilities,Musical Instruments,Music Teachers

Music plays a major role in the education and development of all children. Although the use of music in the education process may seem obvious to most professionals, there are only a few studies that discuss the effect of music on the purposeful movement of students with visual impairments (DePountis, Cady, &amp; Hallak, 2013; Desrochers, Oshlag, &amp; Kennelly, 2014; Sapp, 2011). A large percentage of teachers of students with visual impairments and other professionals use music and movement to some degree when working with students. The author of this article has extensive past experiences working as a music therapist collaborating with occupational and physical therapists in a rehabilitative therapy setting while using music to promote movement for people with disabilities including those with visual impairments. The same strategies are proving beneficial in a music classroom setting to increase students' participation through movement activities. The purpose of this Practice Perspective is to provide evidence and examples of music activities that can promote the purposeful movement for students with visual impairments.
Indonesian EFL Students' Perspective on Writing Process: A Pilot Study
Author: Hermilinda Abas, Imelda
Date: 2016-06-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Second Language Instruction,Pilot Projects,Writing Attitudes,Student Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Writing Processes,Interviews,Academic Discourse,Writing Instruction,Research Methodology,Masters Theses,Doctoral Dissertations,Graduate Students,Undergraduate Students

The study was aimed at understanding the EFL Indonesian students' perspective on the writing process. The pilot study involved two male Indonesian postgraduate students in Universiti Utara Malaysia. The Indonesian students were selected based on the following criteria: (1) had enough knowledge in English writing, indicated by the completion of Academic Writing and Research Methodology courses taken in UUM; (2) had written an unpublished thesis during their undergraduate studies in Indonesia and they are writing their master or doctoral thesis in English; (3) used English extensively in writing their assignments, and in daily activities. Pseudonyms were used to refer to the participants as Sukarno and Suharto. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with the participants. The interview sessions took approximately 15-20 minutes for each participant and were videotaped and audiotaped. Semi-structured interview with 15 questions and probes were used. The results showed that the two participants had positive feelings and attitudes towards writing in English. Although they had a hard time in English writing during their undergraduate in Indonesia, they become fond of writing in English in their postgraduate time due to the exposure to English extensively. In composing, they used brainstorming, drafting, pausing, revising and editing in a recursive manner.