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Doll bones
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
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Impact of L2 learners' background factors on the perception of L1 Spanish speech
Listener background variables have been recognized as potential contributors to language evaluation bias. This continuum of trait‐irrelevant factors creates implications from the L2 classroom to integration in the target language community. This study examined how L2 Spanish learners' listener background factors including ethnicity, heritage speaker status, and study abroad experience predicted their perceptual ratings of native Spanish accented speech on comprehensibility, accentedness, acceptability, and open‐mindedness. Results showed mixed findings regarding the impact of L2 listener background factors and study abroad experiences on L1 speech perception ratings with little variance explained overall despite significant differences between speech constructs, suggesting that there may be other effects that impact how L2 learners perceive L1 speech. Results support previous findings that learner L2 level and ability seem to influence how target language speech is perceived. Findings provide implications for the fields of study abroad and immersion learning and teaching. The Challenge How does an L2 learner's background impact their perception of target language speech? This study examined how L2 Spanish learners' listener background factors predicted their perceptual ratings of native Spanish, providing implications for the fields of study abroad and immersion learning and teaching.
Journal Article
Preparing Your Campus for Veterans' Success
This book is intended for everyone in higher education - whether in the classroom, student affairs, administration, admissions, health services or faculty development - who is, or expects to be teaching, advising, or serving student veterans. This book is the outcome of a partnership between the Center for Teaching and Learning and the office of Disabilities Services at the University of South Dakota that led to the development of the Fides program whose goal was to establish high-quality, evidence-based development opportunities specifically designed to enable key university constituencies-the faculty, staff, and administration-to understand their role in providing extraordinary learning experiences for veterans. The program was funded through a congressionally directed FIPSE grant. Materials from Fides have been featured by prominent educational organizations, and are being used by the National Center for PTSD, colleges, universities, and boards of regents across the US. This book provides the background and guidelines you need to leverage the strengths that student veterans bring to your institution, to ease the challenges they face in transitioning into higher education, to facilitate their learning, and to ensure their successful graduation. Student veterans bring many strengths to your campus - maturity, significant life experiences, and cross-cultural awareness. They are highly motivated to serve others and value education. Student veterans may however face significant challenges. Student veterans have typically been out of high school for some time, where they may have earned average grades. Many are married with children and more than a few are single parents. They are approximately 20% less likely than non-veterans to attain a bachelor degree and slightly more likely to drop out of higher education without attaining a degree of any sort. Deployments extend their time to degree, and multiple deployments can significantly delay graduation. The challenges ass
eBook
From soldier to student: A case study of veterans' transitions to first-time community college students
Increasing numbers of veterans are returning home from military service. Because of the benefits offered by the Post-9/11 GI Bill, many of these veterans will look to higher education for education and training opportunities. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the transition process experienced by veterans leaving military service and attending community college for the first time. This study sought to understand the process veterans experience as they leave overseas deployment locations in support of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and negotiate the various changes such a transition entails. Using Schlossberg's (1984) Theory of Adult Transitions as the guiding framework, three themes emerged regarding how veterans manage this transition: academic experiences, personal relationships and connections, and benefit bureaucracy. These findings could be used to help community colleges better serve this special population.
Dissertation
Student Veterans in Our Community Colleges
The Navy broke me down and built me back up again. Then I get here and I'm not good enough to take College Algebra? I get that I have to do the work and that I've forgotten things, but when you've seen people killed and survived, having to take these classes feels like a slap in the face.
Book Chapter
Ripper
In addition to the four other teenaged Ripper players, the ensemble cast includes the protective and loveable grandfather, Blake; mother-hippie-healer, Indiana; Allan, Indi's boyfriend of four years; Ryan, a former Navy SEAL and friend to Indi and Amanda; Attila, decorated and retired military dog; Yumiko, the acupuncturist; painter Matheus; Danny, the transvestite waiter, Petra, martial arts expert and police officer, Pedro, Ryan's confidante who fled Uruguay and currently teaches artificial intelligence at Stanford; Chief Martin's family; famous astrologer and family friend, Celeste; and several others.
Book Review
A home in the trees, and a treehouse
The front room includes built-in bookshelves and wainscoting as well as a surprise metal spiral staircase leading to the second floor and master suite. [...]it's a recreation room with whimsical features including a model train that travels the perimeter on a raised shelf.
Newspaper Article