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We're all wonders
Auggie knows he is a wonder, but he wants everybody to realize they are all wonders, too.
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Examining individual variation in learner production data: A few programmatic pointers for corpus-based analyses using the example of adverbial clause ordering
This study examines the variable positioning of a finite adverbial subordinate clause and its main clause with the subordinate clause either preceding or following the main clause in native versus nonnative English. Specifically, we contrast causal, concessive, conditional, and temporal adverbial clauses produced by German and Chinese learners of English with those produced by native speakers. We examined 2,362 attestations from the Chinese and German subsections of the International Corpus of Learner English (Granger, Dagneaux, Meunier, & Paquot, 2009) and from the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (Granger, 1998). All instances were annotated for the ordering, the subordinate clause type, the lengths of the main and subordinate clauses, the first language of the speakers, the conjunction used, and the file it originated from (as a proxy for the speaker producing the sentence so as to be able to study individual and lexical variation). The results of a two-step regression modeling protocol suggest that learners behave most nativelike with causal clauses and struggle most with conditional and concessive clauses; in addition, learners make more non-nativelike choices when the main and subordinate clause are of about equal length.
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I am a masterpiece! : an empowering story about inclusivity and growing up with Down Syndrome
Mia offers a glimpse into the life of a child with Down syndrome.
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FROM HOUELLEBECQ TO HOLODECK AND BACK: USING GENERAL SEMANTICS, LITERATURE, LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO FACE THE FUTURE
This article explores the confluence of Houellebecq's novels and General Semantics (GS) as well as learning environments, and artificial intelligence (AI) in response to questions of GS relevance. Houellebecq's works echo GS principles such as the distinction between symbols and reality and the importance of context. Thornburg's learning environments framework- Campfires, Watering Holes, Caves, Life, and Holodecks-provides a structure for integrating GS and AI into education and other types of knowledge management. As AI becomes more prevalent, its integration with GS and educational frameworks, along with the need to apply them to pressing issues such as climate change and technology control, raises opportunities and challenges. Additional examples of fiction and non-fiction illustrate some areas in need of attention where emerging capabilities such as AI could be leveraged while preserving human judgment and creativity. Ultimately, the article suggests that by utilizing recent literature, different learning modes, and AI, GS advocates might help re-popularize the field and expand its utilization in better preparing for the complexities of the future.
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Different just like me
While preparing for a visit to her grandmother, a young girl notices that, like the flowers in Grammie's garden, people who are different from one another also share similarities and it's okay to like them all the same.
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UPPER ELEMENTARY STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION TO READ FICTION AND NONFICTION
This research explores upper elementary students’ motivation to read fiction and nonfiction. Using expectancy-value theory, the researchers developed separate surveys to measure motivation to read fiction and nonfiction. Researchers administered surveys to 1,104 upper elementary students (grades 3–6) in multiple locations across the United States and found the instruments to be psychometrically sound. Results corroborate previous research demonstrating students’ declining-motivation to read across grade levels; in particular, students’ value for reading was declining. This research also corroborates previous research findings that girls are more motivated than boys to read fiction. Researchers found insignificant gender differences between girls’ and boys’ motivations to read nonfiction, indicating a need to further investigate students’ motivation to read nonfiction. Implications for classroom application of survey results and the need to enhance students’ value for reading are discussed.
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M is for autism
After struggling daily with anxiety, a thirteen-year-old English girl learns she has autism.
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Cultural Reception and Production: The Social Construction of Meaning in Book Clubs
Investigations of the reception of textual objects have alternately emphasized demographically conditioned patterns of evaluation and taste, or the agency of viewers, readers, and listeners in constructing their own cultural interpretations. In the present article, we advance an empirical and formal analysis of the cultural reception of texts in which interpretations of the multiple dimensions on which a text may be evaluated are transmitted and modified within small groups of individuals in face-to-face contact. We contribute an approach in which the intersection of social structure, individual readings, and interactive group processes all may enter into readers' interpretations of a novel. Our investigation focuses on a set of book clubs for which we collected data on group members' pre- and post-discussion evaluations of a specific book, and the interpersonal influence networks that were formed during the groups' discussions. We analyze these data with a multilevel model of individuals nested in groups, which allows us to address the effects of structure and group dynamics on cultural reception in a single analytic framework.
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Now? Not yet!
\"Peanut and Moe are back, this time on a camping trip. Peanut wants to swim NOW, Moe says NOT YET! A sweet and cheerful book about overcoming differences.\"-- Amazon.
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\Bringing the plague\: Groundwork for a transformative outreach of psychoanalysis
The authors lay the groundwork for a theory and technique of transformative outreach of psychoanalysis, a process of group building of a shared emotional experience by way of a discourse on issues of psychoanalytic relevance. The subject of interest is the public conference, where the \"outreach session\" is defined as a situation built on the basis of a well-defined setting, which allows the unfolding of the informative process to the best effect. Being able to grasp the quality of the experience that one is creating, while respecting individual differences, is a specific analytical capacity. To the audience, being able to feel that someone minds how it may experience being there, in that moment, means being able to experience in person the containing and transformative capacity of psychoanalysis. This frame of mind can be maintained much more easily if the speaker shows up without a written speech: \"placing a sheet\" between him or herself and the audience shields his or her perceptual-receptive capacity, which is necessary to give space to the waking dream activity. As theoretical background, the recent developments of the Bionian perspective proposed by Ogden and Ferro seem the most suitable to root our proposed ideas for good psychoanalytical outreach practices.
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