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L1 Poetry and Moral Stories as a Factor Affecting Acquisition of L2 Oracy Skills in EFL Settings
The current study works on the belief that literature (poetry and moral tales) can be a powerful tool for acquisition of oracy in an EFL setting and studies the impetus given to L2 learning as a factor of exposure to poetry and meaningful stories in L1. It aims to investigate whether students’ L1 can play a positive role in reasonable L2 oral output on the premise of using literature in the classroom. The study also compares whether or not the students’ scores develop significantly as a result of the intervention. It adopts a quasi-experiment design in which 75 level 1 Saudi EFL students at the Department of English and Translation participate by enrolling in a listening-speaking test in with evaluation is based on an ASL descriptors rubric. The intervention follows a version of Ochi’s (2009) practice of Interpreting Training Method (ITM) using Quick-Response Practice and Sight Translation (Ochi also uses Shadowing and Summarization in addition to these). Findings show that using L1 literary genre can help in developing EFL students’ oracy skills. Furthermore, the study reports that students gain in all the four elements as 2.7 points in comprehension and 3.8 in coherence, and 1.8 points in pronunciation and 1.4 in grammar/ vocabulary on a scale of 1-10, however, in comprehension and coherence the enhancement is significant, p =0.000. It recommends EFL teachers to integrate the use of L1 literature in EFL classroom as inputs in facilitating L2 output.
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Dancing hands : a story of friendship in Filipino sign language
Sam is fascinated by her new neighbors and their ability to talk with their hands, and when she meets Mai, she starts to learn Filipino sign language so they can communicate. Includes dictionary of Philippine signs.
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Foucault’s Madmen and Poets: Don Quixote and Daniel Quinn’s Quest for a Unitary Sign
DANIEL QUINN AS \"HERO OF THE SAME\" Peter Stillman Sr.'s theory of prelapsarian language has several points of contact with Foucault's understanding of the chivalric milieu that Don Quixote believes to \"give form to Law\" (n8). Seeking to enact a world in which \"nature and books alike [are] parts of a single text,\" Don Quixote instead confronts a world in which language and things have \"dissolved their former alliance\" and \"[words] are no longer the mark of things\" (119). Given the dissolution of a conformity between words and things, between the chivalric tale he takes as Law and the contemporary world in which he moves, Don Quixote's role as knight errant demands both that he is true to the words and actions of the knights whose adventures he reads and that he prove the truth of these precursor texts: \"If he is to resemble the texts of which he is the witness, the representation, the real analogue, Don Quixote must also furnish proof and provide the indubitable sign that they are telling the truth, that they really are the language of the world\" (118). The narrator explains about Quinn's pleasure as a reader of detective fiction: \"The world of the book comes to life, seething with possibilities, with secrets and contradictions. Since everything seen or said, even the slightest, most trivial thing, can bear a connection to the outcome of the story, nothing must be overlooked.
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Little Beauty
When a gorilla who knows sign language tells his keepers that he's lonely, they bring him a very special friend.
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Deaf Republic
Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest.When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language.
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Freak city
Mika, heartbroken over his breakup with his ex-girlfriend, meets Leah. He is instantly drawn to her but learns there is something different about Leah--she is deaf. Mika learns sign language so he can communicate with her, but discovers the world of deaf culture is much different from his own. Soon, Mika and Leah find that extraordinary love overcomes all obstacles.
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Our Time
We are probably only at the beginning of our understanding of a period of time that gave us a new name for an old language, “ASL,” a new consciousness called “Deaf culture,” a national uprising called “DPN,” and a science fiction-like new technology called “VP.” The two halves of the twentieth century might be viewed as two separate units of analysis. The intent is to examine the second half of the twentieth century, or the period from 1945 to 2000. Key revelations and five critical changes during this period are discussed and contextualized in the article.
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Jessi's secret language
Feeling isolated as the only African American in her sixth grade class, Jessi gains a sense of belonging by participating in the Baby-sitters Club, learning sign language in order to communicate with a deaf child, and dancing in a ballet.
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Theft as Gift: Percy, Peirce, and Bible in The Second Coming
This article explores Walker Percy’s use of Charles Sanders Peirce’s concept of “Thirdness” as an interpretive tool in connection with Percy’s use of the Bible in his novel, The Second Coming. In this context, Peirce’s “Thirdness” may be understood as that which mediates between a word (say, w-a-t-e-r, spelled out in Helen Keller’s hand) and a thing (the stuff called “water” simultaneously flowing over Helen Keller’s other hand) as, indeed, Walker Percy defines “Thirdness” in his essay, “The Delta Factor” (The Message in the Bottle, 3-45). As such, C.S. Peirce’s “Thirdness” serves Percy as a model for understanding the function of “triadic” (human) language in the operation of relations both human and divine.
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