Browsing by Subject "Language"
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COMPOSING AGENCY: USING INQUIRY TO PROMOTE SOCIAL ACTION
(2017-08-01)In Rhetoric/Composition studies, agency has been a highly contested concept, straightaway invoking the tension between two dominant perspectives. Agency is viewed as either an internal quality possessed by an individual ... -
Conversational correlates of children's acquisition of mental verbs and a theory of mind
(First Language, 2008-11-01)The purpose of this study was to conduct a detailed examination of the ways mothers use mental verbs in conversations with three- and four-year-old children, and to link these usages to the children's developing understanding ... -
SPIRALING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: A CASE STUDY OF STUDENTS’ AND PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF ANXIETY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
(2019-05)The current study explores students’ and parents’ perceptions of the growing phenomenon of adolescent anxiety, its triggers, and its manifestations, specifically anxiety related the English language arts classroom, ... -
Spiritual connectedness through prayer as a mediator of the relationship between Indigenous language use and positive mental health
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2021-01-01)Objective: The objective of this study is to understand how Indigenous language and spirituality revitalization efforts may affect mental health within Indigenous communities. Although Indigenous communities experience ... -
“The Thought of Being a Part of What You Could Not Become”: Colonial Education and the Resistance of Young Minds
(2021)This project engages with the colonizer’s use of the colonial education system to penetrate the colonized people’s pre-colonial cultural systems and the way it leads to the destruction of any already-formed understandings ...