Language Scholars Research Articles

Does the adapted version of The Amazing Race (AVOTAR) benefit Spanish language learning among technical students?

Abstract Students’ lack of interest and motivation in language learning has long been the focus of language scholars and researchers. In the Malaysian Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) context, this concern has posed many practical challenges particularly to the foreign language teachers. This study proposes a teaching innovation adapted from the popular reality television program, The Amazing Race, to instill and promote interest in learning Spanish among the technical students. The study on the Adapted Version of The Amazing Race (AVOTAR) was conducted using a quantitative dominant mixed methods approach in a technical university where Spanish language is a compulsory subject. The quantitative findings show that AVOTAR improves learners’ linguistic performance especially in the areas of vocabulary and reading comprehension while the qualitative findings indicate that AVOTAR helps increase learners’ motivation. This may contribute useful insights to address the challenges and improve the curriculum and instruction of foreign languages.

Revisiting colonial cinema research in Korea

Korean cinema during the colonial era has become the subject matter of the most productive scholarship in Korean language over the last decade. Contemporary Korean scholarship on colonial cinema ch...

The contribution of the Italian literature to the international Accounting History literature

Italian and Anglo-Saxon accounting scholarships are rather different in their philosophical foundations and conceptual categories. Such difference has implications for Italian scholars aiming at contributing to the international accounting history (AH) literature. This work aims to qualify the contribution of Italian scholars to the AH literature. By means of a review of the AH publication patterns of Italian scholars both in Italian and English language, from 2010 to 2016, the analysis compares Italian and international outlets. Furthermore, the comparison considers the entrenched bi-lingual and cultural aspects, by highlighting the textual similarities and differences of specific contributions. With its results, the study adds to prior literature on the publishing patterns in AH, by shedding light on how Italian accounting historiography has developed in an international context. Moreover, this work highlights the challenges for Italian scholars willing to disseminate AH research outside their national context and promotes cross-country collaborations to expand the pathways, time and foci of international AH.

Тувинское время и экономическая культура тувинцев

В статье впервые анализируется тувинское время (тыва үе) — понимание тувинцами повседневного времени, — как важная часть их общей культуры, имеющая тесную взаимосвязь с экономической культурой. Подобное отношение ко времени у тувинцев рассматривается как степное время, которое наблюдается также у народов Монголии, и других регионов кочевой культуры центральной Азии. Люди степи демонстрируют особое время культуры, особый темп жизненного уклада, который относится исследователями к варианту восточного типа понимания времени.Отмечается, что для понимания времени традиционно использовались средства опредмечивания, соотнесения с конкретными действиями и обозначением места действий. Рассматриваются термины тувинского языка, означающие время. Фиксируются интересные выводы других исследователей (филологов, культурологов) об особенностях ориентации тувинцами во времени и пространстве, которые опираются на наблюдения за движением Солнца, звезд.Особо акцентируется проблема обусловленности тувинского времени и экономической культурой тувинцев. Понимание времени сложилось в условиях экстенсивного скотоводства, которым занималось большинство предков и современных тувинцев. Соответственно хозяйственная деятельность людей почти целиком зависела от природных, погодных циклов, ритмов, конкретных условий. Это обусловило стратегию адаптации не только к собственно среде, но и к протеканию процессов в этой среде, к самому пониманию времени. Человеку оставалось только следить за неспешным процессом выпаса скота и отчасти его регулировать. Это определило неспешность как одну из главных временных характеристик культуры.Анализируются культурные установки тувинцев, связанные с планированием и пунктуальностью. В постсоветское время тыва үе подчеркивается как право людей не соблюдать точное время. Тыва үе определяется не как время, а как комплекс обстоятельств (изменение погоды, приметы, необходимость соблюдения важных дел, получение указаний от кого-либо), которые сильнее людей и которые влияют на их намерения, на длительность событий, действий. Неспешность особенно заметна у жителей сельских районов, но присутствует и у горожан из-за значительной внутренней миграции в Туве из села в город, а также в силу устойчивости базисных оснований традиционной культуры в ситуации «вписывания» ее носителей в современность.Фактор тувинского времени следует учитывать приезжим, самим жителям Тувы, органам власти, представителям бизнеса как существенный фактор современной экономической культуры тувинцев и важное условие стратегического планирования.

Pitching non-English language research: A dual-language application of the Pitching Research Framework

The global language of scholarly research is English and so the obstacle of getting noticed is montainous when the article is not written in the English language. Indeed, despite rapid advances in technology, the “tyranny of language” creates a segmentation inhibiting scholarly research and innovation generally. Mass translation of non-English language articles is neither feasible nor desirable. Our paper proposes a strategy for remedying this segmentation – such that, the work of non-English language scholars become more discoverable. The core piece of this strategy is a “reverse-engineering” [RE] application of Faff’s (2015, 2017a) “pitching research” template. More specifically, we provide access to translated versions of the “cued” template across thirty-three different languages, and most notably for this journal, including the Romanian and French languages. Further, we showcase an illustrative dual language French-English example.

Ched Evans, rape myths and Medusa's gaze: a story of mirrors and windows

AbstractThis paper analyses the visualisation of rape and sexual assault in legal and scholarly language. It begins with a critique of the Court of Appeal ruling inR v. Evans (Chedwyn)and its forensic examination of the details of a female rape complainant's consensual sexual activity with other men. The case is analysed in light of a visual metaphor used by Ellison and Munro to describe the removal of popular misconceptions about rape. The paper contextualises that discussion with reference to the idea of the male gaze and its affirmation of a phallocentric cultural and social world in which the objectification of female difference is entrenched. The paper finally challenges that assessment, however, sketching an alternative approach to visual-critical scholarship that embraces interdisciplinarity and a literary sensibility to break (or at least to loosen) the association between the prurient eye of the male voyeur and the criminal justice gaze.

Improving Narrative Production in Children With Language Disorders: An Early-Stage Efficacy Study of a Narrative Intervention Program.

As noted in this forum, more research is needed to support the work of school-based speech-language pathologists who are designing and implementing interventions for students with language disorders. This article presents the findings of a multiple-baseline, single-subject study that was conducted to assess the outcomes of an intervention designed to improve narrative discourse proficiency for children with language disorders. Four school-age children with language disorders that included deficits in narration received an experimental version of a 3-phase narrative language intervention program called Supporting Knowledge in Language and Literacy (Gillam, Gillam, & Laing, 2014). Two additional children remained in baseline throughout the study and served as controls for history, testing, and maturation effects. Measures of story productivity (number of different words) and overall story complexity (Monitoring Indicators of Scholarly Language; Gillam, Gillam, Fargo, Olszewski, & Segura, 2016) were used to assess the children's self-generated narratives. After the onset of treatment, all 4 children who received the narrative intervention made moderate-to-large improvements in narrative productivity (number of different words). Three of the 4 children also made moderate-to-large improvements in narrative complexity (Monitoring Indicators of Scholarly Language). The narrative abilities of the 2 children who did not receive intervention did not change over the course of the study. This study provides evidence for the feasibility of the Supporting Knowledge in Language and Literacy narrative instruction program for improving self-generated narratives by children with language disorders. Future research is needed to determine how gains in oral narration transfer to written narrative skills.

The Circulation of German Comparative Linguistic Knowledge in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Scholarship

In the nineteenth century European comparative linguists Franz Bopp, August Schleicher, and Jacob Grimm created a new system of language classification. Late Imperial and early Soviet linguists criticized this type of comparative research denying the existence of a common Indo-European proto-language and proposed their own solutions, notably Nikolaĭ Marr’s Japhetic theory. Early Soviet scholars viewed the competing approaches as an epic confrontation between advanced Soviet science and the backward bourgeois scholarship of the West. In the Caucasus, however, Indo-European comparative linguistics continued to find support. These ideas made their way from Germany, and the study of comparative linguistics led to the study of “Oriental” languages. Armenian linguists like Hrach’ya Achaṛyan embraced German comparative linguistics for various reasons. The Indo-European research of Western Europe suited the national agenda of Armenian Orientalists. Heinrich Hübschmann classified Armenian as a European language and according to Hübschmann, it also provided a link between Iranian and Indian languages. Major Armenian linguists promoted this theory about the double nature of Armenian. Despite the various reactions to Western European language scholarship, one thing is certain. New ideas in linguistics from Germany provided important research tools that scholars in Imperial Russia or the later Soviet Union, whether in St. Petersburg or the Caucasus, could not ignore.

How do you wish to be cited? Citation practices and a scholarly community of care in trans studies research articles

Trans rights advocacy is a social justice movement that is transforming language practices relating to gender. Research has highlighted the fact that language which constructs gender as binary harms trans people, and some trans studies researchers have developed guidelines for honouring trans people’s names and pronouns. The language of academic writing is an area of discussion where questions of trans rights and trans experiences have not yet been addressed. This paper draws on two data sources to explore the citation experiences and practices of trans scholars and activists: a web-based archive of writers’ perspectives built between 2015 and 2016; and a corpus-based study of 14 research articles published in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Our analysis highlights the sensitivity that is required of colleagues who work with transgender authors’ writing, furthering our understanding of citation as a collaborative and potentially intimate and caring practice. Practices of referring to work by trans scholars pose ethical questions about the social relations expressed in citation in general, enabling applied language scholars to develop a new and different awareness of the sociality of citation.

Language ideologies on the difference between gesture and sign

This article investigates academic and everyday perspectives on the difference between gesture and sign. A large number of language scholars have suggested that gesture is not language, that different forms of gesturing and signing exist on continua, and/or that they could be classified on a developmental cline. “Everyday” ideologies of deaf people in Mumbai showed either an analytical collapse of gesture and sign or a distinction between them, and were more focused on hearing status and on contextual factors in deciding whether something counted as gesture or sign –as compared to academic ideologies which were more focused on form. In the context of language classes and research projects, academic ideologies bleed into, are resisted, adopted or transformed in everyday contexts.

وسائل الاتصال وإدارة الأزمات فى الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية رؤية تحليلية من المستوى الثاني فى الفترة من 1992 إلى 2017

With technological development, societal change, and a shift toward modernity, the importance of communication and media in crisis management has grown. As countries and institutions are exposed to crises, improper management can harm aspects of their image, reputation, and trust. When it comes to media coverage, the communication strategies used in crisis management vary according to the culture, economics, and political context of the state or institution. This study identifies media techniques for crisis management on the intellectual and methodological levels in American studies to answer the question: How are the communication, media, intellectual, and methodological frameworks used to manage crises in the American context? The research uses a second-level analysis of existing English language scholarship on media and crisis management. The results indicate that at the beginning of the 21st century, American studies were not separated from the US's technological power, as the focus was on integrated communications; from traditional, digital, personal, and central communication and media, to manage crisis communications.

Suffixal Rivalries in Medieval Spanish: Preliminary Observations on the Fate of Old Spanish Deverbal Abstract Nouns in -miento

Medieval Hispano-Romance was rich in neologisms created through suffixal derivation. Almost all the suffixes in question were inherited from Latin through oral transmission. Over time, as Spanish became more elaborated for use as a literary and scholarly language, new derivatives entered as Latinisms, often creating situations of rivalry between derivatives with vernacular and Latinate suffixes. This short paper will offer an introduction to the rivalry of deverbal abstract nouns in -miento with synonymous and functionally-similar derivatives showing Latinate suffixes, especially -ción and -ancia, -encia. The lists of Old Spanish -miento derivatives in Pattison (1975) and in Penny (1987) form the core of the data base for this study.

Beauty as Scholarly Intervention

Beauty as Scholarly Intervention Carmel Mikol (bio) Last winter, i was thinking about the song "Conversation Blues" by Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry. Last winter, I was thinking about what Achille Mbembe calls "the logics of composition" ("The Power"). I was exploring Saidiya Hartman's "critical fabulation" method ("Venus" 11) and Jennifer C. Nash's "beautiful writing," her "new scholarly language" (104). I was listening to recordings of Pete Seeger singing "Guantanamera" in Spanish with a live audience singing along. At the same time, I was finishing my master's degree work at Queen's University. In seminar after seminar, professors encouraged us to come up with something "original," to "contribute a new idea." For a kid who grew up on folk music, this simply did not make sense to me. I understand the process of making—song-making, art-making, story-making, knowledge-making—to be reiterative. The folk tradition is inherently iterative and replicative. You sing old songs, add parts, omit verses, rewrite, reimagine, and collage contemporary and traditional lyrical and musical styles. Like Lightnin' and Sonny, you are constantly in conversation with other singers, those who have come before and those who will come after. [End Page 33] I launched Hyacinth Podcast just before heading to Queen's as a way of experimenting with merging folk music compositional methods and scholarly research methods. In the podcast, scholarly research and interviews are mixed with music and creative audio production, presenting scholarly ideas as an aesthetic experience. Conversations are collaged and research themes appear and reappear the way a refrain might repeat in a song. Each episode of the podcast required the same amount (if not more) of scholarly research as the traditional papers I was writing for my master's, but I found that the process of layering scholarly and artistic content was generative in a way that my regular research and essay writing was not. The compositional nature of putting an episode together brought sonics and aesthetic quality into conversation with theory, argument, and inquiry. Suddenly, scholarly knowledge-making wasn't just about one original idea or a single scholarly voice. It was about the sound and feel of many ideas, many voices. And it was about the ways ideas could be beautiful. By the winter of 2020, beauty became the focus of my scholarly research both inside and outside the seminar room. I dove into Hartman's 2019 text Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments where she combines archival materials with creative narrative to describe the lived experiences of young African American women living in New York and Philadelphia at the turn of the century. I placed Nash's idea that beautiful writing could be wielded as "a new scholarly language" to describe the kinds of knowledge that "can be sensed but not named" (104) next to Kandice Chuh's argument that aesthetic inquiry could be an antidote for the problems of the liberal humanities. Chuh argues that, rather than endorsing scholarly traditions that have the same roots as colonialism, imperialism, and the Enlightenment-era rise of the rational man, the aesthetic realm allows for forms of knowledge that are relational instead of rational. As Elaine Scarry writes in her seminal text On Beauty and Being Just: "But simultaneously, what is beautiful prompts the mind to move chronologically back in the search for precedents and parallels, to move forward into new acts of creation, to move conceptually over, to bring things into relation, and does all this with a kind of urgency as though one's life depended on it" (30). Beauty as fertile ground. Beauty as a language for authentic expression rather than original thought. Beauty as experience. Beauty as collaborative and relational. Beauty as conversations between ideas, not just ideas. Beauty as resistance. Finally, I had found my place. I could leave behind the cubicle study carrels and locked graduate reading rooms of the institution. I could stop pretending I would find something original to say. I could re-sing, re-tell, re-make, re-discover. I could listen more than speak and I could [End Page 34] craft ideas into something beautiful and alive, get my words off the page and let them resonate...

Phonographie: la représentation écrite de l'oral en français by Rudolf Mahrer

Reviewed by: Phonographie: la représentation écrite de l'oral en français by Rudolf Mahrer Eric Louis Russell Mahrer, Rudolf. Phonographie: la représentation écrite de l'oral en français. Gruyter, 2017. ISBN 978-3-11-048812-8. Pp. 491. Mahrer's monograph, part of the collection Études de linguistique française, represents one of the few, if not the only, comprehensive works interrogating the connection between representations of spoken and written French. In this book, decidedly written for an academic audience familiar with linguistic and, especially, semantic theory, the author attends to a series of historical and present-day conceptualizations concerning the ways in which spoken French (i.e., the language as it is lived out through aural and oral communicative acts) is represented on the page, with particular focus on literary works. Mahrer distinguishes between three typologies of such representations: "la phonographie,"roughly akin to the representation of phonological patterns—normative or otherwise—using orthographic conventions; "la sémantique métalangagière," referring to means by which additional graphic and orthographic commentary or metalinguistic practices are co-opted to provide information about spoken patterns; and "la sollicitation prosodique," which relies upon the conceptualization of melody, rhythm, prosody, and related phenomena. After introductory sections, three comprehensive chapters are dedicated to each of these, comprising sections integrating theory and reviewing historical underpinnings, as well as their interpretations and applications. The overarching goal of the work thus far surpasses the straightforward description of how spoken French is represented on the page, but instead articulates a multifaceted interpretation and conceptualization of semiotic practices as they are manifested in literature. In this regard, Mahrer's work is as ambitious as it is singular: not only does he call upon a century of properly linguistic thought on the matter, citing widely-known (e.g., Saussure, Benveniste) and relatively unfamiliar thinkers, he incorporates discussion of the subject dating back much further, with a clear predilection for established literature and the European Francophone canon. The book is certainly well-organized and achieves a high level of academic style, but is ultimately undermined by its (at times seemingly superfluous) complex structure and rhetoric, not to mention the weightiness of the subject matter and the author's polyvalent approach to it. Indeed, even seasoned linguists will find it difficult to follow much of Mahrer's argumentation and proposals, taken as they are from a wide swath of theory and practice, often with little convincing connection. Beyond this, many of the author's descriptions and analyses are as confused as they are confusingly articulated: it is a dense, often opaque volume [End Page 202] that, while asking interesting questions and certainly grounded in a tremendous depth of knowledge, does not make a clear case for its own rhetoric or conclusions. And although the primary topic is attended to, frequent diversions into seemingly unrelated areas and abstractions—which could be related or clarified, perhaps necessitating a selection between different modalities or their separating into stand-alone monographs—deter from the overall impact of the work. Summarily, this ambitious undertaking is frequently lost in itself: it may prove to be useful to a narrow cadre, but the majority of French linguists and language scholars are likely to find little of interest, not to mention a great deal of frustration, when engaging with the volume. Eric Louis Russell University of California, Davis Copyright © 2018 American Association of Teachers of French

Le Festin du troubadour: Nourriture, société et littérature en Occitanie (1100–1500) by Wendy Pfeffer

Reviewed by: Le Festin du troubadour: Nourriture, société et littérature en Occitanie (1100–1500) by Wendy Pfeffer Rupert T. Pickens Wendy Pfeffer. Le Festin du troubadour: Nourriture, société et littérature en Occitanie (1100–1500), trans. Wendy Pfeffer and Patrick Ffrench. Cahors: La Louve Éditions, 2016. 393 pp. ISBN 978-2-916488-76-9. €26 Wendy Pfeffer's latest book, which is a veritable banquet, opens with a fore-matter—"À propos des illustrations," "Abréviations," and especially a most congenial "Avant-Propos" where she acknowledges an abiding love of cooking and names a host of friends and colleagues with whom she has shared memorable culinary experiences—that fittingly offers an array of light amuse-bouches before she subsequently serves up a series of far more substantial courses steeped in serious scholarly language in which the familiar je disappears and is replaced by a far more weighty editorial nous. As a first course (Part I: Le Cadre: Ch.1: "Des témoins oculaires," Ch. 2: "L'Alimentation d'un point de vue socioéconomique et régional"), Pfeffer fleshes out an inclusive view of Occitan language and culture introduced in previous articles (e.g., "Lifting a Glass in Medieval Occitania," alluded to in the "Avant-Propos," but absent in the Bibliographie complète). That language and culture is distinct from, and certainly not subservient to, those of northern France even in the centuries following French victories in the Albigensian Crusade and, in consideration of the fact that much of Occitania had been subject to the Anglo-Norman Empire following Eleanor of Aquitaine's marriage to Henry II, until the end of the Hundred Years' War. Pfeffer's cogent arguments are based in an impressive command of primary sources, which include various travel accounts, investigations by the Inquisition, a late fourteenth-century Languedocian recipe book (Modus viaticorum preparandorum et salsarum), even Le Mesnagier de Paris, and registers from the Papal court at Avignon. She is equally adept in her use of secondary sources and leaves no doubt that she has surpassed her predecessors, among them Carole Lambert, Linda Paterson, and co-authors Geneviève Brunel-Lobrichon and Claudie Duhamel-Amado, in solidifying her arguments. [End Page 126] The second course (Part II: Les Matériaux: Ch. 3: "Les Matières premières," Ch. 4: "Les Boissons") discloses, contrary to modern notions of a highly restricted diet in the Middle Ages, that a wide variety of cereals, fruits, and vegetables both wild and cultivated, as well as fresh-water and salt-water fish and mollusks, were exploited for the tables not only of the wealthy, who also enjoyed wild game, but also of the humbler classes, who often consumed protein-rich small game and pork. Vineyards, which were prominent throughout the Midi, produced wine both for local and regional consumption and for exportation. Of special interest, due to the prominence of olive oil in the region today, is a section in Ch. 3 (pp. 90–110) in which Pfeffer discusses her predecessors' views concerning the use of oils and fats in medieval Occitan cuisine: olive oil replaced animal fat on days of fasting (as many as 150 days per year), when it competed with oils derived from nuts. As for drinking, soft water was a staple, a healthy substitute for wine, but wine was the nobler preference and, along with bread, was a basic component of meals at tables of all classes. In Gascony, which was known for its apples, cider was an appealing option. The third course (Part III: Les outils, le menu: Ch. 5: "Le Chef en sa cuisine," Ch. 6: "La Carte et l'organisation du repas") traces the advancement in the status of cuisine from the early thirteenth century through the fifteenth. At the beginning of the period, a cook's position ranked at the bottom of the social ladder. Pfeffer points to the motif of the defeated knight who is forced to work in the kitchen, which occurs in Aliscans and Rigomer (p. 130), as well as La Chanson de Roland, and she also cites the Rule of St. Benedict that members of his Order must do the same. She notes also the proliferation of...

A History of Japanese Theatre ed. by Jonah Salz

Reviewed by: A History of Japanese Theatre ed. by Jonah Salz Peter A. Campbell (bio) A History of Japanese Theatre. Edited by Jonah Salz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xli + 550 pp. $155.00 hardcover. As the first major text to cover the length and breadth of Japanese theatre since Benito Ortolani's The Japanese Theater in 1991, this ambitious work is successful in providing a comprehensive history of theatre in Japan while introducing various historiographical and performative methodologies that help the reader understand how the dozens of authors came to know what they know. It is also an engaging and enjoyable read, filled with strong prose and useful visual materials, including time lines and genealogies as well as depictions of costumes, masks, and performances. Despite its many authors, the structure and tone is clear and contains an engaging survey of Japanese performances from the origins of Japanese civilization to contemporary plays and theories of performance. The structure is not strictly chronological: while the first two sections move in a linear fashion to discuss traditional theater in part 1 and modern theatres (Meiji and post-Meiji) in part 2, the last third of the book moves across time and space to discuss themes and patterns of Japanese theatre arts, the architecture of spaces, criticism from within and outside of Japan, and intercultural aspects of Japanese theatre. However, even the linear history is interrupted with short sections that create opportunities for case studies and discussions of specific cultural traditions, performances, or biographies of significance. For example, during the forty-page chapter on Noh, brief one-to-two-page "Spotlights" focus on the Noh stage, Zeami's writings, and women in Noh; and "Focus" sections of similar length discuss Kurokawa Noh, Noh's first appearance in Europe, at the Venice Bienniale in 1954, twentieth-century Noh actor Kanze Hisao, and the repertory of Noh plays. There are also more extended "interlude" sections that discuss larger issues. At the end of the Noh chapter, there is an interlude that discusses the history and function of Noh and Kyogen masks and costumes. This is effective in preventing the reader from falling into a singular narrative and helps fulfill the promise of such a collaborative work by creating a complicated, varied, and entertaining landscape of different types of Japanese theatre. The most salient and unique part of the book is part 3, "Arcs and Patterns," which sets up helpful frameworks for discussing elements of Japanese theatre in ways that are directly useful for an undergraduate classroom. By having brief sections of different themes and issues that the study of Japanese theatre brings up, it allows for the reader, teacher, or student to see different approaches that can complement and even replace a strictly chronological course of study. This part also provides a bridge to those more accustomed to literary historical [End Page 317] studies. Especially in J. Thomas Rimer's section, "Modern Plays as Literature," and Salz's, "Traditional Meta-patterns," we are encouraged to see the intertextuality of different kinds of performances across literature and other cultural traditions. While the text as a whole valorizes the study of performance and production, this part creates a linchpin that demonstrates how this focus on performance does not diminish the works as literature. Instead, by providing such fundamental materials about the larger cultural and performative contexts in which the texts were created, it allows us to better comprehend how the texts have worked in their historical or contemporary contexts. Perhaps the smartest thing about this text is that it does not attempt to pretend that it is not created for an English-speaking audience. The egalitarian sensibility of the authorship allows for a clear diversity of voices, but at the same time it enables the reader to regularly recognize the perspectives that are offered by those voices. Salz makes sure that the kinds of issues and concerns that come from non-Japanese students and scholars are addressed in clear ways, including a very useful overview of English language scholarship provided near the end of the book by David Jortner and two excellent chapters (by Nakano Masaaki and Salz) discussing the use of Japanese training practices around the...

Metode Pembelajaran Maharat al-Kalam untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Berbicara Mahasiswa pada Tingkat Pemula

The title of this research is “Mahārat al-Kalām learning method in improving beginner student speaking proficiency”. This journal concludes two problem statements, namely 1) What is the importance of Mahārat al-Kalām Learning? 2) How is the process of Mahārat al-Kalām at the beginner level? The study of al Kalām has been very critical at the present day since Arabic Language taught in many schools and universities, but most of the students are unable to speak properly. Therefore, it is necessary for the teacher or lecturer to concern with the accurate method and technique within the learning process. Method applied in this research is descriptive analysis by literature review on the books of prominent scholars in Arabic Language. This research is expected to provide new insight for the teachers and the lecturers in the learning process of al-Kalām specifically for the beginners.

Themes in the Study of Bahá’u’lláh’s Kitáb-i-Aqdas

A quarter century has passed since the publication of the authorized translation of Bahá’u’lláh’s Kitáb-i-Aqdas from Arabic to English. In that time, English language scholarship on the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, especially its legal content, has grown. This essay reviews the emerging body of scholarship surrounding the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and Bahá’í law, identifies core themes and approaches, and suggests directions which future study of this topic might encompass.

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The Racial Hauntings of One Black Male Professor and the Disturbance of the Self(ves): Self-Actualization and Racial Storytelling as Pedagogical Practices

Through a series of racialized stories, I illustrate the familial knowledge, racial hauntings, and educational experiences that forge(d) the beginning and the continuing of my racial identity as a Black male. To examine these stories, I employ racial storytelling as a theoretical, methodological, curricular, and pedagogical tool to assist me in a deep excavation of my past, present, and future selves and to illuminate the literacies that my Black male body brings to the classroom. Racial storytelling illustrates how my racial encounters from the past situate themselves in the current moment and still haunt me today. As such, I (re)enter these embodied stories to demonstrate how life moments impact how I think about racial issues in today’s context. The questions that guide this line of inquiry are the following: (a) How can educators employ racial storytelling as a pedagogical and methodological practice? (b) How can language and literacy scholars of Color use the radical (self) imagination as a thought and concept to face our racial ghosts and to analyze our hauntings? In closing, I propose the radical (self) imagination as a recommendation for literacy scholars of Color and language and literacy education.