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The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in "Genesis B," "Ancrene Wisse," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".
(1987)
Medieval interpreters suggest that the Fall of Man involves a concomitant fall of language by assigning profound instructional, rhetorical, and hermeneutic significance to the verbal transactions in Genesis 3. Ambrose and ...
Teachers' Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Black English and Correction of Dialect-Related Reading Miscues.
(1981)
The purposes of the study were (a) to analyze elementary school teachers' attitudes toward children who speak Black English and (b) to determine whether teachers' correction of miscues arising from Black dialect is influenced ...
Mending the Circle: Processes in the Loss and Preservation of an American Indian Language (Ojibwa; Michigan).
(1982)
This is a documentation of (1) Ojibwa language loss at Keweenaw Bay from 1600 to 1976, (2) efforts made from 1930 to 1978 at state and national levels to preserve Indian languages, (3) a participant-observer case study of ...
Understanding the School Prayer Issue.
(1986)
The purpose of this study was to explore objectively the history of the separation of church and state in American public education, telling the events in chronological order which led to the United States Supreme Court ...
Voluntary summer reading behavior of a focused group of 10-12 year-olds.
(1989)
The primary purpose for conducting this study was to explore the extent to which a focused sample of pre-adolescent children voluntarily engage in reading activity in the summer. The independent variables were identified ...
The Advanced Placement Program in French Literature.
(1989)
This essay examines several aspects of the Advanced Placement Program in French Literature. The initial chapter describes the historical background of the program, and its place within an educational system which tries to ...
Lakota cultural values and the language of advocacy: An approach to literacy in a Native American community.
(1989)
Over the past twenty years, eighteen tribally-controlled colleges have emerged to meet the needs of Native American students who wish to remain in their communities while pursuing a higher education. These colleges are ...
Education and the Art of Calligraphy in Japan's Middle Ages: the "Jubokusho" and the "Saiyosho" (Kanji).
(1987)
This dissertation is a translation and comparative analysis of two treatises on Japanese-style (wayo) calligraphy, the Saiyosho, written in the twelfth century, and the Jubokusho, written in the fourteenth century. The ...
An examination of the foreign language reading process based on the performance of American college students of French.
(1988)
This study investigates the reading universals hypothesis (RUH) by examining the performance of adult speakers of English when reading French prose. The RUH is the long-held but unproven assumption that the nature of foreign ...
The Meaning of Belonging to Experimental Parishes: an Exploration in 'Grounded Theory'.
(1980)
The evolved meaning systems of the members of the small quasi-experimental parishes which developed within the Roman Catholic Church in Detroit during the 1960's evidenced that the individual participants relinguished a ...