ScholarWorks@UMBC: Recent submissions
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Cross-language speech perception in adults: Discrimination of Korean voiceless stops by English speakers
(University of Illinois, 2001-09)This study examines the ways in which three classes of alveolar stops in Korean (voiceless 'tense' unaspirated /t*/, voiceless 'lax' slightly aspirated /t/, and voiceless heavily aspirated /th/) present different degrees ... -
Understanding ESL Writers: Second Language Writing by Composition Instructors
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The Role of Parents' Knowledge about Bilingualism in the Transmission of Heritage Languages
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For Immigrant Students, the ESOL Glass is Half-Full
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A Long-term View of Bilingualism: Lessons from a Summer Abroad
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Participant- and discourse-related code-switching by Thai—English bilingual adolescents
(De Gruyter, 2009-02-10)This paper attempts to show ways in which two Thai brothers (aged 9 and 13) living temporarily in the United States, employ bilingual code-switching to organize their conversation. Using the sequential analysis developed ... -
Writing-related Attitudes of L1 and L2 Students Who Receive Help from Writing Fellows
(WAC Clearinghouse, 2016-08-08)This study examines the writing-related attitudes of L1 and L2 students who receive individual discipline-based writing help from Writing Fellows. It investigates changes in the students' attitudes toward writing through ... -
Reproducing spatial inequality? The sustainability fix and barriers to urban mobility in Portland, Oregon
(Urban Geography, 2020)We explore how the language of “just sustainability” may become subsumed into a sustainability fix strategy, depoliticizing the utility of concepts such as justice and/or equity. Building from critical GIS insights, we ... -
Facilitating Interaction in Computer Mediated Online Courses
(Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1996)This paper contains background material for the discussions. First we will give a brief introduction to computer conferencing (CC), somewhat generically and look at both the advantages and the disadvantages of the various ... -
Electronic Discussion Group Lists In Adult Learning
(2000-07)Online electronic discussion groups (EDGs) are formed as a result of voluntary association (Harnack & Fest, 1964). Some persons use EDGs to gather information, to explore different perspectives on the same issues, much as ... -
Implications of Student Perceived Barriers to Distance Learning
(International Society for Exploring Teaching & Learning, 2004-10-15)The purpose of this survey research is to identify students’ perceived barriers to online learning in various environments: higher education, community colleges, and the workplace. Furthermore, the study is meant to ... -
Providing Effective Feedback Online
(International Council for Open and Distance EducationInternational Council for Open and Distance Education, 2005-11-23)In the context of teaching and learning, both students and teachers give and receive feedback. A course should provide a non-threatening environment where students can express themselves to the instructor and other students. ... -
A Champion’s Role in Sustaining a Distance Learning Program
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mLearning and Individualized Learning
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2009-10-26)The semantic web, as some people are attempting to brand Web 3.0, should be tagged and flagged so that machines can make semantic sense of it, similar to how people make sense of language. Web 4.0 will move toward artificial ... -
Invited Panel on Interaction
(Quality Matter, 2010-11-09)The Interaction Summit provided a forum for leading researchers to discuss the literature on online learner interaction. These expert panelists presented key points about the value of such interaction in higher education ... -
Professional and Technical Moonlighters
(1994)This paper reviews some of the literature on multiple job holders to set the stage for reporting the results of an exploratory study conducted on the Internet involving "moonlighters." The foci of this research were to ... -
Publishing and Editing an Electronic Journal on the Internet
(Institute of Education Sciences, 1994)Publication is at the heart of scholarship. Traditionally, print media has been perhaps the most important vehicle for communicating research results and scholarly thought. Experimentation in publishing electronic journals ... -
Student Attitudes About Computer Conferencing Used as a Supplemental Delivery System
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Barriers to distance education as perceived by managers and administrators: Results of a survey
(2000-01)It is becoming increasingly unusual to pick up a professional training or education journal without seeing articles concerning alternatives to in-person teaching and learning. Distance education is not new, but the new ...