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John Stolle-McAllister, Grounding Theory: Cultural
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Theoretical Perspectives of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study: Conceptual Evolution in a Social–Ecological Research Project
(Oxford University Press, 2020-02-26)The Earth's population will become more than 80% urban during this century. This threshold is often regarded as sufficient justification for pursuing urban ecology. However, pursuit has primarily focused on building empirical ... -
The impact of paying for forest conservation on perceived tenure security in Ecuador
(Wiley Online Library, 2020-02-17)We study the impact of Ecuador's national forest conservation incentives program on reported land conflicts. Data come from a survey of >900 households located within 49 indigenous and Afro‐Ecuadorian communities holding ... -
How do practitioners characterize land tenure security?
(Wiley Online Library, 2020-02-10)Improving land tenure security (LTS) is a significant challenge for sustainable development. The Sustainable Development Goals and other recent global initiatives have renewed and increased the need to improve LTS to address ... -
Sociodemographic patterns of pain in an urban community sample: an examination of intersectional effects of sex, race, age, and poverty status
(International Association for the Study of Pain ( IASP), 2020-01-07)Pain disparities based on race, sex, age, and socioeconomic status have been well documented. This study aimed to examine interactions among these sociodemographic factors on self-reported bodily pain in an urban community ... -
Reflexive and participatory practices in digital storytelling: the legacy of documentary methods
While sharing commonalities with documentary practices, digital storytelling has not developed simply as an extension of existing documentary genres. Recognizing digital storytelling’s unique qualities, it is still worth ... -
Reflexive and participatory practices in digital storytelling: the legacy of documentary methods
While sharing commonalities with documentary practices, digital storytelling has not developed simply as an extension of existing documentary genres. Recognizing digital storytelling’s unique qualities, it is still worth ... -
How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?
(Wiley, 2020-01-16)Numerous countries have made voluntary commitments to conduct forest landscape restoration over millions of hectares of degraded land in the coming decade. We consider the relative likelihood these countries will achieve ... -
“Don’t Confuse Me with the Facts”: The Use and Misuse of Social Science on the United States Supreme Court
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Conversational code-switching among Korean-English bilingual children
(SAGE Journals, 2000-09-01)Using the sequential analysis developed by Auer(1984,1995), this paper attempts to show how young Korean-English bilingual schoolchildren employ code-switching to organize their conversation. Auer's distinction between ... -
Bilingual language acquisition by Korean schoolchildren in New York City
(Cambridge University Press, 1999-08-01)This paper examines the bilingual language development of young Korean–American children with respect to their acquisition of English grammatical morphemes and the different plural marking systems of Korean and English. ... -
Ten Techniques for Successful Writing Tutorials
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Differentiating language contact phenomena: Evidence from Korean–English bilingual children
(Cambridge University Press, 2002-09-11)This paper attempts to provide a reliable description of the characteristics of intrasentential language mixing produced by a group a Korean–English bilingual children, with a special focus on the distinction between code ... -
The reflective L2 writing teacher
(Oxford University Press, 2003-01-01)This article reports on the use of journals by prospective ESOL teachers who were asked, as one of the requirements of a writing methods course in a MATESOL program, to conduct student–teacher conferences in writing. Writing ... -
Learning to teach writing through tutoring and journal writing
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-08-22)Structured reflection on practical teaching experiences may help pre‐service teachers to integrate their learning and analyze their actions to become more effective learners and teachers. This study reports on 12 pre‐service ... -
“What About Me? I'm Not Like Chinese But I'm Not Like American”: Heritage-Language Learning and Identity of Mixed-Heritage Adults
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-07-08)This study examines heritage-language (HL) experience and identity of 12 adults of mixed-heritage backgrounds through in-depth autobiographical interviews. Each participant has an English-speaking American parent and an ... -
Language Learning as Culture Keeping: Family Language Policies of Transnational Adoptive Parents
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-07-18)This study investigates how parents of international adoptees explain their decision to pursue birth-language education for their children and how they go about achieving their goals. It focuses on the perspectives of 16 ... -
Transforming culture and identity: transnational adoptive families and heritage language learning
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-07-05)This study examines the narratives of four white, English-speaking American mothers who have been learning Korean, the birth language of their adopted children, at community Korean schools. By drawing on in-depth interviews ...
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