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Letter to Yost
No full textLetter to Yost from C. Furuta thanking him for his service and help to the men of the 100th battalion
Letter to Chaplain Gran
No full textLetter from Yost to Chaplain Gran discussing a Catholic service held for the soldiers practicing Catholicism
Sequential Organization of Requests by Learners Of Vietnamese
Get PDFThe most comprehensively studied speech act in interlanguage pragmatics to date has been requests. However, the body of research on requests by L2 learners has mainly been done on English or European languages, such as Spanish, French or Hebrew as a second language. There have been very few developmental studies published on requests in Asian languages. For a relatively less taught and studied language like Vietnamese, the literature on L2 learners’ requests, especially pertaining to Vietnamese pragmatics, is close to non-existent. This study was implemented to gather a better understanding of interlanguage pragmatics of L2 learners of Vietnamese. Elicited data from role-plays of requests were analysed based on Al-Gahtani and Roever’s 2012 discursive approach which focuses on the sequential organization of interactions. Findings indicate that compared to higher-level learners, lower-level learners used fewer pre-expansions, and the first pair-parts occurred earlier in the sequence. The interlocutor also accommodated to learners’ proficiency level when introducing complications, which resulted in fewer elaborated request sequences from learners with lower proficiency. The findings offer implications for teaching Vietnamese as a foreign language as well as methodological implications for gathering data and analyzing the sequential organization of speech acts in South-East Asian languages, such as Vietnamese
Typed Transcript of Letter to Seki Nakai
No full textCondolence letter to Mrs. Seki Nakai regarding the death of her son
Correspondence between James K. Furushiro, Midori Furushiro and Yost
No full textCorrespondence between James K. Furushiro, Midori Furushiro and Yost regarding the death of Henry T. Furushiro
Letter from Alice Iseri
No full textLetter from Alice Iseri to Yost regrading the death of her husband
Effect of Pawpaw (Carica Papaya) Seed Meal on Sex Determination, Growth, and Survival, of Oreochromis mossambicus Fry
Get PDFThe production of monosex tilapia populations is a potential and effective solution for the precocious breeding and indiscriminate spawning that occurs in mixed sex culture systems. This study investigated the possibility of using Carica papaya seed meal (PSM) to skew the sex ratio of sexually undifferentiated Oreochromis mossambicus fry. A total of 2160 fry were used in the study, and fish were allocated to 12 treatment groups in triplicate, with 60 fish per replicate. The experimental diets fed included a basal diet (BD), 60mg methyl testosterone/kg BD, and 5 treatment diets containing 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30g PSM/kg of the BD, respectively for 30 and 120 days. PSM was able to skew the sex ratio in favor of males, with the proportion of males to females increasing with an increase in PSM content of the diet. The highest percentage phenotypic males (77.8%) induced by the PSM was obtained among the groups that received 20g and 30g PSM/kg BD. The growth and survival rates of the fish were not influenced by any of the treatment diets. Fragmentation of ovarian nuclei, hypertrophy of interstitial cells, and vacuolization of hepatocytes were observed in the gonads and hepatic tissues. The study demonstrated that an inclusion level of 20g PSM/kg BD was effective in converting females to phenotypic males