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Teacher effectiveness evaluation: a cross-sectional study on the association between the quantitative scare and qualitative comments.
Get PDFEngaging in English Speaking Teaching Based on a Task-Based Approach: “Role-Play” with an Adult Syrian in an Experiential Learning
Get PDFIn this article, the author reports, in a narrative style, details of teaching speaking in experiential learning with a Syrian woman, and the author’s perceptions of applying a role play task-based approach. It has been widely acknowledged that second language learning can be more successful when learners were offered the opportunity to experiment with language. However, traditional teaching methods fail to allow students to engage in real-life communicative situations. A technique employed by the author is role-play based on Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT). The role-play task, informed by principles of TBLT, allows second language (L2) learners to engage with the language in meaningful ways to develop communication skills. The author uses this technique to help an L2 adult learner to practice English in real-life situations, to enrich her vocabulary, and to develop basic life skills. The author uses this experiential learning to explore problems of speaking teaching, and then provides recommendations for assisting teacher students to enhance their knowledge about English speaking teaching. Keywords: Role play, Task-based language teaching, oral communication, speaking English, experiential learning, teacher’s and student’s perceptions
The Implications of Schelling’s Metaphysics of Contingency for Phenomenology
No full textIn Ecstasy of Reason, Jean-François Courtine states that F.W.J. Schelling’s late, “positive philosophy” is “not a sublime ground of being as a whole, but the contrary itself of a ground, the attempt of a phenomenology of … the divine!” Schelling’s paradoxical idea of the non-ground which grounds everything that is, a decisive feature of his philosophy from 1809 to 1854, will guide this essay through an account of the link between Schelling and phenomenology. As a main representative of contemporary phenomenology, I take the work of Hungarian philosopher László Tengelyi, particularly as presented in his magnum opus World and Infinity: On the Problem of Phenomenological Metaphysics, published in 2014—the year of his death. This decision is not based on Tengelyi’s worldwide notoriety as a phenomenologist (his work has been overlooked by much of the English literature on phenomenology). It is rather anchored in the importance of Tengelyi’s clear, original exposition of a “phenomenological metaphysics,” which links Husserl’s late phenomenology to contemporary phenomenology in France (specifically to Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-François Courtine and Marc Richir), while also demonstrating that phenomenology can offer a metaphysical alternative to Martin Heidegger’s constitution of metaphysics as “ontotheology.
Three-dimensional printing of a hemorrhagic cervical cancer model for postgraduate gynecological training.
Get PDFThree-dimensional printing for the prediction of peri-operative and post-procedural complications in transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
Get PDFReal Economic Variables
Get PDFThis essay seeks to give a homely start to the search for the relevant variables in economic science. It carries forward, through simple illustrations, the pointers of the first two essays. The invitation to you is to identify two cycles of activity and exchange that are necessary for the progress of the simplest barter economy. The invitation leads gently to the plausibility of the need for the invention of money as an enrichment of the promise of economic progress, so making way for the analysis of the activity of promising that is the topic of the essay to follow
(Unsettling) White Queer Complicities: Toward a Practice of Decolonization in Queer Organizations
No full textThis article expands upon important and growing dialogue around how non-Indigenous peoples can work in solidarity with Indigenous peoples to support their nationhood and sovereignty in the wake of ongoing white settler colonialism in Canada. In particular, this article centralizes queer organizations and implicates their investments in white queerness as sustaining contemporary colonial projects. While queer organizations work toward social change surrounding all things queer and trans, their connections to white supremacy and settler colonialism routinely go unexamined. In an effort to bring light to queer organizations’ and workers’ complicities in white settler colonialism, this paper makes use of the narratives of 41 non-Indigenous lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) service providers who voluntarily participated in in-depth interviews. By paying attention to their stories of deflections of responsibility in ongoing white supremacist and settler colonial projects, this article considers the extent to which white service providers and service providers of colour can address and embed decolonization within queer organizations in Canada. Together, these non-Indigenous LGBTQ service providers, organizers, and activists carry the potential to utilize their own experiences and understandings of complicity to shape their relationships with Indigenous peoples in ways that support their nationhood and sovereignty
Do You Speak Chinese, Mandarin, or Cantonese? An Explanation Based on a Native Chinese Speaker’s Early Experience
Get PDFThis article reports on my early experiences with learning and speaking varieties of Chinese, responding to the curious questions on the power relationship between Mandarin and other dialects in China today. A series of important life events and experiences are presented and discussed with regard to the historical and cultural context within which I learned Mandarin, Cantonese and other dialects at an early age. I argue that different varieties of Chinese are not only integral to Chinese history and culture, but also constituent of my identity as a native Chinese speaker. This study emphasizes that the dominance of Mandarin in contemporary China needs to be discussed under the umbrella of Chinese civilization and in consideration of rural-urban migrants’ benefits.Keywords: Native Chinese speaker; Mandarin; Cantonese; language policy; dialec
Material and Animal Agency in Inuit Ontology: How Inuit People could Speak with Polar Bears
No full textOntological analyses of archaeological remains have provided archaeologists with new insight on how to effectively interpret past peoples. By considering recent alternative methods of interpretation in experimental archaeology, and in ethnographic analyses, I argue that ontological analyses present an opportunity for archaeologists to reconcile western interpretations of the past with those of Inuit people to create a more inclusive and considerate archaeological practice. This argument rests on the assertion that multiple ontologies, and thus multiple realities, exist in our world, and that no single ontology is more correct than any other. Using this premise, I explain how an Inuit tale in which people and polar bears were not mutually exclusive beings is valid from the point of view of western academia in order to re-establish the legitimacy of Inuit oral traditions in academic interpretation
Charlemagne, Patron of Scholars: Examining the Role of Carolingian Learning and the Motives Behind Einhard's Portrayal of the Emperor
No full textThe Carolingian Renaissance fostered a renewed interest in learning and education during the eighth and ninth centuries. This paper aims to examine the function of this learning for Carolingian administration and society, particularly under Charlemagne. Scholarship allowed the Carolingians to improve the government of their realms and enhance the Christian faith. To aid in this investigation Einhard's biography of the emperor, The Life of Charlemagne, is analyzed. Being a court scholar, and later a lay abbot, Einhard was completely immersed in the scholarly world of his liege. As such, both his comments on Charlemagne's scholarship and the motives behind his portrayal are inspected. Placing Einhard in this context provides a clearer picture of learning and education in the Carolingian world