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Che Guevara: Hero or Villain?
Get PDFThis integrated unit covers the life and political ideology of the revolutionary Che Guevara. This unit is intended for B2 CEFR ESL or EFL college students. By engaging in this unit, students will enhance their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in English. Students will be engaged and challenged to think critically about current political issues and how to become more responsible global citizens
Acoustic Phonetic Evidence of Masking Between [ʌ] and [ɔ] in Central Minnesota English
Get PDFSince the Great Vowel Shift began in the 1400s, English vowels have been in a state of flux (Fromkin et al. 2017:331). Labov et al. (2006) have documented two macrolevel shifts in North American English: The Northern Cities Shift and The Southern Shift. At a microlevel, vowel shifts are happening in various regions of the US, as amply described in Wolfram and Ward (2006). However, vowel shifts in Minnesota English are poorly documented, except for stereotypical portrayals in popular culture. A shift involving [ʌ] and [ɔ] is quietly underway. It drew our attention only because of a misunderstanding between a speaker and dozens of listeners. Two separate experiments are conducted to find out more about what is going on with [ʌ] and [ɔ]. For this, we recruited 27 participants and extracted F0, F1, F2, F3, F4, intensity, and duration values, for a total of 436 measured tokens. The main finding is that many speakers in Central Minnesota no longer differentiate between [ʌ] and [ɔ] when they occur before nasal consonants
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 23, No. 1 - Podcast
Get PDFSt. Cloud State University School of Public Affairs Dean King Banaian and Professor Richard MacDonald provided a virtual review of the March 2021 Quarterly Business Report in lieu of the normal in-person meeting. The report shows the area economy entered the second year of recession with employment declines in every sector with the exception of construction. The audience was polled on vaccinations, local labor force, American Recovery Plan Act, and more with results at the end.https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/scqbr_video/1004/thumbnail.jp
Volume Up, Cameras On: Zooming in on COVID-19 [Co-Editor\u27s Introduction to I Think You\u27re Muted : Voices from the Coronavirus Pandemic]
Get PDFThe narratives shared in this issue allow readers to commiserate over experiences that may have mirrored their own, to empathize with emotions they can only guess at, or simply to listen to and learn from one another in this historic moment of crisis. We thank our authors for sharing their vulnerabilities with a wider audience, and we hope that in sharing our stories, we can respond and adapt in ways that will shape our shared future
Life and Lemons: Struggling with Productivity During a Pandemic
Get PDFIf the academic environment depends on the violent directive to “publish or perish,” what happens when we are trying to publish while lives and ways of living are perishing? Stemming from the real need to create a final paper for a spring 2020 feminist ethnography class, this paper explores what it is like to be a person trying to write an academic paper during a pandemic, while finding oneself both utterly incapable of thinking about anything but an invisible virus. Mixing creative nonfiction, autoethnography and journal entries, the author questions the limits and harms of maintaining a dedication to academic productivity during a pandemic
The Repository @ St. Cloud State Statistic Insert [2021]
Get PDF2021 handout highlighting statistics from The Repository @ St. Cloud State from 2011 to 2021
I Never Wanted This: Lockdown Reckonings
Get PDFWe have all likely experienced moments (if not days and weeks) of hopelessness since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. With hopelessness as a launching point, this piece begins with introspection through detailing entrapment with family during the initial COVID lockdown and then moves outward towards the social through confrontation of the white supremacy that has been rendered ever more visible in the context of COVID. If we are to heal the violence and trauma of racism that has been at the foundation of this country, the use of hopelessness as a starting point can lead us into the messiness of the human interior and provide clues and potential paths to a larger social reckoning
Misreadings and Misattributions: Care Labor and Control
Get PDFThe labor involved in providing care for dependents garnered media attention during the spring of 2020. In this first-person narrative, the author situates the dissolution of her childcare plans against the backdrop of a broader public devaluation of care industries and her private anxieties about the personal and professional costs of securing or providing care. Given its personal and public dimensions, childcare constitutes a focal point for the author\u27s interrogations of her beliefs about power and control
Engagement Theory based Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Computer Science Students’ Perceptions of Their Learning Engagement Using Mobile Devices
Get PDFThe use of mobile devices in the college classroom can enhance learning engagement, leading to enhanced learning outcomes. There is scant research on college student perceptions of learning engagement using mobile devices in the classroom. The purpose of this qualitative research was to explores upper-class undergraduate computer science college students’ perceptions about their use of mobile devices in the classroom. Research questions were designed to explore how college students believe their classroom engagement is impacted by mobile device technology use. The theory of engagement, including intellectual, social, and behavioral components, served as the theoretical framework. This research applies interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore how interviewees made sense of the observation. The sample included 11 upper-class undergraduate students in a computer science course at a Minnesota university. Transcripts were coded in NVivo 12, and analysis of the interview responses reveal three themes: Making the Most of Mobile Devices for Academic Purposes, Mobile Device Use Improves Social Interaction with Classmates, and Using Mobile Devices Improves Motivation Through Greater Engagement. Interviewees used mobile devices for class purposes, inside and outside of the classroom, and for synchronous and asynchronous online classes. Interviewees reported avoiding distractions and using their mobile devices to enhance learning; overall, they reported better learning experiences with mobile devices. Practical implications of this research include training for instructors and developing guidelines for recommended uses of mobile device technology. Theoretical implications include that behavioral engagement may need to be redefined for college students. Recommendations for further research include theoretical research on behavioral control and identifying a more suitable engagement component than behavioral for college student engagement models, because behavioral engagement may not be as relevant to college students as it is to K-12 students
Emperor Penguins
Get PDFThe purpose of this unit is to develop students’ English skills and familiarize them with emperor penguins. The topic of the unit is about emperor penguins. Students will be able to learn the basic information of the species and its huddle behavior, incubating and parenting, as well as human impact on the species. The unit is designed for intermediate level ESL or EFL pre-academic students on the A2-B1 level of the CEFR scale. The assessments involve pair work, group work and individual tasks, through which students will be able to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills