The English Medium Myth
Author | : Sankrant Sanu |
Publisher | : Garuda Publications |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9781942426073 |
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Author | : Sankrant Sanu |
Publisher | : Garuda Publications |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9781942426073 |
Author | : Matthew Hindman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0691138680 |
Matthew Hindman reveals here that, contrary to popular belief, the Internet has done little to broaden political discourse in the United States, but rather that it empowers a small set of elites - some new, but most familiar.
Author | : Bradley J. Birzer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2023-08-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1684516242 |
With a new introduction by the author Peter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative creation to the masses. Yet, for most readers and viewers, the underlying meaning of Middle-earth has remained obscure. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with this fresh study. In J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, Birzer reveals the surprisingly specific religious symbolism that permeates Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He also explores the social and political views that motivated the Oxford don, ultimately situating Tolkien within the Christian humanist tradition represented by Thomas More and T.S. Eliot, Dante and C.S. Lewis. Birzer argues that through the genre of myth Tolkien created a world that is essentially truer than the one we think we see around us everyday, a world that transcends the colorless disenchantment of our postmodern age.
Author | : Katharine Davies Samway |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
This second edition updates the myths the authors challenged in the first book as well as addressing new ones that have arisen since, and discuss how teachers of ELLs can ensure that their students will fare well in the era of No Child Left Behind.--[book cover].
Author | : Qianqian Zhang-Wu |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1788926919 |
Higher education institutions in Anglophone countries often rely on standardized English language proficiency exams to assess the linguistic capabilities of their multilingual international students. However, there is often a mismatch between these scores and the initial experiences of international students in both academic and social contexts. Drawing on a digital ethnography of Chinese international students’ first semester languaging practices, this book examines their challenges, needs and successes on their initial languaging journeys in higher education. It analyzes how they use their rich multilingual and multi-modal communicative repertories to facilitate languaging across contexts, in order to suggest how university support systems might better serve the needs of multilingual international students.
Author | : Ben Pestell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2016-05-20 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1134862563 |
Ever since Odysseus heard tales of his own exploits being retold among strangers, audiences and readers have been alive to the complications and questions arising from the translation of myth. How are myths taken and carried over into new languages, new civilizations, or new media? An international group of scholars is gathered in this volume to present diverse but connected case studies which address the artistic and political implications of the changing condition of myth – this most primal and malleable of forms. ‘Translation’ is treated broadly to encompass not only literary translation, but also the transfer of myth across cultures and epochs. In an age when the spiritual world is in crisis, Translating Myth constitutes a timely exploration of myth’s endurance, and represents a consolidation of the status of myth studies as a discipline in its own right.
Author | : Hugo Bowles |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3030478602 |
This edited book examines English-Medium Instruction (EMI) language policy and practice in higher education around the world, highlighting how English language usage affects the internationalization of universities, the way that disciplines are taught and learned, and questioning whether internationalization through EMI achieves the values of global citizenship and inclusivity/diversity to which it aspires. Written by experts in the field, the book includes data-based research from universities around the globe, with three chapters on Asia and the Far East (Malaysia, Japan and China), four on Europe (Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy) and one each on Africa (Ethiopia) and Central America (Mexico). Sources include policy documents, questionnaire surveys, focus groups and semi-structured interviews involving university policymakers, lecturers, students, and administrative staff. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of language and education policy, internationalization and applied linguistics, particularly English-Medium Instruction (EMI), academic English and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).
Author | : Nilanjan Chakraborty |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1527560031 |
This book studies culture in terms of myths and how they function to construct the identity of communities. It focuses on myth formation in the fiction of Chinua Achebe and Amitav Ghosh, two major twentieth century authors from Nigeria and India respectively. The book analyses how these two authors use myth in their works to study the cultural mores of the societies they represent. Achebe represents the Igbo community of Nigeria and Amitav Ghosh represents various communities in India in both the pre-colonial and postcolonial phases, ranging from Bihar to Sundarbans in south Bengal. The book focuses on the area of myth studies in the postcolonial area of study, delving into a comparative study between the two authors and how they contribute to myth studies through their fiction.
Author | : Pedro De Bruyckere |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-03-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0128017317 |
Many things people commonly believe to be true about education are not supported by scientific evidence. Urban Myths about Learning and Education examines commonly held incorrect beliefs and then provides the truth of what research has shown. Each chapter examines a different myth, with sections on learning, the brain, technology, and educational policy. A final section discusses why these myths are so persistent. Written in an engaging style, the book separates fact from fiction regarding learning and education. Recognize any of these myths? People have different styles of learning Boys are naturally better at mathematics than girls We only use 10% of our brains The left half of the brain is analytical, the right half is creative Men have a different kind of brain from women We can learn while we are asleep Babies become smarter if they listen to classical music These myths and more are systematically debunked, with useful correct information about the topic in question. Debunks common myths about learning and education Provides empirical research on the facts relating to the myths Utilizes light-hearted, approachable language for easy reading
Author | : M. Harmes |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1137476982 |
This collection brings together international scholars to interrogate a range of educational practices, procedures and policies, around the organizing principle that 'myths' often require critical scrutiny. Engaging with key themes in contemporary global education, the contributors challenge and address educational myths and their consequences.