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Analysing the language of war monuments
Abousnnouga, Gillian; Machin, David (2010-05)This paper seeks an approach for a systematic analysis of the semiotic resources used by the designers of British World War 1 monuments. Semiotic studies of monuments have emphasised on the one hand factors from outside ... -
Anonymity and Authenticity on the Web: Towards a new framework in internet onomastics
Kersten, Saskia; Lotze, Netaya (2021-04-28)Building on our own research (Kersten and Lotze 2018; Kersten and Lotze 2020; Lotze and Kersten (in press); Lotze and Kersten (under review)) as well as other work in this area (Bechar-Israeli 1995; Stommel 2007; Lindholm ... -
Assess Compassion in Higher Education? Why and How would we do that?
Gilbert, Theo (2016-01-08)Abstract: This article reports the effects (on students' social and learning experiences) of supporting students in the use of explicitly compassionate interactional strategies during their weekly seminar interactions. ... -
Bilingual Children's Lexical Development: Factors Affecting the Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs and Their Translation Equivalents
Schelletter, Christina (Cascadilla Press, 2005) -
Bilingual Preschools Vol 2 : Best Practices
Kersten, Kristin; Rohde, Andreas; Schelletter, Christina; Steinlen, Anja; English Literature and Creative Writing; School of Humanities; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; English Language and Communication (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010) -
Bilingual Preschools, Volume 1 : Learning and Development
Kersten, Kristin; Rohde, Andreas; Schelletter, Christina; Steinlen, Anja; English Literature and Creative Writing; School of Humanities; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; English Language and Communication (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010) -
Bilinguale Kindergärten: Der Einfluss des Zweitspracherwerbs auf den Erstspracherwerb Deutsch bei Kindern im Vorschulalter
Schelletter, Christina; Steinlen, Anja (Narr, 2016-10-24)This particular study assesses the level of German in a group of 64 children who regularly attend a bilingual preschool. The assessment involves a standardised test that is normed on a group of monolingual German children ... -
CAWT Carers : Caring for individuals with a learning disability: Findings from a research study
McDowell, Joanne; Mawhinney, Sonia (Praxis Care Group, 2007) -
The changing spaces of war commemoration : A multimodal analysis of the discourses of British monuments
Abousnnouga, Gillian; Machin, D. (2011-04-01)This paper examines the way that war monuments infuse our public physical spaces, and therefore our internal mental spaces, with discourses that legitimize war, soldiery and militarism in different ways at different times ... -
Communication Skills and 'UK Health Care English'
Gilbert, Theo; Beck, Siegrid (Taylor & Francis Group, 2007-08-02) -
Comparing the Views of Students, Parents, and Teachers on the Emerging Notions of Relevance of Education
McDowell, Joanne; Živoder, Andreja; Tolomelli, Alessandro (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016-05-19) -
Compassion on University Degree Programmes at a UK University: The Neuroscience of Effective Group work
Gilbert, Theo; Doolan, Martina; Beka, Dr Sylvia; Spencer, Neil; Crotta, Dr Matteo; Davari, Soheil (2018-06-04)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the neuroscience that underpins the psychology of compassion as a competency. We explain why this cognitive competency is now taught and assessed on modules of different ... -
Creating a Self-Image : Face-Work and Identity Construction Online
Kersten, Saskia; Lotze, Netaya (2020-07-03)In this article, we build on research arguing that linguistic self-representation on social media can be viewed as a form of face-work and that the strategies employed by users are influenced by both a desire to connect ... -
Cul-de-sacs and narrative data analysis - a less than straightforward journey
James, Gwyneth (2017-12-03)This article focuses on the methodological journey I took as a novice narrative inquirer, particularly regarding data analysis, for my doctoral data; a journey characterised by floundering, meandering, wrong turns and ... -
A discourse of caring: A case study of male nurses’ discourse and identity construction in the United Kingdom and New Zealand
McDowell, Joanne; Lazzaro-Salazar, Marina; Marra, Meredith (Routledge, 2020-10-06)Despite aims for gender equality in the workplace, certain occupations continue to be categorized as suitable for one gender or another. This entrenched division of labour is arguably linked to traditional gender roles and ... -
Does gender matter? A cross-national investigation of primary class-room discipline.
McDowell, Joanne; Klattenberg, Revert (2018-04-06)Fewer than 15% of primary school teachers in both Germany and the UK are male. With the on-going international debate about educational performance highlighting the widening gender achievement gap between girl and boy ... -
Doing Being A Primary School Teacher: Does Gender Matter?
McDowell, Joanne (2018-03-19)Think back to your early childhood days in primary school. Now I know for some of you this may be farther back than you may want to think about, but please bear with me. When you think of those care-free days, were you ... -
Early nouns in bilingual acquisition : a test of the separate development hypothesis
Schelletter, Christina; Sinka, I.; Garman, M. (2001)In previous work (Sinka & Schelletter 1998) we have addressed the morphosyntactic development of two bilingual children and the issues raised by the opposition between the Single System and the Separate Development hypotheses. ... -
The effect of form similarity on bilingual children's lexical development
Schelletter, Christina (2002) -
The effect of learning another language at preschool on first language acquisition
Schelletter, Christina; Steinlen, Anja (2011)The study investigates L1 development in a group of German children learning English and a group of German/English bilingual children. Both groups attend bilingual nursery schools. All children completed a language development ...