International Perspectives on Spelling and Writing in Different Orthographies: Introduction to the Special Series

2021 ◽  
pp. 002221942110598
Author(s):  
R. Malatesha Joshi ◽  
Kausalai Wijekumar ◽  
Amy Gillespie Rouse
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Special Series ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
Orthographic Depth ◽  
Different Orthographies ◽  
Opaque Orthography

This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on spelling and writing in different orthographies. Most studies and theoretical models of writing are based on the English language, and it is generally assumed that what is true for English is also true for other languages. Further, there are more studies on reading compared to studies of writing and spelling. Considering that 80% of the world’s population speaks a language other than English, we need more studies on writing and spelling in languages other than English. With this intention, we are presenting 6 papers on writing and spelling in different languages of different orthographic depth, from highly transparent orthographies like Spanish and Italian to highly opaque orthography like Cantonese.

scholarly journals Special issue on sense of place in the history of English

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-211
Author(s):  
KAREN P. CORRIGAN ◽  
CHRIS MONTGOMERY
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
English Language ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
First Century ◽  
Prototype Theory ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Syntactic Theory ◽  
History Of

This special issue is concerned with how the multidisciplinary concept ‘sense of place’ can be applied to further our understanding of ‘place’ in the history of English. In particular, the articles collected here all relate in some way to complicated processes through which individuals and the communities they are embedded within are defined in relation to others and to their socio-cultural and spatial environments (Convery et al.2012). We have brought together eight articles focusing on specific aspects of this theme using different theoretical models that offer new insights into the history of the English language from the Old English (OE) period to the twenty-first century. The findings will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, English dialectology, lexicography, pragmatics, prototype theory, sociolinguistics and syntactic theory.

scholarly journals International Perspectives on Understanding and Improving Teachers’ Data-Based Instruction and Decision Making: Introduction to the Special Series

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-242
Author(s):  
Christine A. Espin ◽  
Natalie Förster ◽  
Suzanne E. Mol
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
General Education ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Instructional Decision Making ◽  
Special Series ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Instructional Decision

This article serves as an introduction to the special series, Data-Based Instruction and Decision-Making: An International Perspective. In this series, we bring together international researchers from both special and general education to address teachers’ use (or non-use) of data for instructional decision making. Via this special series, we aim to increase understanding of the challenges involved in teachers’ data-based instructional decision making for students with or at-risk for learning disabilities, and to further the development of approaches for improving teachers’ ability to plan, adjust, and adapt instruction in response to data.

scholarly journals Selecting Fiction Books for a Children's Health Collection by M. Tan & S. Campbell

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Tan ◽  
Sandy Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
English Language ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Selection Of

Books have long been recognized  resources for health literacy and healing (Fosson & Husband, 1984). Individuals with health conditions or disabilities or who are dealing with illness, disability or death among friends or loved ones, can find solace and affirmation in fictional works that depict characters coping with similar health conditions. This study asked the question “If we were to select a new collection of children’s health-related fiction in mid-2014, which books would we select and what selection criteria would we apply?”  The results of this study are a set of criteria for the selection of  current English language literary works with health-related content for the pre-kindergarten to Grade 6 (age 12) audience http://hdl.handle.net/10402/era.38842, a collection of books that are readily available to Canadian libraries - selected against these criteria http://hdl.handle.net/10402/era.38843, a special issue of the Deakin Review of Children’s Literature -  dedicated to juvenile health fiction, and book exhibits in two libraries to accompany the Deakin Review issue.

scholarly journals Labels and Realities: The Relevance of Terms like ESL and EFL in a Linguistically Complex World

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Complex World ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Expanding Circle ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Efl Students

For a long time, ELT (‘English language teaching’) scholars and practitioners have used terms like ‘ESL’ (‘English as a second language’) and ‘EFL’ (‘English as a foreign language’) unquestioningly to describe the English used by people outside the so-called ENL (‘English as a native language’) circle. For example, ELT practitioners may conveniently refer to students from places like China, Vietnam and Thailand as EFL students. Interestingly, we find counterparts of such terms in ‘World Englishes’ studies; Braj Kachru’s ‘Inner Circle English’, ‘Outer Circle English’ and ‘Expanding Circle English’ essentially refer to ENL ESL and EFL respectively. Despite the popularity of such terms in scholarly circles, the problems associated with their use have not often been explored in depth. Nevertheless, some authors have described such problems. For example, commenting on the distinction between ESL and EFL, Nayar (1997, p. 10) states, “a great deal of referential fuzziness within the two and denotative overlap between the two are making the terminological distinctions unclear, impractical, and ineffective or, worse still, in some cases inauspicious and irrelevant.” This special issue aims to further examine the use and relevance of these terms.

Introduction to Fucking Solidarity: Queering Concepts on/from a Post-Soviet Perspective

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Critical Term ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Original Potential ◽  
Western Hegemony ◽  
East West

This article introduces some of the questions, activist and theoretical concepts featured in the special issue “Fucking solidarity: Queering Concepts on/from a post-Soviet Perspective”. It reflects on the usage and applicability of the term queer and queer concepts within post-Soviet and postsocialist spaces, by playfully using the “fucking” as critical term, to emphasize queer’s original potential to offend and disrupt within English language. It reflects on the possibilities of queer and feminist solidarities across the East/West divide that do not fall into the trap of (Western) hegemony or anti-Western sentiments. Framing queer solidarity as “working together,” it looks for the possibilities of egalitarian mutual support across national and cultural borders. Finally, it gives an overview of the texts collected in the special issue.

International perspectives on social justice: Introduction to the special issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Sally L. Grapin ◽  
David Shriberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
School Psychology ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Training ◽  
International Social

The concept of social justice has become increasingly prominent in school psychology practice, research, and training. While the literature in this area has burgeoned over the last decade, relatively less scholarship has synthesized global perspectives on social justice. This article provides a brief introduction to the special issue, International Perspectives on Social Justice. In particular, we describe contributions of each of the issue’s four articles to the social justice literature in school and educational psychology as well as identify prominent themes. Finally, we describe potential directions for advancing an international social justice agenda in school psychology.

Sociocultural Parameters in Directed Change

1963 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Thomas Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Practical Test ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Analysis Of Change ◽  
Directed Change

The charge has been made that the methodological tools and theoretical models available to anthropologists are insufficiently precise to enable accurate prediction in the field of directed social and cultural change. It has further been charged that in their ex post facto analyses of the dynamics involved in such situations, anthropologists as well as other social scientists tend to give far more attention to attempted innovations that "didn't work" than to those areas where change has been successful. While the second charge is belied by many studies such as those included in the volumes edited by Spicer and Paul and the special issue of Applied Anthropology, anthropologists have, for the most part, been hesitant to extend their generalizations, based on the analysis of change, to the task of specifying, more or less concretely, the conditions favoring or inhibiting social and cultural change. Thus, in spite of a growing theoretical corpus there appears to be reluctance to put it to the practical test of prediction or planning.

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