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Five years of first years: Success, challenges, and some solutions for teaching information literacy
(Texas Library Association, 2020)This article is based on five years of data collected from information literacy sessions given to English 1023 Composition II classes. The one-hour information literacy sessions were taught by the author, Susan Whitmer. ... -
Action items for new librarians
(Texas Library Association, 2015)A librarian’s first year of professional work is full of expectations – both from the new librarian and the employer. Job responsibilities can range from serving as the LibGuides administrator to library instructor ... -
Living Here, yet Being There: Facebook as a Transnational Space for Newcomer Latina/o Adolescents
(Tapestry, 2013)Under the category of diaspora media studies, the present case study investigates the social networking use of four newcomer adolescent English Learners in a U.S. high school. Demonstrating their transnational skills, the ... -
We Can Do It Because They Did It: Three Generations of Texas Literacy Educators
(Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, 2016)The unique challenges (and promises) teachers encounter today can be informed by the past. What literacy and language education mean for Mary Stewart, assistant professor of bilingual and English as a Second Language (ESL) ... -
A Pedagogy of Care for Adolescent English Learners: A Formative Experiment
(Tapestry, 2017)In the case of educators of adolescents in the dynamic process of English acquisition, it is our goal to increase the fulfillment and success of the students we are privileged to serve through nurturing their academic, ... -
Learning from Students: What, Why, and How Adolescent English Learners Want to Read and Write
(Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2020)In various conversations regarding how to teach language and literacy to adolescent English Learners (ELs), students' voices are often lost. This article privileges those voices by surveying ELs in Texas high schools ... -
Sociability and interdependent self-construal on consumer choice for group: A moderated mediation model
(Wiley, 2021-02-21)In joint consumptions, people often make consumption decisions for their respective groups, where chosen products or services are jointly shared by the members of their groups. Although the phenomena of joint consumptions ... -
Putting role resources to work: The cross-domain thriving model
(Elsevier, 2020-12-11)Thriving at work - an employee's perception of vitality and learning while working- is linked to individual and organizational benefits. We merge thriving and work-family literatures to theorize about how thriving in work ... -
Hurdling Over Language Barriers: Building Relationships With Adolescent Newcomers Through Literacy Advancement
(Wiley, 2018-11-18)Adolescents who are newcomers in a country and beginning to acquire English as an additional language are often in secondary classrooms with teachers who do not speak their languages. Due to these communication obstacles, ... -
Translingual Disciplinary Literacies: Equitable Language Environments to Support Literacy Engagement
(Wiley, 2021-04-11)The burgeoning work of translanguaging and bilingualism has much to offer adolescent learning spaces in order to provide bi/multilingual students more equitable opportunities to engage in disciplinary literacy at the high ... -
Left Ventricular Morphology and Function in Adolescents with Severe Obesity: A Cardiac MRI Study
(Obesity Week 2019, 2019)Background: Adolescents with severe obesity are at elevated risk of developing cardiovascular disease; however, the exact mechanisms are unknown. We tested the hypothesis that adolescents with severe obesity would present ... -
Food Insecurity and Overweight/Obesity Associated with Poor Diet Quality During COVID- 19 Pandemic
(Obesity Week 2020, 2020)Background: Food insecurity is associated with poor diet quality and an increased risk for obesity. In this study, we tested the following hypotheses: 1) college students who are overweight/obese (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 ) are ... -
Effect of an Occupation-Based Program for Women With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Who Are Incarcerated
(Annals of International Occupational Therapy, 2019-09-23)OBJECTIVE:This study evaluated the effect of an occupation-based program on the occupational performance and participation of incarcerated women with intellectual and developmental disabilities. -
Exploring Parenting Influences: Married African American Fathers’ Perspectives
(2020-02-29)This qualitative study sought to understand married, resident African American fathers’ perceptions about parenting influences. Specifically, this study explored fathers’ perceptions about sources and/or experiences that ... -
Perceived effort for reaching is associated with self-reported fatigue
(2021-01-19)Perceived effort for goal-directed reaching may be impacted by the level of self-reported fatigue, however, the relationship between self-reported fatigue and perceived effort has not been examined. We examined how perceived ... -
Representação da guerrilheira na literatura brasileira contemporânea: um território de disputas, repetições e apagamentos
(Revista Olho d'água, 2020)In this article, we investigate how the female guerrilla character is constructed in Brazilian contemporary literature. Aware of the breadth of this proposal, we limit this study to the analysis of some memoirs and novels ... -
Aproximação à transexualidade na literatura contemporânea brasileira: o caso de Deixei ele lá e vim (2006), de Elvira Vigna
(Latin American Literary Review Press, 2020-06-16)Este artigo analisa o trânsito da protagonista transexual Shirley Marlone no romance Deixei ele lá e vim (2006), de Elvira Vigna, por diversos espaços sociais, simbólicos e geográficos da cidade. De modo específico ... -
Deslocamento e reconfiguração de espaço no cinema brasileiro: o caso de Linha de passe e Que horas ela volta?
(American Portuguese Studies Association, 2020-05-28)In the present article, I examine Daniela Thomas and Walter Salles's Linha de passe (2008) and Anna Muylaert's Que horas ela volta? (2015). I argue that these films create new representational possibilities for subjects ... -
The resignification of black woman corporeality in Becos da Memória, by Conceição Evaristo.
(International Association of Lusitanistas, 2021-05-05)This article investigates the rewriting of the corporeality of black women in Conceição Evaristo's novel Becos da Memoria (2006). It analyses how the body and its symbols are represented in the novel and how these constructions ... -
Self-reflection and its relationship to occupational competence and clinical performance in level II fieldwork
(Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 2021-01)Purpose: Reflective practitioners embody the ability to critique their own clinical thinking about the dilemmas that frequently arise in professional practice and everyday life. Conflicting evidence exists on whether or ...