Challenge to Europe : the growing refugee crisis : hearing before Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, first session, November 4, 2015

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910704274603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington : , : U.S. Government Publishing Office, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iii, 37 pages)
• Soggetti: Refugees - Government policy - European Union countries; Refugees - Government policy - United States; Refugees; Refugees - Government policy; Legislative hearings.; History; Syria History Civil War, 2011- Refugees; Europe European Union countries; Syria; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office.; "Serial No. 114-119."; Title from title screen (viewed Jan.13, 2016).

Experimental Research Methods in Language Learning / / Aek Phakiti

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787168303321
• Autore: Phakiti Aek
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , [2015]
• ISBN: 1-4411-2240-0; 1-4725-9356-1; 1-4411-9793-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (381 p.)
• Collana: Research methods in linguistics
• Classificazione: LAN009000
• Disciplina: 401/.93
• Soggetti: Language acquisition - Research - Methodology; Second language acquisition - Research - Methodology; Bilingualism in children - Research - Methodology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Experimental Research Basics -- 3. Experimental Research Paradigms and Processes -- 4. Experimental Research Designs -- 5. Validity in Experimental Research -- 6. Ethical Consideration in Experimental Research -- 7. Quantitative Research Instruments and Techniques -- 8. A Hybrid Approach for Experimental Research -- 9. Introduction to Descriptive Statistics -- 10. Introduction to Inferential Statistics -- 11. Correlational Analysis -- 12. Reliability and Reliability Analysis -- 13. Paired-Samples and Independent-Samples t-tests for Experimental Research -- 14. Analyses of Variance (ANOVA) -- 15. Non-parametric Versions of T-tests and ANOVAs -- 16. Experimental Research ProposalsGlossary of Key Terms in Language Learning Research -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Language learning research aims to describe and fully explain how and why language learning takes place, but can fall short of its stated purpose. Systematic, rigorous research is needed if the growing field of language learning is to progress methodically. This book demonstrates and fully explains such a methodology. Given that research in language acquisition yields practical pedagogical implications, it is crucial that it is rigorous and accurate. This book offers a quantitative research ; methodology that relies on statistical analysis in order to make inferences and conclusions about language learning. Experimental research aims to understand differences between or within groups of learners under manipulated environments. It requires strict control of conditions, enabling interpretations with a low factor of error. Aek Phakiti provides step-by-step guidelines and underlying principles, epistemology and methodology, in a book that is essential for advanced students of language acquisition and language and education."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

The literature of immigration and racial formation : becoming white, becoming other, becoming American in the late Progressive Era / / Linda Joyce Brown

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784083703321
• Autore: Brown Linda Joyce <1967-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-135-93241-7; 1-135-93242-5; 1-280-17845-0; 0-203-32772-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (159 p.)
• Collana: Studies in American popular history and culture
• Disciplina: 810.9/3522/09041
• Soggetti: American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Emigration and immigration in literature; Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century; American literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Immigrants' writings, American - History and criticism; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature; Immigrants in literature; Ethnicity in literature; White people in literature; Race in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-129) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Race, Whiteness, and Women Immigrants; Chapter Two Coming Into Whiteness: Mary Antin's Claim to Assimilation; Chapter Three ""Why Couldn't We have Been Either One Thing or the Other?"" Monolithic Identity and Ethnic Construction in the Fiction and Autobiography of Sui Sin Far; Chapter Four ""This Hideous Little Pickaninny"" and the Formation of Bohemian Whiteness: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Willa Cather's My Antonia; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.