1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910367723003321

Autore

Wilde Truus de

Titolo

Over taalbewustzijn en taalvariatie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gent, : Academia Press, 2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220)

Soggetti

Dutch

Flemish

Sociolinguistics

Language learning: specific skills

Higher & further education, tertiary education

Teaching skills & techniques

Teaching of a specific subject

Lingua di pubblicazione

Olandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The study scrutinizes the effects of language awareness on teachers’ conceptualization of language variation. Teacher language awareness has been discussed mostly for the case of English and with regard to grammar, and is defined as being determined by knowledge and reflexion (Andrews 2008, Svalberg 2012). This study aims at examining the reach of the concept for other languages, here Dutch, and for other terrains, in this case, language variation, thus stretching the application also into the realm of language ideology. According to Kroskrity (2006, 2016), language ideologies are (1) not knowledge but ‘‘notions’, ‘beliefs’ or ‘ideas’, which (2) are about language, the role(s) of language and its nature, and which (3) are constructed by individuals and groups in interaction with each other to (4) rationalize and justify social relations.

In this linguistic-ethnographic study, a qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with teachers of Dutch at eight European



universities shows that knowledge and reflection play a considerable role for how teachers conceptualize language variation in class. Overall, four different types of teacher language awareness came to the fore, based on different interplays of both knowledge and reflection: standard language ideology alive, strong focus on prescription, doubting and linguistic insecurity and dynamic equilibrium.

The overall results show the importance of teacher language awareness in language classes and help to boil down the vague notion of language awareness on language variation to two major defining factors, namely knowledge and reflection. Further, the study shows that language classrooms may be seen as ‘ideological sites’ (Silverstein (1979, 1998)), in which language ideology may be either reproduced or deconstructed, depending on the language awareness of the teacher.

The consequences of the study for language teacher education are a plea for an informed, reflected, differentiated and integrative treatment of language variation in language class.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789429203321

Titolo

Bubble and drop interfaces / / edited by R. Miller, L. Liggieri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2011

ISBN

0-429-09684-4

1-283-12667-2

9786613126672

90-474-2841-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (562 p.)

Collana

Progress in colloid and interface science, , 1877-8569 ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerReinhard

LiggieriL (Libero)

Disciplina

530.417

Soggetti

Interfaces (Physical sciences)

Drops

Bubbles

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

Introduction: drops and bubbles as effective tools for interfacial studies -- Determination of interfacial properties by pendant drop tensiometry: optimisation of experimental and calculation procedures --  Advances in calculation methods for the determination of surface tensions in drop profile analysis tensiometry -- Axisymmetric drop shape analysis with anisotropic interfacial stresses: deviations from the Young-Laplace Equation -- Maximum bubble pressure tensiometry: theory, analysis of experimental constrains and applications -- Drop volume tensiometry --  Studies in capillary pressure tensiometry and interfacial dilational rheology -- Direct determination of protein and surfactant adsorption by drop and bubble profile tensiometry -- Coaxial capillary pendant drop experiments with subphase exchange -- Wetting dynamics of aqueous solutions on solid surfaces -- Bubbles rising in solutions; local and terminal velocities, shape variations and collisions with free surface -- Surface tension measurement of polymer melts in supercritical fluids -- Accumulation of surfactant in the top foam layer caused by ruptured foam films -- Particle-bubble interaction in flotation -- Experimental observation of drop-drop coalescence in liquid-liquid systems: instrument design and features -- The tensiograph platform for optical measurement -- Emulsification with micro-structured membranes and micro-engineered systems -- Manipulation of droplets onto a planar interface -- Interfacial mass transfer of growing drops in liquid-liquid systems.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes the most important experimental methods for characterizing liquid interfaces, such as drop profile analysis, bubble pressure and drop volume tensiometry, capillary pressure technique, and oscillating drops and bubbles. It presents practical experimental details as well as the underlying theoretical bases. In addition, the book covers a number of applications based on drops and bubbles, such as rising bubbles and the complex process of flotation. It also offers a discussion on wetting, characterized by the dynamics of advancing contact angles.