Margaret Butler, Health Sciences Introduction Recent demographic changes in the United States are requiring health care workers to serve patients, particularly Hispanics, who do not speak English. This is true for the state of Utah as well Citing Immigration and Naturalization Service data, Wright (1993) reported that the number of Mexican immigrants who do not […]
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THE NEW LANGUAGE POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATION FOR THE BANTU LANGUAGES
Richard Cameron Blake, English In April, 1994, the first all-race presidential and parliamentary elections were held In South Africa after several years of multi-party constitutional negotiations. J’ielson Mandela, a political-prisoner-turned-president, was given the charge to uphold the new constitution, one In which all South Africans are regarded equally, regardless of race. Part of that constitution […]
The Second Language Acquisition of Spanish Phonology
Scott M Alvord, Spanish and Portuguese In October of 2010 I applied for a Mentoring Environment Grant (MEG) with Rob Martinsen. Our project, “The Second Language Acquisition of Spanish Phonology” was awarded the grant of $20,000.00. In order to carry out this project we formed a research group that includes four graduate students (Joshua Tanner, […]
Summary of The Creative Language Modeling Project
Trent M. Pehrson and Dr. Cynthia Hallen, Linguistics Creative language modeling (CLM) is a method of teaching linguistics principles to high school level students. In CLM, students learn about language principles by systematically designing an artificial language. The premise of CLM is that students can learn and retain language principles more readily when such principles […]
The Effect of Role Assignment for Children with Specific Language Impairment Participating in Cooperative Learning Groups
Martin Fujiki and Jenifer D. Miskin & Alyssa Stanger, Speech Language Pathology Our research was conducted within a larger project designed to facilitate language and social skills in children with SLI. Fifty-six subjects between the ages of 6 and 11 participated in this project. Eight of these subjects were children with SLI, and the remaining […]
Russian Sign Language Glossary of LDS terms
Nathan Boyce and Dr. Christopher Wakeland, University Accessibility Center There are over ten missions in the Church among Russian speakers. The largest group is in Kiev, where the first deaf branch in the former Soviet Union was formed. There are around sixty deaf members there. Since many words used commonly in the Church are not […]
LDS Missionary Work in the Basque Language: How the Work Began, and Why It Was Discontinued
Devin Caywood and Dr. Bruce VanOrden, Religion Basque Country is a relatively small region composed of three (arguably four) provinces in North Central Spain and two in Southern France. Statistics state that there are two million people in Spanish and French Basque provinces that claim Basque as their first language. 70-80 percent of those people […]
Un Conjunto de Únicos(1): An Essay Exploring Relationships Between Individuality and Community in the Context of Language
Todd Leishman and Dr. Brandie Siegried, English “love’s function is to fabricate unknownness” -e. e. cummings In literature and science, in art and religion, two ideas emerge that shape the people and the peoples that we are. Education in all these things brings with it a blossoming awareness of our uniqueness as individuals. No two […]
The Language and the Law: Trademark Dilution Online
David Stankiewicz and Dr. William Eggington, Linguistics One of the most important areas of legal dispute today is internet trademark law. This has become an increasingly greater concern as more and more web pages grab for consumer attention. Many legal questions remain unanswered, and perhaps the most important of these is “Do we apply the […]
On-line Language Learning
Peter Rich and Dr. Devon Asay, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature As technology improves and its popularity increase, more and more people are turning to electronic methods of education. CALL, computer assisted language learning, is one particular field that has tried to jump on the bandwagon. However, recreating real environments and random interaction poses a […]
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