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In Search of a Professional Image: How Women Comedians Engage Gender in Their Work

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individuals who differ from what is typical in their occupation face a dilemma about how to incorporate their “ill‐fitting” social characteristics into their professional image. This study investigates how women working in the male‐dominated world of stand‐up comedy present their gender and whether this evolves over times of social change. Our
Clare Cook   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial Notes: Postcolonial Genre Fiction

open access: yesIl Tolomeo, 2021
Editorial notes to the thematic section of issue 23 of Il Tolomeo - A Postcolonial Studies Journal, dedicated to "Postcolonial Genre Fiction".
openaire   +2 more sources

Young EFL Learners’ Incidental Collocation Learning Through Different Multimodal Inputs: A Mixed‐Methods Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how multimodal input modes affect young EFL learners’ incidental collocation learning performance and experience. A total of 97 EFL learners (aged 12–13) in a Chinese secondary school were randomly assigned to two multimodal groups (reading‐while‐listening and viewing‐with‐captions) and a reading‐only group (as a control ...
Pu Pu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Clueless to Confident: How ChatGPT Transforms Academic Writing in Chinese as a Second Language

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has demonstrated its potential to enhance the quality of second‐language (L2) academic writing. This study used a qualitative approach comprising analysis of ChatGPT usage‐history screenshots, written assignments, and semi‐structured interview data on students’ use of GenAI in their L2 Chinese ...
Lanfang Sun   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The "grand tour" and the "Risorgimento": Italy's romantic imaginary in French literature

open access: yesGragoatá, 2012
This essay will examine some accounts of French travelers-writers of the nineteenth century, which, in the tradition of the grand tour, described in textual pictures and ecfrasis an imaginary of plastic beauty related to Italian scenes and landscapes ...
Celina Maria Moreira de Mello
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Racing Academy: A preliminary evaluation of an online racing car simulation game for supporting students learning of engineering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper reports a study which evaluates an online racing car simulation game designed to support undergraduate students learning. A game based learning community was created to support undergraduate students learning of engineering at the University ...
Clibbery, Stephen   +6 more
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“Queens of Ghost‐Land” 134 Years Later: Un‐Masking an Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender ...
Aíne Norris
wiley   +1 more source

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