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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2017 Contemporary scientific studies of ecosystems encompass different aspects of vocality, including the communication systems (“languages”) of individual animal species.
Zmago Šmitek
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Integrative Values of Folktales: Igbo Folktale Example
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 2020 The indigenous language of a people is the most accepted medium of communication. It enshrines and translates the peoples’ life (culture) as domesticated in their norms, values and morals. Adopting the functional perspective to sociological studies, this paper aims at x-raying the values of folktales (Igbo Folktale), for the formation of well behaved ...
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Reimagining Inclusivity in Literacy Education for African Immigrant Adolescents
Journal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, Volume 69, Issue 6, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT This study explored how an Afrocentric literacy workshop can reimagine inclusivity in literacy education for African immigrant adolescents. Drawing on Afrocentricity and Transnational Identity Theory, I facilitated a 10‐week virtual literacy workshop with six African immigrant high school students from Nigeria.
Olumide Ajayi
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Hul Topol - Fall of the Moon A narrative of etiologies from the Bunaq of Lamaknen
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2016 This article makes a contribution to the documentation of the genre of oral literature known as zapal amongst the Bunaq, a Papuan-speaking group of central Timor.
Antoinette Schapper
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Evaluating stories for diverse audiences [PDF]
, 1998 The issues are similar in storytelling. These students of different races, sexes, and ages had very different reactions to the story variants they studied, reactions that depended on their cultural experiences as well as their individual viewpoints ...
Brown, Malore I.
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.This study highlights a collaborative initiative with Atayal tribal leaders to co‐develop books at two levels of difficulty that feature recurring and supportive grammatical structures. Across the two levels, some books shared similar sentence structures; others did not. Findings demonstrate that the intervention successfully reinforced the intertwined
Ching‐Ting Hsin +2 more
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The Dynamics of Reading Genre Fiction: Researching and Teaching Interpretive Practices
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.Conceptual model positioning genre fiction as a site for studying how narrative form organizes reader interpretation, identifying four dynamics—iterability, narrative interest, serialization, and spectacle—to guide empirical research on reading processes.
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Amy Stornaiuolo
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Female role models in Bukusu folktales: Education at the mother’s hearth
Cogent Education, 2016 Folktales serve a descriptive, as well as prescriptive role, by consistently depicting societal and cultural norms. Sexist portrayals sanction the marginality of Bukusu women, particularly when these reflect prevailing gender roles and expectations ...
Namulundah Florence
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Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2019 This paper concludes the study of the folktales included in Ibn ʿĀṣim’s Ḥadāʾiq al-azāhir. That work of Andalusian literature includes abundant folkloric materials which make it indispensable for studying world and Spanish folklore.
Desirée López Bernal
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SOME REASONS FOR USING TRANSLATED INDONESIAN FOLKTALES IN TEACHING GENERAL ENGLISH FOR UNDER GRADUATE STUDENT OF NON-ENGLISH DEPARTMENT [PDF]
, 2011 The teaching of English as a foreign language inIndonesia universities is gaining popularity nowadays. Indonesian Universities give English as the vehicular language for all or part of the general curriculum.
Susie. C. Garnida, gramida +2 more
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