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Unfriendly neighbors: When facilitation does not contribute to restoration success in tidal marsh
Abstract Large‐scale restoration projects are an exciting and often untapped opportunity to use an experimental approach to inform ecosystem management and test ecological theory. In our $10M tidal marsh restoration project, we installed over 17,000 high marsh plants to increase cover and diversity, using these plantings in a large‐scale experiment to ...
Karen E. Tanner +4 more
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Homes on Borders in Chicano Literature
In “Borderlands/La Frontera” (1987), Gloria Anzaldúa writes about the “tradition of long walks” (11) across physical and imaginary borders, which defines her Mexican-American people.
Tucan Gabriela
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Las literaturas de la frontera en México y chicana en Estados Unidos traducen diversas perspectivas y significaciones de identidad fronteriza desde ambos territorios.
Edith Mora Ordoñez
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La identidad en juego: un acercamiento autoficcional a 'La casa en Mango Street'
Este artículo explica la construcción autoficcional de La casa en Mango Street, obra de la chicana Sandra Cisneros. Parte de la base teórica que considera la autoficción como un género no subordinado a otros, siguiendo la posición de Vera Toro, y elabora
Laura Montes Romera
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ESPERANZA’S PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AS REFLECTED IN SANDRA CISNEROS’ THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET [PDF]
This study discusses The House on Mango Street, a novel written by Sandra Cisneros. This novel presents a main character named Esperanza who experiences personality development.
KHARISHA PS, IRSHA
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“They're Like Slash”: Multimodality and Embodied Agency in Students' Critical Engagements with Texts
Drawing from three ethnographic studies, this paper examines how students of a range of ages and raciolinguistic backgrounds use embodied actions and other semiotic resources to agentively navigate text, task, and ideological constraints in activities involving reading and analyzing texts.
María José Aragón +2 more
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Living in Two Languages: The Challenges to English in Contemporary American Literature
Recognizing the importance of English in (re)negotiating culture and identity in U.S. society, numerous contemporary American authors have explored the issue of cultural and linguistic competence and performance in their writing. Supported with examples
Ksenija Kondali
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Translingualism as Creative Revolt: Rewriting Dominant Narratives of Translingual Literature
This essay traces the global development of translingual literature in order to confront the pervasive myth of the monolingual paradigm which insists that meaningful interaction can only occur in one language at a time in a given context.
Hannah Tate Williams
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Abstract In its diverse forms, authentic writing carries the potential to connect literacy practice to an author's ‘real world’. While contemporary approaches to authentic writing instruction—advocating writer‐centred, intertextual and culturally relevant productions—are most often explored in formal learning contexts like classrooms, this paper seeks ...
Emily Mannard
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El siguiente artículo explora las asunciones y problemática relacionadas con su relación con la creación de nuevas formas artísticas en literatura. Especípublicadas por la escritora chicana Sandra Cisneros, retratan las tensiones, la ambigüedad y la ...
Hilda Gairaud Ruiz
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