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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
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El Futuro del Pasado, 2010 Contemporary spanish poetry tends to be divided into two big groups: “seventies'poetry” or “Novísima” and “Poetry of experience”. This clasification is due not only to some generalizing studies promoted by the institution, but also to the desire of the ...
Rosa Benéitez Andrés
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Composing Meaningful Connections Across High School and College Contexts
Journal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, Volume 70, Issue 2, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT The question of how students navigate the transition from high school to college writing is of perennial concern to teachers and researchers of adolescent and adult literacy. This study contributes to this conversation through an in‐depth analysis of the composing experiences that a group of eight, first‐generation‐to‐college Latina students ...
Bethany Monea
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La crítica editada. Juan María Gutiérrez y la América poética
Orbis Tertius, 2009 The publication of the América poética -the first collection of Spanish-American poetry- between February 1846 and June 1847, constituted a singular event for the lettered Latin-American culture.
Hernán Francisco Pas
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Language Experience Shapes Creative Idea Generation
The Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on creative tasks, suggesting a positive link between bilingualism and creativity. However, the inconsistent definitions of both bilingualism and creativity have made it difficult to understand the precise factors driving the association.
Matias Fernandez‐Duque +2 more
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Zoom In and Zoom Out: (Re)Telling Our Cultural Literacy Practices Through Engaged Learning
The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Empowering bilingual learners to engage in the Zoom In and Zoom Out approach is a way to enrich and validate students' cultural identity and support students' linguistic and academic development while fostering rich writing opportunities for students.
Isela Almaguer
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Raciolinguistic Autobiographies With Intermediate Elementary Learners
The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT We propose raciolinguistic autobiographies as a developmentally appropriate multimodal composition authored by intermediate elementary learners (Grades 3–5) that promotes critical consciousness around how language, race, and signs are interwoven to form hierarchies of power and belonging.
Cristina S. Méndez, Mohit Mehta
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Co‐Designing Multimodal, Multilingual Text Sets: Centering Caregiver Choice
The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 2, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT Early literacy instruction in the U.S. often centers monolingual, English‐dominant practices that marginalize multilingual learners and their families. This qualitative design‐based research study examines a family literacy initiative that engaged caregivers and teachers as co‐designers of a multilingual, multimodal literacy resource bag ...
Katie M. Crook +4 more
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