Rethinking ESL Literacy Education in Multicultural Conditions: the Passage Through Cultural-Historical Psychology

This thesis explores new possibilities in the field of ESL education to address the issue of the growing cultural-semiotic heterogeneity and polyphony in contemporary classrooms. Covering a wide range of areas including cultural-historical and sociocultural psychology, postcolonial literature, applied linguistics, studies in cultural semiotics and the New Literacy Studies, this thesis seeks to move beyond the limitations of rationalist approaches to second language and literacy learning. However, a sociocultural perspective on ESL education reveals not only the constraints and limitations of cognitivist frameworks of learning but also the compacting of identity and language politics into a closed logic of binarised categories. Therefore, an attempt is made to crack open these categories by drawing on the concepts of Thirdspace and cultural-semiotic hybridity

The Ursinus Weekly, October 24, 1949

Five coed Greek organizations get set for annual hectic fall rushing season • Grid machine seeks win over Seahawks to avenge \u2748 loss • Poem reveals hope for beaten athletes • Pep rally precedes senior class dance • Soccer team drops second contest 2-0 at New Brunswick • Garnet drops Bears 20-6 with quick aerial attack • Curtis keeps lead; McMillan triumphs in golfing contest • Court squad opens practice workouts for coming season • Hockey team takes season opener 4-3 against Bryn Mawr • Traveller comes to roost at Ursinus • British lecturer and author to appear at Ursinus rostrum next Tuesday night • Rusty Reed heads paint-brush squad in campus publicity • Sky becomes limit in full-dress battle of annual banquet • Editorial: Sororities and fraternities • Varsity Club selects Farina band • Initial \u2753 officers take over duties following introduction at frosh banquet • Men choose three for MSGA positions • Music clubs offer two merit awards • Hungarian to talk at vesper service • Stassen views theories shaping world cultures • Sophs offer variety in coming week-end • Allen and Aiken cop leading portrayals in December play • Fulbright act gives full financial aid for foreign study • Kitchen adds new refrigerator, other equipment during summerhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1574/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, February 13, 1950

Balladeer Lee to appear for return engagement • Dr. White to return for colors ceremony • Geiger to manage Weekly business for spring season • Greek men launch rushing campaigns via party schedule • Rosicrucians honor thirty-seven coeds at after dinner tea • Dramateurs repeat stellar production of play Pygmalion • \u27Ruby editors meet first of deadlines after hard-fought battle against time • Yearbook to resort to threats, horror for financial push • Eleven join classes for spring session • Cabinet to finish Y roster Saturday • Dr. Philip accepts position as church choir director • Nelson Wenner wins first prize in lengthy Chesterfield contest • Critical British elections effect us as people face socialistic decision • Local lads acquire southern exposure between semesters • Should we have national frats? • Attention, athletes • Uh, don\u27t look now, but your habits are showing • PMC dumps bruins 90-61 in free scoring court tilt • Sports led Bailey from streetcar to high Ursinus post • Coeds succumb 5-0 in badminton fray • Bailey announces schedule for coming track season • Drexel tops bruins 71-60 as late rally falls short • Baseballers will go south for pre-season practice • Tank squad edges Dragon coeds 29-28 in initial encounter • Sextet loses 31-22 in first hoop battle of current season • Jayvees fall twice in narrow contests with Cadets, Drexel • Intramurals resume as squads competehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1583/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, April 25, 1949

Cancer drive opens on Ursinus campus to fill urgent need • Cub and Key receives seven juniors • Club 49 announces re-opening April 29 with Louie manager • Annual tapping honors campus leaders at butterfly ball • British labor man to address forum on labor movement • Men\u27s government okays concessions in student business • Thespians to depict individualists\u27 life in May production • Steele to consider scripture reliability • Warren takes lead in May Day frolic • ICG delegates to visit capital, observe legislature in action • Relax, reflect in record room • What would you demand of your ideal woman? • Darkie ensemble whams fellow students in deluge of cracks and various routines • Adair blanks bruin nine; Explorers explode at bat • Spring inaugurates interdorm softball • Baseballers break losing jinx; Russ Binder sets new record • Quay pitches brilliantly in relief role; Leander leads batsmen with four hits • Sprint star runs \u27100\u27 in 9.8 seconds as bruins bow to Haverford 79-47 • Softballers win 11-0 in exhibition game with Garnet coeds • Coach Dennis hopes to rejuvenate golf for \u2749 campaign • Muddy courts delay opening of season with Elizabethtown • Belated tennis season begins; Meet Bryn Mawr on Wednesday • Juniors crown Neill queen of evening at \u2749 butterfly ballhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1615/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 7, 1949

G.B. Shaw derides England\u27s language in Pygmalion plot • European student enters Ursinus after long delay • Campus Y to boost annual WSSF drive with $1000 as goal • Calendar indicates vigorous, far-flung week-end schedule • Scout men to form service fraternity at meeting tonight • Sommers to appear for Starlight Ball • Old timers return for traditional day; Varsity queen rules • Philip organizes 125 for twelfth chorus of famed oratorio • Yearbook to open \u2749 shooting season • Author-publisher strongly denounces Britain\u27s welfare state as totalitarian • Band, singers plan combined concert • Coeds to cement relations at big-little sister party • FTA offers talk on opportunities • Editorial: Coming drives • Viewbook becomes new Ursinus agent throughout nation • Caracas native adds diversity to \u2753 class • Three twirlers add baton intricacies to marching band • Korean compares Hawaii U., Ursinus • Academy reveals diversified program for all music fans • Curtis emerges victorious in football; Play-offs to determine league winner • Ursinus bows 16-45 to Reading runners • Bears to encounter powerful grid foe at PMC this week • Fords, Lincoln defeat grizzly soccer team • Bearettes place six on all-college club in week-end meet • F&M downs bears 27-6 in old timers\u27 day clash • Evans scores goal to tie Swarthmore • Godshall supervises construction work for disposal planthttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1576/thumbnail.jp

Listen to Nice

In describing Humphrey Jennings’ wartime documentary propaganda film, 'Listen to Britain' (1942), a film with an overtly poetic sensibility and dominantly musical soundtrack, John Corner asserts that ‘through listening to Britain, we are enabled to properly look at it'. This idea of sound leading our attention to the images has underpinned much of the collaborative work between composer and sound designer, Geoffrey Cox, and documentary filmmaker, Keith Marley. It is in this context that the article will analyse an extract of A Film About Nice (Marley and Cox 2010), a contemporary re-imagining of Jean Vigo’s silent documentary, 'A propos de Nice' (1930). Reference will be made throughout to the historical context, and the filmic and theoretical influences that have informed the way music and creative sound design have been used to place emphasis on hearing a place, as much as seeing it

The Ursinus Weekly, November 15, 1948

Seniors to feature Bud Williams\u27 band at December ball • Philip to produce Handel\u27s Messiah for eleventh year • Wallick to leave in December; Will study at Edinburgh • WSSF starts campaign with goal set at $1,000 • Wallace claims UN is success despite Russian difficulties • Pre-meds offered much for money • Juniors to sponsor tux raffle as part of money-raising drive • What do you like best about Ursinus? • Applications due for grad exam • Y to conduct prejudice poll • Pettit appointed assistant registrar • Editorials: Varsity letters; Passing fancies • Letters to the editor • Alumni-society notes • Life of sea calls energetic students for vacation trips • Critic rings bell on Curtain Club\u27s local talent show • Curtain Club stages varied talent show • Don\u27t look now but here\u27s a fan of college males • Coed in top bunk describes 3 ways of making a bed • Haverford thumps Bruin booters 8-1 • Inside on intramurals • Loss of four stars from soccer squad to hurt \u2749 plans • Bruins to face Susquehanna as grid campaign concludes • Cadets wallop Grizzlies 31-0 for sixth triumph of season • Beaver bows 6-2 to Snell\u27s belles • Player of the week • Harriers place 12th in Allentown meet • Lehigh beaten 3-2 in 2nd soccer win • Jay-vees trip Beaver coeds 5-1 to maintain undefeated record • MacWilliams star of hockey win • Campus briefs: International Relations Club; Curtain Club; Phys Ed Club; Canterbury Club; Cub and Key; English Club; Beardwood Chemical Society; Glee Club; WSGA; French Club; German Club; Business Administration Clubhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/3127/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, January 17, 1949

Lauterbach to address February student forum • Ron Landes selected assistant grid coach • Lorelei will retain turnabout custom, say student voters • Rosicrucian society honors thirty girls at Hobson Hall tea • Variety of careers chosen by eighteen semester graduates • Wednesday deadline made by publishers for Ruby material • President\u27s budget, Secretary of State top news of week • Men\u27s council ends work for semester in lengthy session • Which beauty will reign at May festivities? • Flood strikes Ursinus; run for your lives! • Campus cut-up waves bon voyage • Sportsmanship • Single tally downs bears at Delaware; final score, 49-48 • Belles rout Albright 44-27 in opening tilt of season • League lead fixed after Cadets\u27 loss to little Quakers • Bruin Quintet bows 70-48 to superb Garnet squad • Maxwell Club fete attended by Young • Wins prove scarce as cubs drop twohttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1606/thumbnail.jp

The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Exploring Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe

The preponderance of matter over antimatter in the early Universe, the dynamics of the supernova bursts that produced the heavy elements necessary for life and whether protons eventually decay --- these mysteries at the forefront of particle physics and astrophysics are key to understanding the early evolution of our Universe, its current state and its eventual fate. The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) represents an extensively developed plan for a world-class experiment dedicated to addressing these questions. LBNE is conceived around three central components: (1) a new, high-intensity neutrino source generated from a megawatt-class proton accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, (2) a near neutrino detector just downstream of the source, and (3) a massive liquid argon time-projection chamber deployed as a far detector deep underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. This facility, located at the site of the former Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota, is approximately 1,300 km from the neutrino source at Fermilab -- a distance (baseline) that delivers optimal sensitivity to neutrino charge-parity symmetry violation and mass ordering effects. This ambitious yet cost-effective design incorporates scalability and flexibility and can accommodate a variety of upgrades and contributions. With its exceptional combination of experimental configuration, technical capabilities, and potential for transformative discoveries, LBNE promises to be a vital facility for the field of particle physics worldwide, providing physicists from around the globe with opportunities to collaborate in a twenty to thirty year program of exciting science. In this document we provide a comprehensive overview of LBNE's scientific objectives, its place in the landscape of neutrino physics worldwide, the technologies it will incorporate and the capabilities it will possess.Comment: Major update of previous version. This is the reference document for LBNE science program and current status. Chapters 1, 3, and 9 provide a comprehensive overview of LBNE's scientific objectives, its place in the landscape of neutrino physics worldwide, the technologies it will incorporate and the capabilities it will possess. 288 pages, 116 figure

Bill Nicholls

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