Readings on L2 reading: Publications in other venues 2021-2022

This feature offers an archive of articles published in other venues during the past year and serves as a valuable tool to readers of Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL). It treats any topic within the scope of RFL and second language reading. The articles are listed in alphabetical order, each with a complete reference as well as a brief summary. The editors of this feature attempt to include all related articles that appear in other venues. However, undoubtedly, this list is not exhaustive

Readings on L2 reading: Publications in other venues 2015–2016

This feature offers an archive of articles published in other venues during the past year and serves as a valuable tool to readers of Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL). It treats any topic within the scope of RFL and second language reading. The articles are listed in alphabetical order, each with a complete reference as well as a brief summary. The editors of this feature attempt to include all related articles that appear in other venues. However, undoubtedly, this list is not exhaustive

Thinking Aloud, Episode 6 --Bilingualism and Translation

Episode 6 Guests: Dr. Shenika Harris, Dr. Maite Núñez-Betel and Dr. Justine Pas discuss the value and importance of Bilingualism and Translation in understanding the world. Dr. Shenika Harris has been at Lindenwood since 2014, and she primarily teaches courses about Spanish language, Spanish culture, and bilingualism/multilingualism. She has a BA in Psychology and a BA in Spanish from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a MA in Spanish from St. Louis University, and a PhD in Second Language Acquisition with a minor in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She enjoys teaching others to communicate in Spanish, helping them explore the diverse cultures of the world, and helping them understand what it means to be a bilingual/multilingual individual. Dr. Maite Núñez-Betelu earned an M.A. In Comparative Literature from West Virginia University and a Ph. D. in Romance Languages from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is a Professor of Spanish and teaches courses in Spanish language, culture, history, and literature. She specializes in contemporary Basque women writers, but her research interests include Basque and Hispanic culture as well as contemporary women writers of Spain and Latin America. Other areas of interest are children\u27s literature and crime fiction. Dr. Justine Pas earned a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include American ethnic literature, literature of the Holocaust, and translation studies. She has been published in domestic and international scholarly journals as well as in scholarly volumes dedicated to translation theory and practice. She has also earned awards for teaching, including the 2014-2015 President’s Scholar-Teacher Award at Lindenwood University. Her most recent publications include The Politics of Relay Translation and Language Hierarchies: The Case of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris and the Foreword to a memoir about surviving the Holocaust by Hava Ben-Zvi titled We Who Lived: Two Teenagers in World War II Poland.https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/thinking_aloud/1005/thumbnail.jp

Transcriptional Corepressor MTG16 Regulates Small Intestinal Crypt Proliferation and Crypt Regeneration After Radiation-Induced Injury

Myeloidtranslocation genes (MTGs) are transcriptional corepressorsimplicated in development, malignancy, differentiation, and stem cellfunction. While MTG16 loss renders mice sensitive to chemicalcolitis, the role of MTG16 in the small intestine is unknown. Histologicalexamination revealed that Mtg16-/- mice have increasedenterocyte proliferation and goblet cell deficiency. After exposure toradiation, Mtg16-/- mice exhibited increased crypt viability anddecreased apoptosis compared with wild-type (WT) mice. Flow cytometricand immunofluorescence analysis of intestinal epithelial cellsfor phospho-histone H2A.X also indicated decreased DNA damageand apoptosis in Mtg16-/- intestines. To determine if Mtg16 deletionaffected epithelial cells in a cell-autonomous fashion, intestinal cryptswere isolated from Mtg16-/- mice. Mtg16-/-and WT intestinalcrypts showed similar enterosphere forming efficiencies when culturedin the presence of EGF, Noggin, and R-spondin. However, whenMtg16-/- crypts were cultured in the presence of Wnt3a, theydemonstrated higher enterosphere forming efficiencies and delayedprogression to mature enteroids. Mtg16-/- intestinal crypts isolatedfrom irradiated mice exhibited increased survival compared with WTintestinal crypts. Interestingly, Mtg16 expression was reduced in astem cell-enriched population at the time of crypt regeneration. Thisis consistent with MTG16 negatively regulating regeneration in vivo.Taken together, our data demonstrate that MTG16 loss promotesradioresistance and impacts intestinal stem cell function, possibly dueto shifting cellular response away from DNA damage-induced apoptosisand towards DNA repair after injury