Miss mek wi trai: Using Multiliteracies Pedagogy to Effect Changes in Jamaica Inner-city Grade 7 Students' English Learning

My four-month research project is the first recorded Jamaican study to explore if and how multiliteracies pedagogy (MLS) paired with sociocultural theory (SCT) can improve inner-city students English language development (ELD) and engagement. In diglossic Jamaica, social class typically dictates Jamaican language abilities. Typically, most upper- and middle-class Jamaicans speak English, while most members of the Jamaican lower class speak Patois. English is the language of the Jamaican curriculum, employment and power. Improvement in my participants EDL will improve their access to better-paying jobs and higher education. I conducted my research in the following sequential manner: 1) a month of classroom observation of the original English teachers classroom; 2) two months where I taught my experiential communicative lessons inspired by MLS and SCT; 3) four student focus group interviews and one teacher interview; and, 4) document analysis of examples of students three individual work (two after-lesson reflections and a paragraph of narrative account). All of these data collection tools ensured that I captured my participants meaning making and subjectivities. My research findings support and diverge from the weight of evidence in multiliteracies pedagogy and sociocultural theory. Similar to other research employing MLS and SCT, my findings revealed that my participants became more engaged in their English learning during my experiential teaching than they were in their original English language class. The majority of the students writing skills also improved. However, unlike MLS and SCT based research, in my study there was not a strong relationship between the students emotional engagement and their behavioural engagement; there was also no relationship between the students emotional engagement and improvement in language development. I recommend that teachers incorporate multiliteracies-inspired communicative activities in their English classes, as these activities engage students and promote English language development. I also suggest that multiliteracies researchers implement goodbehavioural strategies to ensure that students are engaged cognitively, emotionally and behaviourally. Moreover, I encourage teachers, future researchers and the Jamaican Ministry of Education to respect the students voices and agency, rather than merely incorporating their lived experiences in their school learning

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Letter from Vonnegut Hardware Company to T. B. Larrimore

Letter from Vonnegut Hardware Company to T. B. Larrimore [sic]. The one-page typewritten note is dated 19 November 1912

Rock Hill Hardware Company Records - Accession 220

The Rock Hill Hardware Company was organized on June 4, 1893 by A.R. Smith and John Gelzer, A.A. Barron and his sons R.E. and W.L. bought Smith out in 1896 and by 1907 had acquired the whole firm. The Barron family owned and operated it until it closed in 1978. The collection consists of a 1906 ledger, financial records, a photograph, a seed license, World War II ration booklets, and newspaper clippings.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1109/thumbnail.jp

Formal reasoning with Verilog HDL

Most hardware verification techniques tend to fall under one of two broad, yet separate caps: simulation or formal verification. This paper briefly presents a framework in which formal verification plays a crucial role within the standard approach currently used by the hardware industry. As a basis for this, the formal semantics of Verilog HDL are dened, and properties about synchronization and mutual exclusion algorithms are proved.peer-reviewe

Cascade: hardware for high/variable precision arithmetic

technical reportThe Cascade hardware architecture for high/variable precision arithmetic is described. It uses a radix-16 redundant signed-digit number representation and directly supports single or multiple precision addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, extraction of the square root and computation of the greatest common divisor. It is object-oriented and implements an abstract class of objects, variable precision integers. It provides a complete suite of memory management functions implemented in hardware, including a garbage collector. The Cascade hardware permits free tradeoffs of space versus time