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21. Second Language Acquisition Processes in the Classroom

    Learning Japanese

    By Amy Snyder Ohta

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    This book is the first study to examine how interactional style develops within the walls of a foreign language classroom in the first two years of language study. Results show learners to be highly sensitive to pragmatic information and that learners can move toward an appropriate interactional...

    Published December 31st 2000 by Routledge
22. The Practice of Social influence in Multiple Cultures

    Edited by Wilhelmina Wosinska, Robert B. Cialdini, Daniel W. Barrett, Janusz Reykowski

    Series: Applied Social Research Series

    This book provides a diverse collection of studies reporting the effects of social influence processes in multiple cultures at both the universal and culture-specific levels. The book is characterized by three distinct features. First, the social influence process is considered as a ubiquitous and...

    Published October 31st 2000 by Psychology Press
23. Teacher's Guide for in the Shadow of Race: Growing Up As a Multiethnic, Multicultural, and Multiracial American

    By Christine Clark, Teja Arboleda

    This Teacher's Guide accompanies In the Shadow of Race: Growing Up as a Multiethnic, Multicultural, and "Multiracial" American by Teja Arboleda. It has a twofold purpose. First, it facilitates K-12 and university faculty in situating Arboleda's book within the fields of race relations,...

    Published October 31st 1999 by Routledge
24. Communication, Race, and Family

    Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

    Edited by Thomas J. Socha, Rhunette C. Diggs

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    This groundbreaking volume explores how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race. In assembling this collection, editors Thomas J. Socha and Rhunette C. Diggs argue that the hope for managing America's troubles with "race" lies not only with communicating about...

    Published July 31st 1999 by Routledge
25. Proceedings of the National Association for Multicultural Education

    Seventh Annual Name Conference

    Edited by Carl A. Grant

    The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) held its 7th Annual Conference in 1997 with a theme of Daring to Educate for Equity and Excellence: A Multicultural and Bilingual Mandate for the 21st Century. The conference generated scholarship in the form of keynote speeches and...

    Published June 30th 1999 by Routledge
26. Hollywood Planet

    Global Media and the Competitive Advantage of Narrative Transparency

    By Scott Robert Olson

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    The popularity of American television programs and feature films in the international marketplace is widely recognized but scarcely understood. Existing studies have not sufficiently explained the global power of the American media nor its actual effects. In this volume, Scott Robert Olson tackles...

    Published April 30th 1999 by Routledge
27. Personality and Person Perception Across Cultures

    Edited by Yueh-Ting Lee, Clark R. McCauley, Juris G. Draguns

    Neither human nature nor personality can be independent of culture. Human beings share certain social norms or rules within their cultural groups. Over 2000 years ago, Aristotle held that man is by nature a social animal. Similarly, Xun Kuang (298-238 B.C.), a Chinese philosopher, pointed out that...

    Published September 30th 1998 by Psychology Press
28. On the Border of Opportunity

    Education, Community, and Language at the U.s.-mexico Line

    By Marleen C. Pugach

    Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

    In 1993, the author set out to try and gain some understanding about school and community in Havens, New Mexico--a place where she had the opportunity to be immersed in border culture, where she could learn how the border figured into everyday life, and where she could pay uninterrupted attention...

    Published June 30th 1998 by Routledge
29. Ethnic Man!

    Video Package for Grades 5-12

    By Teja Arboleda

    Since 1992, Teja Arboleda has traveled to schools around the country presenting his one-man performance-lecture Ethnic Man! Teja is the quintessential multicultural American. Born in New York City and raised primarily in Germany and Japan, Teja's diverse ethnic and cultural heritage have combined...

    Published June 30th 1998 by Routledge
30. Being An Older Woman

    A Study in the Social Production of Identity

    By Isabella Paoletti

    Series: Everyday Communication Series

    The study presented in this volume examines how older women's identities are socially constructed and, in particular, how they can be influenced by institutional intervention. The interest in identity production is not only theoretical, but also practical. Different perceptions of oneself as an...

    Published November 30th 1997 by Routledge