Researchers are asking what drama teachers do in the classroom that promotes effective learning. Educational drama practitioner researchers O'Neill (1995) and Taylor (2006) suggest that theory informs practice and practice informs theory. This qualitative retrospective study examines a teacher's and…

The aim of the present thesis is to study evidence of dandyism in the journal La Mode, revue des modes, galerie de moeurs, album des salons. Our focus is on the issues published in the years 1829 and 1830. We…

In 2000, the United Nations (UN) hosted a world summit to set their major goals and objectives. This summit produced the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight goals that addressed key social problems in the world. The…

This dissertation describes my work as an educational consultant working with four school principals during a two and a half year period. My original intention was to develop a protocol to help principals in their work. As the study progressed,…

This thesis expands current understanding of the process through which new management concepts diffuse in organizational fields. The thesis examines how environmental management concepts have diffused in civil aviation, an industry which has evolved from a praised icon of globalization…

The mechanics of soil erosion around buried structures is a challenging soil-structure interaction problem. It involves progressive particle movement and interaction with an existing subsurface structure. Using standard finite element method (FEM) and continuum mechanics to simulate the soil erosion…

An analytic model comprising the various moves in error correction sequences in second-language classrooms is developed & applied to a database of classroom interaction with a view to relating teachers' corrective feedback with students' responses. The corpus was generated from…

This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion & 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, & prompts on learner uptake & repair.…

This article presents a corpus analysis designed to determine the extent to which noun endings in French are reliable predictors of grammatical gender. A corpus of 9,961 nouns appearing in 'Le Robert Junior Illustre' was analysed according to noun endings,…

This article presents a comparative analysis of five quasi-experimental studies involving close to 1,200 students, ranging in age from 7 to 14, in 49 French immersion classrooms in Canada - a content-based instructional context where learners develop high levels of…