Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-107). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Disputats, 2008.

In second language (L2) reading research, the impact and feasibility of reading linguistically and culturally unmodified texts with novice language learners has been largely underexplored. Some studies, however, have shown that reading unabridged texts with learners enhances their reading comprehension more than does reading shorter texts from a textbook (Maxim, 2002, 2006). This dissertation explores how, through engaging with authentic foreign language (FL) texts, beginning L2 learners develop L2 reading comprehension abilities and cultural understandings. To investigate beginning learners’ FL reading development, a reading journal (RJ) task was developed that asked students to read two thematically related texts representing different genres. In each of three RJs, 56 second-semester collegiate L2 German learners were evaluated on their ability to use textual evidence for text comparison and identification of each text’s readership(s). Data analysis triangulated students’ quantitative and qualitative pre- and post-treatment questionnaire responses with their RJ scores to address two research questions: (1) how students’ reading abilities developed while working with guided reading journals, and (2) how students’ understanding of culture and cultural learning changed during the semester. Repeated measures analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were used to look for relationships between scores, instructional time, and text type. Text and instructional time were found to be statistically significant with regard to students’ reading comprehension. Learners’ ability to use textual evidence in their comparisons and in identifying texts’ readerships was also statistically significant, though those abilities developed only minimally. Finally, learners expanded their understanding of culture to include more items pertaining to cultural values and perspectives, while altering their understanding of cultural learning to include reading as a way of exploring FL cultures. These results suggest that a literacy-based approach to L2 reading using unabridged texts integrated within an intact language course can prompt changes in students’ reading comprehension and understanding of culture. Implications for beginning FL instruction are discussed, particularly the need for approaches to beginning reading that support development in learners’ reading abilities and understanding of culture and cultural learning, and that better prepare students for more advanced language instruction. / text

Modern Society is stimulated for usage. In that society the conception of values varies. Very often anti values as money, self image, sexuality is treated as the values. This master's work is assigned to estimate the journals for young people in Lithuania - and to establish the values popularized in it. The biggest part of this work is questionnaire research. By this research the pupils of Lithuanian schools were asked toachieve to alucidate in what character journals they read, what themes and rubrics are for them, with what values live young peoples.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 1997. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-108).

The MIT Libraries provide access to databases and electronic journals via the online catalog and the web. The Vera database was created in order to improve public access to a growing number of resources listed on web pages and also to help the staff more easily maintain these pages. Details of the database, called "Vera" (Virtual Electronic Resource Access), are described, including field definitions and how the database is used by both staff and public. The development of the database helped to improve access and made it easier to maintain a growing number of resources. It has also led to many further questions and discussions among the staff of the MIT Libraries about the scope of the OPAC and how tools like Vera should be related to it. / Co published simultaneously in The Serials Librarian, Vol. 41, no. 3/4, 2002, pp. 227-254; and: E-Serials Cataloging: Access to Continuing and Integrating Resources via the Catalog and the Web, ed. by Jim Cole and Wayne Jones, The Haworth Information Press, 2002, pp. 227-254. [PDF version of entire journal issue available for free from Hayworth Press]. HTML version available at <http://www.hennigweb.com/publications/vera.html>

No / Critically reflexive practice embraces subjective understandings of reality as a basis for thinking more critically about the impact of our assumptions, values, and actions on others. Such practice is important to management education, because it helps us understand how we constitute our realities and identities in relational ways and how we can develop more collaborative and responsive ways of managing organizations. This article offers three ways of stimulating critically reflexive practice: (a) an exercise to help students think about the socially constructed nature of reality, (b) a map to help situate reflective and reflexive practice, and (c) an outline and examples of critically reflexive journaling.

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between the bibliographic citation practices of the members of a discipline and the emphasis placed on citation accuracy and purposes in the graduate instruction of the discipline.

Pesquisa destinada a avaliar as notícias sobre arquitetura publicadas nos jornais da cidade de São Paulo: Folha de São Paulo, O Estado de São Paulo e Jornal da Tarde, foram separadas notícias, notas, artigos, resenhas, colunas, e entrevistas sobre arquitetura no período dos anos 2000, 2001 e 2002. Partindo-se do conceito de que pouca coisa é divulgada sobre o tema arquitetura e temas correlatos, tais como urbanismo e desenho industrial, foi feita essa pesquisa no sentido de verificar a procedência da hipótese, e possíveis causas e efeitos de uma eventual lacuna na informação dos jornais. Todos os artigos encontrados do período foram catalogados, cadastrados e analisados, e alguns foram comentados no desenvolvimento da dissertação. Procurando sempre o aspecto da crítica e análise da arquitetura, a maior parte das matérias foi selecionada dos cadernos culturais dos jornais; também se buscou compreender a capacidade que essas matérias têm em serem compreendidas pelo público leigo e informarem, de maneira a atrair o público leitor em geral para temas da arquitetura. Este foi o motivo por terem sido escolhidos veículos de comunicação de massa, e esta foi a principal idéia que motivou a pesquisa. / The objective of this research is to evaluate news published about architecture in the newspapers of the city of São Paulo: Folha de São Paulo, O Estado de São Paulo e Jornal da Tarde. News, articles, paragraphs, interviews etc about architecture were selected from the editions of these newspapers in the years 2000, 2001, and 2002. Based on the concept that very little is published on the subject of architecture and related themes, such as urbanism and industrial design, this research was undertaken in order to verify the accuracy of this hypothesis, and the possible causes and effects of this lack of information in these newspapers. All articles found during the period were catalogued, registered and analysed, and some were commented on during the development of the dissertation. Searching the critic and analyses aspects, most of the materials were taken from the cultural sections of the newspapers and the focus was on the way in which the theme of architecture is dealt with. The research also attempted to understand the capacity of these textual materials to be understood by the lay public (nonspecialised), and to inform, in such a way as to attract the lay reader to the theme of architecture in general. It was for this reason that mass communication vehicles were chosen, and this was the principal idea that motivated the research.

傳統期刊資訊組織的方式主要是編目與論文索引摘要，今電子期刊由於透過電腦網路的傳遞，也改變其資訊組織與檢索的概念。而資訊組織方式多元，取用多種管道，也造成使用者檢索複雜而多元的環境。 電子期刊提供全文期刊論文帶給學者專家許多便利，而深受使用者喜歡，但電子期刊也面臨多元取用管道與多元資訊組織的局面。電子期刊管理時要處理書目記錄、全文電子檔，以及二者的連結技術；另一方面電子期刊在資訊組織時涵蓋刊名、期數、論文單篇三個層級書目資料，造成電子期刊組織與取用的困難。 本研究透過文獻探討國內外電子期刊資訊組織與取用的相關議題，並透過深度訪談，以了解國內五所大學圖書館和六家廠商電子期刊資訊組織所面臨的問題與解決方法，是否能夠支援電子期刊的取用理論。 根據研究發現，提出結論如下：1.電子期刊的管理新模式；2.電子期刊使用者資訊取用的理論；3.我國圖書館電子期刊的取用管道；4.我國圖書館電子期刊資訊組織與技術；5.整合檢索系統對電子期刊的價值與影響；6.電子期刊取用的管道多元與紛歧；7.電子期刊取用的問題；8.電子期刊資訊組織與技術多元與紛歧；9.電子期刊組織與技術對圖書館帶來的問題。 最後針對前述研究結果提出建議： 對圖書館的建議：1.以使用者導向設計電子期刊的取用管道；2.電子期刊資訊組織與技術要應支援使用者資訊取用模式；3.簡化重整電子期刊管理的作業流程；4.對於維護多套系統的連結，可以採取自動維護或維護一套系統的方式；5.提供電子指定參考書的論文服務，以及電子期刊和數位學習的結合。 對廠商的建議：1.支援使用者中心取用；2.支援圖書館的電子期刊資訊組織；3.了解圖書館管理多套系統的困境，找到適切的方法；4.整合查尋系統可以多加強Portal和整合管理的功能；5.除了研發和銷售新系統，可以幫助圖書館適應新舊系統的過渡期；6.加入更多學術性的期刊，提昇內容權威；7.加強電子期刊回溯年代，解決禁刊問題 / The traditional ways of organizing journals are mainly to cataloge journals, to write abstracts, and to index journal articles. Today, through the transmission of computer network, the electronic journals change the concept of information organization and retrieval. Moreover, the plural forms of information organization and access also causes users to search information in a more complicated multi-environment. It is more convenient that the electronic journals offer the full-text articles to scholars, and users are deeply fond of it. However, the electronic journals meet with the situation of multi-access channels and multi-information organization. On the one hand, the electronic journals deal with the bibliographic records, full-text files, and the linking technology of both. On the other hand, the information organization of electronic journals contains bibliographic materials in three levels of titles, volumes, and articles. All of them cause the difficulty of organizing and using the electronic journals. This study is explored through literary reviews and in-depth interviews in order to understand the problems and solutions associated with electronic journals organization in five university libraries and six vendors in Taiwan and see if they can support the access theory of the electronic journals. Based on the research findings , the conclusions of this study are : 1.a new model of managing the electronic journals is proposed; 2.an User-centered access of the electronic journals theory is presented; 3.the library provides access to electronic journals through channels in Taiwan; 4.e-journals information organization and technology of library in Taiwan is presented; 5. meta-searching systems have the value and influence on the electronic journals; 6. access channels to electronic journals are multiple and fork confusingly; 7.the problems of accessing to electronic journals are studied; 8.there are multiple and confusingly-forked electronic journal information organization and technology; 9.the electronic journals cause the problem of organization and technology to library. Finally, according to the results of the study, several suggestions are provided : For the library: 1.the channel of the electronic journals should meet with the user’s need; 2.the organization and technology of electronic journals should support the user's needs; 3.it is necessary to simplify and reform the management procedure of the electronic journals; 4. the maintenance of the systematic linkages can be automatic or system-by-system.; 5.it should offer the integrating articles with courseware and electronic reserves. For the vendors: 1. they should support user-centered access; 2. they should support the information organization of the electronic journals for the library; 3. they should understand the difficulty of how the libraries manage the predicaments of many systems to find the appropriate solutions.; 4. Meta-searching systems should strengthen the functions of Portal and meta-management; 5.Except for developing and selling the new system, they can help the libraries to get through the transition period from an old system to the new system; 6.they should promote the authority of content in academic electronic journals; 7. the coverage of electronic journals should be enlarged to solve the problem of embargoes.