Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 432-440). Also available on the Internet.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 93). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 93). Also available on the Internet.

Th. Ph. D.--Faculty of arts--Zurich--University of Zurich, 1995. / Bibliogr. p. 74-87.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania. / Includes bibliographical references.

The diploma thesis is elaborated on a special pedagogical topic. The topic of the thesis is Diagnosis of phonemic awareness in preschool children, while the subject of the diploma thesis is the assessment of the level of phonemic awareness, specifically the ability to isolate sounds. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part contains four chapters dealing with the phonetic-phonological level, phonemic awareness, phonetic-phonological level in preschool children and the diagnosis of phonemic awareness. The last, fifth chapter is the practical part of the thesis. The aim of the research is to find out the ability to isolate the first and last vowel of words in preschool children and at the same time to find out whether there is a difference between children attending kindergarten and preparatory class of primary school. For a selected research sample of children attending a regular kindergarten and a preparatory class in a regular primary school, the Voice Isolation Test was performed using a standardized MABEL test battery, so the testing method was used. The research survey showed that about a third of preschool children are able to isolate sounds at the beginning of the school year, but there is a significant difference between kindergarten and preparatory class...

This diploma thesis is especially pedagogical oriented, it is focused on matters of speech therapy. In theoretical part, there are described issues of intact speech development and language skills of children, and also early literacy and malfunction of communication skills of pre-school children. This work is comparing two types of pre-school education. One of them is classic pre-school, the second one is alternative Montessori pre-school. Empirical part was realized with MABEL test battery. MABEL is diagnostic battery for evaluation of early literacy and skills for development of early literacy. There were used tests of elision and isolation of phones, fast naming of colours and pictures, writing of easy words and phones composing. Research survey was placed in two pre-schools. Respondents were early aged children, who attend these schools. The main objective of this work was to find and compare early literacy of pre-school children. The results were compared to standards from diagnostic battery and they showed, that Montessori respondents got slightly higher score in comparison to children of classic pre-school. However, results are little bit disorted, because of low number of total respondents.

The operetta, The Pirates of Penzance, is a classic work by Gilbert and Sullivan, a work that continues to be produced frequently despite its Victorian setting and operatic style. For many years the standard performance style of all the operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan was upheld by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, who attempted to perform the operettas as they had originally been done. Though the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company helped stimulate interest in the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, nontraditional productions of G & S operettas produced outside of the company were able to reach larger audiences. When The Pirates of Penzance was produced on Broadway in the 1980's, it was enormously successful. Under the direction of Wilford Leach, the production was more accessible to audiences through its pop-oriented orchestrations, Broadway-style choreography, and cast of rock stars and well-known actors. This significant change in the way The Pirates of Penzance was performed inspired several other major productions of the operetta in that style and has now become the standard interpretation of the piece. It is due to these productions that The Pirates of Penzance continues to be produced and remain culturally relevant. It is interesting to note that, while the performance style of Pirates has changed significantly over the years, the role of Mabel has remained largely unchanged. In that regard, the role of Mabel continues to fulfill the goals and tradition of D'Oyly Carte while The Pirates of Penzance has evolved from an old-fashioned operetta to a popular musical theatre piece.

AFRIKAANS: In die bronne van bewysmateriaal vir Afrikaanse geskiedenis en kultuurgeskiedenis is daar sporadiese verwysings na die bestaan van ‘n vrouetydskrif, getiteld Die Boerevrou. Dit was die eerste, en tot en met die staking daarvan, die enigste Afrikaanse vrouetydskrif. Die tydskrif is in Pretoria van Maart 1919 tot Desember 1931 maandeliks onder die redakteurskap van die eienaar, Mabel Malherbe, uitgegee. Hoewel dit al as ‘n ryk skat van inligting oor die Afrikanervrou en haar leefwyse beskryf is, is daar min inligting oor die tydskrif beskikbaar. Dit is ook in vergelyking met ander tydgenootlike Afrikaanse publikasies soos Die Huisgenoot, baie min vir primêre navorsing gebruik, hoewel oorspronklike versamelings daarvan vandag nog redelik maklik bekombaar is. Gevolglik is Die Boerevrou aan kultuurhistorici betreklik onbekend. Met hierdie studie is daar gepoog om te bepaal of Die Boerevrou as ‘n gesaghebbende primêre bron vir kultuurgeskiedenis beskou kan word en waarom dit nie as sodanig benut word nie. Aangesien daar min sekondêre bronne oor tydskrifstudies bestaan, kan die ontwikkeling van ‘n wetenskaplike werkswyse vir die onderneming van dergelike studies as een van die bydraes van hierdie proefskrif beskou word. Die kultuurhistoriese konteks en ekonomiese omstandighede waarbinne die tydskrif verskyn het, is bestudeer en inligting oor die redaksie, medewerkers, beleid en sirkulasie van Die Boerevrou is ingewin. Dit alles het as agtergrond gedien om afleidings te maak om die navorsingsvraag te beantwoord. Daar is bevind dat die tydskrif van hoë joernalistieke gehalte getuig vir die tydperk waarin dit verskyn het. As vrouetydskrif het dit ‘n wye verskeidenheid onderwerpe van kultuurhistoriese belang gedek. Die studie het ook lig gewerp op die leesgebruike en -voorkeure van die Afrikanervrou in die vroeë twintigste eeu. Dit is duidelik dat kultuur en die media in ‘n baie komplekse verhouding staan en mekaar wedersyds sterk beïnvloed. Die lesers van Die Boerevrou is nie net deur die tydskrif gelei en beïnvloed nie, soos talle ander studies bevind het die geval met die pers in die ontwikkelingsjare van Afrikanernasionalisme was nie. Boerevrou-lesers het ook aktief meegedoen aan die skryf van die teks van die tydskrif omdat hulle ‘n sosiale netwerk gevorm het wat ontvanklik en gereed was vir die assimilasie en verspreiding van ‘n nasionalistiese identiteit. Die Boerevrou is ‘n gesaghebbende primêre bron vir kultuurgeskiedenis en sal in die toekoms met groot vrug in studies oor die Afrikanervrou van 1919 tot 1931 benut kan word. Die feit dat die tydskrif as bron onderbenut word, kan hoofsaaklik toegeskryf word aan twee aspekte: Die meeste studies oor vrouetydskrifte tot op datum is ideologiese analises met ‘n feministiese inslag wat die persepsie by navorsers skep dat vrouetydskrifte problematiese en onbetroubare studiemateriaal is en gevolglik vermy behoort te word; verder is die wetenskaplike bestudering van vrouetydskrifte nog ‘n relatiewe jong studieveld. ENGLISH: Die Boerevrou was the first, and until the termination thereof, the only Afrikaans women's magazine. This monthly periodical was published in Pretoria from March 1919 to December 1931 under the editorship of the owner, Mabel Malherbe. Although it is a rich treasure of information about Afrikaans women and their way of life, there is little known about the magazine. Compared to other contemporary Afrikaans publications, such as Die Huisgenoot, it is also very little used for primary research. This study attempts to determine whether Die Boerevrou can be viewed as an authoritative primary source for cultural history and why it is not utilised as such. Since there are few secondary sources on magazine studies, the development of a scientific methodology for undertaking such studies is considered to be one of the contributions of this thesis. The historical context and economic conditions within which the magazine has been published was determined and information was obtained about the editors, staff, policies and circulation of Die Boerevrou. All have served as a background to make conclusions relevant to the research question. It was found that the magazine is of high journalistic quality for the period in which it was published and reviews a wide variety of topics of interest to women. The study also shed light on the reading practices and preferences of Afrikaans women in the early twentieth century. The relationship that exists between culture and the media is clearly very complex. The readers of Die Boerevrou were not only led and influenced by the magazine, as many other studies have found to be the case with the media during the formative years of Afrikaner nationalism. Boerevrou readers also actively participated in writing the text of the magazine. They formed a social network which was receptive and ready for the assimilation and dissemination of a nationalist identity. Die Boerevrou is an authoritative primary source for cultural history and can be utilised with great success for studies on Afrikaans women from 1919 to 1931. The fact that the magazine is underutilised as a resource is mainly due to two aspects: Most studies of women's magazines are ideological analyses with a feminist slant that create the perception that this genre offers problematic and unreliable study material and should therefore be avoided; The scientific research of women's magazines is furthermore still a relatively young field of study. / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Historical and Heritage Studies / unrestricted