‘Changing English’ is a new feature in ELT Journal which aims to illustrate the diversity of English in the world today and to ask whether, and how, ELT practitioners might accommodate such variation. Focusing on a particular language issue in each article, the series will explore how English varies between places and spaces, over time, and between groups of speakers, and will reflect upon …

The first edited volume of Susan Sontag’s journals, Reborn, appeared in 2008, four years after her death from cancer; the second four years later, in spring 2012. Sontag knew she suffered no lack of talent, but that a perceived weakness of purpose was the mark of bad faith in one who wanted to serve Art, as a critic or as a practitioner. “I’m not sure what purpose my work serves” (295),…

This essay examines the ways the biographer-narrators of Carol Shields’s Jane Austen (2001) and Alice Munro’s “Meneseteung” (1991) exploit the dialogic richness inhabiting the borders between biographer and subject, where “two voices, two accents . . . come together” to “fight it out on the territory of the utterance” (Bakhtin, “Discourse” 360). Both narrators probe the pot…

Reductions in cardiac infarct size can be achieved in ischaemic preconditioning, a procedure which subjects the heart to intermittent, non-lethal cycles of ischaemia and reperfusion. Similar cardioprotection can be induced upon preconditioning distal tissues such as the upper limb, and this procedure is called remote ischaemic preconditioning. Nano-sized, cell-derived vesicles known as exosomes…

There are few evaluations of peer-facilitated teenage dating violence prevention programs in the literature. To begin to address this gap, this project assessed the effectiveness of a schoolbased, peer-facilitated healthy relationships program among academically at-risk students. Two hundred and ninety-one ninth graders of mixed race and gender participated in a fivesession healthy relationship…

Tahun Terbit

2010

Tahun Terbit

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A number of case studies and legal briefs describe very troubling incidents faced by secondary school students because of their minority religious group affiliation. The purpose of the study described in this article was to understand the lived experiences of minority religious youths who attend public schools in an area of the United States where the majority of students are affiliated with on…

Tahun Terbit

2010

Tahun Terbit

2010