Representing the Homeland

Abdelhady, Dalia

doi:10.1177/0921374007088055

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“…For these youth, then, their L2 education does not persuade them of their status as elites with access to the global economy. Further, violence was frequently-realised in these two subcorpora, in the Lebanese case probably reflecting experiences of the 2006 Israeli invasion (Abdelhady, 2008) and in the Hong Kong case the Umbrella Revolution (Fung, 2014). That is, these L2-educated youth perceive themselves as villagers, not overlords.…”

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Appraising English-Speaking International University Student Attitudes towards Their Elite Second-Language Education and Status

DeCoursey¹,

Petkov²,

Cherneva³

2017

ELLS

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About a third of the global population learns English as a second language (L2). L2 students routinely read English literature. Many L2 readers are members of cultures with painful colonial pasts. The English language functions in part to support western cultural and economic domination. L2 students have a complex identity, as members of their own culture, but also as elites having options in the global economy. This study used content analysis, content clusters and Appraisal analysis to explore how three cultural groups with colonial histories responded to an English-language translation of a Bulgarian poem about an elite, L2-educated character in a colonial situation. Results suggest that bilingual youth do not see themselves as elite, and that authentic literature in translation helps them perceive status and positionality.

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Appraising English-Speaking International University Student Attitudes towards Their Elite Second-Language Education and Status

DeCoursey¹,

Petkov²,

Cherneva³

2017

ELLS

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“…The second point of interest is that the percentage of non-voters is relatively very high in Lebanon due to the fact that high proportion of the enlisted voters on the official records may have already left the country for good. Recent estimates put the number of Lebanese emigrants at around one third of the population, but they would remain enlisted on the records [58,59], leading to participation rates varying historically around 40 − 50% of the registered voters on the national level [43,54,55]. This complicates the question of accurately determining the actual number of registered voters who might eventually want to vote in the elections.…”

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Entropic Spatial Auto-correlation of Voter Uncertainty and Voter Transitions in Parliamentary Elections

Deeb¹

2023

Preprint

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This paper studies a novel spatial auto-correlation model of voter uncertainty across districts. We use the Moran I index to measure the auto-correlation of Shannon, relative Shannon, Tsallis and relative Tsallis entropies of regional electoral outcomes with respect to geographic adjacency, proximity and sectarian adjacency. Using data from the Lebanese parliamentary elections, we find strong geographic and gravitational adjacency correlations. More importantly, there is a notably strong correlation in sectarian adjacency in both 2018 and 2022 elections, with a very high level of confidence. This result asserts the dominance of the sectarian factor in Lebanese politics. We also introduce the method of maximized general entropy estimation that allows us to determine the Markov transition matrix of voters between consecutive elections.

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“…They experience global identities, interacting digitally with the international diasporas created by the civil war and the 2006 Israeli invasion (Abdelhady, 2008). They are individualist, with their behaviour regulated more by their own likes and tastes than traditional social norms (Pulford, Johnson, & Awaida, 2005).…”

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Digital Literacies and Generational Micro-Cultures: Email Feedback in Lebanon

Coursey¹,

Dandashly²

2015

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This study reports on the introduction of email feedback, in a private university in Lebanon with marked generational differences and a traditional instructor culture focused on grammar correction. The instructor profile showed insufficient ELT training and a disjuncture between those with low and those with long service. Instructors were trained, and an email form used during one semester. A survey elicited instructors' views. Appraisal analysis identified attitudes in personal responses written by students and instructors. Analysis of feedback quality was undertaken. Results showed students responded positively, instructors negatively to email feedback. Instructors perceived students' positive response, but reasserted traditional understandings of teacher roles, reflecting a lack of understanding of the role of emotion in acquiring form. Training in ELT and digital literacies, management oversight of accountability structures, and sufficient remuneration for part-timers' grading hours, are recommended. The study also implicates long years of service in resistance to needed change.

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Representing the Homeland

Cited by 28 publications

References 25 publications

Appraising English-Speaking International University Student Attitudes towards Their Elite Second-Language Education and Status

Appraising English-Speaking International University Student Attitudes towards Their Elite Second-Language Education and Status

Entropic Spatial Auto-correlation of Voter Uncertainty and Voter Transitions in Parliamentary Elections

Digital Literacies and Generational Micro-Cultures: Email Feedback in Lebanon

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