David M. Reimers, Stephan Thernstrom
Groups and Definitions Acadians Marietta M. LeBreton Afghans David C. Champagne Africans Afro-Americans Thomas C. Holt Albanians Aleuts Dorothy M. Jones Alsatians Frederick C. Luebke American Indians Edward H. Spicer Amish John A. Hostetler Anglo-American Anglo-Saxon Appalachians Dwight Billings and...
Roger Ballard
A collection of accounts of everyday life within a range of communities, such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Bangladeshi, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh. Taken together, they highlight common features and diversities in a variety of spheres, such as discrimination, religion and integration.
Wendy Sims‐Schouten, Sarah Riley, Carla Willig
In critical realism, language is understood as constructing our social realities. However, these constructions are theorized as being shaped by the possibilities and constraints inherent in the material world. For critical realists, material practices are given an ontological status that is independ...
Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb
Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration MapIntroductionI. The Family and the CourseIntroductionOne Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North India Susan S. WadleyAllah Gives Both Boys and Girls Patricia Jeffery and Roger JefferyOut Here in Kathman...
Helen M. Liversidge
BACKGROUND: Population differences in tooth formation using radiographs can be determined if the entire developmental sequence of a single tooth is studied. The only developing tooth visible radiographically from initiation to root completion is the third molar or wisdom tooth. AIM: The timing of ma...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen, Richard B. Baldauf
One major impact of globalisation on education is denoted by the growing trend to use English, the global language, as a medium of instruction (MOI) in emerging polities that are trying to enhance their English-speaking capacities. This article emphasises developing an understanding of MOI from a la...
Momtazur Rahman
English for Specific Purposes, known as acronym-‘ESP', has been a distinct activity in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) since 1960s. The flowering period of ESP has been identified due to many incidents like the second world war in 1945, the rapid expansion in scientific, the growth of s...
Helen M. Liversidge, T. Speechly, Mark Hector
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine if the standards of dental maturation of Demirjian et al. (1973, 1976) are applicable to British children. DESIGN: The design was cross-sectional, retrospective. SAMPLE AND METHOD: The sample comprised 521 London children of Bangladeshi and whi...
Ronit Lenṭin
Part Genders and genocides: introduction - (en)gendering genocides, Ronit Lentin genocide and gender - a split memory, Joan Ringelheim. Part II Women in a war zone - the construction of gendered identities: against the war - women organizing themselves in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Rada...
Sajeda Amin, Ian Diamond, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Margaret Newby
This article examines data from a study on garment-factory workers in Bangladesh to explore the implications of work for the early socialization of young women. For the first time, large numbers of young Bangladeshi women are being given an alternative to lives in which they move directly from child...
M. Obaidul Hamid
The effects of globalisation and the global spread of English have created a phenomenal demand for English all over the world. The demand is illustrated by the introduction of ‘English for Everyone’ and early English instruction in many developing countries. These policy initiatives and their implem...
Radhika Parameswaran, Kavitha Cardoza
The recent commercial boom in women's skin-lightening or “fairness” cosmetics in India is part of the larger context of escalating lifestyle consumerism in Asia's emerging market nations. This monograph examines the cultural politics of gender, nation, beauty and skin color in the persuasive narrati...
Grant Lewison, James Hartley
M. Obaidul Hamid, Richard B. Baldauf
ABSTRACT Rural failure in English learning and the socioeconomics of ELT. Over 24 million children learn English as a second/foreign language in primary and secondary schools in Bangladesh. These children start learning the language as a required subject in Grade 1 and continue learning it (if they ...
Nasreen Sultana
Language assessment literacy (LAL) is a critical field for researchers, scholars, or anyone interested in improving the language teaching environment. Understanding the basics of testing and the ability to perform testing-related activities becomes more significant in test-oriented countries. As suc...