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Harry Potter and the Border Crossing Analogy: An Exploration of the Instructional Use of Analogy in a TESOL Methods Course
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ABSTRACT The following exploratory study examines the effects of a Harry Potter–inspired “border crossing” analogy (HPBCA) on preservice teachers' (n = 25) Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) content knowledge and di...
Publication · February 06, 2026
“I Solemnly Swear that I Am up to No Good”: Mapping My Way through TESOL Teacher Education
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ABSTRACT This article documents my 2-year sojourn from voicelessness – in the face of normalizing discourses about race, privilege, and difference in teacher education scholarship – to an authentic voice capable of addressing normalizin...
Publication · February 06, 2026
Rendering the untellable, tellable
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Abstract Goffman’s concepts of face and face work, and his assertion that talk in face-to-face interaction is cooperative, are undertheorized and often critiqued. In an attempt to expand on these concepts, excerpts are analyzed from a s...
Publication · February 06, 2026
Is there really a dictator's dilemma? Information and repression in autocracy
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In his seminal work on the political economy of dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe (1998) posited the existence of a "dictator’s dilemma," in which repression leaves an autocrat less secure by reducing information about discontent. We explor...
Publication · February 05, 2026
2D transverse laser cooling of a hexapole focused beam of cold BaF molecules
Publication · February 05, 2026
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