Download or read book Is Idaho in Iowa written by Tim Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indians of Iowa written by Lance M. Foster and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of Iowa's Native American tribes that discusses their history, culture, language, and traditions, and includes illustrations.
Download or read book Iowa Studies in Language and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pella Dutch written by Philip E. Webber and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1847 by religious separatists, the town of Pella in central Iowa is the state’s oldest Dutch American colony, and its crafts, architecture, and celebrations reflect and perpetuate the Dutch heritage of its earlier residents. Through his intriguing blend of sociolinguistic research, regional history, and interviews with current speakers of Pella Dutch, Philip Webber examines the town’s rich cultural and linguistic traditions. Drawing upon formal and informal interviews and conversations with more than 150 speakers of Pella Dutch, Webber uses the methods of language research to trace the vestiges of Dutch heritage left on the English spoken by local residents; to explain attitudes toward language and ethnicity that emerged in the twentieth century; and to document the vocabulary, linguistic forms, humor, and conversational patterns that characterize contemporary Pella Dutch. In addition, desiring to let his informants speak for themselves, he includes the playful jokes, proverbial observations, folk wisdom, children’s rhymes, riddles, and puzzles influenced by Pella Dutch. Webber’s introduction to this expanded paperback edition provides new photographs, updated information about recent research and publications, examples of how Dutch continues to be spoken, and descriptions of the ways in which Pella continues to commemorate its linguistic and cultural heritage. Linguists, anthropologists, and historians—as well as all those who enjoy Pella’s Tulip Time festival, its summertime fair or kermis, the Dutch letters in its bakeries, and the early winter visit of Sinterklaas—will appreciate Webber’s informed and engaging study of this unique Iowa community.
Download or read book Iowa Facts and Symbols written by Elaine A. Kule and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about the state of Iowa, its nickname, motto, and emblems.
Download or read book Iowa Studies in Language and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Foreign Languages for Iowa Schools written by Iowa. Department of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University of Iowa Studies written by University of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grammar Lessons written by Michele Morano and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteen personal essays in Grammar Lessons, Michele Morano connects the rules of grammar to the stories we tell to help us understand our worlds. Living and traveling in Spain during a year of teaching English to university students, she learned to translate and interpret her past and present worlds—to study the surprising moments of communication—as a way to make sense of language and meaning, longing and memory. Morano focuses first on her year of living in Oviedo, in the early 1990s, a time spent immersing herself in a new culture and language while working through the relationship she had left behind with an emotionally dependent and suicidal man. Next, after subsequent trips to Spain, she explores the ways that travel sparks us to reconsider our personal histories in the context of larger historical legacies. Finally, she turns to the aftereffects of travel, to the constant negotiations involved in retelling and understanding the stories of our lives. Throughout she details one woman’s journey through vocabulary and verb tense toward a greater sense of her place in the world. Grammar Lessons illustrates the difficulty and delight, humor and humility of living in a new language and of carrying that pivotal experience forward. Michele Morano’s beautifully constructed essays reveal the many grammars and many voices that we collect, and learn from, as we travel.
Download or read book Handbook of North American Indians Volume 17 written by Ives Goddard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a basic reference work on the Native languages of North America, their characteristics and uses, their historical relationships, and the history of research on these languages. Fold-out, color, volume map.
Download or read book The Modern Language Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews".
Download or read book Educating Iowa s English Language Learners ELLs written by Iowa State Department. of Education, Des Moines and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook for Iowa school districts was first published many years ago. Since that time, several significant sociopolitical and educational changes have occurred. For example, there has been an increase in the number of languages and cultures represented both in Iowa and in the political arenas of the nation. Immigrants and refugees from impoverished or war-torn homelands have come to this nation seeking the American Dream. Balances among minority group populations have shifted, and even greater shifts are likely in the future. In both society and educational institutions, a better understanding of the implications of the linguistic and cultural differences in learners who participate in available programs have been acquired. More than ever is known about language acquisition, cultural change, competencies, testing, affective states of the learner, and individual assessments. The changes in this handbook attempt to reflect these new understandings. The writers seek to give Iowa educators a picture of the unique needs of English language learners (ELLs) and to offer a guide for providing equal access to the quality education available in the state. The handbook will primarily benefit those responsible for designing and implementing programs in local school districts. This handbook is organized into the following chapters: (1) Legal and Educational Rationale; (2) Funding Sources; (3) Procedures; (4) Educational Programs; (5) Involving Parents and Community; and (6) Program Evaluation. The following are appended: (1) Bibliography of Language Tests for ELLs; (2) Enrollment Status Descriptors; (3) List of Resource Agencies, Centers, and Organizations; (4) Publishers of Bilingual/ESL/Multicultural/Multilingual Materials; (5) Print and Online Resource List; (6) Limited English Proficiency Laws and Rules; and (7) English Language Learners (ELL) District/Building Self-Study Guide. (Contains 3 tables, 1 chart, and 1 footnote.).
Download or read book Report of the Governor s Task Force on Foreign Language Studies and International Education to the Honorable Terry E Branstad Governor State of Iowa June 23 1983 written by Iowa. Governor's Task Force on Foreign Language Studies and International Education and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Iowan should "have an opportunity to develop competence in foreign languages, to attain an informed appreciation of other cultures, and to become a more responsive and responsible citizen of the world."
Download or read book Figures of Speech written by Tim Cassedy and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Cassedy’s fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one’s identity. During this time of revolution (U.S., French, and Haitian) and globalization, language served as a way to categorize people within a world that appeared more diverse than ever. Linguistic differences, especially among English-speakers, seemed to validate the emerging national, racial, local, and regional identity categories that took shape in this new world order. Focusing on six eccentric characters of the time—from the woman known as “Princess Caraboo” to wordsmith Noah Webster—Cassedy shows how each put language at the center of their identities and lived out the possibilities of their era’s linguistic ideas. The result is a highly entertaining and equally informative look at how perceptions about who spoke what language—and how they spoke it—determined the shape of communities in the British American colonies and beyond. This engagingly written story is sure to appeal to historians of literature, culture, and communication; to linguists and book historians; and to general readers interested in how ideas about English developed in the early United States and throughout the English-speaking world.
Download or read book Iowa written by Hugh Sidey and published by Meredith Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official commemorative book of the Iowa sesquicentennial.
Download or read book Educating Iowa s Limited English Speaking Students written by Iowa. Urban Education Section and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iowa written by David C. King and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the geography, climate, history, people, government, and economy of Iowa. The third edition of this popular series provides lists of key people, sites, cities, plants and animals, political figures, industries, and events in the Hawkeye State.
