Publication Type: Single Paper Format
Abstract: Summary: Presentation of multiple strategies for integrated teaching of the language arts. Strategies will include cooperative learning, appropriate interdisciplinary activities, and elements of an integrated lesson plan.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study aims to illustrate how identity of a state can be manipulated by the decision/foreign policy makers, and can be used strategically.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study adopts La Pastina and Straubhaar’s (2005) theory of multiple proximities to explore how local Chinese audience receive the Internet services offered by American and local companies, and how the audience’s reception affects the competition between them at the different stages of Chinese Internet development. It is found that the combined impacts of genre proximity and cultural proximity result in the initial success of American Internet companies at the early stage of China Internet development as well as their predicament at the later stage. “Modernity proximity” emerges as a new concept to mediate the operations of both genre proximity and cultural proximity, and constitute, by itself, an important component of multiple proximities theory.

Publication Type: Paper (prepared oral presentation)
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Stereotype threat refers to the risk of confirming a negative stereotype about one's group (Steele & Aronson, 1995). The presence of stereotype threat has been shown to undermine performance, thereby (ironically) increasing the likelihood of stereotype confirmation. Research has begun to identify means of reducing stereotype threat effects—for example through presenting positive ingroup role-models, and thus restoring the self-worth of the stigmatized individual. One additional strategy might be to draw on alternative self-identities to avoid stereotype threat effects. Although individuals typically belong to multiple social groups (women, student, athlete), these social identities can overlap (entailing congruent stereotypes) or they can be orthogonal (entailing contradicting stereotypes). In the latter situation, it might be possible for individuals to emphasize one positive stereotype (Asian’s are good at maths) to discount the negative effects of another (Women are bad at maths), thereby minimizing stereotype threat effects on performance (i.e.,performance on a maths test). Recently, Gonzales et al. (2005) demonstrated that memberships in multiple devaluated groups can indeed have an interactive effect on task performance. Along these lines, we argue that the accessibility of alternative, non-threatened social identities can buffer against the stereotype threat effects. Data will be discussed that speak to this hypothesis.

Publication Type: Proceeding