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Walking back to Earth: the enduring appeal of ancient pilgrimage as portal to the sacred for the contemporary seeker
(2022-05-16)
This thesis offers a perspective on pilgrimage, from the vantage point of the pilgrim’s reflection on their embodied experience and an analysis of that experience from theological and psychological hermeneutics, in particular. ...
Teacher talk at three stages of English language teacher career development: a corpus-aided study
(2021-03-30)
Classroom discourse (CD) and teacher talk (TT) have received much attention over the years across a range of research perspectives, from qualitative case studies of individual teacher narratives to large-scale quantitative ...
Céad mίle fáilte: a corpus-based study of the development of a community of practice within the Irish hotel management training sector
(2022-04-05)
This thesis examines the discourse of a unique third-level academic institution in order to identify the variety of linguistic features, which align it, first of all, to the higher education sector in general, but more ...
Pedagogy and professional development- research report for ETHNO
(Jeunesses Musicales International, 2022-06-07)
The aim of the pedagogy and professional development research was to document local, national and global understandings of Ethno pedagogy, and to describe and theorize its processes in action, including the ways it was ...
Factual fictions: an investigation into audience understandings of documentary
(2022-09-05)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate audience understandings of documentary. A review of the relevant literature was carried out on the areas of: the Evolution of Documentary; Subjectivity, Objectivity and Truth; Reality ...
A case for change in how we refer to dual career athletes: a person first approach (Pre published)
(Routledge, 2021-10-21)
Rationale/Purpose: Dual Career Athletes (DCA) combine education, training, or work with a sporting career within broader sports management and educational environments. A holistic approach embraces the DCA as a “person ...
Data-driven learning: a call for a broader research gaze
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-04)
Over the last three decades, data-driven learning (DDL) has been widely championed by those of us who see the exciting opportunities that it can bring to the language learner. From the initial days of DDL, there has been ...
The impact of usage-based approaches on second language learning and teaching
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-09)
The application of usage-based models of language learning began to gain ground in the early twenty-first century, particularly in the field of first language acquisition, and, more recently, are gaining traction in second ...
“Didn’t know she could shout that loud”: the performance of fandom among women followers of women’s golf
(2022-06-20)
While a growing body of evidence exists around women fans of men’s sport, less is known about women fans’ perspectives and identities in relation to women’s sport, and what is known tends to focus on homogenous representations ...
Measurement and prevalence of adult physical activity levels in Arab countries
(Elsevier, 2021-07)
Physical activity (PA) has a profound effect on health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that physical inactivity is the fourth leading global risk for mortality, responsible for raising the risk of ...