The field of second or world language teaching has undergone many shifts and trends over the last few decades. Numerous methods have come and gone. We have seen the Audiolingual Method, cognitivebased approaches, the Total Physical Response (TPR), the Natural Approach, and many others (for a detailed description of these methods and approaches, see Richards and Rodgers 2001). In addition, the p...

BACKGROUND: The term ‘recovery’ frequents the literature relating to aphasia, however there has been limited research directly investigating concept (or meaning) represents. OBJECTIVE: To present a analysis of in context post-stroke aphasia and investigate consistency meaning, use interpretation concept, relation International Classification Functioning, Disability Health (ICF) Life Participati...

The next major earthquake to strike the ~7 million residents of the San Francisco Bay Area will most likely result from rupture of the Hayward or Rodgers Creek faults. Until now, the relationship between these two faults beneath San Pablo Bay has been a mystery. Detailed subsurface imaging provides definitive evidence of active faulting along the Hayward fault as it traverses San Pablo Bay and ...

AIM The aim of this article is to clarify the concept of spirituality for future nursing research. BACKGROUND Previous concept analyses of spirituality have mostly reviewed the conceptual literature with little consideration of the empirical literature. The literature reviewed in prior concept analyses extends from 1972 to 2005, with no analysis conducted in the past 9 years. DESIGN Rodgers...

In his article "A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century" Michael Rodgers explores the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and magical realism in order to theorize about genre formation in the twentieth century. Rodgers argues not only that specific twentieth-century narrative forms are bound intrinsically with literary realism and socio-political condi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Creative metacognition (CMC) refers to a combination of self-and contextual-knowledge used to make decisions about one's own creative efforts and accomplishments. Competent creators use CMC to judge whether their contributions might be considered creative. Do novice creators have the ability estimate their own level of creativity? The purpose of this study was to examine t...

PURPOSE This study was designed to explore the concept of virtual collaboration within the context of an online learning environment in an academic setting. METHOD Rodgers' method of evolutionary concept analysis was used to provide a contextual view of the concept to identify attributes, antecedents, and consequences of virtual collaboration. FINDINGS Commonly used terms to describe virtua...