Appalachian English stereotypes: Language attitudes in Kentucky

Mining for future health care providers in Appalachian Kentucky.

Recent studies project a significant shortage of U.S. health care providers within the next decade. To address southeastern Kentucky's persistent undersupply of medical professionals, a multi-county Health Career Enrichment Camp for rising 9th and 10th grade students was implemented in 2008. This report describes the annual camp's development and preliminary outcomes.

Partitive Doubling in Icelandic and Appalachian English∗

Diabetes and cancer screening rates among Appalachian and non-Appalachian residents of Kentucky.

BACKGROUND Having diabetes may increase the odds of late-stage breast cancer. In Kentucky, the rates of late-stage disease are higher in rural than in urban areas, particularly in rural Appalachia. The objectives of the study were to examine the relationship between diabetes and cancer screening and to determine whether Appalachia residence modifies this association. METHODS One thousand thir...

Pitch Accent Use in Appalachian English

Researchers have been studying variation in the pronunciation of consonants and vowels for decades, but until recently they have given little attention to variation in prosody. When Beckman and Ayers (1994, 1997) developed the MAE ToBI (Mainstream American English Tones and Break Indices) system for analyzing intonation and phrasing, linguists gained a powerful tool for exploring this aspect of...

the most important demotivating factors among efl teachers in private english language institutes in mashhad

just as motivation is important in sla research, demotivation constitutes an important factor, too. there are many studies done on demotivation and burnout of teachers. many of these studies have been conducted on one or two aspects of english instruction. consequently, there are few studies which have been done on more than two aspects of english teaching. the aim of this study is to find out ...