Hmong Parents Critical Reflections on Their Childrens Heritage Language Maintenance

Maintaining Heritage Language Perspectives of Korean Parents Clara

Although it is a combination of many factors that impacts the maintenance or loss of HL, such as personal motivation and determination (Krashen, 1998), ethnic pride (Brown, 2003, 2009), availability of heritage language schools in communities (Shibata, 2000), and availability of HL at school (Cho & Krashen, 1998), studies have identified parental support and involvement as perhaps the most impo...

Critical Reflections on Regulation

Some Reflections on Cybernetics and Its Scientific Heritage

The scientific research program of Cybernetics, originated by Norbert Wiener, was mainly concerned with the communication and control whether in living organisms or machines. The main aim was to get useful and essential information on the functioning of the brain on which to construct later a science of the mind. This requires methods and knowledge borrowed from different disciplines including ...

Critical Issues for Parents with Mental Illness and their Families

Reflections on the Object Constraint Language

The Object Constraint Language (OCL), which forms part of the UML set of modelling notations, is a precise, textual language for expressing constraints that cannot be shown diagrammatically in UML. This paper reflects on a number of aspects of the syntax and semantics of the OCL, and makes proposals for clarification or extension. Specifically, the paper suggests that: the concept of flattening...