Reading Psalm 23 In African Context

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Interrelationship among Foreign Language Reading Anxiety, Reading Proficiency and Text Feature Awareness in the University Context

This paper reports the results of a study designed to investigate the interrelationship of Foreign Language Reading Anxiety (FLRA), Reading Proficiency (RP) and Text Feature Awareness (TFA). The aim was to focus on how foreign language reading anxiety and text feature awareness are related and how, in turn, they affect students reading proficiency. That is, it south to determine how these three...

The Psalm of Habakkuk

Thematically, textually, and literarily, the psalm of Habakkuk (3:3 -15) differs markedly from the material in the rest of the book. Translation and subsequent analysis of the psalm reveal that it is a remnant of epic literature, and as such it focuses on the theme of the heroic. Throughout the passage, God is the hero whose actions divide the psalm into two parts. The first poem (vv 3-7) relat...

Context Effects in Sentence Reading

The current work investigates the effect of context on the neural representation of concepts, measured by MEG during reading of sentences in active and passive voice. Two approaches to incorporating context are proposed − one by including estimates of the functional connectivity of the MEG sensors, and the other by creating a joint representation of the sentences using an HMM. The suggested met...

Pauline Challenge to African Masculinities: Reading Pauline Texts in the Context of Hiv/aids

This article discusses Pauline masculinity in the context of HIV/AIDS. If any success against HIV/AIDS is to be achieved, men need to be constructively involved in this struggle rather than merely being vilified. It is directed towards those who want to live by the ideals set by Paul. The article argues that in many ways Paul challenges dangerous masculinities and that, if his challenge is take...