Carl Edlund Anderson

Signum University

While many agree that Scyld in Beowulf was back-formed from Scyldingas, the context in which this occurred is rarely discussed. It seems frequently assumed that Scyld was created in Denmark and exported to England along with the name Scyldingas. However, the way that names and terms corresponding to Scyld and Scyldingas are used in medieval Scandin...

This paper considers the potential benefits and challenges of implementing CLIL (content and language integrated learning) for young learners in light of the existing research. We highlight the relative lack of attention that has so far been directed towards CLIL in pre-secondary levels, but suggest particular avenues that might be suitable for CLI...

The characterization of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) allows the establishment of genetic structures and phylogenetic relationships in human populations, tracing lineages far back in time. We analysed samples of mtDNA from twenty (20) Native American populations (700 individuals) dispersed throughout Colombian territory. Samples were collected during 1...

This article focuses on words for ‘snow’ and ‘ice’ in the Arhuacan languages of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia). Specifically, Kogi /nabˈgala/ and Damana /dɨmɨngɨna/ (both ‘ice’), as well as probably Kankuí damöngána ‘snow’, seem to be suffixed forms of a proto-word for ‘snow’ that itself survives directly in Damana /dəm/ and Ika /dʒəN/...

This paper proposes the design of an instructional model, referred to as the universal genre sphere, for teaching academic writing in a manner appropriate to all learners, but developed especially with consideration for the needs of English as additional language students with or without diagnosed learning differences. Despite growing research on,...

In Colombia, the quality of public-sector language (and general) education remains low, and despite government initiatives for English-language teaching, there is no public policy for teaching content in additional languages. In the highly competitive private sector, institutions are keen to showcase the latest materials from educational publishers...

Purpose This paper aims to present a theoretical model for restructuring Colombia’s educational initiatives in response to current socioeconomic needs. More equitable and decolonized education could help learners decouple their capacities to imagine the future from colonialized paradigms, thereby opening spaces for more active engagement in their o...

Creating an inclusive online learning environment is a rising concern for educators. This presentation describes how two instructors at a Colombian university sought to shift L2 writing instruction to integrate a multimodal approach that builds upon the principles of universal design for learning. The outcome was an equitable student-driven course.

Saga-Book, ISSN 0305-9219: Although the global scope of ‘Viking-inspired’ popular phenomena has become so extensive that even greatly increasing the length of this book might still hardly scratch the surface, it offers valuable and varied contributions to the understanding of those phenomena, as well as opportunities to reflect on the challenges of...

Un número cada vez mayor de hallazgos arqueológicos en las últimas décadas ha fomentado la idea de recurrir a fuentes escritas medievales para interpretar el culto escandinavo precristiano. Sin embargo, las explicaciones cosmológicas en la Edda prosaica de Snorri Sturluson todavía se aceptan a veces sin crítica, y algunos asumen que los sitios de c...

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This is a time of special attention and interest for world education. The pandemic we are facing has made us rethink many dynamics at work, professional, family and personal levels. It has made us realize that this contingency undoubtedly opens up countless paths towards the development of virtual education. However, it is essential that action pla...

An webinar presented for TESOL Colombia. Access the complete recording at: http://www.tesol-colombia.org/2020/03/26/taking-teaching-online-tips-for-education-in-transition/

This paper reports on the initial stages of a larger study on plurilingual rhetorical communicative competences. Experiential evidence indicated a mismatch between the academic writing competences desired from and those displayed by the participants—adult bilingual (L1 Spanish, L+ English) English-language teacher trainees in a postgraduate program...

Learners are increasingly required to analyze critically information presented in languages other than their first to form reasoned opinions and solve problems. It is thus urgent to develop their argumentation skills, needed not only for academic success but also later professional life—and, indeed, by participant citizens in democratic societies....

This presentation reports on a 2-year project to better understand perceptions of, attitudes towards, and practices of plurilingual rhetoric communication in Colombia and, consequently, to test new strategies to promote better development for rhetorical communicative competencies through multiple languages. In an increasingly globalized and interco...

With respect to the study’s specific examination of the beliefs and practices of student teachers in Colombia concerning self-regulation and self-regulated learning, it seems clear that they are aware of these concepts. However, it remains difficult to say whether there is much consistency in how they understand them, let alone how well any theory...

A survey of graduate-level trainee language teachers’ pre-existing beliefs and practices about academic writing revealed mismatches with expectations and norms of professional researchers. Thus, we trialed a series of instructional strategies over one year aimed at realigning participant understandings of professional research communication and acc...

Making Borges’s understanding of early Germanic literature more accessible to a nonhispanophone audience is one of this translation’s explicit goals and chief merits. For all that Borges produced some of the first scholarly work on Germanic languages and literatures in Spanish, he had no formal training in these topics. Ancient Germanic Literatures...

Self-regulation and a capacity for self-regulated learning (SRL) are widely recognized in educational research literature as critical for not only contemporary learners but also for teachers. Yet the emphasis placed on instilling skills and strategies for SRL in learners often ignores a more fundamental problem of teachers who are not only unprepar...

With the changing demands of more interconnected and knowledge driven global dynamics, language teaching and language teacher-training has placed an increased focus on the development of lifelong learning skills, including those associated with self-regulated learning. Self-regulated learners are metacognitively, motivationally and behaviorally act...

An editorial accompanying LACLIL Vol. 8 No. 2 (2015), this paper reviews the twined history of the journal and the Biennial CLIL Symposia as hubs for the intersection of research and practice in global and local contexts. There is a brief review of the papers in LACLIL Vol. 8 No. 2, representing both proceedings from the 5th Biennial CLIL Symposium...

Friedrich Klaeber's "Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg", first published in 1922, has perhaps been best known through its third, supplemented edition of 1950. Its magisterial presentation of essays on numerous facets of the poem and its study, as well as a long-standard edition of the text itself accompanied by copious notes and glossaries, has ex...

This paper discusses the current situation of indigenous and minority lan‑ guages in Colombia, identifying advances made in recent years, as well as chal‑ lenges–and opportunities–that remain. Although minority languages obtained legal recognition in Colombia’s 1991 Constitution, and the 1994 Education Law recognised particular educational rights f...

This paper reports on an investigation of the self-regulatory beliefs and practices of a group of bilingual adult (L1 Spanish, L2 English) in-service English-language teacher trainees in a postgraduate program at Colombian university who displayed a mismatch between expected and realized performance outcomes. The objectives were to provide an evide...

The fates of endangered languages are closely linked to conceptions of what value they provide to their communities. We examine how minority (particularly indigenous) communities in Colombia have understood themselves over time, as well as how the state as viewed them, and how definitions of communities and their relationships have historically bee...

This paper reports on the initial n stages of a larger study on persuasive plurilingual communicative competences. Experiential evidence indicated a mismatch between the academic writing competences desired from and those displayed by the participants—adult bilingual (L1 Spanish, L2 English) in-service English-language teacher trainees in a postgra...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) around the world, including in Colombia. Nevertheless there often remains a great deal of confusion about what it really is, especially in relation to other educational approaches that involve the use of additional languages (perhaps particularly bilingual...

To categorize this book simply as an excursus on a particular topic in Caribbean prehistory--that is, the figure of Caonabó, a cacique on Hispaniola captured by the Spanish during an unsuccessful rebellion in 1495--would be doing it a disservice. While the figure Caonabó is the axis around which the rest of the book revolves, he is but one player i...

An important aspect of preparing learners for the globalized “knowledge society” is the development of (cognitive) academic language proficiency (CALP) in an L2 for use in postgraduate and/or professional environments. This small-scale study sought trends in acquisition and usage of English as an L2 amongst Latin American L1 Spanish-users. Among ot...

Approaching CLIL is often a daunting task given its debatable explanation and even more ambiguous implementation. So, what happens when a university designs a master program in ELT with a course elective based on CLIL and its application in the classroom? The Master in English Language Teaching-Autonomous Learning Environments, offered through the...

The question of the identity of the occupant of the Lejre high chair has been mooted on the world wide web. Among the features that help support an identification of that figure as Óðinn are the highly naturalistic birds perched on the armrests. These could well be understood as Óðinn’s ravens, Huginn and Muninn. In this context, it has also been s...

This presentation addressed the origins of the use of the seven-day week (ultimately perhaps of Hebrew origin) and associated astrological day names (ultimately of perhaps Babylonian origin) in Scandinavia. The likely immediate source of these systems was Roman, or Romanized Christian, Europe—where they had become widely established by the fourth c...

This study addresses the medieval Norse term dnsk tunga (meaning "common Scandinavian language"). The origins of the term are obscure, but it may indicate that the ethnic name "Danes" may have once referred to all Germanic-speaking Scandinavians, a usage which may have evolved with the emergence of a pan-Scandinavian identity deriving from certain...

Some recent studies concerning early medieval Europe have suggested that Scandinavia and Francia represented two ideological poles with which other populations within the Germanic world might have intended to align themselves. While such a view sometimes may be useful, it may also over-simplify a more complex situation. Scandinavians must have reco...

A.B. Honors Thesis, Folklore & Mythology, Harvard College.