Wendy Baker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 77484 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wendy Baker |
| PRENOMES | Wendy |
| SOBRENOME | Baker |
| ASSINATURA | BAKER W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4050-4735 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Food banks in schools in England
This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country. This important finding shows that there are now more food banks inside schools than outside of them. Our analysis, using responses from representative Teacher Tapp data ( n =…
Henry James
The relationship between Henry James and the American neurologist Dr. James Collins (1866–1960) has largely been ignored. The discovery of a hitherto unpublished letter from James to Collins redresses the balance and throws light on James’s state of mind following his brother William’s death and his need to consult with Collins. The article also reflects critical dissatisfaction with Leon Edel’s biographical account of James and Collins’s more pe…
W. B. Yeats
The discovery of a hitherto unknown unpublished late W. B. Yeats letter reveals sources for his critically neglected poem “Upon a Dying Lady” first published in 1917. The letter also shows Yeats’s fascination with hearing voices in a dream
Identifying Opportunity Gaps in Clinical Practice
Aubrey de Vere’s Political Passions in His Sonnet on Milton Annotated by Landor
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) annotates one of Aubrey Thomas de Vere’s (1814–1902) sonnets as “Worthy of Milton.” By delving into a complex web of intertextuality, this article analyzes de Vere’s sonnet in the light of his literary criticism and from the perspective of Landor’s manuscript neglected note, interpreted via the useful link of William Wordsworth
Schools and food charity in England
This paper critically examines the development of food charity in schools in England. Growing numbers of schools, often in partnership with charities and businesses, are directly providing food to parents who are struggling to feed their families. This paper analyses how and why this is happening and its broader significance. The growth of food charity in schools is explained through a mixture of a retreating welfare state, an ongoing cost of liv…
Thirty-Six Unpublished Letters from William Henry Davies to Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas (1878–1917) is largely known today as a great poet of the First World War. He also was a journalist, essayist and novelist. Thirty-six unpublished letters from the Anglo-Welsh writer William Henry Davies (1871–1940) to Thomas, now in the Hugh Walpole Collection at the King’s School, Canterbury, reveal a close friendship and Thomas’s strong support for an unknown impoverished fellow writer. In addition, the letters throw much light o…
Better than average? Parental competence beliefs and socioeconomic background
This article investigates the extent to which parents believe they are better than average parents using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. The article builds on a long tradition of sociological research focusing on the interconnections between parenting, class, education and inequality. We find that mothers with low levels of education are more likely to say they are average or worse than average parents. Relatedly, we show that those who…
Pinter’s Apprenticeship and the BBC
Drawing on unpublished materials from the BBC Archives, this article provides scholars with vital new contexts for understanding Harold Pinter’s late 1950s and early 1960s attempts to transform his very earliest radio dramas—“Something in Common,” A Slight Ache, A Night Out, and The Dwarfs—into radio broadcasts. The material in the form of memoranda from script readers and producers to whom scripts were sent reveal considerable internal dissent w…
George Eliot, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Sarah Marks and Barbara Bodichon
George Eliot, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Sarah Marks and Barbara Bodichon
George Eliot était perpétuellement préoccupée à l’idée ne pas en faire assez pour les autres, alors même qu’elle était constamment submergée de demandes d’aide. De là son ambivalence, notamment face aux demandes de soutien financier pour certaines causes ou certains individus. Dans cet article, des lettres récemment découvertes, ainsi que de nouveaux éclairages jetés sur des lettres déjà connues, démontrent qu’Eliot appartenait à un petit cercle …
George Eliot
This article transcribes eight hitherto unpublished George Eliot letters arranged in chronological order. The sources for the letters are book and autograph dealers’ catalogues, auction houses, the British Library, and recent acquisitions by university libraries. Placed in their context, chronologically they belong to the early years of George Eliot’s intimate relationship with George Henry Lewes, the publication of her first three volume novel A…
Parental values in the UK
This article investigates the extent to which parental values differ between social groups in the UK at the start of the twenty-first century. The study of parental values is an important area of sociological enquiry that can inform scholarship from across the social sciences concerned with educational inequality and cultural variability in family life. We draw on data from the Millennium Cohort Study to show how parent's social class, religion, …
Aspirations
This article argues for the importance of studying the moral meanings that young people attach to their aspirations and plans for the future. Drawing on semi-structured interview data with 29 young people from a sixth-form college in a disadvantaged area of East London, I show that aspirations are closely connected to the formation of individual and group identities, and the making of inter-group boundaries. I argue that young people develop aspi…
Editors' Report
Religion and reducing prejudice
Drawing on findings from the study of prejudice and prejudice reduction, we identify a number of mechanisms through which religious communities may influence the intergroup attitudes of their members. We hypothesize that religious participation could in principle either reduce or promote prejudice with respect to any given target group. A religious community’s influence on intergroup attitudes will depend upon the specific beliefs, attitudes, and…
Language Use in Six Study Abroad Programs
A common predictor of language gains during study abroad (SA) is amount of language use. Yet little attention has been given to determining what factors influence the extent of language use while abroad. Studies in this area have mainly been case studies of learners in single locations. In this larger study, we seek to determine variables connected with language use by examining 118 learners studying abroad in Madrid, Mérida (Mexico), Paris, Mosc…
Foreign Language Houses
This study examined the lived experience of students participating in foreign language houses to improve their skills in Russian, French, or Japanese. American students residing in apartments with other language learners and a native-speaking resident facilitator were required to speak with one another exclusively in the target language and participate in activities such as preparing and eating dinner together. Data sources for the study included…
The effects of direct and indirect speech acts on native English and ESL speakers’ perception of teacher written feedback
To give is better than to receive
Dialect Identification
This study examines whether two factors, region of origin (i.e., being from either Utah, Western states, or non-Western states) and amount of experience for those not native to Utah (having less than one, more than one but less than five, or over five years living in Utah), influence how well listeners are able to distinguish between Utah and non-Utah speakers and what phonetic characteristics they use to do so. The results suggest that the more …
Child—Adult Differences in Second-Language Phonological Learning
This study evaluated whether age effects on second language (L2) speech learning derive from changes in how the native language (L1) and L2 sound systems interact. According to the “interaction hypothesis” (IH), the older the L2 learner, the less likely the learner is able to establish new vowel categories needed for accurate L2 vowel production and perception because, with age, L1 vowel categories become more likely to perceptually encompass nei…
Learning Second Language Suprasegmentals
This study examines effects of short, medium, and extended second language (L2) experience (3 months, 3 years, and 10 years of United States residence, respectively) on the production of five suprasegmentals (stress timing, peak alignment, speech rate, pause frequency, and pause duration) in six English declarative sentences by 30 adult Korean learners of English and 10 adult native English speakers. Acoustic analyses and listener judgments were …
Interaction of Native- and Second-Language Vowel System(s) in Early and Late Bilinguals
The objective of this study was to determine how bilinguals' age at the time of language acquisition influenced the organization of their phonetic system(s). The productions of six English and five Korean vowels by English and Korean monolinguals were compared to the productions of the same vowels by early and late Korean-English bilinguals varying in amount of exposure to their second language. Results indicated that bilinguals' age profoundly i…
Gender and bilinguals' creativity
Research on the influence of gender on language across different cultures has mostly concentrated on qualitative measures of analysis. These measures demonstrate that there are differences in rhetorical and literary style across world Englishes in both the inner and outer circle. Using Biber's multidimensional analysis (1988) to examine a large corpus of world English literatures written in Indian, West African, Britain, Anglo-American and Mexica…
Interaction of Native- and Second-Language Vowel System(s) in Early and Late Bilinguals
The objective of this study was to determine how bilinguals' age at the time of language acquisition influenced the organization of their phonetic system(s). The productions of six English and five Korean vowels by English and Korean monolinguals were compared to the productions of the same vowels by early and late Korean-English bilinguals varying in amount of exposure to their second language. Results indicated that bilinguals' age profoundly i…
Aspirations
This article argues for the importance of studying the moral meanings that young people attach to their aspirations and plans for the future. Drawing on semi-structured interview data with 29 young people from a sixth-form college in a disadvantaged area of East London, I show that aspirations are closely connected to the formation of individual and group identities, and the making of inter-group boundaries. I argue that young people develop aspi…
Child—Adult Differences in Second-Language Phonological Learning
This study evaluated whether age effects on second language (L2) speech learning derive from changes in how the native language (L1) and L2 sound systems interact. According to the “interaction hypothesis” (IH), the older the L2 learner, the less likely the learner is able to establish new vowel categories needed for accurate L2 vowel production and perception because, with age, L1 vowel categories become more likely to perceptually encompass nei…
Religion and reducing prejudice
Drawing on findings from the study of prejudice and prejudice reduction, we identify a number of mechanisms through which religious communities may influence the intergroup attitudes of their members. We hypothesize that religious participation could in principle either reduce or promote prejudice with respect to any given target group. A religious community’s influence on intergroup attitudes will depend upon the specific beliefs, attitudes, and…
Language Use in Six Study Abroad Programs
A common predictor of language gains during study abroad (SA) is amount of language use. Yet little attention has been given to determining what factors influence the extent of language use while abroad. Studies in this area have mainly been case studies of learners in single locations. In this larger study, we seek to determine variables connected with language use by examining 118 learners studying abroad in Madrid, Mérida (Mexico), Paris, Mosc…
Dialect Identification
This study examines whether two factors, region of origin (i.e., being from either Utah, Western states, or non-Western states) and amount of experience for those not native to Utah (having less than one, more than one but less than five, or over five years living in Utah), influence how well listeners are able to distinguish between Utah and non-Utah speakers and what phonetic characteristics they use to do so. The results suggest that the more …
Parental values in the UK
This article investigates the extent to which parental values differ between social groups in the UK at the start of the twenty-first century. The study of parental values is an important area of sociological enquiry that can inform scholarship from across the social sciences concerned with educational inequality and cultural variability in family life. We draw on data from the Millennium Cohort Study to show how parent's social class, religion, …
Schools and food charity in England
This paper critically examines the development of food charity in schools in England. Growing numbers of schools, often in partnership with charities and businesses, are directly providing food to parents who are struggling to feed their families. This paper analyses how and why this is happening and its broader significance. The growth of food charity in schools is explained through a mixture of a retreating welfare state, an ongoing cost of liv…
Bilingual creativity, multidimensional analysis, and world Englishes
Research in world English literatures has concentrated on qualitative measures of analysis in order to understand what is meant by 'bilingual creativity.' These measures demonstrate that there are differences in rhetorical and literary style within world English literatures both in the inner and outer circle. Using Biber's multidimensional analysis (1988) to examine a large corpus of world English literatures written in Indian, West African, Brit…
The effects of direct and indirect speech acts on native English and ESL speakers’ perception of teacher written feedback
Gender and bilinguals' creativity
Research on the influence of gender on language across different cultures has mostly concentrated on qualitative measures of analysis. These measures demonstrate that there are differences in rhetorical and literary style across world Englishes in both the inner and outer circle. Using Biber's multidimensional analysis (1988) to examine a large corpus of world English literatures written in Indian, West African, Britain, Anglo-American and Mexica…
William Wilberforce on the Idea of Negro Inferiority
Food banks in schools in England
This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country. This important finding shows that there are now more food banks inside schools than outside of them. Our analysis, using responses from representative Teacher Tapp data ( n =…
Better than average? Parental competence beliefs and socioeconomic background
This article investigates the extent to which parents believe they are better than average parents using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. The article builds on a long tradition of sociological research focusing on the interconnections between parenting, class, education and inequality. We find that mothers with low levels of education are more likely to say they are average or worse than average parents. Relatedly, we show that those who…
Editors' Report
The London Library Borrowings of Thomas Carlyle, 1841–1844
THOMAS Carlyle's personal crusade for the opening of a lending library in London and his enlisting for the support of that cause influential and wealthy patrons such as Lord Clarendon, Bulwer‐Lytton, Lord Lyttelton, Dean Milman, Lord Houghton, W. E. Gladstone, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Henry Hallam—amongst a host of other now forgotten early Victorian luminaries—is well documented. According to Robert Harrison's Preface to the 1888 fifth edition of…
William Wilberforce on the Idea of Negro Inferiority
A problematical thinker’ to a ‘sagacious philosopher’
Herbert Spencer and "Evolution"--A Further Note
Violation
Two recent studies in Victorian intellectual history
The London Library Borrowings of Thomas Carlyle, 1841–1844
THOMAS Carlyle's personal crusade for the opening of a lending library in London and his enlisting for the support of that cause influential and wealthy patrons such as Lord Clarendon, Bulwer‐Lytton, Lord Lyttelton, Dean Milman, Lord Houghton, W. E. Gladstone, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Henry Hallam—amongst a host of other now forgotten early Victorian luminaries—is well documented. According to Robert Harrison's Preface to the 1888 fifth edition of…
Metalingual humor in Pinter's early plays
(1995). Metalingual humor in Pinter's early plays. English Studies: Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 253-263
Bilingual creativity, multidimensional analysis, and world Englishes
Research in world English literatures has concentrated on qualitative measures of analysis in order to understand what is meant by 'bilingual creativity.' These measures demonstrate that there are differences in rhetorical and literary style within world English literatures both in the inner and outer circle. Using Biber's multidimensional analysis (1988) to examine a large corpus of world English literatures written in Indian, West African, Brit…
Gender and bilinguals' creativity
Research on the influence of gender on language across different cultures has mostly concentrated on qualitative measures of analysis. These measures demonstrate that there are differences in rhetorical and literary style across world Englishes in both the inner and outer circle. Using Biber's multidimensional analysis (1988) to examine a large corpus of world English literatures written in Indian, West African, Britain, Anglo-American and Mexica…
Interaction of Native- and Second-Language Vowel System(s) in Early and Late Bilinguals
The objective of this study was to determine how bilinguals' age at the time of language acquisition influenced the organization of their phonetic system(s). The productions of six English and five Korean vowels by English and Korean monolinguals were compared to the productions of the same vowels by early and late Korean-English bilinguals varying in amount of exposure to their second language. Results indicated that bilinguals' age profoundly i…
Learning Second Language Suprasegmentals
This study examines effects of short, medium, and extended second language (L2) experience (3 months, 3 years, and 10 years of United States residence, respectively) on the production of five suprasegmentals (stress timing, peak alignment, speech rate, pause frequency, and pause duration) in six English declarative sentences by 30 adult Korean learners of English and 10 adult native English speakers. Acoustic analyses and listener judgments were …
Child—Adult Differences in Second-Language Phonological Learning
This study evaluated whether age effects on second language (L2) speech learning derive from changes in how the native language (L1) and L2 sound systems interact. According to the “interaction hypothesis” (IH), the older the L2 learner, the less likely the learner is able to establish new vowel categories needed for accurate L2 vowel production and perception because, with age, L1 vowel categories become more likely to perceptually encompass nei…
To give is better than to receive
Dialect Identification
This study examines whether two factors, region of origin (i.e., being from either Utah, Western states, or non-Western states) and amount of experience for those not native to Utah (having less than one, more than one but less than five, or over five years living in Utah), influence how well listeners are able to distinguish between Utah and non-Utah speakers and what phonetic characteristics they use to do so. The results suggest that the more …
The effects of direct and indirect speech acts on native English and ESL speakers’ perception of teacher written feedback
Foreign Language Houses
This study examined the lived experience of students participating in foreign language houses to improve their skills in Russian, French, or Japanese. American students residing in apartments with other language learners and a native-speaking resident facilitator were required to speak with one another exclusively in the target language and participate in activities such as preparing and eating dinner together. Data sources for the study included…
Language Use in Six Study Abroad Programs
A common predictor of language gains during study abroad (SA) is amount of language use. Yet little attention has been given to determining what factors influence the extent of language use while abroad. Studies in this area have mainly been case studies of learners in single locations. In this larger study, we seek to determine variables connected with language use by examining 118 learners studying abroad in Madrid, Mérida (Mexico), Paris, Mosc…
Religion and reducing prejudice
Drawing on findings from the study of prejudice and prejudice reduction, we identify a number of mechanisms through which religious communities may influence the intergroup attitudes of their members. We hypothesize that religious participation could in principle either reduce or promote prejudice with respect to any given target group. A religious community’s influence on intergroup attitudes will depend upon the specific beliefs, attitudes, and…
Aspirations
This article argues for the importance of studying the moral meanings that young people attach to their aspirations and plans for the future. Drawing on semi-structured interview data with 29 young people from a sixth-form college in a disadvantaged area of East London, I show that aspirations are closely connected to the formation of individual and group identities, and the making of inter-group boundaries. I argue that young people develop aspi…
Editors' Report
Parental values in the UK
This article investigates the extent to which parental values differ between social groups in the UK at the start of the twenty-first century. The study of parental values is an important area of sociological enquiry that can inform scholarship from across the social sciences concerned with educational inequality and cultural variability in family life. We draw on data from the Millennium Cohort Study to show how parent's social class, religion, …
George Eliot, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Sarah Marks and Barbara Bodichon
George Eliot, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Sarah Marks and Barbara Bodichon
George Eliot était perpétuellement préoccupée à l’idée ne pas en faire assez pour les autres, alors même qu’elle était constamment submergée de demandes d’aide. De là son ambivalence, notamment face aux demandes de soutien financier pour certaines causes ou certains individus. Dans cet article, des lettres récemment découvertes, ainsi que de nouveaux éclairages jetés sur des lettres déjà connues, démontrent qu’Eliot appartenait à un petit cercle …
George Eliot
This article transcribes eight hitherto unpublished George Eliot letters arranged in chronological order. The sources for the letters are book and autograph dealers’ catalogues, auction houses, the British Library, and recent acquisitions by university libraries. Placed in their context, chronologically they belong to the early years of George Eliot’s intimate relationship with George Henry Lewes, the publication of her first three volume novel A…
Better than average? Parental competence beliefs and socioeconomic background
This article investigates the extent to which parents believe they are better than average parents using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. The article builds on a long tradition of sociological research focusing on the interconnections between parenting, class, education and inequality. We find that mothers with low levels of education are more likely to say they are average or worse than average parents. Relatedly, we show that those who…
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