Marlen Elliot Harrison, Ph.D.
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Marlen Elliot Harrison, Ph.D.
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    Technicolor Third Space: Developing the AutoEthnographer Literary & Arts Magazine

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    How Autoethnography Is Being Utilized to Support Learner Development

    Disrupting the MA English Thesis: Autoethnography in Advanced Literary Studies

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    Keynote Speaker: Professional Development Opportunities for Online Students, Tiffin University

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    “He Was the One Teacher That Pushed Me the Most During My Stay Here at SNHU”

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    Esxence 2016 – Roundtable – Judging & Criticism in Artistic Perfumery

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Fragrance Writing at Basenotes

In addition to Fragrantica.com, Marlen has also contributed to the following: BASENOTES, 2005-2014 (10 articles) Addicted: The Ramblings of a Fragrance Junkie...
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The English Teacher: Strawberry Cockroach

Excerpt from Book 1, Japan; Part 1, Hajimeru (Beginning) As any learner of a foreign language knows, it is sometimes...
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TV Review: Your Home Made Perfect (BBC 2)

UK home makeover show from BBC2 using virtual reality for immersive previews.
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Philosophy of Teaching

PHILOSOPHY OF TEACHING “To love what you do and feel that it matters, what could be more fun?” In the...
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Language and Technology: An Interview with Dr. Harrison

Marlen was currently interviewed by a UK-based writer for a forthcoming article on language and technology. Here’s what he had...
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“China, why not?”: serious leisure and transmigrant runners’ stories from Beijing

"Through interviews with five female and two male expatriates, we studied the ways in which Western runners brought meaning to the transition experience and negotiated meanings and bodily practices associated with running. Through narrative analysis, we identified three core narratives of migration (possibility, necessity and growing up) and two emergent narratives (community and running to feel like oneself) about shifting meaning in running."
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Book Chapter: Humanizing Pedagogy and the Personal Essay

"classroom observations showed us that there was a strong connection between not only the theory and practice of using personal essays, but also of the outcomes such practice will have on student writing, creating a more humanized classroom environment."
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Keynote Speaker: Professional Development Opportunities for Online Students, Tiffin University

Presentations from the 1st Annual Graduate Research Conference, Tiffin University, Ohio: Keynote, “Creating Opportunities for Student Professional Development in Online Programs”; March, 2019
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Meeting the Minister of Education

As part of the presentation of plans for a united language campus (KieliKampus) at JYU, Marlen along with student-researchers Jenni,...
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Household and personal care: The scented word – Context, intrigue and the problem of olfactory literacy.

Harrison, M. (2010). The scented word: Context, intrigue and the problem of olfactory literacy. Household and Personal Care, Supplement. January,(1), 6-10. ABSTRACT:...
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Workshop: Face and Cross-cultural Communication

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Book Chapter: Taking the teacher out of the test – Exploring student automomy in EFL classroom testing

Harrison, M. (2006). Taking the teacher out of the test: Exploring student automomy in EFL classroom testing. In M. Koyama & E....
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