Browsing by Author "Kendall, Shari"
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Lin, Grace Hui Chin (2009-05-15)The primary purpose of this study was to identify what were Taiwanese University English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ perceptions about learning communication strategies. This study collected qualitative data about ...
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Lim, Todd Raschen (2016-04-26)When the Supreme Court of the United States guaranteed the right to marry for same-sex couples in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015, the issue of integrating the LGBTQ community into society was propelled into the ...
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Scharold, Dagmar (2012-10-19)Cooperative tutoring in a writing center setting consists of two tutors who work collaboratively with one student. It is a variation of one method of training new tutors, where the novice tutor observes the expert tutor ...
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Ko, Wei-Hong (2020-05-05)This dissertation consisted of two inter-related studies examining second language (L2) learners’ development of pragmatic competence in game-mediated communication contexts. Research has shown that multiplayer online ...
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Flacy, Kathleen Anne (2014-12-18)The main question addressed in this dissertation relates to the discourses that Latino/a students and community colleges bring to the educational table. From this question come corollary questions concerning the concept ...
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Wagner, Sharon Pardes (2017-05-10)Animals are raised for human consumption. This practice has become an increasingly divisive issue in America. On one side of this issue are those who believe that eating animals and using their byproducts is natural, normal, ...
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Kung, Wan-Tsai (2010-10-12)This dissertation investigated Taiwanese English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners' incidental noticing and their subsequent language learning in relation to learner proficiency level and dyadic type in a text-based ...
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Ko, Wei-Hong (2013-08-07)The present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of ninety requestive emails written to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. Most previous studies on interlanguage ...
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Brewer, Rebecca Ann (2013-05-21)This study examines the language attitudes of entrepreneurial students enrolled in the Academy for Creating Enterprise (ACE) in Mexico City toward six rural and urban varieties of Mexican Spanish to consider whether their ...
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Harper, Kelsey E (2019-12-05)This study provides the background of Peru’s ethnic and linguistic history, leading up to reasons for transnational migration and ultimately the linguistic and social positioning of the Peruvian diaspora with respect to ...
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Anderson, Sheri L. (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This analysis employs the sociolinguistic framework of status and solidarity (Holmes, 2001) to examine the use of codeswitching on the relational development between the characters in three plays by Cuban-American playwright ...
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Yang, Xinyuan (2012-10-19)With wide adoption of on-line instruction as a new instruction format in higher education in the U.S. and the fast growing population of international students coming to pursue degrees in America, the exploration of ...
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Sappington, Randy Earl (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)People often create novel lexical expressions to efficiently communicate their thoughts to others. Noun-noun phrases, also known as conceptual combinations, serve as an example of these novel expressions. Most of the research ...
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Droz, Patricia (2015-05-04)The hypermasculine culture of haute cuisine has been traditionally limiting to women, who tend to leave the restaurant industry or stagnate in their professional growth. With interpretive and descriptive discourse analysis, ...