Student Dissertations
Click on any Academic Year to see a list of SLAT Dissertations completed in that Academic Year.
To access the full text of these dissertations, please see the University of Arizona library database.
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Mariana Centanin Bertho | Shelley Staples | Oral Development in L3 Portuguese by English-Spanish Bilinguals |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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David Lozada Gomez | Peter Ecke | Developing L2 Pragmatic Competence through Collaborative Dialogue: A Study on EFL Learners' Request-making in Interaction |
Jaime Mejia Mayorga | Sheilah Nicholas | Exploring Indigeneity in English Language Teaching Through TURI AISA YA With Indigenous Miskitu Teachers of English |
Hyeonah Kang | Janet Nicol | L2 Vocabulary Learning from Reading: Effects from Word-focused Activity Type, Learner Variables, Announcement, and Reading Behavior |
Valentina Vinokurova | Beatrice Dupuy | Service-Provider Virtual Exchange: Practices, Literacies, and Identities |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Jorge Mejia | Beatrice Dupuy | A Multimodal Analysis of Critical Learning Episodes in the EFL Classroom |
Veronica Oguilve | Jill Castek | An Informal Online Community in the Digital Wilds: Possibilities for Language Learning |
Seojin (Sophie) Park | Wenhao Diao & Sunyoung Yang | English Language Learning and Learner Identities of North Korean Refugees in South Korea |
Nina Conrad | Christine Tardy | How Students Seek and Use Writing Support: Exploring the Spectrum of Literacy Brokering Practices in Higher Education |
Rachel Floyd | Jill Castek | Needs Analysis Of Recent Foreign Language Graduate Program Alumni |
Sara Alcazar Silva | Chantelle Warner & Sonia Colina | Symbolic Competence as a Means of Empowering Heritage Spanish Learners as Language Mediators |
Lorraine (Lola) McCoy | Dalila Ayoun | The Acquisition of the Subjunctive Mood by L2 French Learners |
Jacob Monzingo | Janet Nicol | VR and Vocabulary Acquisition: Exploring Participant Vocabulary Outcomes, Tendencies, and Perceptions of Game Narrative and Task |
Federico Fabbri | Beatrice Dupuy | Why study Romance Languages in the US? Investigating and Addressing the Enrollment and Retention Crisis in US-based Romance Language Programs |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Tahnee Bucher Barbosa da Silva | Beatrice Dupuy | Assessing Language Assessment Literacy in University and College-Administered Intensive English Programs Across the United States |
Margherita Berti | Beatrice Dupuy | Critical Transcultural Competence Through Virtual Reality: Connecting Theories, Materials, and Practices |
Natalie Amgott | Blaine Smith | Implementing and Evaluating Multiliteracies in College French: A Nested Case Study |
Drake Asberry | Miquel Simonet | Syllabification and Visual Word Segmentation in Spanish-English Bilinguals |
Anna Kamenetski (Katikhina) | Vicky Lai | The Influence of Language on Mental Representations of Events |
Ahmad Elsayed (Ismail) | Perry Gilmore | The Performance of Refugeehood on Social Media in an Era of Superdiversity: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Arab Refugee Identities and Literacies on YouTube |
Casey Richardson | Francesca Lopez | They See Me Different...Like an Immigrant Cause of How I Sound: Perceived Difference, Limitations, & Co-Naturalizations of Race and Language |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Lauren Harvey | Christine Tardy | "Bigger Than the Syllabus": Exploring Second Language Writing Instructors' Curriculum Knowledge |
Stefan Vogel | Suzanne Panferov Reese | Collaboration as a Path to Professionalizing Leadership: Insights From L2 Writing Teachers' Narratives |
Jeroen Gevers | Christine Tardy | Disciplinary Routes: Negotiating Academic Identity in Graduate-Level Writing |
Anamaria Sagre | Beatrice Dupuy | Exploring Interculturality in the Colombian EFL Classroom: A Situated Collaborative Case Study |
Emily Palese | Christine Tardy | Prompting Students to Write: Designing and Using Second Language Writing Assignments Prompts |
Tanya Tercero | Chris Tardy | Self-Efficiency and Designing and Teaching Online Academic Writing Courses for Multilingual Writers |
Dunja Radojkovic | Chantelle Warner | Serbian EFL Teachers in the Middle East: Three Cases of Intercultural Learning and Teaching |
Yiting Han | Jonathan Reinhardt | Successful Language Learning in the Digital Wilds: Complexity, Autonomy, and Identity |
Aleksey Novikov | Shelley Staples | Syntactic and Morphological Complexity Measures as Markers of L2 Development in Russian |
Maredil Leon | Hayriye Kayi-Aydar | The Intersection of Language Ideologies and Language Teacher Identities in the Expanding Circle |
Siti Juwariyah | Kathy Short | World Englishes and the Teaching of English as an International Language: Indonesian Teachers' Perspectives and Professional Development Experiences |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Hicham Assaoui | Thomas Bever | Coreference Assignment and Anaphora Resolution in Arabic |
Mariela Lopez | Miquel Simonet | Effects of Native Phonology on Spoken Word Recognition and Second Language Phonological Processing |
Adriana Picoral Sarandy Machado Scheidegger | Shelley Staples | L3 Portuguese by Spanish-English Bilinguals: Copula Construction Use and Acquisition in Corpus Data |
Amani Alageel | Qing Zhang & Linda Waugh | Language Variation Style, and the Construction of Micro-Celebrity Personas |
Angel Steadman | Hayriye Kayi-Aydar | Raising the Curtain: Positioning and Identity Construction in Online Language Teacher Education |
Borbala Gaspar | Wenhao Diao | Shifting Goals in Italian Learning: Imagination, Multilingualism, and Agency in the Narratives of Underrepresented Foreign Language Learners |
Jenna Altherr-Flores | Chantelle Warner | Social Semiotics and Literacy: How Refugee-Background Adult Second Language Learners With Emerging Literacy Make Meaning in Multimodal Assessment Texts |
Joan Palmiter Bajorek | Michael Hammond | Speaking of Language Technology |
Timothy O'Connell | Suzanne Panferov-Reese | Stakeholder's Perceptions of the 2010 English Language Training Program Accreditation Act |
Amanda Snell Shuffelbarger | Chantelle Warner | Subversive Survival Through Critical Creativity in Community-Based Adult Second Language Contexts |
Chelsea Timlin | Chantelle Warner | Talk about Texts: Interactional Literacies in Second Language Learning |
Nicole Schmidt | Beatrice Dupuy | Teaching Digital Literacies: Knowledges, Practices, and Resources in Second Language Writing |
Bruna Sommer Farias | Christina Tardy | This is Helping Me With Writing in All Languages: Developing Genre Knowledge Across Languages in a Foreign Language Course |
Elif Burhan | Christine Tardy | Understanding Multiple Layers of Practice: A Study on Academic Discourse Socialization in Engineering Research Teams |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Stefano Maranzana | Eliane Rubenstein-Avila | Animated Cartoons in the Language Classroom: Attitudes and Perceptions of Italian L2 Students |
Sara Al-Bahlani | Peter Ecke | Assessment Literacy: A Study of EFL Teachers' Assessment Knowledge, Perspectives, and Classroom Behaviors |
Wid Allehaiby | Chantelle Warner | Awe No Please Love Us: Exploring L2 Teachers and Learners' Perceptions of Online Intercultural (Im) Politeness |
Christian Ruvalcaba | Andrew Carnie | Deriving Possession from Location, Accompaniment, and Paths to Nowhere: A Microcomparative Analysis of Clausal Possession in English and Spanish |
Pornnicha Weerakanto | Jonathon Reinhardt | Digital Literacies of English Language Teachers and Students and Their Perceptions of Technology - enhanced Language Learning and Teaching in Thailand |
Jacob Witt | Christine Tardy | Disciplinary Feedback Practices: Comparing Preferences, Expectations, and Practices |
Janelle Moser | Beatrice Dupuy | Evaluating Arabic Textbooks: Authenticity of Genres and Vocabulary |
Tara Hashemi | Beatrice Dupuy | Implementing a Literacy-Oriented Curriculum in the Basic Foreign Language Sequence: Insights from Stakeholders on Program Development, Instructional Materials, and Graduate Student Professional Learning |
Rachel Lamance | Shelby Staples & Christine Tardy | Investigating the Development of Academic Literacies, Writing, and Identities in University Students |
Kayo Shintaku | Jonathon Reinhardt | Literacy Practices with Media: Popular Culture Media and the Role of Pedagogical Guidance in L2 Learning of Japanese |
Cynthia Kopp | Linda Waugh & Mary Wildner-Bassett | Narratives of Complaint: Translingual Subjectivities in the Basic Writing Classroom |
Essa Batel | Janet Nicol | The Effect of Sentence Context on Second Language Word Recognition |
Cody Dees | Suzanne Panferov Reese | Value, Identity, and Identifying Value: Exploring meta-cognitive value in SLA contexts |
Jennifer Slinkard | Christine Tardy | Writing Instructors as Arbiters of Language Policy |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Trudie McEvoy | Mary Wildner-Bassett & Cynthia Ducar | An Exploration of Motivation in Lower Level Heritage Language Learners |
Riyad Alhomsi | Suzanne Panferov | Co-Curricular Technology Engagement and Its Effects on Arabic Language Learner Motivation, Autonomy, and Language Proficiency |
Michael Sayle | Feng-hsi Liu & Linda Waugh | Figurative language processes in L2 Mandarin grammar: the interaction between structure and context/world knowledge |
Christopher Vasquez-Wright | Beatrice Dupuy | Language learner identity of Mormon missionaries: Implications for second language pedagogy and research |
Linda Lemus | Ana Carvalho & Ana Christina da Silva Iddings | Portraits of Multilinguals on Social Network Sites: Identity Negotiation and Language Use |
Jieun Ryu | Jonathon Reinhardt | Pragmatics Instruction in Korean as a Foreign Language Programs in the U.S.: Overview of the Programs, Instructors' Beliefs, and Pedagogical Application |
Kristin Lange | Chantelle Warner | Textbook Literacies - Investigating the Potential of Commercial Textbooks for Literacies-Oriented Instruction and the Professional Development of Graduate Students |
Alan Kohler | Linda Waugh & Christine Tardy | What Lies Beneath: The Revelatory Power Of Metonymy In Discourse, Language Planning, And Higher Education |
Kristian Adi Putra | Leisy Wyman | Youth, Technology and Indigenous Language Revitalization in Indonesia |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Sansanee Punyalert | Chantelle Warner | A Genre-focused Course of Business English Learning: Video Gaming and Global Simulation |
Sichon Koowuttayakorn | Linda Waugh & Chantelle Warner | Affordances, positioning and stancetaking: A multimodal analysis of English language learning and teaching on Facebook Pages |
Merica McNeil | Robert Ariew | An Analysis of Student-Centered Curricular Innovation in Online Language Teacher Education: A Case Study |
Steven Randall | Beatrice Dupuy | An Exploration Of A University Academic Bridge Program For English Language Learners |
Justin Parry | Beatrice Dupuy | Analyzing Hebrew Textbooks: Differing Goals and Identities in Language Classrooms |
Elizabeth Tso | Perry Gilmore | Discourse, Social Scales, and Epiphenomenality of Language Policy: A Case Study of a Local, Hong Kong NGO |
Elyse Petit | Beatrice Dupuy | Enhancing Visual and Critical Media Literacy in a Foreign Language Classroom through Media Production and Digital Storytelling: Students' Voice and Agency |
Bonnie Holmes | Janet Nicol & Sara Beaudrie | I understand everything you say, I just don't speak it: The role of morphology in the comprehension of Spanish by receptive heritage bilinguals |
Zura Dotton | Linda Waugh | Language Policy and Language Planning in Kazakhstan: About the Proposed Shift from the Cyrillic Alphabet to the Latin |
Samina Yasmin | Suzanne Panferov | Making It Work for "Them": A Technology-Enhanced Educational Innovation in Pakistan |
Benjamin Schilaty | Mary Carol Combs | Navigating Language Choice as a Mormon Missionary |
Glen Piskula | Linda Waugh & Mariko Karatsu | Negotiation for Meaning and Scaffolding Techniques: An Analysis of Social Interaction between NNS Japanese Students and NS English Instructors in a Semi-Institutional Context |
Janel Goodman Murakami | Janet Nicol | The Influence of Social Cues and Cognitive Processes in Computer Mediated Second Language Learning |
Ahmet Okal | Janet Nicol | Turkish Global Simulation: A Modern Strategy for Teaching Language and Culture using Web Technologies |
Malena Samaniego | Sonia Colina | Undergraduate translator education in Chilean inquiry into teacher and student thinking, learning experiences and teaching practices |
Diego Macias | Beatrice Dupuy | What I didn't want to do', 'what I thought I would do', and 'what I ended up doing': Novice EFL Teachers' Narratives of Experience in Learning to Teach |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Jinjing Zhao | Jonathon Reinhardt | An Ecological Analysis of Digital Game-Mediated Second Language Learning |
Veronika Williams | Suzanne Panferov | An Evaluation of a Program for Intentional Learning: A Hybrid Approach to Fostering Learner Autonomy |
Zachary Brooks | Tom Bever & Linda Waugh | Bilingual decision making: verbal probability, ethics, and cognition |
Hope Anderson | Robert Ariew | Blended Basic Language Courses: Making Pedagogical and Administrative Choices about Technology |
Migdalia Rodriguez | Suzanne Panferov | Effective Pedagogical Practices in Online English Language Teacher Education |
Mustafa Polat | Robert Ariew | Emerging Technologies in Language Pedagogy: Language Learners' Perceptions through the Lenses of Innovation Diffusion and User Intention Theories |
Christine Palumbo | Luis Moll & Christine Tardy | Imagined Destinations: The Role of Subjectivity and the Generative Potential of Lived Experiences in Adult English Learners' Paths to Fluency |
Adnan Yilmaz | Linda Waugh | Intercultural Communicative Competence Through the Lens of Semio-Ethnography: Research on Turkish International Graduate Student in the US Socio-Semiotic World |
Fahd Alalwi | Peter Ecke | Intercultural Competence Development in a Study Abroad Context: Saudi Learners in the United States |
Asma Alsahil | Robert Ariew | Social Networking Mediated Intercultural Communicative Competence: Affordances and Constraints |
Steve Przymus | Leisy Wyman | Social Semiotics, Education, and Identity: Creating Trajectories for Youth at Schools to Perform Knowledge and Identities as Language Users |
Adnan Alobaid | Suzanne Panferov | Testing, Assessment, and Evaluation in Language Programs |
Denise Osborne | Miquel Simonet | The Acquisition of Fine Phonetic Detail in a Foreign Language: Perception and Production of Stops in L2 English and L1 Portuguese |
Rachel Kraut | Kenneth Forster & Janet Nicol | The Development of Second Language Reading and Morphological Processing Skills |
Heather Smyser | Mary Alt | The Goldilocks of Variability and Complexity: The Acquisition of Mental Orthographic Representations in Emergent Refugee Readers |
Karim Shaker Ibrahim | Jonathon Reinhardt | The Interplay of Languaging and Gameplay: Player-game Interactions as Ecologies for Languaging and Situated L2 Development |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Robert Pool | Jonathon Reinhardt | A Corpus Approach to Ecological Discourse Analysis and L2 Writing Pedagogy |
Iqbal Al Balushi | Linda Waugh | Critical Semiotic Order Theory: The Misconstruction of Arab And Muslim Identities And Voices In Hollywood Movies |
Soomin Jwa | Linda Waugh | Genre Knowledge Development: Tracing Trajectories of L2 Students' Transitions to Disciplinary Expectations in College Writing |
Katherine Christoffersen | Ana Carvalho | Language Choice and Code-Switching among Sequential and Simultaneous Bilingual Children: An Analysis of Grammatical, Functional and Identity-Related Patterns |
Karen Barto | Janet Nicol & Miguel Simonet | Mandarin Speakers' Intonation in their L2 English |
Kristen Michelson | Beatrice Dupuy | Mediating Pedagogies for Teaching and Learning Language and Culture as Discourse: A multiliteracies-based Global Simulation in Intermediate French |
Paul Renigar Jr | Linda Waugh | Metaphors From Quantum Physics: Enhancing Ecological L2 Social Networking In An Intermediate Italian Course |
Osman Solmaz | Jonathon Reinhardt | Multilingual Students' Management of Transnational Identities in Online Participatory Spaces |
Kristin Helland | Linda Waugh | Multilingualism, Identity, and Ideology in Popular Culture Texts: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis |
Yasumasa Shigenaga | Thomas Bever | Processing and Acquisition of Scrambled Sentences by Learners of Japanese as a Second Language |
Sonja Fordham | Linda Waugh | Teacher Feedback Stance and Student Response in the ESL Composition Classroom |
Timothy Murphy | Douglas Adamson | The Use of Film in a First Year College Writing Class for ESL Students |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Kathlyn Spires Diaz | Toni Griego-Jones | Achieving Academic English Competencies: Perspectives From Mexican Adult Immigrants In A Community College ESL Classroom |
Mahmoud Azaz | Thomas Bever & Linda Waugh | Acquisition of Form-Meaning Mapping in L2 Arabic and English Noun Phrases: A Bidirectional Framework |
Tamara MC | Linda Waugh | Blending Lifewriting and Technology to Teach Language, Culture, and Identity in the ESL Classroom |
Mike Child | Ana Carvalho | Cross-linguistic Influence in L3 Portuguese Learning: Language Learning Perceptions and the Knowledge and Transfer of Mood Distinctions by Three Groups of English-Spanish Bilinguals |
M'Balia Thomas | Linda Waugh | Girl Talk - A dialogic approach to narrative analysis in second/foreign language research |
Jose Aldemar Valencia | Linda Waugh | Language, Learning and Identity in Social Networking Sites for Language Learning: the Case of Busuu |
Katie Angus | Beatrice Dupuy | Meeting the Needs of Foreign Language Teaching Assistants: Professional Development in American Universities |
Brian Hibbs | Kathy Short | Reading Children's and Adolescent Literature in Three University Second-Semester Spanish Courses: An Action Research Study |
Mohammed Tamimi | Robert Ariew | Teaching culture in Arabic: Perspectives on the use of blended learning and Hypermedia |
Katie Burns Al Masaeed | Robert Ariew | The Ideology of U.S. Spanish in Foreign and Heritage Language Curricula: Insights from Textbooks and Instructor Focus Groups |
Robert Cote | Mary Wildner-Bassett | The Role of Student Attitiude Towards peer Review in Anonymous Electronic Peer Review in an EFL Writing Classroom |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Kacy Peckenpaugh | Beatrice Dupuy | Becoming Transcultural: Maximizing Study Abroad |
Khaled Al Masaeed | Linda Waugh | Functions of Arabic-English Code-switching: Sociolinguistic Insights from A Study Abroad Program |
Ashli Lovitt | Beatrice Dupuy | The Linguistic Gains and Acculturation of American High School Students on Exchange Programs in Germany |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Janna Orlova Shaeffer | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Development of Intercultural Competence in Intermediate Foreign Language Learners |
Hongmei Wu | Kenneth Forster | Mechanisms of Masked Priming: Testing the Entry Opening Model |
Kara Johnson | Jun Liu & Linda Waugh | Peer and Self Review: A holistic examination of EFL learners' writing and review process |
Alexandra Kuchuk | Linda R. Waugh | Politeness in Intercultural Communication: Some Insights into Pragmatics of English as an International Language |
Lingxia Jin | Linda R. Waugh | Second Language Acquisition of Spatial Metaphors in English and Chinese Writings: Insights from Learner and Native Corpora |
Elizabeth Enkin | Kenneth Forster | The Maze Task: Using a Computerized Psycholinguistic Experimental Technique in Examining Methodologies for Second Language Learning |
Olga Ellis | Robert Ariew | Voice vs. Text Chats: Their Efficacy for Leaning Probing Questions by Non-Native Speaking Medical Professionals in Online Courses |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Jeffrey Gabbitas | Douglas Adamson | Articulation in the Spanish program at a large southwestern university: A case study |
Angelica Sandoval | Jun Liu | Attitude, Motivation, and English Language Learning in a Mexican College Context |
Naoko Witzel | Ken Forster | How Words are Represented in Bilingual Memory |
Tina Badstuebner | Peter Ecke | L1 Attrition: German Immigrants in the U.S. |
Miriam Diaz Granado | Miguel Simonet & Natasha Warner | L2 and L3 acquisition of the Portuguese stressed vowel inventory by native speakers of English |
Helen Shishkin | Peter Ecke | Language Dominance and Culture Dominance: Russian Immigrants in the US |
Gwynne Gonzales | Sara Beaudrie | Spanish Heritage Language Use, Linguistic Integrity and Social Network |
Nadia Hamrouni | Kenneth Forster | Structure and processing in Tunisian Arabic: Speech error data |
Theresa Catalano | Grace Fielder | Xeno-Racism and Discursive Construction of "Us" vs. "Them": Cosa Nostra, Wall Street and Immigrants in Crime Reports |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Frank Malgesini | Linda Waugh | An Ethnographic Approach to Literature: Reading Wildfell Hall in the L1 and L2 Classroom |
Li-Feng Kuo | Jun Liu | Children's Use of Requests In Chinese (L1) And English (L2): A Case Study In Taiwan |
Autumn Witt | Jun Liu | Establishing the Validity of the Task-Based English Speaking Test (TBEST) for International Teaching Assistants |
Kelly Lowther | Ana Carvalho | Identity and Language Ideology in the Intermediate Spanish Heritage Language Classroom |
Hassan Souleyman | Robert Ariew | Implicit and explicit vocabulary acquisition with a computer-assisted hypertext reading task: Comprehension and retention |
Elena Shishkin | Peter Ecke | Language Dominance and Culture Dominance: L2 Acquisition, L1 Maintenance, And Culture Identification Among Russian Immigrants In The U.S. |
Mary Margaret Hodges-Popova | Perry Gilmore | Mandela's children and youth day: Representations of national identity in South African news media |
Natalya Samokhina | Diane Ohala & Natasha Warner | Phonetics and Phonology of Regressive Voicing Assimilation in Russian Native and Non-native Speech |
Ana Cecilia Villarreal-Ballesteros | Linda Waugh | Professional Identity Formation and Development Of Imagined Communities In An English Language Major In Mexico |
Clay Williams | Thomas Bever | Semantic vs. Phonetic Decoding Strategies in Non-Native Readers of Chinese |
Rong Liu | Janet Nicol & Robert Ariew | The acquisition and online processing of anaphora by Chinese-English bilinguals: A computer assisted study |
Eleni Saltourides | Robert Ariew | The Sociocultural Impact of Technology on Adult Immigrant English as a Second Language Learners |
Maria Kelly-Cervantes | Roseann Gonzalez | Translation and Interpretation as a Means to Improve Bilingual High School Students' English and Spanish Academic Language Proficiency |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Seiji Watanabe | Timothy Vance | Cultural and Educational Contributions to Recent Phonological Changes in Japanese |
Yingliang Liu | Jun Liu | ESL Students in the College Writing Conferences: Perception and Participation |
Brittany Lindsey | LuAnn Gerken | La Is Better than el: The Role of Regularity and Lexical Familiarity in Noun Phrase Production by Young Spanish-Speaking Children |
Carmen Helena Nieto Guerrero | Linda Waugh | National Standards for the Teaching of English in Colombia: A Critical Discourse Analysis |
Bryan Meadows | Linda Waugh | Nationalism and Language Learning at the US/Mexico Border: An Ethnigraphically-Sensitive Critical Discourse Analysis of the Reproduction of Nation, Power, and Privilege in an English Language Classroom |
Keith Johnson | Natasha Warner | Second Language Acquisition of the Spanish Multiple Vibrant Consonant |
Kathleen O'Brien-de Ramirez | Yetta Goodman & Linda Waugh | Silent, Oral, L1, L2, French and English Reading Through Eye Movements and Miscues |
Maria Rocio Delgado | Eliane Rubinstein-Avila | Spanish Heritage Language Socialization Practices of a Family of Mexican Origin |
Jeremy Leland Palmer | Samira Farwaneh | Student Acculturation, Language Preference, and L2 Competence in Study Abroad Programs in the Arabic-Speaking World |
Chang-Ching Chen | Janet Nicol | The representation and processing of past tense in Chinese English-language learners |
Xiaomei Qiao | Ken Forster | The Representation of Newly Learned Words in the Mental Lexicon |
Yi Xu | Heidi Harley | The Syntax, Processing and Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Relative Clauses |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Jody Cripps | Sam Supalla | A Case Study on Reading Processes of Signing Deaf Children |
Nolvia Cortez | Linda Waugh | Am I in the Book? Imagined Communities and Language Ideologies of English in a Global EFL Textbook |
Veronica Susanne Ostertag | Mary Wildner-Bassett | An Investigation Of The Value Of Fictional Texts As A Tool For Enriching German Language And Culture Learning: A Kaleidoscopic View Of Outcomes And Possibilities |
Xin Wang | Kenneth Forster | Bilingual Lexical Representation and Processing: Evidence from Masked Priming Studies |
Norma Barletta Manjarres | Linda Waugh | English Teachers in Colombia: Ideologies and Identities in Academic Writing |
Neil Johnson | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Genre as Concept in Second Language Academic Writing Pedagogy |
Lisa Jurkowitz | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Interaction, Meaning-Making, and Accuracy in Synchronous CMC Discussion: The Experiences of a University-Level Intermediate French Class |
Elizabeth Specker | Linda Waugh & Tom Bever | L1/L2 Eye Movement Reading of Closed Captioning: A Multimodal Analysis of Multimodal Use |
Shanthi Nadarajan | H. Douglas Adamson | Measuring Academic Vocabulary Size and Depth in the Writing Classroom: Does it Really Matter? |
Maite Correa | Peter Ecke | Metalinguistic Knowledge and the Acquisition of the Spanish Subjunctive by Learners at Three Proficiency Levels |
Lance Askildson | Beatrice Dupuy & Janet Nicol | Phonological Bootstrapping in Word Recognition and Whole Language Reading: A Composite Pedagogy for L2 |
Boon Joo Park | Janet Nicol | Syntactic Persistence Within and Across Languages in English and Korean L1 and L2 Speakers |
Jessica Eve Gerard | Linda Waugh & Yetta Goodman | The Reading of Formulaic Sequences in a Native and Non-Native Language: An Eye Movement Analysis |
Yumika Muramatsu | Jun Liu | The Role of Native-Speaker Status and Cultural Background: A Multidimensional Case Study of Teacher-Student Interaction in English Composition Classes |
Cheryl Traiger | Linda Waugh | Tourists' English Expectations: Discourse Analysis of Attitudes towards Language and Culture on Travel Websites |
Virginie Askildson (Dasse | Beatrice Dupuy | What do Teachers and Students Want from a Foreign Language Textbook? |
Kimberly Adilia Helmer | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Year One at "City" High School: An Ethnographic Study of Heritage Language Learners at an Innovative Charter School |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Kamolthip Phonlabutra | Linda Waugh | Learning in an English Content-Based Program in a Junior- High School in Thailand: A Case Study |
Jun Zhao | Linda Waugh | Metaphors and Gestures for Abstract Concepts in Academic English Writing |
Kara McBride | Jun Liu | The Effect of Rate of Speech and CALL Design Features on EFL Listening Comprehension and Strategy Use |
Paul Lyddon | Robert Ariew | The Efficacy of Corrective Feedback and Target Form Enhancement in Promoting Acquisition of the ?/au/en/aux Distinction in L2 French |
Simona Estela Ene | Linda Waugh | The Last Stages of Second Language Acquisition: Linguistic Evidence from Academic Writing by Advanced Non-Native English Speakers |
Margaret Smith | Linda Waugh | The Minutemen Versus the 'United Army of Illegal Aliens': A Critical Discourse Analysis of WWW Representations |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Cynthia M. Ducar | Linda Waugh | (Re)Presentations of U.S. Latinos: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Spanish Heritage Language Textbooks |
Patrick Bolger | Cecile McKee | Alphabetic processing in English and Spanish |
Sara Mariel Beaudrie | Robert Ariew | Spanish Heritage Language Development: A Causal-Comparative Study Exploring the Differential Effects of Heritage Versus Foreign Language Curriculum |
Alan Victor Brown | Renate Schulz | Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Effective Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Comparison of Ideals and Ratings |
Greg L.Thompson | Renate Schulz | Teacher and Student First Language and Target Language Use in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Language Choice |
Senta Goertler | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Teacher Participation and Feedback Styles During Classroom Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication in Intermediate German: A Multiple Case Study |
Sharon K. Deckert | Susan Philips & Linda Waugh | The Construction of Functional Identities in Forensic Interviews with Children |
Hyunok Ahn | Robert Ariew | The Impact of Individual Learner Characteristics and Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication on Language Production in Learners of English |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Kristina Beckman-Brito | Perry Gilmore | Communicative competence and second language abilities in the justice system: A forensic linguistic analysis of a Chinese immigrant's run-in with the law |
Susan Cooledge | Robert Ariew | L2 Reading and Hypertext: A Study of Lexical Glosses and Comprehension Among Intermediate Learners of French |
Angela Ferguson | Jun Liu | Student Beliefs about their Foreign Language Instructors: A Look at the Native Speaker/Non-Native Speaker Issue |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Randall Sadler | Muriel Saville-Troike | A Case Study Examination of ESL Students in Freshman English Composition |
Claudia Kost | Mary Wildner-Bassett | An Investigation of the Effects of Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) on Interlanguage Development in the Beginning Learners of German: Accuracy, Proficiency, and Communication Strategies |
Leyla Yined Tello Ruede | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Effects of Pedagogical Intervention on the Development of Pragmatic Competence in Adult Learners of English as a Foreign Language |
Caroline Vickers | Susan Philips | Interactional Accomodation and the Construction of Social Roles Among Culturally Diverse Undergraduates |
Paula Gunder | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Situating and Transforming Technology Integration Professional Development for Language Teachers: A Comparative Multiple Case Study |
Hang Du | Feng-Hsi Liu & Cecile McKee | The Acquisition of the Chinese Ba-Construction by Adult Second Language Learners |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Maria Angeles Serrano Lopez | Linda Waugh | 3-D Clay Modeling Instruction: A Pathway to Spatial Concept Formation in Second Language Learners |
Betil Eroez | Linda Waugh | An Ethnographic Examination of International Students in English Composition Classes: Cultural Patterns, Classroom Dynamics, and Adjustment Difficulties |
Wendy Ashby | Linda Waugh | Authoring the German "Other"; A Semiotic, Narrative Discourse Analysis of the Culture Box in Beginning L2 German Textbooks |
Matt Finkbeiner | Janet Nicol | Bilingual lexical memory: towards a psycholinguistic model of adult L2 lexical acquisition, representation, and processing |
Masato Kogure | Susan Philips | Gender Differences in the Use of Backchannels: Do Japanese Men and Women Accommodate to Each Other |
Enchao Shi | H. Douglas Adamson & Andy Barss | Second Language Grammar and Secondary Predication |
Rosa Maria Mejia-Uribe | Rudolph Troike | The Place of Culture in ESL Master's Programs in the United States |
Mohammad Al-Quadhiaeen | Rudolph Troike | The Syntax of Saudi Arabic-English Intrasentential Codeswitching |
Julian Heather | Renate Schulz | The Validity of Computer-Mediated Communicative Language Tests |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Kyoko Masuda | Rudolph Troike | A Cognitive Approach to Japanese Locative Postpositions NI and DE: A Case Study of Spoken and Written Discourse |
Chanika Vadhanasindhu | Muriel Saville-Troike | Contrastive Discourse Analysis and Reader Perception of Newspaper Editorials in Thai and English |
Sumru Akcan | Yetta Goodman | Effective Teaching Strategies for Oral Second Language Use in German and French First Grade Immersion Classrooms |
Nizar Kamal Ibrahim | Jun Liu | Feedback on ESL Writing: Can we Integrate Form? |
Akiko Kato | Muriel Saville-Troike | Interlanguage Variation in Pitch and Forms of English Negatives: The Case of Japanese Speakers of English |
Marcia Helena Coimbra | Mary Wildner-Bassett | International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) in Multiple Roles: The Impact of an ITA Development Program on ITA's Effective Learning and Teaching Performance in the American College Class |
Toshiyuki Suzuki | Merrill Garrett | On the Garden Path |
David B. Smith | Robert Ariew | Taking Students to Task: Task-Based Computer-Mediated Communication and Negotiated Interaction in the ESL Classroom |
Jun Yang | Muriel Saville-Troike | The Acquisition of Temporality by Adult Second Language Learners of Chinese |
Holly E. Jacobson | Muriel Saville-Troike | Translation of the Health Brochure and Impact on the Target Reader: A Contrastive Analysis of the Structural and Pragmatic Features of Texts Translated into Spanish Versus Texts Written Originally in Spanish |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Julia Gousseva-Goodwin | Robert Ariew | Collaborative writing assignments and on-line discussions in an advanced ESL composition class |
Phillip Edward Hammonds | Grace Fielder | Directive Speech Acts in Conflict Situations among Advanced Non-Native Speakers of English |
Teresa Reber | Renate Schulz | Effective teaching behaviors and attitudes as perceived by foreign language teachers |
Stephanie Duisberg | Renate Schulz | High School Heritage Learners of Spanish: An Investigation of Language Attitudes |
Gail Ellen Shuck | Jane Hill | Imagining the Native Speaker: The Poetics of Complaint in University Student Discourse |
Luciana Fellin | Jane Hill | Language Ideologies, Language Socialization and Language Revival in an Italian Alpine Community |
Nariyo Kono | Richard Ruiz | Language orientations: case study of a Japanese- as-a-foreign -language classroom |
Sachie Karasawa | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Relevance Theory and Redundancy Phenomena in Second Language Learners' Written English Discourse: An Interlanguage Pragmatics Perspective |
Bonnibeth Beale Fonseca-Greber | Adrienne Lehrer & Linda Waugh | The Change from Pronoun to Clitic to Prefix and the Rise of Null Subjects in Spoken Swiss French |
Adrian John Wurr | Mary Wildner-Bassett | The Impact and Effects of Service-Learning on Native and Non-Native English Speaking College Composition Students |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Carol M.Johnson | Janet Nicol | Auditory integration training: its effect on the perception of english of native and nonnative speakers |
Hyeson Park | Rudolph Troike | Child Second Language Acquisition and Grammatical Theories: The Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory |
Miki Shibata | Adrienne Lehrer | Comparing Lexical Aspect and Narrative Discourse in Second Language Learners' Tense-Aspect Morphology: A Cross Sectional Study of Japanese as a Second Language |
Yoshiko Okuyama | Robert Ariew | Computer-Assisted Japanese Vocabulary Learning: The Choice of Script in Call |
Tully J.Thibeau | Cecile McKee | English Prepositions in Phrasal Verbs: A Study in Second Language Acquisition |
J. Adam Dudsic | Kenneth Forster | Priming asymmetries in chinese-english bilinguals: a series of single-subject studies |
Noriko Iwasaki | Merrill Garrett | Speaking Japanese: L1 and L2 Grammatical Encoding of Case Particles and Adjectives/Adjectival Nouns |
Meena Singhal | Robert Ariew | The Effects of Reading Strategy Instruction on the Reading Comprehension, Reading Process and Strategy Use of Adult ESL Readers |
Lawrence Norman Berlin | Teresa McCarty & Mary Wildner-Bassett | Toward a "Working Definition" of Effective Language Instruction in the Multicultural ESL Classroom |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Evelyn Scanlon Rogers | Robert Ariew | An Investigation of the Effects of Collaborative, Computer-Mediated Communication and Non-Collaborative, Computer-Assisted Writing Skills Practice on L2 Writing |
Matthew Buchanan Teller | Mario Montalbetti & Janet Nicol | Broken Agreement in L2 Processing in Spanish |
John Ioannis Liontas | Robert Ariew | Developing a Pragmatic Methodology of Idiomaticity: The Comprehension and Interpretation of SL Vivid Phrasal Idioms During Reading |
Kimberly Louise Geeslin | Rudolph Troike | Second language acquisition of copula choice in Spanish and its relationship to language change |
Ludmila Dutkova | Jane Hill | Texas Czech: an ethnolinguistic study |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Ellen Hazlehurst Courtney | Muriel Saville-Troike | Child Acquisition of Quechua Morphosyntax |
Anuradha Ruhil | Mary Wildner-Bassett | I Lost the Bus: Can You Give me a Ride Home?: Native and Nonnative English Speakers' Speech Act Production and Metapragmatic Judgments: A Study on Apologies, Complaints and Requests |
Hong Guang Ying | Andrew Barss & Janet Nicol | Knowledge of Reconstruction in a Second Language |
Yvonna M. Roepcke | Jane Hill | Pronouns in Discourse: International and U.S. Tas Construct Social Groups and Identities |
Birgit M. Meerholz-Haerle | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Teachers talking shop: a discourse study of TA coordination meetings |
Hao Sun | Muriel Saville-Troike | Telephone Conversations in Chinese and English: A Comparative Study Across Languages and Functions |
Anjel Tozcu | Frank Pialorsi | The Effect of Teaching Sight Vocabulary with Computer Assisted Instruction on Vocabulary Gain, Decrease in Reaction Time or Frequent Word Recognition, and Reading Comprehension |
Shoji Takano | Kimberly Jones | The Myth of a Homogenous Speech Community: The Speech of Japanese Women in Non-Traditional Gender Roles |
Kuniyoshi Kataoka | Jane Hill | The Vertical Experience in English and Japanese Spatial Discourse |
Nan Jiang | Kenneth Forster | Understanding bilingual lexical organization: evidence from masked cross-language priming in Chinese-English bilinguals |
Yi Li Li | Robert Ariew | Using Task-Based E-mail Activities in Developing Academic Writing Skills in English as a Second Language |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Paola Eulalia Dussias | Rudolph Troike | Switching at no cost: exploring Spanish-English codeswitching using the response-contingent sentence matching task |
Ning Yu | Jane Hill | The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: A Perspective from Chinese |
Mubangu Itangaza | Renate Schulz | The Effect of Suppemental Homework Tasks Involving Referential Questions on Learners' Target Language Linguistic Output and Accuracy |
David Allan Wright | Mary Wildner-Bassett | The Roles of Culture: Promoting Positive Attitudes in the Second- and Foreign-Language Classroom |
Zsuzsanna Ittzes | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Written Conversation: Investigating Communicative Foreign Language Use in Written Form in Computer Conference Writing and Group Journals |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Catherine Marie Barrette | Karen L. Smith | An Assessment of the Effects of the Use of Self-Selected Texts from the World Wide Web on Foreign Language Reading Comprehension |
Peter Ecke | Merrill Garrett | Cross-Language Studies of Lexical Retrieval: Tip-of-the-Tongue States in First and Foreign Languages |
Dorothy Clare Peterson | Karen L. Smith | Feedback System Factors and Their Effects on Attitudes, Perspectives, and Pedagogical Content Knowledge of University Foreign Language Teachers |
Junlin Pan | Muriel Saville-Troike | Occurrence/Nonoccurrence, Distribution, and Interpretation of Zero Anaphora in Chinese Conversational Discourse |
Syahdan | Rudolph Troike | Sasak-Indonesian Codeswitching |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Otis Phillip Elliott Jr. | Adrienne Lehrer | A Glance at the Syntactic and Semantic Principles Underlying the Spanish Clitic Se: A Study in Second Language Acquisition |
Caroline Ann Grace | Robert Ariew | Beginning CALL Vocabulary Learning: Translation in Context |
Mohammed Ghawi | H. Douglass Adamson | Developing Second Language Proficiency and Academic Competence: A Case Study of a Modified Adjunct Literature Course |
Rodney Eldred Tyson | Rudolph Troike | Korean Color Naming and Korean-English Language Contact: A Study in Linguistic Variation and Semantic Change |
Deborah Eugenie Levy-Barnett | Robert Ariew | The Effect of Multicultural Literature on the Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity of Freshmen-Literature Students |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Lydie Elisabeth Meunier-cinko | Robert Ariew | Gender Differences in Cooperative Computer-Based Foreign Language Tasks |
Student Name | Advisor(s) | Title |
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Otis Phillip Elliott | Jr. | Adrienne Lehrer |
Carol M.Johnson | Janet Nicol | Auditory integration training : its effect on the perception of english of native and nonnative speakers |
M'Balia Thomas | Linda Waugh | Girl Talk ~ A dialogic approach to narrative analysis in second/foreign language research |
Nariyo Kono | Richard Ruiz | Language orientations : case study of a Japanese- as-a-foreign -language classroom |
Paul Renigar | Jr | Linda Waugh |
J. Adam Dudsic | Kenneth Forster | Priming asymmetries in chinese-english bilinguals : a series of single-subject studies |
Birgit M. Meerholz-Haerle | Mary Wildner-Bassett | Teachers talking shop : a discourse study of TA coordination meetings |
Ludmila Dutkova | Jane Hill | Texas Czech : an ethnolinguistic study |
Nan Jiang | Kenneth Forster | Understanding bilingual lexical organization : evidence from masked cross-language priming in Chinese-English bilinguals |