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"Talk-in-interaction: Multilingual perspectives" offers original studies of interaction in a range of languages and language varieties, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, and Vietnamese; monolingual and bilingual interactions; and activities de…
"Reading in Asian Languages" is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contri…
"Routledge's Modern Grammar series is an innovative reference guide combining traditional and function-focused grammar in a single volume, with an accompanying workbook. The aim of the Modern Korean Grammar is to provide an overview of the structures and functions of the Korean …
This dissertation is composed of two sections, a critical paper and a collection of fiction. The critical section discusses how metafictional techniques in three works of Asian American fiction, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, The Sympathizer, and Insurrecto, contribute to ethi…
The project director created a strategy to develop leaders within the Korean Ministry at Open Door Church in Raleigh, North Carolina (ODC). The project director desired to begin this ministry project by seeing more church planting efforts among Korean people in the United States…
This qualitative research study focused on Asian fathers living in the United States. It raised issues about the social perceptions of minority immigrants and provided alternative interpretations of the acculturation of Korean fathers who have been neglected in diverse social an…
The number of Korean American immigrants in Oregon has grown significantly in recent decades, yet not much attention has been paid to their faith practices and their participation in the local church. Furthermore, the way that these immigrants view a connection between their eth…
Spiritual Exercises aim to be free from sin, worldly desires, and attachments and follow God's will, just as Christ. Ignatius's practice aims at the process of sanctification through internal change and development. Furthermore, it will accommodate the Korean Protestant churches…
This project is designed to provide introductory theological education for members of Dayton Korean Grace Church to address a perceived lack of foundational doctrinal teaching. Chapter 1 provides the introduction and the rationale for the project. Chapter 2 provides the biblical…
The purpose of this study is to enhance the self-esteem of immigrant women who are members of Antioch Baptist Church of Hawaii. This project was conducted as a pastoral group counseling sessions with 9 participants for 12 weeks. And it is a report that observes and evaluates the…
This study examined the beliefs and opinions of U.S university students towards learning foreign languages. Four major areas were explored, including attitudes and motivations towards learning foreign languages, perceptions of foreign languages in the U.S., and favorability of A…
Whether there is a one-to-one mapping between semantic categories and their syntactic counterparts has been the subject of extensive research in linguistic theory (e.g. Grimshaw 1979; Pesetsky 1982; Sadock 1991). Degree expressions are a case study for the investigation of the e…
This study investigates the L2 acquisition of the Korean and Indonesian number systems by adult learners in light of the Feature-Reassembly Approach (henceforth FRA, Lardiere 2009). In considering this approach, Montrul and Yoon (2009) further suggest that subtracting or unlearn…
This dissertation describes an approach to automatically detecting and correcting grammatical errors in text produced by Korean language learners. Specifically, we focus on Korean particles, which have a range of functions including case marking and indicate properties similar t…
This thesis investigates the role of the jaw in the articulation of Arabic, French, and Korean consonants. Using jaw position data, it tests two recently developed theories of the relationship between phonological and phonetic representations: Keating's Window model and Browman …
Korean's worldview is heavily shaped by Confucianism that seeks cosmic harmony through well-ordered relationships. Individual acts typically are thought to have universal import. Thus one must ever evaluate one's role and duties lest one's own ambitions undermine the corporate p…