This study investigates the generalizability of reading-to-write and independent writing tasks. More specifically, the current study addresses the effect of both tasks and raters on score variability, and investigates the relative impact of these two factors. For this purpose, 1…
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This thesis investigates the binding of overt and null subject pronouns in second language (L2) acquisition and first language (L1) attrition of Turkish. The aim is to provide a comparative investigation of language transfer effects in the ultimate state of the L2 and L1 grammar…
Our global village has become a pluralistic society where people from different continents and countries meet, marry, and form families. These interactions have resulted in a growing number of intermarriages. People from different ethnic, social, religious, and economic backgrou…
This research compares three groups of elementary-school children in Toronto by testing their deep lexical knowledge of specific words (implicit aspect) and grading their expression of such knowledge in a standard definition form (expressible aspect). Child participants were dra…
This study examines the writing experiences of U.S. adolescent second language writers and considers how students' identities as ""English Language Learners (ELL)" contributes to their learning, their sense of self, and their academic writing. Within the perspective that writing…
This study investigates the first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing processes of a group of Arab ESL students by addressing the following questions: (a) What are the writing processes undergraduate Saudi ESL students apply when writing in L1? (b) What are the writin…
This study analyzed the influence of age of initiating the study of English as a foreign language among Arabic-speaking intermediate-level students in the State of Kuwait. The major research problem involved comparing English reading comprehension, English vocabulary recognition…
In this dissertation, I examine rote learning from a language socialization perspective, reframing it as social practice for apprenticing novices into language and other domains of cultural competence. This practice, which I call Guided Repetition, entails modeling by an expert,…
SLA research has shown that the prominent difficulty that Arabic and English learners encounter in the acquisition of second language relative clauses (L2RCs) is exhibited in the retention of pronominal copies (PCs) in the levels of the Pronominal Copy Accessibility Hierarchy (P…
This dissertation explores the extent and the ways Omani Muslim women's identity is affected when writing in English as a second language. This study seeks to gain insight into the relationship between these women's current lives and views and writing in ESL. The participants we…