Reading is an important skill for all languages and all language learning. It is a skill complex to understand, complex to teach and complex to learn. This thesis addresses the issue of reading from the reader's point of view. It provides a detailed analysis of the reading strat…
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This qualitative study explored and examined patterns of language choice and codeswitching (hereafter CS) behavior and their relation to the acculturation process of six Iranian female adults, ages 26-54, living in the US. All had left Iran as a result of the 1979 Islamic Revolu…
A few studies have investigated the transfer of culturally specific rhetorical patterns from L1 to L2 writing by examining the L1 and L2 texts of the same individuals. Their findings suggest that the L1 and L2 essays of the subjects are very similar, thus providing evidence for …
This thesis studies the L2 acquisition of transitivity alternations in English, Spanish and Turkish within the Generative framework. in particular, it sets out to investigate the interaction of universal principles and L1 knowledge in interlanguage grammars, as well as whether s…
This longitudinal inquiry into the academic literacy practices of ten Turkish scholars of International Relations (IR) attempts to answer three broad questions: what factors have affected the participants' acquisition and maintenance of academic reading and writing skills; what …
As a result of the economic, social, and political climate in Somalia, many Somali Bantu were prevented from learning to read and write their own language. This study explored the experiences of one Somali Bantu refugee family as they learned to negotiate the language and cultur…
The present study investigated the effects of four independent variables on free immediate recall of four texts: (1) background knowledge, (2) the global structure of the texts, (3) the propositional structure of the texts, and (4) subjects' second/foreign language proficiency l…
Having taught for about thirty years, I have seen the changes in education focused on students´ success. However, there is always space to grow in the same direction and one of the strategies that is being used throughout the world is translanguaging, a strategy that gives the i…
A cornerstone of democracy is an educated and participating citizenry. The American system for teaching English to immigrant students is often ineffective, shortchanging students and depriving the country of their intellect, skills and creativity. Israel provides Jewish immigran…
In this thesis, I argue that early child second language (L2) grammars allow truncation, on a par with proposals by Rizzi (1993/1994) and Haegeman (1995) for first language (L1) acquisition. This account (the Truncation Hypothesis) holds that Rizzi's (1994) Root Principle, accor…
Variability exists in the interlanguages of second language learners. It occurs when a learner uses two or more linguistic forms for the purpose of one communicative function, with the application of each form being to a certain extent unpredictable. Single cause-effect explanat…
This research study was undertaken to address questions and concerns about the language teaching textbook as regards to its role in input, feedback, and production of learner output. Specifically, it investigates whether literature-based reading texts generate different interact…
Research in cognitive psychology has shown a particularly strong association between phonological working memory-usually indexed by some version of a nonword repetition task-and both first language (L1) and second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition in children (e.g., Gathercol…
Writing apprehension has always been considered a serious obstacle for L1 and L2 teachers and students alike and, in most cases, it could impede students' language learning. Accordingly, a considerable number of students develop a great concern about and negative attitudes towar…
This study addressed the role of talker variability in the perception of nonnative contrastive phonemes by adult second language (L2) learners who had no prior knowledge with the target language. Specifically, the study explored how training with varying talkers could affect nat…
The purpose of the present dissertation is to derive the criteria/dimensions underlying learners' second language (L2) oral ability scores across three tasks: an oral interview, a narration, and a read-aloud. A stimulus tape of 18 speech samples was presented to three native spe…
The purpose of this study is to explore some effects of language and cultural distance (including transfer) on the acquisition and production of lexical items in second/foreign language. This study investigates lexical/semantic output of learners of English as a second language …
This qualitative study explored, through a process of elicitation of awareness for teachability, the metacognitive strategies that fifth-grade elementary monolingual English-speaking students in a dual English and Hebrew language program are using in reading comprehension in the…
It has been noted in English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms that word identification is essential in reading comprehension. However, Arabic ESL learners exhibit a particular difficulty in word recognition (Hayes-Harb, 2006). This difficulty could be attributed to the idio…