A perennial problem for many first-year composition (FYC) instructors is deciding what curricular materials to use to teach their students about rhetoric and composition and how to use those resources to enable their students to practice and hone their writing skills. This disse…
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This dissertation examines smugglers as they appeared in English print culture from their first appearance as "smuckellors" in a 1661 Royal Proclamation to 1766 when Parliament repealed the Revenue Act of 1764 amid protests over the government's crackdown on the vital molasses s…
It is known that adult language learners often struggle to accurately pronounce unfamiliar sounds in the target language, but the extent and duration of the linguistic experience is found to affect native-like production of target segments. In order to explore the variability in…
It has been found that when students learn new languages, certain aspects of their native language can transfer to their L2 in usage and the L2 may alter the usage of the native language. One method used to examine the possibility of transfers between languages, or compare langu…
This study explores and interrogates dominant representations of African university students by examining how students conceptualize and act upon their own agency. Using a qualitative case-study approach, the author examines how students actively confront the ideological and mat…
In general, the Kurdish people, an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group in Iraq, have a positive attitude towards the English language, and English is more highly appreciated than Arabic. Since achieving autonomy in 1991, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has taken some dramati…
This dissertation examines the emergence of a discrete new Syrian social group, the neoliberal elite, through shared, English-based linguistic practices. It demonstrates how this new group reacts to Syria's liberalizing economy by adopting the same ideology that underpins offici…
My thesis explores the problematics of Romantic representation from the perspective of the German notions of Vorstellung (inner vision, transcendent interpretation) and Darstellung (visual and/or verbal representation). I develop the paradigm of complementarity that underlies th…
This study examined the word recognition and word integration skills of Japanese and Arab ESL speakers who were enrolled in intermediate and advanced level courses in two pre-academic ESL program. The purpose for this study was to identify and examine the different types of read…
This dissertation explores representations of Jewish women in the sixteenth-century academic drama, interlude, and public theater. The two main archetypal figures of the Jewish I identify, the authoritative matriarch and the alluring virgin daughter, draw on Old Testament figure…
The association between reading problems and behavior problems has been established for children learning to read English (see Gellert & Embro, 1999). To date, however, little research has examined this relationship in bilingual situations. The goal of the current study was to i…
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…
This dissertation argues that late medieval English literature depicts Rome and Italy with the same cultural anxieties found in works that imagine the Muslim world. Although partially Orientalizing Rome and Italy, however, the alliterative Morte Arthure, John Lydgate's Fall of P…
The literatures emerging from the postcolonial world bring new dimensions of linguistic heterogeneity to English literature, opening up rich possibilities for the heteroglossia and interanimation of languages celebrated by Mikhail Bakhtin. Two case studies illustrate the “breaki…
Recently translation has emerged as a significant medium through which nations can recognize and understand each other, civilizations can assemble and communicate, and individuals can get an access to knowledge they have no other way to. In our global small world, translation re…
In this study, I have examined how Fatima and Khulood, two experienced secondary school teachers of English in Pakistan, develop their classroom practices in two diverse educational settings: Fatima in a private English-medium school and Khulood in a government Urdu-medium schoo…
The Catholic University of America's Institute of Christian Oriental Research (ICOR) owns a small Syriac manuscript which has not previously been studied. Incomplete at beginning and end, it contains six discourses (mêmrê) on the monastic way of life, part of a collection of “Ch…
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of semantic context in the oral reading of unvoweled Hebrew. Studies addressing context effects in English indicated that decoding ability of adequate readers was only minimally affected by context. Greater phonological ambiguity…
This study explores the linguistic landscape and sociolinguistic context of an expanding circle country, namely Mongolia. German, Korean, Japanese, and Turkish, in addition to English, Russian, and Chinese, are used by Mongolians to varying degrees, placing Mongolia in a unique …