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This work analyzes the intersections between the notions of geography, power, and resistance, specifically focusing on how these concepts produce and are productive of one another within a French Caribbean context. Focusing on the works...
An on-going debate in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) concerns the role of explicit information (EI) about language in language acquisition. This study explores the role of EI in how instructed second language learners of...
A central issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research is the relationship between morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic knowledge among L2 learners. It has been proposed that, L2 language acquisition starts with transfer of L1...
The topic of identity is a highly debated topic among Jewish scholars as well as a recurrent theme in works of literature written by Jewish authors throughout the world. In the twentieth century several historical events have shaped and...
With the advances being made in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), research is showing that computers can be an effective tool for the language classroom. However, what is missing seems to be a connection between CALL and Second...
Readings of the economic thought of Cuban poet and social theorist José artà have focused on the portion of his journalistic works that looks like economic writing in a conventional sense. I argue that MartÃ's economic writings are far...
This dissertation examines the experiences of young Frenchwomen from the northeastern département of Moselle who, following the surrender of France to the invading Germans in 1940 and the de facto annexation of Moselle into the Third...
In this study, I evaluate and explore the role of the antihero and the subordinate male in the patriarchal society as a marginalized voice throughout discourse at the end of the twentieth century. These discourses are first-person...
Esta disertación analiza los temas del budismo zen, el yin-yang y la ecologÃa en la obra completa del poeta mexicano Alberto Blanco (1951) para comprobar que todo en el cosmos está conectado y forma parte de un Gran Ser y a la vez que...
La Quête dans le Cuer d'Amours Espris de René d'Anjou Comme Réécriture du Roman de la Rose et de la Queste del Sang Graal: Quête d'Une Nouvelle Éthique Princière
Dans le Livre du Cuer d'Amours espris (1457), René d'Anjo affirme s'être inspiré de deux oeuvres majeures du Moyen Age : le Roman de la Rose (1230-1270) et la Queste del Sang Greal (1225-1230). Le Livre du Cuer partage les qualités d...
The intention of this paper is to shed light on the cultural practices utilized by Napo Kichwa people of Amazonian Ecuador, and how these practices contribute to their overall views of health. As I will show, Kichwa speakers view their...
Contemporary Algerian Filmmaking: from "Cinéma National" to "Cinéma De L'Urgence" (Mohamed Chouikh, Merzak Allouache, Yamina Bachir-Chouikh, Nadir Moknèche)
This dissertation considers the position of contemporary Algerian filmmaking (1988-2003) against the much-debated concept of national cinema. Drawing upon a range of theoretical frameworks and concepts such as Third Cinema, transnational...
Arriving as indentured laborers during the latter half of the 19th century, the East Indian diaspora in the French Caribbean occupies a marginal space in literary and critical writings emerging from this region. This diaspora, the...
Most of the research on Charlotte Delbo has remained within the realm of Holocaust studies, and her writing, in particular, has been seen as a means of witnessing and preserving memory. Labeled solely as a "Holocaust survivor" and...
Esta investigación examina la representación temática de la esclavitud en Puerto Rico antes de la abolición en 1873. El estudio argumenta, que contrario a la crítica, existen textos que documentan el pensamiento decimonónico sobre la...
Previous research (Van Heste, 1999; Van Hell & De Groot, 1998; Van Heuven, Dijstra & Grainger, 1998) has shown word comprehension behaves in a non-selective fashion and that bilinguals show sensitivity to one language's word features...
This work explores the life of the Afro-German writer May Ayim by analyzing her writings as well as by discussing the social circumstances in which she lived. Chapter 1 provides a look at the Ayim's life, with special emphasis on major...
From Silence to Obscenity: Tracing the Reappropriation of Misogynistic Language to Assert Female Subjectivity Through the Works of Ferré, Vega and Valdés
The purpose of this dissertation is to show the need for language change according to current French feminist criticism and to demonstrate the reappropriation of traditionally phallocentric language to assert female subjectivity in works...
This dissertation examined the use of computerized pronunciation practice as a tool in the reduction of foreign language anxiety. Additionally, the efficacy of computerized practice on the improvement of student French pronunciation was...
Que soy de Aquí, Que soy de Alla: Conciencia Nómada y (Re)Construcción Cultural de la Nacionalidad en la Narrativa y el Teatro Hispano Escrito en los Estados Unidos
This dissertation explores the various discursive and representational strategies that Cuban American artists create to reproduce the issue of displacement and deterritorialization among the diasporic communities in the United States....
Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy of Russia and Emile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual's relation to God and the universe and...
This current study investigated bilingual and second language (L2) lexical processing in sentence context. There is overwhelming evidence from bilingual word recognition studies to support the notion that both languages are active during...
This study examines the role of the language cue on language selection in the Bilingual Language Production (BLP) Model, (Hermans, 2000; Poulisse & Bongaerts, 1994) and its relationship to the Language Mode (LM) model, (Grosjean, 1998)....
Among the perennial issues confronting instructed SLA researchers, as well as practitioners, is the role that corrective feedback plays in second language acquisition. This study compares two types of corrective feedback that have been...
In this paper, I examine women's maternal health care usage in Jordan, Syria and the Occupied Palestinian Territories using three different family health surveys taken in the mid-2000s: the Demographic Health Survey, the third Multiple...
This paper explores the relationship between identity and the Amazonian Rainforest focusing on the identities of the fictionalized characters of Alexander von Humboldt, Lope de Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo as they are to be found in the...
The interdental fricative /θ/, present in North-Central Spain, has proven to be difficult for second language learners to acquire, even after time spent abroad in Spain (Geeslin& Gudmestad, 2008; Knouse, 2012). Explicit pronunciation...
The end in 1975 of the Francoist regime in Spain opened the door to new forms of self-expression, many of them suppressed during the 40 years of dictatorship. This change is especially significant around the traditionally peripheral...
ABSTRACT Although it is acknowledged that Portuguese has a phonemic contrast between oral and nasal vowels, few acoustic studies examine their acoustic traits and differences. Some of these studies include Kelm (1989), which focuses on...
In this dissertation, I will identify and compare the various ways in which food imagery is used in both descriptive and proscriptive ways in the fiction of three Caribbean diasporic women writers in the 1990s--Edwidge Danticat, of Haiti...
In this study, I explore how Christine de Pizan challenges misogamist thought through the use of exemplarity in her works. Christine's defense of women in the late medieval period has been well-documented by scholars. Yet, she also...
Within instructed second language acquisition (SLA), Processing Instruction (PI) has enjoyed a rigorous research agenda for more than 15 years. Research comparing PI (with or without explicit information about a target linguistic...
Examining the Relationship Between Interaction and Linguistic Outcomes: Is the Online Learning Environment a Viable Alternative to Traditional Classroom Instruction for Beginning Language Learners?
Many in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) agree that interaction is a critical component in the process of second language acquisition (Hatch 1978; Long, 1996; Pica 1994). According to Long (1996), second language (L2)...
En la literatura chicana/o, es muy común encontrar obras que consisten en más de una lengua - español, inglés, spanglish, y los varios registros de cada uno - y obras que cuentan sus historias de una manera poco tradicional, con varias...
This work analyzes the theme of the Eternal Feminine and its significance within Goethe`s famous drama Faust. The first chapter delineates and explores the various rich definitions of the Eternal Feminine found in the realms of theology, ...
In Nach Mitternacht, the author Inngard Keun unveils a society that is a counter-image to that portrayed by the National Socialist regime. By giving the reader an amplified yet sharp picture oflife in the Third Reich, Keun not only...
This honors thesis will aim to address the less-studied topic of female aristeia and women in masculine roles in ancient epic to establish examples of women breaching concepts that divided ancient society. It will also examine aristeia...
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Gabriele Münters Position und Rolle als einzige weibliche Mitbegründerin der expressionistischen Künstlergruppe Der Blaue Reiter. Zu Beginn wird der künstlerische Hintergrund Münters dargelegt. Weiterhin...
A partir de la segunda mitad del siglo se veía el cuestionamiento de estas divisiones y la búsqueda de diluir las líneas entre la clase, la raza y el género. Estos cambios fueron provocados por las revoluciones de independencia, los...
This dissertation investigates the locus of language selection during bilingual speech production. In particular, it explores whether distinct language backgrounds, proficiency, and age of acquisition determine language selectivity and...
Latino/a writing has become one of the fastest growing literary expressions in the United States. The success of this literature relies not only on the quality of the texts written by authors of Hispanic background, but also on the...
This dissertation investigates transfer and markedness in bilingual and L2 Spanish stop-rhotic sequences (e.g., the 'br' in brisa 'breeze'). It also examines the phonetics-phonology interface in Spanish. To this end, it explores the...
The poems and translations in this thesis explore the "three strong voices" that poet Federico García Lorca believes the artist should heed: "the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." The...
This dissertation is a translation and critical study of the play María la mosca by the Spanish playwright Miguel Sierra. The study is subdivided into three parts. The first provides an introduction to Sierra's career and work. It...
Cette étude porte sur les écritures féminines relatives aux temps des guerres civiles en Algérie et au Liban. Dans le cadre de la littérature d'urgence, elle compare les oeuvres de onze écrivaines de langue arabe et française dont Assia...
This thesis deals with palatals from Latin into Spanish and French. Specifically, it focuses on the diachronic history of each language with a focus on palatals. I also look at studies that have been conducted concerning palatals, and...
Gis'le Pineau a 't' d'crite comme une nouvelle voix guadeloup'enne dans le mouvement de la Cr'olit'. Comme les repr'sentants de ce mouvement, elle s'attache ' inscrire le peuple de son 'le au c'ur de son 'uvre litt'raire et utilise un...
This study investigates the effects of input and interaction activities on the acquisition of French reflexive verbs. In this research project, I address the following two research questions: 1) Will acquisition and production of French...
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