Browsing by Author "Moder, Carol"
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Analysis of Teacher Education and Innovation Diffusion in English Language Teaching in Post-War Kosova
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Associative model of code switching: Mandarin-Taiwanese code switching in spoken media discourse in Taiwan
Lin, Yishiuan (2015-05)This dissertation proposes an associative model of CS to analyze the phenomena of code switching (CS). Specifically, the associative model of CS is applied to speakers' use of Taiwanese in Mandarin-dominant spoken media ... -
Common sense rhetorics of anti-science: Testimonies from creationists and anti-environmentalists
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Comparison of the speech patterns and dialect attitudes of Oklahoma
Bakos, Jon (2013-07)The lexical dialect usage of Oklahoma has been well-studied in the past by the Survey of Oklahoma Dialects, but the acoustic speech production of the state has received little attention. Apart from two people from Tulsa ... -
Creating accessible websites: Developing a fire safety website for teenagers who are deaf or hard of hearing
Landrum, Lacy Lee (2008-12)Scope and Method of Study: This study used three research phases to create an effective fire safety website for deaf teenagers. Participants were students in grades 7-12 from the Oklahoma School for the Deaf. First, 50 ... -
Ethiopian instructors' experience with accommodating students' learning styles at Bahir Dar University
Boersma, Emily Joy (2008-12)Scope and Method of Study: There is a trend sweeping across Ethiopia to move the method of instruction away from the traditional lecture method, which has been employed for the last half a century, toward a more student-centered ... -
Ethnolexicography of the skateboarding subculture
Horton, Ho'omana Nathan (2020-07)This study takes an ethnolexicographic approach (Silverstein, 2006) to present a glossary of the skateboarding subculture derived from sociolinguistic interviews conducted with 11 skaters. This study also uses this ... -
Extending with bridges and Mapping maps: A Discourse Based Study of Metaphor in The Writing Center and Writing Classroom
Heasley, Phillip Kyle (Oklahoma State University, 2008-07-01)This thesis studies the use of metaphor in the writing center and writing classroom. Subjects included 2 instructors, 4 writing tutors and 18 freshmen students. Subjects were recorded during classroom and tutorial discourse ... -
Final draft feedback in first-year composition: A case study of non-native English speaking students in North America
Nash, J. Gail (2012-05)Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation examines final draft feedback in a first year composition class consisting of both native and non-native speakers of English (NES & NNES). The research was carried out by the ... -
Genre analysis of the TESOL conference abstract
Stein, Wayne (1997-12) -
Genre innovation, hybridization and multimodality: An analysis of research video abstracts
Nezami Nav, Sara (2022-07)Recent advancements in technology have impacted the ways genres are being produced and reproduced for a varied audience, thus fostering genre innovation. Genre innovation is defined as “departures from genre convention ... -
Good grief: A corpus-driven analysis of conceptual grief metaphors in online discourse
Camsuzou, Sarah (2021-12)This thesis examines grief metaphors in online discourse over time to investigate how grievers perceive the grief experience, and to explore the extent to which time influences variation in usage. Grief metaphors have ... -
On the development of a suite of tools for the analysis of Twitter discourse
Redmon, Robert (2022-05)Social media has become a ubiquitous avenue of natural language use that represents an enormous amount of data, which has in the last decade been used in an increasing amount of linguistic research in such topics as regional ... -
One academic English for all: The study of the cueing systems used in reading academic texts
Cory, Kelly Ilene Boggs (2018-05)Students from low-income homes and students who are learning English as an additional language both tend to struggle with reading comprehension. This study investigates whether the reasons for the reading challenges faced ... -
Perceived vocabulary learning strategies of Turkish university students
Sahbazian, Sadi (2004-05) -
Socializing role of codes and code-switching among Korean children in the U. S.
Yun, Seong-Won (2009-05)Scope and Method of Study: This study examines the code-switching habits of Korean children in a Korean speech community in the United States in order to understand the socializing role of codes and code-switching. The ... -
Technology diffusion and the beef industry: A communication investigation
Wright, Michael David (2007-07)This dissertation investigates the effects of technology diffusion, communication networks, communication theory, and linguistic principles upon the acceptance of the National Animal Identification System and its accompanying ... -
Usage-based construction grammar approach to Korean DO-causative constructions
Hess, Eunhye Kim (2023-05)This dissertation examined the two Korean DO-syntactic causatives, V-key HA and V-tolok HA, from a usage-based construction approach. Previous studies on the two DO-causatives have been heavily grounded in traditional or ... -
Using simulation in ESL writing instruction: A comparative method study
Spelman, Mary Dean (1996-12)