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Rhetoric of strength in writing studies and American culture
(2015-12)
This project aims to uncover, explore, and complicate a definition of the concept of strength as it occurs in writing studies and in American culture. To begin, I examine semiotics and rhetorical structures of strength, ...
Comparison of the speech patterns and dialect attitudes of Oklahoma
(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 ...
Mexican English teachers' identity negotiations: A narrative study
(2016-05)
This study examines how five Mexican EFL teachers negotiated their professional identities while interacting with ideologies implicit in social practices, power relations, and discourse. I approached teachers' identities ...
Beliefs about language learning and teaching approaches of pre-service EFL teachers in Thailand
(2004-07)
Scope and Method of Study: To investigate Thai pre-service EFL teachers' beliefs about language learning during their practice teaching and the relationships between their beliefs and teaching approaches, two study phases ...
Use of questions in international pilot and air traffic controller communication
(2008-05)
Scope and Method of Study: Discourse analysis examines features of spoken interaction between the speaker and listener. In questioning, the function of the utterance is to obtain a verbal response from the listener addressing ...
Case for rap music pedagogy in composition
(2010-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation explored the feasibility of a rap music pedagogy for "all" students. After reviewing the literature and critical scholarship, I emerged skeptical about the claims made by some ...