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Test-taking strategy use on the reading section of the TOEFL-iBT: A study of Arab ESL learners
(2011-07)
Scope and Method of the Study: With the focus on how a sample of 25 Arab ESL learners respond to the TOEFL-iBT reading tasks, this study aimed to find out what strategies respondents tend to use, investigate if there are ...
Increasing genre awareness in students in the first-year composition classroom at a two-year college
(2015-05)
This study investigates the use of the genre approach to teaching first-year composition in order to increase the genre awareness and transfer abilities of students. Previous research has shown that the genre approach is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Exploring multimodal composing: A techno-pedagogical study
(2013-05)
This multimodal (also called digitally borne) text explores the variety of ways technology and multimodal compositions can be incorporated into classroom and work experience. Lessons learned are examined in the context of ...
Making bricks without straw: Teaching and assessing new literacy skills at a small, private HBCU
(2012-07)
Scope and Method of Study: Scope of the study comprised a three-phase Participatory Action Research study of teaching and assessing New Literacy Skills in small, private HBCUs using open source tools
Predicting international teaching assistants' performance in a domain-specific test: The case of complexity, accuracy, fluency, and compensatory strategies
(2017-05)
International teaching assistant (ITA) assessment for screening purposes has gained crucial importance with the increase in the number of nonnative speaker graduate students across North American campuses. Although previous ...
Demille Indians: The Native American experience in classical Hollywood
(2018-05)
Native American actors in Studio Hollywood were engaged in extensive work to form and shape their persona through extensive off screen performance. An outsize presence in studio publicity provided Native actors with notoriety ...