Robert B. Sowby and Dr. Michelle Stott James, German and Slavic Languages The Sophie Project, led by Dr. Michelle James, is an ongoing mentored research project which focuses on collecting and studying the written works of German-speaking women. The Sophie Project is currently publishing a five-volume Critical Edition Series, the first volume of which will […]
The Effectiveness of Reading Strategies in a Secondary English Classroom
Whitney Sorensen and Professor Deborah Dean Main Text This study sought to discover and analyze what students do as they read, and whether or not classroom instruction could help them read better. The initial survey, called a “Reading Road Map”, was given to the students to record what they thought and did as they read an […]
Teaching Tolerance: Anti-Racist Pedagogical Intent in Frieda Plinzner’s Mission Literature for Children
Claire Sorensen and Dr. Cindy Brewer From feminism to Marxism, moral to multi-racial criticism, writings from the colonial era have been intensely analyzed by scholars. Thanks to their studies, we have been provided with important but general contextual knowledge of colonial literature. However, one vital subset of this field, colonial missionary literature particularly by women, […]
The Problem with Chicago’s Possessives
Betsy Snider and Professor Doris Dant, Linguistics and English Language Main text American English has no official language rules; rather, it has guidelines of what is acceptable and what is not. These guidelines, or prescriptions, are found in grammar books such as usage books, dictionaries, and style guides. Grammar books are created and maintained by editors […]
Austrian Journalist Ann Tizia Leitich’s ‘Other’ Perspective of American Influence on Austria
Daniel Shoop and Dr. Robert McFarland, Germanic and Slavic Languages Researching Ann Tizia Leitich’s works was one of the highlights of my undergraduate studies. It had taken Dr. McFarland and me a few discussions to settle on this particular research topic. I was excited to work with him researching the topic of the American ‘other’ […]
Easier for a Camel: The Quasi-Christian Merchants of Venice; A Literary Look at Economic History
Wayne Sandholtz and Dr. Brandie Siegfried, Department of English Introduction In a Shakespeare class during my junior year, I wrote a paper called “Easier for a camel: the quasi-Christian merchants of Venice” which examined the relationships between business virtue and Christian virtue in Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. Even though it was written centuries […]
Critical Factors in Standard English Acquisition
Adam Prestidge and Dr. William Eggington, Linguistics and English Language The ability to acquire Standard English is requisite for upward mobility in the United States. As English-language-learners are able to acquire command of a higher code, society rewards them with greater opportunities for success. For people who immigrate to the United States from Mexico, this […]
How do the Frequency of Prosodic Errors in the Speech of Non-Native English Speakers Influence Comprehensibility Ratings Given by Native Speakers of English?
Jonathan Porter and Dr. Mark Tanner Purpose The purpose of this project was to identify the degree to which prosodic features in English (primarily pausing, word stress, and sentence-final pitch) influence native speakers (NS) comprehensibility of non-native speech. Identifying the extent to which particular features of speech influence comprehensibility could have major ramifications on the […]
Teaching Writing For Life: A Look at Persuasive Writing throughout Genre
Cathryn Peers and Professor Deborah Dean, English Writing is a social response; however, many sixteen year olds find that hard to understand. To high school students, writing is the means to an end – get the teacher/parent off your back, get a good grade, finish the project, etc. When I first mentioned the words “Persuasive Essay” […]
Creating hebrewCorpus: A Vast Online Resource for Modern Hebrew
Justin Parry and Dr. Dilworth Parkinson, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Main Text Hebrew in its present form, called Israeli by some scholars because of its unique modern characteristics, has only existed for about 120 years (Zuckermann 1). Because of this, scholarship in Israeli Hebrew is in many ways still in its infancy. Within this […]
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