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Impact of Lexical Bundles on Chinese L2 Learners’ Oral Proficiency

June 21, 2019 by admin

Corey Ketring, Rachel Yu Liu, Asian & Near Eastern Languages This study examined the efficacy of formulaic language in improving the fluency of Chinese in second-language learners. Formulaic language refers to a group of words that is cognitively stored as one linguistic unit, rather than being analyzed by each indepdent part (Simon, 1974). For instance, if […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, College of Humanities, ORCA-2018

Japanese Grammar Tool and Database

June 20, 2019 by admin

John A. Dinkel, Steven Moody, East Asian Languages Creating a useable database required a lot more work than I originally expected. While we completed a major part of the project, the creation of the database, the coding and formatting of the tool was simply beyond the scale we could handle. However, in our attempts to code […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, College of Humanities, ORCA-2018

Oral Fluency Through Writing

September 13, 2018 by admin

Janae Campbell and Faculty Mentor: Stephen J. Moody, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Studies Learning a second language is difficult. While learning, writing and speaking are treated as though they are two totally separate things. It is evident that people do not speak the same way they write, but that does not mean that […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, College of Humanities, ORCA-2017

Using Technology to Enhance Second Language Literacy

May 17, 2017 by admin

Pace, Emily Adriana Using Technology to Enhance Second Language Literacy (Subtitle- Enablling Students of Arabic to Find..) Faculty Mentor: R. Kirk Belnap, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages Introduction This project is the beginning of a revision of a previous research project of the BYU Arabic department known as RAFT (Readable Article Finding Tool). […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages

Social Stratification and Inequality in PreModern Korean Literature: A qualitative research on slavery and its impact on Korean society

February 4, 2016 by admin

Moeun Jeong and Mark Peterson, Department of Humanities Introduction Introduction This project seeks to explore the social stratification and inequality by examining the premodern Korean literature, in order to determine the meaning and significance of the cultural and social roles the slaves played in the premodern era (i.e. before 1900s) in Korea. Through preliminary research, […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, College of Humanities, ORCA-2015

Study of Dialect Contact and Formation: A Case Study of Glottal-initial Verbs in Amman, Jordan

February 3, 2016 by admin

Chase Adams and Kirk Belnap, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages Background: In tandem with Al-Wer’s ongoing Amman Project which discusses the dialect contact and potential for dialect formation in Amman, Jordan, this study seeks to understand the variance of conjugation patterns of the glottal-initial verbs ‘akal ‘to eat’ and ‘axad ‘to take’ based […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, College of Humanities, ORCA-2015

Joseph Smith as a Student of Languages

April 21, 2014 by admin

Stephen Owen Smoot and Dr. Stephen D. Ricks, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Introduction During his prophetic career, Joseph Smith spent considerable time and effort towards the study of both modern and ancient languages. Historical evidence indicates that Joseph studied, or at least expressed interest in studying, Hebrew, Greek, Egyptian, Latin, and German. Although his […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, College of Humanities, ORCA-2012

Isaiah’s Use Of The Second Person Feminine Pronoun And Verb Form In The Hebrew Text

February 19, 2014 by admin

Lisa Steinmetz and Dr. Donald W. Parry, Asian and Near Eastern Languages My research on Isaiah is still an ongoing project that I have been working on since January 1999. As of August 1999, I have identified all Hebrew passages in the Masoretic text of Isaiah in which the second person pronoun or verb form […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, College of Humanities, ORCA-1999

Newspaper Readership And Education Level In Egypt

February 18, 2014 by admin

Colin Harlow and Dr. R. Kirk Belnap, Near Eastern Languages Egypt has produced some of the greatest literature in the world and is quite known for its magnificent language, Arabic. Arabic is a symbol itself of the Arab’s society and has always been considered more than a form of communication, that is the writing itself […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, College of Humanities, ORCA-1999

The Aesthetic of Loneliness in Japanese Art & Literature

February 13, 2014 by admin

Jack Stoneman and Dr. Van C. Gessel, Humanities Though we know Japan today for its herd mentality and uncanny ability to squash individuality, at times in its history, this homogeneous country has produced lonely aesthetes who created a world apart from what we would call mainstream culture. I have looked at three such expressions in […]

Filed Under: Asian and Near Eastern Languages, College of Humanities, ORCA-1998

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