Ariana Avila and Dr. Mark Tanner, Linguistics and English Language Department Introduction: The purpose of this study was to gather acoustic data aimed at empirically assessing the degree to which non-native English speakers can approximate the linguistic features of native speech when engaged in imitative interaction. The focus of my study was to investigate the […]
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Perscriptivist Rules by Type Finding the Values in English Usage Manuals
Delaney Barney and Faculty Mentor: Don Chapman, Department of Linguistics and English Language Introduction The popular view of usage manuals like Fowler’s Modern English Usage (1926) and Garner’s Modern American Usage (2003) is that they contain a well-established set of rules. We expect to find the same language rules we’ve been practicing since elementary school: […]
Pre-service Teachers’ Knowledge of English Learners Revealed in an Examination of Case Studies
Jenna Granados and Faculty Mentor: Stefinee Pinnegar, PhD Teacher Education Introduction One of the greatest challenges for US schools is educating English Learners not just to speak English, but to develop the more difficult academic English, which allows them to participate fully in US schools. Throughout the United States, the population of English Language Learners […]
Pre-service Teachers’ Knowledge of English Learners Revealed in an Examination of Case Studies
Jenna Granados and Faculty Mentor: Stefinee Pinnegar, PhD Teacher Education Introduction One of the greatest challenges for US schools is educating English Learners not just to speak English, but to develop the more difficult academic English, which allows them to participate fully in US schools. Throughout the United States, the population of English Language Learners […]
Spanish/English Book Anatomy Diagrams
India Johnson and Jeffrey Turley, Spanish and Portuguese Introduction This project is an illustrated online Spanish/English glossary of bookbinding terminology. It was created to fill a void: although cross-cultural interaction in the bookbinding community continues to increase, no comparable resource exists online or in print. Methodology My search of existing bilingual lexicography, both at the […]
Translation from French to English of a Women’s Rights Study by a Senegal Research Group
Danielle Stanford and Faculty Mentor: Daryl Lee, French and Italian Introduction The goal of this project was to make an academic study on violence against women in Senegal accessible to a non-French speaking audience. The study was conducted by a university research group on gender issues (GESTES) at the Université Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Senegal. […]
GESTES French-English Translation: Senegalese Women’s Property Rights Research
Charlotte Coleman and Dr. Daryl Lee, Department of French & Italian Introduction The recently released a book called Sex and World Peace addresses the way treatment of women and women’s political security vitally affects all levels of security and social health in society. The book states, “It is time to put the situation of women […]
Learning Armenian and English Pronunciation
Anna McConner-Hughes and Dr.Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Linguistics Department Introduction The purpose of this study is to examine the learning of English consonants by native Armenian speakers. In particular, we examined how the native Armenian speakers perceive and produce English voiced and voiceless ‘th’ sounds (as in the words thy and thigh (/ð/ and /θ/ in IPA)). […]
Translation from French to English of a Women’s Rights Study by a Senegal Research Group
Danielle Stanford and Daryl Lee, French and Italian Introduction The goal of this project was to make an academic study on women’s property rights in Senegal accessible to a non-French speaking audience. The study was conducted by a university research group on gender issues (GESTES) at the Université Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Senegal. I worked […]
The Integration of Mobile Technology into Remedial Literacy Classrooms and The Use of School Stories to Provide Reflective Spaces for Preservice English Teachers
Dr. Jon Ostenson, English Education Review of Research Studies and Academic Objectives of the Proposals Mobile Tech Since the 1990s, efforts have been made in public schools to integrate technology into the classroom; from early initiatives to create educational software to efforts to improve access to technology through computer labs (static and mobile), this work […]
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