Melinda Clement Hardman, Anthropology INTRODUCTION While there are many different models for how motivation works and what it is in second language acquisition, Gardner’s model dominated the research for over 30 years and continues to be the most well-known (Oxford 1996). Gardner explained motivation in second language acquisition with what he called the Socio-Educational Model […]
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English Advertising in Vienna
Tiffany Oaks Present day English is enormously influential in the international business world. This is evident in continental Europe, not only in the marketing of products originating from countries whose first language is English, but sometimes also in the marketing of products originating in countries whose first language is not English. In Austria, for example, […]
Tokenism in Non-Native English Speakers: A Pilot Study
David A. Shwalb and Dr. Niwako Yamawaki, Psychology Over the past decade the number of international students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States has increased dramatically (Bollag, 2004). Currently, over 572,509 international students are attending American colleges and universities (Bollag, 2004), with approximately 2,000 at Brigham Young University (Light, 2004). Researchers acknowledge […]
Seeing England: Responding to the English Landscape with Writing and Visual Art
Amy Bennion and Professor Joseph Ostraff, Visual Arts Artists have been exploring the connections between the visual image and the written word for centuries. Often these explorations result in self discovery. For my project I continued this tradition of artistic exploration and my results were indeed personal in nature and furthered the discovery of my art. […]
Proposal for Recruiting Candidates to Join the Special Education and English as Second Language (ESL) Combined Program
Sungti Hsu and Dr. Lynn K. Wilder, Counseling Psychology and Special Education The key to a successful recruitment for this project is to identify individuals who are qualified, and the best way of distributing information about the Culturally Responsive Special Education and ESL Combined Program. According to the personnel preparation grant written by Drs. Prater, […]
The Impact of Vowel Mergers in the Acquisition of German Vowels by Speakers of Utah English
Andrew Whitlock and Dr. Laura Catherine Smith, Germanic and Slavic Languages When learning a second language, non-native speakers are usually marked by speech patterns which are common to other learners from their same language background. This is because research has shown that learning to hear and produce sounds of a second language (L2) is strongly […]
Spanish Learning and its Influence on English Vocabulary
Solana Messerly and Dr. Jeffrey Turley, Spanish and Portuguese The Spanish and English languages share many cognates because Latin greatly influenced both of them. Spanish is a neo-Latin language; although English is a Germanic language, many of its words have Latin origins. As a result, there are thousands of Latinate words in both languages, but […]
A NATURALISTIC STUDY OF YOUNG CHILDREN’S STRATEGIES AND STRUCTURES IN LEARNING TO SPEAK ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Rachel J. Berry and Dr. Trevor McKee, Family Sciences With the funds received, I traveled to Russia to collect data. I was there from January through June 1997, teaching English in a kindergarten. One child was videotaped each week for 25 minutes. These videos will be analyzed and results reported in an Honors thesis for […]
Reflections of the English Tradition in James Henry’s Poetry
Ryan D. Stewart and Dr. John Talbot, English James Henry (1798-1876) was an Irish classicist most well known for his long and eccentric commentary of Virgil’s Aeneid—Aeneidea, or Critical, Exegetical and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis—and known to some extent for his work as a physician and his penchant for pamphleteering. In the mid-1980s, however, […]
A Slice of Pye: The Unique Position of Henry James Pye in English Literature
Sean Johnson and Dr. Susan Howe, English Henry James Pye, poet laureate from 1790 to 1813, occupies a unique position in English literature. In the half dozen or so published retrospectives of the lives and works of the poets laureate, he is consistently called the worst poet ever to hold the office. Had he not […]
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