Kendra Williamson and Professor Norman Evans, Department of Linguistics and English Language Introduction The purpose of the English-mainly project is to explore how an English-mainly (EM) language policy, as opposed to an English-only (EO) policy encourages self-regulated learning and fosters improved language proficiency among English as a Second Language students at BYU’s English Language Center (ELC). […]
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English in Business German
Tessa Lush and Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling, Department of German Throughout its history, German has been influenced by other languages, most notably Latin and French prior to 1900. However, since the end of World War II, American culture and technology has had a profound impact on both German culture and language, including in the area of […]
Foundation for the GEvTerm Multilingual Database French-English Food Terms
Jennifer Smith and Dr. Alan K. Melby, Linguistics GEvTerm is an initiative whose primary goal is to “address language challenges on a global scale” . One method for achieving this goal is to provide databases of terms in many different languages in order to help facilitate translation and communication. One example is their Olympic Sporting […]
American Attitudes Toward Six Varieties of English in the USA and Britain
Katherine Morris and Dr. Wendy Baker, Department of Linguistics and English Language Introduction Studying attitudes toward different varieties of English has helped researchers understand how different language groups interact. When a listener judges a particular speaker based solely on his or her variety of English, the listener is really making a judgment on the group […]
Syntax and English Language Acquisition
Malena Weitze and Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Department of Linguistics An oral testing method, Elicited imitation (EI), has provided helpful insight into the process of language acquisition and language assessment over the past 40 years. EI is an oral test in which the subject hears a sentence, forms a cognitive representation, and then produces a sentence […]
English Article Acquisition of Native Russian Speakers
Jacob Burdis and Professor Ray Graham – Education For decades, researchers have explored various aspects of the development or morphology in second language learners of English. Undoubtedly, one of the most popular models describing this development is the natural order hypothesis. Stephen Krashen (1977) presents an average morphological order of acquisition for English where learners, “acquiring […]
RESEARCHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION TO THE DEAF IN GERMANY
Brooke Harding and Dr. Mark W. Tanner, Linguistics The principle question this research was to address is how instructors for the deaf in Germany are approaching English language and literacy development in deaf students. (The term deaf is used in this paper to denote both deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals). English language instruction is part of […]
English Language Learner Program Improvement Study
Amy Jones and Dr. Erin Whiting, Teacher Education Parental involvement is a key focus of educational debate today because it has been shown to be correlated to academic achievement. I chose to help research and collect data to include in a longitudinal study conducted by Dr. Erin Whiting and Dr. Ray Graham of Brigham Young […]
Noun-Adjective Compounds in Old English Poetry
Ryan Christensen and Dr. Don Chapman, English One of the marks of Old English poetic style is the compound word. Malcolm Godden calls compounds “the essence of Anglo-Saxon poetic language.”(1) The lexicon of words exclusive to poetry includes many compounds, and many of these compounds are used only once in the Old English corpus. Thus […]
Development of New Malagasy-English Dictionary
Matthew Winterton and Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Linguistics and English Language Main Text Since Madagascar gained its independence from France in 1960, the country’s leaders have tried to promote a unique sense of identity for the Malagasy people and culture. Part of this effort has been spent in preserving the Malagasy language. However, due to the […]
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