Theses and Comps 2008
Theses and Comps – 2008
Winter 2008 – Thesis
Eric Chuk
Characterizing Authorship: Stylometric and Pragmatic Analysis of Editorials in Political Newsmagazines
Spring 2008 – Comps
Jennifer Barber
Gender in the classroom: A look at gender in the university setting
Chia-P Chao
Metadiscourse in the English and Chinese Timed Essay Assessments
Chen-yu Cho
The Effect of Different Forms of Feedback on CFL Writing
Kelly Gurnea
Article Use in the Written Modality: A Trade-off Between Accuracy and Fluency?
Yuan-Chen Hsiao
The Effects of Pre-reading Test Questions on L2 Reading Comprehension Taken by Taiwanese Students
Tiffany Jacobs-Quinn
“You nailed it on the cabeza, carbon:” Mock Spanish as a tool of intersubjectivity
Ayana Kondo
High Rising Terminal (HRT) in Job Interviews and Impact on Employability: HRT as a positive interactional strategy and reconsideration of categorization of powerful vs. powerless language
Patrycja Landowska
Research Article Introductions: Comparison of Polish and English Rhetoric According to CARS Analysis
Kate Leeds
Don’t Interrupt Me, I Won’t Interrupt You: Distributions of Power at the Crossroads of Gender and Status
Qiuyu Li
Code-switching in a Bilingual Couple’s Conversation: A case study
Miki Mori
Recognition and Production of Politeness Strategies in E-mail Requests by Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
Mutita Prajakvinaibodee
Cross-cultural Pragmatics: Effects of cross-cultural backgrounds and social status on request and refusal strategies in English
Stephanie A. Sanford
Learning a Diglossic Language: Experiences in Kosovo
Toni Torres
Relationships between Language Anxiety Modalities in a College ESL Reading Class
Christopher Trueblood
Performance, Interaction and Identity in Freemasonry Initiation
Melike Unal
Effects of Cultural Background & Exposure on Appropriate Speech Act Realizations of Complaints in English by Native Turkish Speakers
Fall 2008 – Comps
Yi-An Chen
The Effect of Degree of Bilingualism on Cognitive Functioning
Meng-Chuan Hsieh
Effects of parental background and Attitudes Toward Children’s Heritage Language Development and Maintenance in Chinese Immigrant Families
Shinichi Muranaka
The Past and the Present of Vowels in California: An acoustic study on the western vowel
Teresa Nguyen
Rethinking the CPH: An investigation of age-related effects on NS of Vietnamese acquiring English morphosyntax
Konoe Uehara
Gender-based Differences in Japanese Compliments
Svetco Vladich Jr.
Code-switching as an effective communication strategy among Spanish-English adult bilinguals
Yi-Chin Wang
The Effects of Age and Cultural Orientation on Language Choice by Chinese-English Bilinguals in Southern California
Suzanne Yow
Nonstandard Orthography and Typography on Internet Message Boards: Flavor of Love 3 vs. Rock of Love 2