Theses and Comps 2009
Thesis and Comps – 2009
Spring 2009 – Thesis
Deidre Brookman
Establishing Context for Referents in Online Chatroom Conversations
Spring 2009 – Comps
Yoshie Araki
Discourse of Corrective Feedback in ESL Classes: Teachers’ Choices of Corrective Feedback Types
Cynthia Azarcon
Evaluating the Effects of the CPH on Arab-English Bilinguals’ Production of English Front and Back Vowels
Nathan Brown
American Children and Their Attitudes about British Accents
In-Young Cha
Errors in Articles among Native Speakers of Chinese, Native Speakers of Japanese, and Native Speakers of Korean Adult ESL
Yu-Fang Chiang
Production and Perception Research: The Relationship between Foreign Accents and English vowel Perception Abilities by Native Mandarin Speakers
Chih-Jung (Flora) Hsiao
Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Relative Clauses by English and Japanese Speaking Learners
Richard Huber
Extraversion / Introversion and Accent in Second Language
Kazuko Iwata
Japanese Intra / Interpersonal Negotiation Markers in Casual Instant Messaging
Neta Kaminski
Communicative Functions of Pre-Kindergartners’ L1 and L2 Meta-Discourse: Learning Hebrew Vocabulary through Total Physical Response Activities and Songs
Fumi Koizumi
Relevant Variables in the Improvement of Adult Late Japanese L2 Learners’ English Pronunciation
Chih-Yi Ku
Adult ESL Learners’ Anxiety Levels and Perceptions of Different Kinds of Classroom Activities
Steven Logsdon
Voiced Stop Spirantization in the ESL Speech of Native Speakers of Spanish: A Replication of Mary L. Zampini’s Study
Cecilia Ornelas
Exploring Soap Operas Closings as an Instructional Tool in English Classrooms Focusing On Conversation
Viethang Pham
The Effects of Motivation on the English Proficiency of the Native Vietnamese Adult Speakers
Ikuko Sakuraba
The Acoustic Characteristics of Native Japanese Speakers’ Production of English/r/ and /l/: How differently do they pronounce /r/ and /l/?
Michiko Schricker
Frequency and Functions of Passive Constructions in Japanese Newspaper Articles
Yen-Ting Tseng
Exposure to the Culture: The Impact on Comprehending Idioms
Mike Yamakawa
The Use of Computer-Mediated-Communication (CMC) and Science Vocabulary Acquisition in a One-Way Japanese Immersion Classroom
Fall 2009 – Thesis
Ivana Guarrasi
Words Apart: Patterns of Communication and the Schooling of Roma Children in Slovak Classrooms
Fall 2009 – Comps
Swan Anderson
Teaching of computer assisted segmentals and supra segmentals and the effect on intelligibility of ESL students
Otto Cifuentes
Social stratification among Spanish speakers in California
Courtney Colburn
Language maintenance and shift among Tzotil (Maya) speakers in Southern Mexico
John Costello
The acquisition of pragmatic competence by native Japanese speakers of English
Seu-Ran Park
Differences in the use of English articles by Korean ESL and EFL students
Elena Roman
The effectiveness of explicit instruction of linguistic forms in a second language classroom
Mohammad Salihie
Perceptual assimilation and syllable phonotactics: Chinese speakers’ perception of syllable-final voiceless stops
Akiko Tamura
Effect of and interaction between working memory and length of residence: What determines L2 syntactic proficiency?
Vanessa Tindall
The application of conversation analysis and Grice’s Maxims to instant messages