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Charles Ernest Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This Dissertation addresses findings from a qualitative case study. The researcher provided a) training and b) analysis of the follow-up performance of a Peer Mentor from the Student Success Center at an Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Following the training, prepared by Charles Ernest Wright, the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Undergraduate Students, Mentors
Natalia Sletova – ProQuest LLC, 2023
"How can teachers help students improve their second language (L2) speaking accuracy?" This is a question that most L2 educators ask themselves every day. Although L2 writing is a popular topic among Second Language Acquisition (SLA) researchers, the consideration that L2 writing has the potential to act as a scaffold for L2 speaking…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Speech Communication
Bethany Gardner – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Singular "they" is becoming increasingly common and accepted, but many people find it difficult to learn, instead making seemingly-counterintuitive errors like "she uses they/them pronouns." Existing pronoun production models argue that speakers select pronouns based on morphosyntactic information associated with a name, or…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Form Classes (Languages), Memory, Error Patterns
Shakhlo Nematova – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Prior research has extensively explored audiovisual speech perception and literacy skills in various linguistic contexts. Studies have shown that children's ability to integrate auditory and visual speech cues plays a crucial role in language acquisition and development (Erdener & Burnham, 2013; Lalonde & Werner, 2021). Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Speech Communication, Phonological Awareness
Danyang Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation studies the acquisition of Mandarin relative clauses (RCs), including the distributional pattern of different RC types in adult child-directed speech (study 1) and four-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's comprehension of different RC types (study 2). An RC is a subordinate clause that modifies a noun and is embedded within a…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Phrase Structure, Language Research, Child Language
Paul Dion Grosse – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Within the field of linguistics, whether considering language contact situations (Weinreich, 1979) or foreign language education (Lado, 1957), the topic of language transfer, especially as it relates to pronunciation, has always been an item of particular interest. While research on such transfer has mostly focused on various phenomena of the L1…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transfer of Training
Tiffany Renee Snyder – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how faculty describe the impact of their verbal and nonverbal communication on the effectiveness of their feedback for students enrolled in online courses. Purposeful sampling was used to recruit 20 faculty participants at a university in the Midwestern US and taught at least four…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication, Feedback (Response)
Kerry Christine McCullough – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates a typologically rare linguistic phenomenon found in Irish from three different perspectives: how it challenges phonological theory, how it is used by contemporary speakers, and how its written representation affects its acquisition. Initial consonant mutation (ICM), as it appears in the Celtic languages, is known to…
Descriptors: Phonology, Irish, Pronunciation, Language Research
Myeongeun Son – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Analysis of second language (L2) learners' language development can allow valid and reliable assessment of the learners' L2 linguistic knowledge, which can enable the teachers and researchers to choose appropriate teaching or experimental materials (Bardovi-Harlig & Bofman, 1989; Wolfe-Quintero et al., 1997). However, most language development…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Written Language
Min-Kyoung Choi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study aimed to investigate the effect of written cues on the second- language (L2) language perception, processing, and word learning, especially when the person's first language (L1) belongs to a different rhythmic type of language than L2. The first objective was to examine whether late bilinguals as L2 learners can benefit more from…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Korean
Cuauhtemoc Garcia-Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Across the centuries, the question of the origin of language has captivated the human imagination. Many theories have been proposed to address fundamental questions such as: Where do languages come from? How do they evolve? What are the societal drivers of this change? Historically, one of the biggest challenges in addressing these questions has…
Descriptors: Written Language, Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Diachronic Linguistics
Hwang, Menq-Ju – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Chinese characters are used in both Chinese and Japanese writing systems. When literate speakers of either language experience problems in finding or understanding words, they often resort to using Chinese characters or "kanji" (i.e., Chinese characters used in Japanese writing) in their talk, a practice known as "brush talk" ("bitan" in Chinese,…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Speech Communication, Romanization, Second Language Learning