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This study examines Spanish gender assignment among mixed bilingual children with 121 English Language Learners and 17 Spanish Language Leaners from North and South Florida through the results of a receptive gender marking task. Two...
Injurious falls often have tragic consequences such as loss of independence, bodily harm and high monetary costs. Evidence on the effects of lexical cognitive tasks on gait in healthy older individuals is lacking. This study investigated...
Abstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that...
Second language (L2) researchers have investigated the role of language learners’ motivation in relation to the learners’ L2 self-guides (e.g., Dörnyei, 2009; Papi, Bondarenko, Mansouri, Feng, Jiang, 2019a) and their feedback-seeking...
"This study was designed to explore the possibilities of sleep instruction in spelling and to determine approximately seven weeks later the amount of recall which could be attributed to the sleep instruction. It is presented primarily as...
From 1934 — when guidelines for Socialist Realism were established at the first All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers — to Stalin’s death in 1953, Soviet folklore deliberately promoted the new social order and encouraged the rural masses...
This work was designed to provide insight into how a disaster of historical proportions, in this case the COVID pandemic, influenced the work foreign language (L2) teachers in an English as a foreign language (EFL) setting. The research...
The Paper Machine is a collection of narrative and contemplative poems whose speakers explore the significance of domestic relationships that shape everyday life. Works in this series of poems engage rural and urban southern settings in...
This dissertation examines the realization of vowel sequences across word boundaries in Arabic-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in Puerto Rico, as in the phrase hombre inteligente ‘intelligent man’. Spanish and Arabic have...
Nonmainstream American English, or dialect, among children may have important implications for reading research and practice. The purpose of this dissertation study was to examine dialect use in various language contexts and to...
Children's emergent literacy skills have been found to be predictive of concurrent and subsequent academic achievement. Proponents of a nurture-driven approach to learning posit that children's linguistic competencies are associated with...
This study explores the acquisition of intonation by Spanish second language speakers while on a study abroad program in Valencia, Spain. The investigation consists of two groups: a control group and an instruction group. The instruction...
This treatise will discuss the need for essential information that will enable the integration of Arabic song and art song into the applied voice music curriculum. It will begin with a brief history of the cultural and religious...
An experimental study was conducted to examine the effects of shared book reading and video viewing on preschoolers' vocabulary and knowledge acquisition in informational text. The study included 60 preschool children who were randomly...
The field of speech language pathology has made continuous efforts to center cultural responsivity in clinical practice in order to adhere to systematic shifts aimed at centering equity for all individuals. However, it is necessary to...
The purpose of this study was to first determine whether a librarian's years of experience positively correlated with their literacy knowledge and efficacy, and to second determine whether structured exposure to specific and targeted...
Conceptual pacts are agreed-upon ways of talking about things that are specific to a conversation and a conversation partner. Most research focuses on conceptual pacts with participants being co-present in some way. However, we do not...
Dual language learners who come from low-income backgrounds are at-risk for experiencing a word gap in the amount of language they hear before kindergarten entry compared to peers of middle- and high-income backgrounds (Fernald, Marchman...
ESOL Endorsed Teacher Candidates' Undergraduate Academic Performance as a Possible Predictor for Their ESOL Performance on the Professional Education (PEd) Test within the Context of Florida
This quantitative research study investigated the ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) academic performance of teacher candidates (n=632) at a large educational institution in Florida, USA, who majored in Elementary Education, ...
Building more intelligent and more resourceful dialogue systems has been a long sought-after goal in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. In this dissertation, we investigate two topics in deep learning based dialogue...
This treatise proposes an approach for teaching music students with dyslexia using Orton-Gillingham techniques. The Orton-Gillingham Approach takes a structured, multisensory approach that can be used as a template for teaching music...
Research investigating the causal effect of cross language transfer of phonological awareness is limited. Using a randomized control trial, this study examined the causal effect of cross-language transfer of phonological awareness using...
Research on language and cognitive processes in bilinguals over the past few decades has underscored the activation of words in the first language (L1) during comprehension and production of the second language (L2) (e.g., Dijkstra, Van...
Mindsets have been gaining popularity recently in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). There have been studies exploring language mindsets in relation to emotions such as anxiety and fear of failure (e.g., Lou & Noels, 2017), ...
In an effort to better understand the language environments of early childhood education (ECE) classrooms with varying proportions of dual language learners (DLLs), we examined the frequency in which adults use various language...
This dissertation analyzes written language samples from fifth grade students with limited English proficiency from Spanish home language backgrounds. Written language sample holistic quality scores and Florida Assessments for...
Learning to read is a major developmental achievement with wide ranging societal, educational, and economic costs associated with low literacy attainment. A robust body of literature has documented the stability and persistence of...
For almost 20 years, research on Processing Instruction (PI) has shown that PI is an effective tool for altering the processing strategies of learners, and has been generalized over a variety of linguistic structures and for a variety of...
The purpose of this study was to compare the levels of semantic complexity in children’s oral and written narrative language. This study focused on the narratives produced by students in the fourth grade (N=35) due to the high demand of...
Narrative writing samples were collected and analyzed for a total sample size of 826 students (413 twin pairs; 159 monozygotic and 524 dizygotic pairs) from the Florida Twin Project on Behavior and Environment (FTP-BE) database who...
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether performance on Spanish and English early literacy screeners predict end-of-year English word reading abilities in bilingual kindergarteners. This study specifically sought to identify...
"Perceptions, Predispositions, and Previous Experiences: College Students' Attitudes Toward Rhetoric in a Required First-Year Composition Course" explores college composition students' attitudes about the course and key rhetorical...
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