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Spelling a complex English word is more difficult than reading it, suggesting that spelling requires a higher quality orthographic representation and a greater degree of word knowledge compared to reading. In the absence of a high...
The Crow Child is a collection of lyric-narrative poems whose speakers investigate their ability to love, while exploring the complexities of various landscapes. Many of the poems take place in impoverished, rural, southern settings, ...
With the opening of London's Bankside Globe, original practices (OP) quickly became the buzzword for all theatrical efforts seeking to reconstruct an "authentic" Shakespearean environ for today's audiences. Scholarly discourse...
"A 'Good Report of England'" explores the relationship between nascent conceptions of English nationhood and the development of printers' personas in early modern texts. Although the invention of the printing press is widely understood...
This dissertation begins the important work of bringing living memorials, the spontaneous and everyday construction of memorials following in a tragedy, into the landscape of rhetorical theory. The value of investigating living memorials...
This collection of poems considers ideas of place and culture alongside unusual, surprising portrayals of relationships to demonstrate the strangeness that characterizes our everyday lives.
This novel is a comedy. It contains the quixotic adventure of a twenty-five-year-old lawn man living in a state of extended adolescence who decides to investigate a murder allegedly committed by his boss. In his quest, he is aided by two...
"A number of words dealing with schools have been selected for study, a list by no means exhausting the well nigh endless possibilities but presenting, however, a fair sampling. Note is made of the etymology of the words, any change in...
This study articulates the reinvention of rewriting in postmodern fiction from the 1980s to present, focusing particularly on the writings of Zadie Smith, Jeanette Winterson, and Emma Tennant. These three authors have made history and...
This project is concerned with the use of disease metaphors used to categorize those judged to be a threat to the early modern body politic. The syphilitic in particular was metonymized for early modern England as the dangerous and...
Stay follows the journey of seventeen year old Carson Frugé--raised as a boy and besotted with her own father--as she runs away from home, works in a casino turned underground strip club, and shacks up with a petty drug dealer only to...
The Effects of Written Corrective Feedback, Planning, and Individual Differences on English Language Learners' Development in Target Structure Accuracy and Task Performance: A Classroom-Based Study
Situated in the growing body of task-based language teaching research, this quasi-experimental study explored whether different types of written corrective feedback and task planning jointly influence 115 English as a foreign language...
Selections From Keri Pack: Stories From the Tomato Field is a collection of works based on my experiences as a child growing up in the world of agriculture and near the Everglades, it is a memoir about my life and my family's 57 years in...
The Calculation of Love, a novel, follows a precocious fourteen-year-old girl's first semester of high school. After watching her brother have sex with his pregnant teenage girlfriend, Mallory Shreckengost begins reading about the...
Research on Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT), and learning has developed significantly in recent years. As a result of the popularity of TBLT, numerous studies in second language acquisition (SLA) have explored the effect of task...
Visual representations of railway accidents in Victorian illustrated newspapers were more than sensational attempts to sell copies. Rather, accident scenes opened a discursive opportunity for observers to arrest and examine the railway's...
This article uses an exercise in distant reading or "not reading" to make a claim for digital pedagogy: that it amplifies the interrogative tradition of humanities study. The exercise uses a set of accessible and freely-available text...
Faced with floods of what was variously called "cheap literature, popular literature, and reading for the million, a cohort of Victorian commentators adopted a surprisingly consistent response to examining such printed materials:...
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