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A Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and Fang: an L2 approach to Equatorial Guinean Spanish as Spoken in Bata City
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Previous studies on Equatorial Guinean Spanish (EGS) have described this dialect as being heavily influenced by the L1. For example, Granda (1985), Lipski (1985), and Quilis & Casado-Fresnillo (1995) maintain that failure ...
Comparing Native and Non-native Raters of US Federal Government Speaking Tests
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Previous Language Testing research has largely reported that although many raters' characteristics affect their evaluations of language assessments (Reed & Cohen, 2001), being a native speaker or non-native speaker rater ...
"IrHal!": The Role of Language in the Arab Spring
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This research investigates the explanatory power of Arabic dialects in describing why the `Arab Spring' is a transnational regional phenomenon rather than an isolated local event specific to Tunisia or Egypt? Is the Arabic ...
Cognitive and Psychosocial Factors in the Long-term Development of Implicit and Explicit Second Language Knowledge in Adult Learners of Spanish at Increasing Proficiency
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This study examined the second language (L2) development of adult learners of Spanish at three levels of proficiency during and after a semester of instruction. A fundamental goal was to identify cognitive and psychosocial ...