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ELITE ENGAGEMENT IN LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING: AHMED TALEB IBRAHIMI AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARABIZATION IN ALGERIA
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This dissertation looks at elite engagement in the process of language policy and planning in Algeria after independence, highlighting the connection between ideology and the development of national identity. To achieve ...
The Grammar of Ethics in "Paradise Lost"
(Georgetown University, 2015)
A current divide exists in Milton criticism between those who view "Paradise Lost" as an indeterminate work composed of irresolvable choices and aporias (contradictions), and those who view the poem as a singular work of ...
PUSHING FOR PROCESSING: THE ROLES OF DEPTH OF PROCESSING, WORKING MEMORY, AND REACTIVITY ON COMPREHENSION
(Georgetown University, 2015)
PUSHING FOR PROCESSING:
ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING: LEARNING WITHOUT AWARENESS? AN INTERPRETABLE AND UNINTERPRETABLE APPROACH
(Georgetown University, 2012)
ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING: LEARNING WITHOUT AWARENESS? AN INTERPRETABLE AND UNINTERPRETABLE APPROACH
Perception and Production of Intonation among English-Spanish Bilingual Speakers at Different Proficiency Levels
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This dissertation examined the perception and production of intonation among 55 English-native speakers of Spanish at three proficiency levels (low, high, and very high). Their performance was compared with monolingual ...
The Neurocognition of Adult Second Language Learning: An fMRI Study
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Learners achieved very high proficiency in vocabulary and reasonably high proficiency in grammar, though morphosyntactic agreement was difficult to master. FMRI activation was found in areas associated with first language ...
Degrees of Instructional Explicitness, Depth of Processing, Learning styles and L2 Development: A study on the Spanish Imperfect subjunctive
(Georgetown University, 2014)
The aim of the present study was three-fold: First, it intended to investigate the effects that different types of instruction varying in explicitness (e.g., Rosa & O'Neill, 1999; Rosa & Leow, 2004), had on 88 intermediate-level ...
Divine Story-Telling as Self-Presentation: An Analysis of Sūrat al-Kahf
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This dissertation explores the application of narrative analysis to five Qur'ānic stories in Sūrat al-Kahf, the eighteenth chapter of the Qur'ān. Traditional Qur'ānic exegesis treats the narratives atomistically, giving ...
Parallel Architecture, Parallel Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Nominal and Verbal Domains
(Georgetown University, 2017)
This dissertation explores parallels between Complementizer Phrase (CP) and Determiner Phrase (DP) semantics, syntax, and morphology–including similarities in case-assignment, subject-verb and possessor-possessum agreement, ...
The Role of Crosslinguistic Influence from L2 Spanish, Type of Linguistic Item, and Aptitude in the Learning Stages of L3 Portuguese Forms: An Exploratory Study
(Georgetown University, 2017)
This study investigates facilitative and non-facilitative crosslinguistic influence (CLI) from second language (L2) Spanish in third language (L3) Portuguese learning by native English speakers, testing some of the hypotheses ...