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Illocution on Twitter: The Construction and Analysis of a Social Media Speech Act Corpus
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In the years since J.L. Austin (1962) first proposed Speech Act Theory (SAT), the literature has taken it in many directions. One recurring point of discussion is the extent to which the direct illocutionary force of an ...
There's No Pride in Anti-Semitism": Framing the 2019 DC Dyke March Ban of the Jewish Pride Flag through Facebook Comments
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In this study, I investigate the ways in which Facebook users, through public comments they post on an LGBTQ+ organization’s page, multimodally construct diverse interpretations and meanings of an event. Bringing together ...
Cara Italia:l’espressione dell’identità multiculturale nella musica rap e trap italiana
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In the past fifteen years, the Italian rap and trap music scene has experienced significant changes due to the entrance of artists who have foreign heritage. Called “second-generation rappers and trappers,” these musicians ...
Fluency, Working Memory, and Second Language Proficiency in Multicompetent Writers
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The present study compared pausing behavior while writing in the L1 and the L2 of emergent bilinguals and investigated the role of WM and proficiency level, as well as observed the cognitive processes that occurred during ...
Early and Emergent Bilinguals: The Role of Cognitive Control in the Processing of Linguistic Conflict
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Language processing requires frequent resolution of conflict (e.g. temporary ambiguities, conflicting parsing principles, see Jegerski, 2012). This conflict triggers cognitive control, which has been shown to be a major ...
Helping Language Learners Align with Readers through Narrative: Insights into the Breadth, Targets, and Explicitness of Evaluation from Appraisal Studies of Second Language German Writers
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Language users never communicate in a vacuum. Successful meaning-making through language depends on an awareness of one’s presumed audience and the choice of linguistic tokens appropriate to that interaction. In their ...
Writing in a Task-Based Individualized Curriculum: Effectiveness of Direct and Indirect Written Corrective Feedback
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The effects of written corrective feedback have been extensively investigated for various domains of instructed second language acquisition with many studies demonstrating clear benefits (e.g. Riazi, Shi & Haggerty, 2018). ...
Teacher Positionality vis-à-vis Latinx English Language Learners: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Identity, Agency and Policy Appropriation
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Latinx students account for 78% of the English Language Learners (ELLs) in U.S. public schools (U.S. Department of Education, 2017), while the majority of U.S. public school teachers schools are White, non-Latinx women who ...
Interaction in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication: The Effects of Interlocutor, Task, and State Anxiety
(Georgetown University, 2020)
There is an increasingly large body of research that has addressed how interaction via Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (SCMC) may support second language (L2) development (see Ziegler, 2016 for a review). Various ...
Statistical Learning of Predictive Dependencies in the Tense-Aspect System of a Miniature Language by English and Thai First Language Adults
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The effects of previously learned language(s) on learning, knowledge, and use of a new language have been well documented (Jarvis & Pavlenko, 2008). It is also well known that adults extract statistical patterns of artificial ...