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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 ...
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 ...
Strategic planning, recasts, noticing, and L2 development
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Since the mid-1990s, the link between recasts and L2 development has been extensively tested, and the results from those studies have largely demonstrated that recasts have a positive effect on L2 learning. With this firm ...
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 ...
El(la) Mapping: An Integrated Account of Learning Context, Feedback and Agreement Morphology in the Processing of OclVS Sentences in Advanced L2 Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Previous literature has shown that beginning and intermediate English-speaking learners persistently misinterpret O-cliticVS sentences in Spanish, preferring word order over morphology when assigning semantic functions to ...
DIFFERENTIAL GAINS IN ORAL PROFICIENCY DURING STUDY ABROAD: THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE LEARNING APTITUDES
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This inquiry analyzed the relationships between individual differences and gains made in oral proficiency of adult, second language learners of Spanish during one semester studying abroad. Oral proficiency was measured ...
Extracting and modeling typical durations of events and habits from Twitter
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This thesis presents recent work on a new method to automatically extract fine-grained duration information for common verbs using a large corpus of Twitter tweets. I present the results of distinguishing between habitual ...
"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 ...