Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese
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Visions of antiquity remembering the classical past in the Castilian Roman Antique
(Georgetown University, 2010)The appearance of the Libro de Alexandre and the Libro de Apolonio in the thirteenth-century Castilian literary scene represents the first time in which the key classical narratives about Alexander the Great, the Trojan ... -
Individual differences and linguistic factors in the development of mid vowels in L2 Spanish learners: A longitudinal study
(Georgetown University, 2017)This study was a longitudinal investigation into how learner individual differences (IDs) and linguistic factors shape developmental trajectories of second language (L2) production of the Spanish mid vowels /e/ and /o/. ... -
Borges in Hollywood: From Art House to Blockbuster Cinema
(Georgetown University, 2017)This dissertation examines Jorge Luis Borges’s influence on contemporary cinema. I postulate that cinematic appropriations of Borges are shifting from art house to blockbuster films, facilitated partly by postmodern ... -
“WHY ARE THESE UNDERLINED?” DEPTH OF PROCESSING AND TYPE OF WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK IN L2 SPANISH COMPOSITIONS
(Georgetown University, 2017)There is an ongoing debate as to whether written corrective feedback (WCF) is effective for the improvement of adult second language (L2) writers’ accuracy. Ever since Truscott (1996, 1999) began arguing against grammar ... -
The Secret Is in the Processing: A Study of Levels of Explicit Computerized Feedback in Heritage and L2 Learners of Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2017)The field of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) has expressed interest in pursuing a research agenda that expands the current heritage language (HL) strand of research to investigate how this heterogeneous ...