Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Title
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De canibales y conquistadores
(Georgetown University, 2016)Historically, Dominican scholars have defined a national identity within discourses aligned with Europeanizing aspirations. This Eurocentric preference in the production of Dominican history contrasts with a majority ... -
Cervantes e Historias Psicosomáticas Amatorias: Don Quijote, un Manual de Modelos Literarios de la Melancolía del Amor
(Georgetown University, 2019)This thesis examines the interrelationship between the literary expressions of love entwined in the construction of relationships among marriageable characters and the symptoms of melancholy. I am analyzing the correlations ... -
Clitics at the edge : clitic placement in Western Iberian Romance languages
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Codeswitching and identity among island Puerto Rican bilinguals
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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 ... -
Cognitive Task Complexity, Foreign Language Anxiety and L2 Performance in Spanish: A Task-Based Language Teaching Perspective
(Georgetown University, 2018)Although cognitive psychology literature (e.g., Derakshan & Eysenck, 2009) has demonstrated the detrimental effects anxiety has on cognitive processes, this relationship has barely been investigated in the SLA field (e.g., ... -
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 ... -
Contributions of Cross-linguistic Influence and Language Aptitude to the Perception and Production of L3 Spanish Labial Stops among Korean-English of Varying L3 Proficiency
(Georgetown University, 2022)Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing interest in third language (L3) phonology (Cabrelli Amaro, 2012; Cabrelli Amaro & Wrembel, 2016). However, research so far has been primarily directed at specific ... -
Crosslinguistic Influence from Spanish in L3 Portuguese: The Roles of Language Background, Proficiency Level, Crosslinguistic Awareness, and Psychotypology
(Georgetown University, 2022)While research on crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in third language (L3) learning has widely supported typological proximity as a primary determinant of CLI in L3s (e.g., Giancaspro et al., 2015; Montrul et al., 2010; ... -
CRÓNICAS DEL PUEBLO Y DEL PAÍS: CUÉNTAME CÓMO PASÓ Y LA TRANSICIÓN ESPAÑOLA A LA DEMOCRACIA
(Georgetown University, 2016)The “Spanish model” of Transition from dictatorship to democracy continues to provoke controversy in political and academic circles, as well as in the media, and to raise questions on strategies for consensus. My dissertation ... -
Cuerpos en transito : efectos de la globalizacion en el cine social contemporaneo
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De héroes y heroínas: Cortés y Pizarro frente a las heroicas mujeres de la Colonia y la lucha de la Independencia
(Georgetown University, 2019)To speak of heroes is to speak of figures possessed with particular talents, figures of an audacious nature framed by glory. There are countless examples of such characters in the narrative of the Conquest of America and ... -
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 ... -
Denaturalizing the Market, Revaluating the Body: Neoliberal Biopolitics in Latin American Literature and Film, 1990-2010
(Georgetown University, 2016)During the last three decades of the twentieth century, neoliberalism was the dominant political economic discourse in Latin America, as many countries implemented a series of reforms to promote free markets and free trade. ... -
DESEANDO PERTENECER: MEMORIA Y MIGRACIÓN EN LA OBRA DE POETAS MAPUCHE Y PUNEÑOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation examines the interaction of two main themes in the work of contemporary poets of Chile and Peru: migration and "re-indigenization". Jaime Huenún and David Aniñir, urban Mapuche poets, and Gloria Mendoza ... -
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 ... -
Discovering Everyday Life: Representation, Ethics, and Transatlantic Convergence in Contemporary Literary Journalism in Spain
(Georgetown University, 2016)This thesis looks at the interrelation between literary journalism in contemporary Spain, or periodismo de arte in Francisco Umbral’s words, and everyday life. Specifically I examine how weekly newspaper columns by fiction ... -
Dominicanas Unbound: Religion, Culture and Politics in Dominican and Dominican American Women's Literature
(Georgetown University, 2014)What is the connection between contemporary Dominican literature and Louis Althusser's theories about how the ruling classes are able to maintain power? I conclude that there is a sector of Dominican literature that gives ... -
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 ... -
The Effects Of Pronunciation Instruction On The Production Of Second Language Spanish: A Classroom Study
(Georgetown University, 2016)Evidence suggests that pronunciation instruction is just as effective as grammar or vocabulary instruction (Lee et al., 2014; Thomson & Derwing, 2014). Despite supporting research, pronunciation instruction in the Spanish ...
