Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Title
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Factors affecting English speakers' perception of L2 Spanish vowels
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Falling into Shame: The Cultural History of an Emotion in Pre-Modern Iberia
(Georgetown University, 2020)This dissertation explores literary and visual representations of shame with a particular focus on the 14th to 16th centuries. Through a survey of prose literary works and Early Modern visual culture, this project argues ... -
Ficciones raciales: representaciones de raza y genero a traves de la literatura y las artes visuales en Colombia 1830- 1875
(Georgetown University, 2013)RACIAL FICTIONS: REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE AND GENDER THROUGH LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS IN COLOMBIA 1830- 1875 -
Finding God in All Things: Teresa of Ávila's Use of the Familiar
(Georgetown University, 2011)FINDING GOD IN ALL THINGS: TERESA OF ÁVILA'S USE OF THE FAMILIAR -
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 ... -
Hacia una poética del performance cancioneril: culturas del libro de la España Trastámara a la Imperial
(Georgetown University, 2019)In my dissertation, I examine textual performance in the Spanish cancionero (songbook), a type of literary compilation that became an instrument for image projection, social commentary, and humanist exchange in lettered ... -
Heritage and Second Language Learners of Spanish: The Roles of Task Complexity and Inhibitory Control
(Georgetown University, 2013)Scholars in language education have called for a research agenda that examines how heritage language (HL) learners re-learn their family language since their experience learning the heritage language differs from that of ... -
Heterogeneidad de los discursos sobre lo indigena en las revistas indigenistas peruanas de vanguardia
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How To Synchronize? A Study of Video-Based, Voice-Based & Text-Based Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication, Working Memory, and Second Language Learning
(Georgetown University, 2018)The growing presence of Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (SCMC), defined as ‘real-time, synchronous conversation that takes place online’ (Baralt & Leow, 2016, p. 200), via video-chat programs such as Skype in ... -
Hungry Narratives: Multifocal Readings of Human and Non-human Affects in the Americas
(Georgetown University, 2021)The crafting of travel accounts was decisive for the implementation of exploitative practices towards indigenous societies and nature in the New World. The descriptions of flora, fauna, and local inhabitants not only ... -
IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY: THE PLACE OF SPACE, (PROTO)RACE AND IDEOLOGY IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL HONDURAS
(Georgetown University, 2012)The objective of this study is to identify and explain the different processes and discursive practices that constructed the national character and identity of the Honduran people. Through a diachronic analysis of Honduras ... -
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/. ... -
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 ... -
La estructura temporal en el teatro de Mario Vargas Llosa
(Georgetown University, 2010) -
La historia doble del testimonio en la costa Colombiana: aproximaciones a una episteme alternativa
(Georgetown University, 2019)The testimonial genre was born in Latin America in the seventies with transformative sociopolitical purposes. Nevertheless, it loses its subversive power along the way culminating as mere text with no further consequences ... -
La imaginación biográfica: El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega y la formación del campo cultural peruano (1847-1916)
(Georgetown University, 2011)This dissertation examines the importance of the life and work of the 16th century mestizo writer, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in establishing the field of cultural production in Peru. My research analyzes the historiographical ... -
La ira antiimperialista: Lope de Aguirre y la izquierda latinoamericana
(Georgetown University, 2018)¿Por qué los proyectos antiimperialistas tienden a convertirse en tiranías? Esta es la pregunta que busca responder la disertación. Lope de Aguirre, el primer líder revolucionario moderno, y sus adaptaciones a través de ...
