Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Title
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Talking to Avatars: The Computer as a Tutor and the Incidence of Learner's Agency, Feedback, and Grammatical Form in SLA
(Georgetown University, 2010)Increasingly, SLA research is exploring models of hybrid learning where computers are used not only as tools for information and communication purposes but as autonomous electronic tutors. Incipient evidence has shown that ... -
Task complexity, the cognition hypothesis, and interaction in CMC and FTF environments
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The Anxious Hero: Dissecting Masculinities in Thirteenth–Century Medieval Iberian Literature
(Georgetown University, 2018)My dissertation examines the varying and converging constructions of gender and genre in four thirteenth–century medieval Iberian texts: Poema de mio Cid, Libro de Alexandre, Libro de Apolonio and Alfonso X’s Estoria de ... -
The Category of Gender in Spanish–English Bilingual Grammars: Corpus and Experimental Evidence of Switched Determiner Phrases
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation is about the category of gender in bilingual grammars. The specific focus is on the interplay between the linguistic properties that correlate with gender assignment in Spanish–English codeswitched speech ... -
The Child's Gaze and the Politics of Memory and Mourning: Spatiality, Spectrality and Sound in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema
(Georgetown University, 2021)Forgetting has become for many nations an undeniable part of their social and political reality, and in cases like Spain, has even been deemed the key to a future free from the repetition of conflict. However, the elimination ... -
The Effects of Type of Written Corrective Feedback and Level of Proficiency on Processing and Accuracy in Heritage Language Learners of Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2019)In the field of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA), written corrective feedback (WCF) has been shown to play a facilitative role in improving written accuracy (e.g., Ashwell, 2000; Ferris & Roberts, 2001; Ferris, ... -
The Morphosemantics of Spanish Gender: Evidence from Small Nominals
(Georgetown University, 2019)The feature of ‘gender’ has been a popular topic in recent years due to a general interest in phi-features, agreement and concord, and noun categorization (Mathieu et al., 2018). Nevertheless, how interpretable gender is ... -
Towards a Transnational Aesthetic in Latin American Literature
(Georgetown University, 2015)This thesis looks at the representation of national and transnational spaces in contemporary Latin American literature. In doing so, it argues that contemporary writing expands both the geographical imaginary of the physical ... -
Transgresion y modernidad : la prosa de Ruben Dario
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Two Classes of Transitive Verbs: Evidence from Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2011)The unaccusativity hypothesis (Burzio 1986; Levin & Rappaport Hovav 1995; Perlmutter 1978) posits that intransitive verbs may be divided into two broad classes: unaccusatives, whose sole argument is an internal argument ... -
Una fecunda ignorancia: la alegoría en Felisberto Hernández como señal de su vigencia
(Georgetown University, 2018)The Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernández (1902-1964) has been typically depicted as an outsider or a marginal figure within Latin-American Literature. Paradoxically, his influence and popularity have grown in time, with ... -
Universo sicario : espacios traumaticos y asesinos a sueldo. una aproximacion comparativa
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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 ... -
Vulnerable Cosmopolitanism in Latin America: Hospitality Dynamics/ Pop Interferences in Contemporary Literature and Film
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation studies the interrelation between cosmopolitanism, hospitality and pop culture in 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film. Some of my research's leading questions are: what are the ethics ... -
“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 ...
