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- Title
- Challenges and opportunities for heritage language learners in interpreting courses in the U.S. context
- Author
- Mellinger, Christopher D. (Christopher Davey), Gasca-Jiménez, Laura
- Subjects--Topical
- Language and languages, Translating and interpreting, Heritage language speakers
- Description
- Recent studies indicate that heritage language speakers have professional opportunities in translation and interpreting (e.g., Carreira, 2014a) because of their unique linguistic and cultural background. In addition, heritage language speakers’ un...
- Title
- Context Matters: Pragmatics and Political Discourse Analysis of the Presidential Speeches of Michelle Bachelet, Barack Obama and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
- Author
- Furnish, Patricia
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Linguistics, Language and languages
- Description
- ABSTRACTPATRICIA LEE FURNISH. Context matters: Pragmatics and political discourseanalysis of the presidential speeches of Michelle Bachelet, Barack Obama andJosé Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. (Under the direction of DR. CONCEPCIÓN GODEV)This is a compa...
- Title
- Effects of Direct Instruction on the Use of and Response to Prepositions by Students with an Intellectual Disability
- Author
- Hicks, Susan
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Special education, Language and languages
- Description
- Students with an intellectual disability often struggle with significant language delays or impairments. Although this population of students can acquire language skills, they often require methods of explicit instruction of language skills to do ...
- Title
- Enhancing the Anesthesia Providers’ Awareness of Resources, Policies, & Procedures Surrounding Patients with Language Communication Barriers
- Author
- Martin, Taylor
- Date Created
- 2024
- Subjects--Topical
- Medicine, Health education, Language and languages
- Description
- Background: Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) are facing significant communication challenges in peri-operative settings, spanning from understanding anesthesia-related information to obtaining informed consent. These language-based ...
- Title
- Exploring Diasporic Dialects of Black Women in College Composition and Communications: A Critical Reflective Narrative Inquiry
- Author
- Dervin, Alicia
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Language and languages, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
- Description
- Historically, standard English language ideologies have been perpetually ingrained in American educational practices and policies (Smitherman, 2017; Wong & Teuben-Rowe, 1997). These practices are not limited to K-12 studies and maintain a position...
- Title
- Inclusive Language in Mexico and Spain: Institutional Language Ideology
- Author
- Garcia, Mirna
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Linguistics, Language and languages
- Description
- This study analyzes the current positions on inclusive language in Mexico and Spain’s macro sociopolitical structures that hold far-reaching influence in matters of language ideology. Given the influx of inclusive language manual publications in t...
- Title
- Raising Little Russians: Language Socialization and Language Shift in an Urban Kyrgyz Family
- Author
- McDermott, Ashley
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Ethnology, Sociolinguistics, Language and languages
- Description
- In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Russian prevails as the lingua franca despite efforts by policymakers and language activists to promote the Kyrgyz language. This study uses language socialization as a lens to investigate language shift in the city by analy...
- Title
- Semantic Change: Marian Phrases in Cantigas de Santa Maria, the Rosary, Puerto Rican Folklore and Spanish
- Author
- Quiñones-Ayala, Brenda
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Language and languages, Area studies
- Description
- En el habla popular puertorriqueña se utilizan expresiones de carácter mariano en forma de interjección fuera de su contexto teológico originario. En Puerto Rico, antes de que acaeciera una serie de eventos socio-históricos, el uso de estas expres...
- Title
- What's in a Name? Exploring Language Ideologies Through the Names of the Spanish Langauge
- Author
- Burke, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Language and languages, Linguistics
- Description
- This thesis embarks on an exploration of language ideology, centering its investigation on the debate surrounding the nomenclature of the Spanish language as "castellano" or "español." It explores the concept of language ideologies by exploring th...