ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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- 5 Arizona State University
- 3 Matsuda, Aya
- 2 Van Gelderen, Elly
- 1 Anokye, Akua Duku
- 1 Diniz De Figueiredo, Eduardo Henrique
- 1 Friedrich, Patricia
- 1 Friedrich, Patricia M
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- 1 Gee, James
- 1 Hernandez-G, Manuel de Jesus
- 1 Holder, Adela Berry
- 1 James, Mark
- 1 James, Mark A
- 1 Kim, Youmie Janice
- 1 Lafford, Barbara
- 1 Lima, Alberto
- 1 Liss, Julie
- 1 Matsuda, Paul Kei
- 1 Montes, Amanda Lira Gordenstein
- 1 Pruitt, Kathryn
- 1 Rodriguez, Sandra
- 5 Public
- English as a second language
- Linguistics
- 2 Brazil
- 2 Language
- 1 Attitudes towards English
- 1 Bilingual education
- 1 Communication
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- 1 DIVA model
- 1 English as a global language
- 1 English conceptualizations
- 1 English in Advertising
- 1 Equity
- 1 Expanding Circle
- 1 Feldenkrais
- 1 Globalization
- 1 L2 writing
- 1 Maya
- 1 Neurolinguistics
- 1 Neurosciences
- 1 Phonological acquisition
- 1 Second language acquisition
- 1 Sensorimotor approach
- 1 Sociolinguistic Profile
- 1 Sociolinguistics
- 1 World Englishes
- 1 composing process
- 1 learning strategies
- 1 writing goals
- 1 writing strategies
- Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories of Protogalaxy Physics: Canonical Star Formation Laws at Low Metallicity
- Evolutionary Genetics of CORL Proteins
- Social Skills and Executive Functioning in Children with PCDH-19
- Deep Domain Fusion for Adaptive Image Classification
- Software Defined Pulse-Doppler Radar for Over-The-Air Applications: The Joint Radar-Communications Experiment
This study articulates a framework of writing strategies and validates the framework by using it to examine the writing process of researchers as they write journal articles for publication. The framework advances a definition of writing strategies and a classification system for categorizing strategies that is based on strategic goals. In order to develop the framework, I first synthesize existing literature on writing strategies found in second language writing studies, composition studies, and second language acquisition. I then observe the writing process of four researchers as they write journal articles for publication and use the framework to analyze participants’ goals, …
- Contributors
- Kim, Youmie Janice, Matsuda, Paul Kei, Matsuda, Aya, et al.
- Created Date
- 2016
ABSTRACT This research is a study of the relationship between language acquisition and the status of equity. The history of the Maya people in Guatemala gives strong evidence that their failure to acquire competence in Spanish, which is the national language of their nation, has resulted in their failure to compete in the social, economic, and political components of their society. It also shows that they have failed to maintain their competence in Mayan, their own language, as a result of mistreatment from their conquerors who have shown a determination to eliminate their use of Mayan. Many Maya have left …
- Contributors
- Holder, Adela Berry, Van Gelderen, Elly, Rodriguez, Sandra, et al.
- Created Date
- 2017
The present study investigates some of the different ways in which English has been conceptualized in Brazil since the beginning of intensified globalization in the 1990s, and proposes how such conceptualizations relate to sociocultural, political and historical phenomena in the country. To this end, central texts (governmental documents, musical lyrics, cultural messages, educational policies, and language school commercials) of three domains of language regulation and use (political discourse, pop culture, and English language teaching) were examined through discourse analytical tools, text mapping, and content analyses. The investigation of each domain was supplemented by analyses of additional data (media texts, artistic …
- Contributors
- Diniz De Figueiredo, Eduardo Henrique, Friedrich, Patricia, Friedrich, Patricia, et al.
- Created Date
- 2012
This study investigates the uses of English in advertising in Brazil and the attitudes of Brazilians towards the use of different difficulty levels of English in advertising. Using a two part, mixed-methods approach, drawing from quantitative and qualitative methods, I utilized a corpus study to examine English uses in Brazilian magazines and a survey to investigate the difficulty of English slogans as a determinant for people's attitudes towards English in advertising. For the first part, three major Brazilian news magazines, Veja, Época, and ISTOÉ were used. From three issues of each magazine, results showed that 57% of the advertisements in …
- Contributors
- Montes, Amanda Lira Gordenstein, Friedrich, Patricia M, Matsuda, Aya, et al.
- Created Date
- 2014
Studies in Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics have argued that adult learners when dealing with certain phonological features of L2, such as segmental and suprasegmental ones, face problems of articulatory placement (Esling, 2006; Abercrombie, 1967) and somatosensory stimulation (Guenther, Ghosh, & Tourville, 2006; Waldron, 2010). These studies have argued that adult phonological acquisition is a complex matter that needs to be informed by a specialized sensorimotor theory of speech acquisition. They further suggested that traditional pronunciation pedagogy needs to be enhanced by an approach to learning offering learners fundamental and practical sensorimotor tools to advance the quality of L2 speech …
- Contributors
- Lima, Alberto, Pruitt, Kathryn, Van Gelderen, Elly, et al.
- Created Date
- 2015