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Using memoirs and technology to develop reading and writing skills for twelfth grade English students
(2011)
This case study investigates why high school students use technology and how much access they have to it in different settings; it also investigates what reading and writing skills are particularly challenging for them. ...
“I am doing better and better”: From critical pedagogy to action research
(2011)
The main goal of this Participatory Action Research (PAR) study is to empower students to become aware of, and address issues of inequality and social injustices through literacy practices such as reading and writing ...
The role of Emersonian transcendentalism in Alan Ball’s American Beauty and Six Feet Under
(2011)
This thesis explores the manner in which Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s nineteenth century
transcendentalist thought as described in his essays, Nature, The American Scholar, and Self
Reliance, is present and appropriated in Alan ...
Language use in “mensajes de texto” with students at UPRM
(2011)
This study was designed to explore: 1) What language choices are being made by students at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez when they are text messaging? 2) What are the differences in language use to text message ...
Language contact between Rincoeños and Americans in Rincón, Puerto Rico
(2011)
La investigación en la cual esta tesis esta basada tomó lugar en Rincón, Puerto Rico. Esta investigación examina tres preguntas: 1) ¿Hay contacto de idiomas entre los rincoeños y los americanos en Rincón, Puerto Rico? ...
Assessment of the teaching of English oral communication at a public high school in Rincón, Puerto Rico
(2011)
This study examines the teaching and development of the oral communication skill in a high school of Rincón, Puerto Rico. It examines whether English and Spanish teachers follow the documents provided by the Department of ...
Materializing the specter: The scapegoat and the Victorian bildungsroman
(2011)
This thesis will explore and scrutinize the literary genre of the formation novel or novel of education, formally known as the Bildungsroman, in order to develop a solid yet encompassing comprehension of this somewhat ...
Adapting RPG’s in an ESL college classroom
(2011)
In this study, Role Playing Games (RPG‟s) were adapted and used in an ESL classroom in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, in order to explore the students' different identities, to engage their imagination, to ...
Cleverly voiced: The narrators’ uncommon perceptions and depictions of the bad woman in Middlemarch and Vanity Fair
(2011)
This thesis explores the way in which William Makepeace Thackeray‘s Vanity Fair and George Eliot‘s Middlemarch present a different point of view towards their “bad” women than the one usually expected in the Victorian ...
Hungry for more: Reading Under the Tuscan Sun as a gastrography
(2011)
This thesis examines the best-selling memoir Under the Tuscan Sun as an autobiographical narrative in the genre of gastrography that demonstrates how food is used as a metaphor and also as a mode of escape in 21st century ...