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A walk through the standing stones: The historical novel, gender and the supernatural in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander.
(2019-05-13)
Traditionally, historical/fantasy novels perpetuate stereotypical narratives; said works are situated in the past and provide some historical background, though unfortunately history is often sacrificed in the quest for ...
Rocking and reading exploring multimodal media literacy in an ESL college classroom
(2010)
In spite of the multimodality of texts with which students interact nowadays, reliance on print-based literary textbooks in English classrooms prevails. This qualitative action research adopted a poststructuralist framework ...
Sample ESL oral tests to assess English proficiency skills of pre-basic students at UPRM
(2009)
No specific test exists to assess oral proficiency of English as a Second Language in PR. Therefore, new instruments were designed, developed, and piloted for undergraduate Pre-Basic students. The Sample Oral Test developed ...
Teaching units to lower language anxiety for 8th and 9th grade ESL students in Puerto Rico
(2005)
This thesis includes three teaching units to lower language anxiety in the ESL classroom
using innovative teaching strategies and techniques that are relevant to teenagers' interests at the
8th and 9th grade secondary ...
“A history of possibilities”: The use of history in the interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy
(2006)
During the second half of the twentieth century, scholars and literary critics have
tried to escape master narratives, the epic stories of European supremacy, set in place by
historicists like Leopold von Ranke. The most ...
Motivational language strategies in a basic english classroom in Puerto Rico
(2018)
English language teaching has long been the source of education policy debates in Puerto
Rico. Efforts have been made to increase bilingualism in students; however, textbooks used to
teach English have had little ...
Student mobility and ‘el spanglish’: Describing Colombian student migration to UPRM and their perceptions and realizations of language use at the graduate level
(2014)
This case study utilized naturalistic, qualitative data collection methods to describe the reasons for Colombian graduate student migration to the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. It also describes the use of ...