The overarching objectives of this thesis were 1) to provide Puerto Rican English teachers with materials through which they can introduce style, particularly informal style with a focus on slang, and 2) to expose Puerto ...

The study examines the attitudes of ninth graders in a rural middle school in Yauco, Puerto Rico toward the English language and toward the English class. It also examines gender differences toward the English language ...

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? ...

This thesis examined Voice Onset Time (VOT) for voiced and voiceless stops across four English proficiency levels for sixteen Puerto Rican Spanish speakers at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. It used a Production ...

In Puerto Rico (PR), language transfer can be defined as the influence of L1 Spanish on the production and acquisition of L2 English. In the Puerto Rican public schools, few instructional materials make use of cognates and ...

This thesis examines the phonetic-phonological resources for style-shifting in English and Spanish of twelve students at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. It used social networks to locate students at three English ...

This thesis had three objectives. The first was to design and create a bilingual phonemic awareness test (BPAT) for Puerto Rico, where Spanish is a first language and English is a second language, learned primarily through ...

This thesis is a descriptive analysis of one hundred graduates of the College of Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) who work either in the United States (US) or Puerto Rico (PR). The data was ...