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Voice onset time for voiced and voiceless stops across English proficiency levels for sixteen Puerto Rican Spanish speakers at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
(2007)
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 ...
Alternate texts, alternate pedagogies: Autoethnographic research with graduate teaching assistants in an ESL environment
(2020-07-23)
The purpose of this thesis is to study the graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) who are instructors of record in undergraduate-level general education courses in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico ...
The rise of messaging Apps and their influence on language learning
(2020-05-27)
Mobile text messaging and its effect on language use has been a well-studied field in past years. However, not until recently have mobile messaging apps and their influence on language learning been researched. Nowadays, ...
Exploring the writing process across modalities: learning in face-to-face and online classrooms
(2009)
This study was conducted in a public institution of higher education in western Puerto
Rico in order to explore the effects of adapting a traditional face-to-face intermediate writing
course for second language learners ...
Dictionary use and instruction in pre-basic English at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
(2008-05)
This study examines the point of view of the professors and instructors of Pre- Basic English on the role of the dictionary in the Pre-Basic English classroom. It also examines the dictionary using habits in English and ...
Remediation in paradise: (Mis)labeling low English proficiency students at UPRM
(2014)
This research project is a secondary data analysis of the characteristics and effects of English language remediation at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez from the academic years 2008-09 through 2013-14. Using ...
Translanguaging practices used by University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez graduate teaching assistants in their classroom
(2020-12-09)
Through narrative inquiry, this research investigates how Graduate Teaching Assistants’ (GTAs) past experiences can help shape their current thoughts and beliefs on translanguaging and its usage inside their classrooms. ...
Exploring influencing factors in English language acquisition in Puerto Rican English majors
(2020-05-16)
Este proyecto de investigación utilizó historias de vida para explorar cómo estudiantes
del departamento de inglés de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez (UPRM) aprendieron inglés. El objetivo original era investigar ...
English in the lives of former UPRM engineering students
(2007-12)
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 ...
Mayormente las nenas: gendered discourses in online and offline educational settings
(2009)
This ethnographic case study explored the ways in which gendered discourses were enacted by students in an English language classroom and their corresponding educational weblogs. The participants were 18 pre-basic English ...