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Style for Puerto Rican high school students: A teaching unit focusing on informal style and slang
(2006-05)
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 American dream: Disillusionment in selected works of Ana Castillo, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Virgil Suarez
(2008)
The concept of the American Dream exerts enormous influence on American life. The promises of wealth and success of the American Dream are powerfully appealing. This thesis presents a critical analysis of representations ...
Kindergarten English teaching through the arts (ketta): curriculum development
(2009)
The teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) in the Kindergarten classroom in Puerto Rico public schools has been a controversial topic to most boricuas (term used to name the native Puerto Rican) for over fifteen ...
Teaching English the Puerto Rican way: Developing ESL materials that mirror the source culture for the Puerto Rican elementary English classroom
(2007)
In Puerto Rican English classrooms students are mainly exposed to
English texts which are heavily laced with strong “American” referents and
cultural values. This makes it difficult for language learners to apply their ...
Representations of strong black women in calypso lyrics of Calypso Rose, Singing Sandra, Singing Francine, Singing Vennie, and Queen Bee; and in Zora Neale Hurston’s Work: Their Eyes Were Watching God and Edwidge Danticat’s Work: Breath, Eyes, Memory
(2007)
This thesis presents representations of strong black women in Calypso lyrics of Calypso Rose, Singing Sandra, Singing Francine, Singing Vennie, and Queen Bee; and in Zora Neale Hurston’s work: Their Eyes Were Watching God, ...
From theory to practice: Mending the gap between truth and memoir
(2008)
The memoir is a genre that still remains somewhat in the shadows in terms of its allocation within the subjects of academia, literature, English instruction, among others. This thesis is an attempt at appeasing the genre ...
Re-creating the text: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and its film adaptations
(2009)
Film adaptation is a relatively new and popular form of studying texts, which is
very important to our society because of the effect that adaptation has on it. The
differences between the “original” text and adaptation ...
Reading attitudes, habits and performance of third grade ESL students participating in a reading challenge program
(2009)
The study examines the reading attitudes, habits, and performance of third graders in an urban elementary school in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico participating in a 20 Book Reading Challenge Program. Five methods were used: ...
Canons of transgression: Shock, scandal, and subversion from Matthew Lewis' The Monk to Bret Ellis' American Psycho
(2004)
This thesis examines the relationship between transgressive texts–traditionally defined as those that aim to challenge and possibly subvert the artistic, social, or political traditions of a culture—and their acceptance ...
Attitudes of ninth graders in a rural middle school in Yauco, Puerto Rico toward the English language and the English class
(2005-12)
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 ...