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Shaping ESL education through photography, cultural education and technology
(2021-05-13)
English education faces a challenging phase as students’ methods of learning change, and pedagogical strategies become outdated. Proficiency levels in English today are not as
expected by the requirements and objectives ...
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? ...
Building a better princess writing ethnicity and the feminist’s hero’s journey
(2019-12-11)
Desde la década de 1940, Disney ha presentado su propia versión del personaje de princesa, desde Blancanieves hasta Moana. A lo largo del tiempo, Disney ha mejorado la representación de sus princesas, haciéndolas más ...
Problematizing Yertle the Turtle, the Lorax, and Horton through critical literacy, global issues and Freire’s tenets
(2012)
Through the use of children’s literature, this thesis encourages educators and parents to expose children, from an early age to texts that promote critical thinking. In order to identify texts that do so, an evaluation ...
Christopher Marlowe’s Faustian codes in Eighteenth-century Gothic literature
(2019-05-14)
This thesis explores Renaissance Faustian codes seen in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel using selected works of three writers of the Gothic Revival. I argue that by looking at William Beckford’s Vathek, Matthew G. ...
An educational journey: The Puerto Rican experience from student to teacher in U.S. schools
(2018-01-29)
This thesis presents the life stories of six Puerto Rican teachers, focusing on their educational experiences as they grew from students to teachers in U.S. schools. Using the Funds of Knowledge theoretical framework, this ...
Integrating multiliteracies into the ESL curriculum: Graphic novels as a means of expression and motivation
(2015)
This study focuses on using graphic novels to interest students and develop their
reading skills in English. The participants were ESL (English as a second language) students
taking their fourth and final English class ...
Withdrawal and non-passing grades in UPRM pre-calculus I: What’s language got to do with it?
(2014)
The focus of this study is to examine if the English language influences withdrawal or failure rates in Pre-Calculus I at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. Using data from the Office of Research and Institutional ...
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 ...
Magical sexualities: Witchcraft in film and television
(2020-04-17)
The purpose of this research is to analyze varied representations of the figure of the witch through television series and the implication these representations have within the field of feminist studies. For this investigation, ...