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I’m in America: Critically exploring Latino cultural identity in West Side Story for English classrooms
(2015)
Race, culture and identity, alongside portrayals of the Puerto Rican culture, are themes which are highly intertwined in the Broadway musical West Side Story. Starting from its Broadway premiere to its eventual film ...
Ecological education: Pedagogy of awareness, transformation and action through children’s literature in an ESL classroom
(2015-05)
This research investigation explores possible ways of formally introducing ecological education to sixth grade Puerto Rican learners through children and young adult literature. The purpose of this project is to explore ...
The r/evolution of the Victorian femme fatale
(2016)
The focus of this thesis is to examine the construction of femme fatale representations of nineteenth century England, particularly in mid- Victorian to fin-de-siècle art and literature, thus tracing radical and significant ...
Listening to the voices of the Caribbean: Introducing Caribbean children’s literature into the English classroom in Puerto Rico
(2012)
This study assesses the general knowledge eighth graders from Western Puerto Rico have of their neighboring Caribbean islands. It also examines interests and provides a base for the material selected for the creation of a ...
Discovering your own LGBTQ voice: A look at queer children’s literature and their use in the Puerto Rican classroom
(2016)
Genders, identity, alongside portrayals of the LGBTQ community, are highly intertwined in And Tango Makes Three and King & King. The publication of Children’s Queer Literature has always been surrounded by controversy, ...
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 ...
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 ...