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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. ...
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 ...
Using smartphones to create films in the English composition classroom: Digital filmmaking as a pedagogical tool
(2014)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate and identify the effectiveness of digital filmmaking using smartphones in the English Composition classroom at the University of Puerto Rico- Mayagüez in the academic year of 2013. ...
Adapting RPG’s in an ESL college classroom
(2011)
In this study, Role Playing Games (RPG‟s) were adapted and used in an ESL classroom in the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, in order to explore the students' different identities, to engage their imagination, to ...
Attitudes of basic track students towards English at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
(2007-12)
This thesis examined the attitudes toward English of 238 Puerto Rican students enrolled in the Basic English sequence, including the Pre-Basic course, at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. The thesis also ...
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 ...