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• Teaching pronunciation as a volunteer ESL tutor: Determining needs and designing support 

  Sims, Linda M. (2018-07-12)

  The demand for English instruction surpasses the availability of trained professionals and affordable programs as increasing numbers of immigrants and other international visitors to the U.S. seek out opportunities to ...

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• Discursive (in)stability: Moral subjectivities and global hierarchies in transnational migrant women’s narratives 

  Catedral, Lydia Hwa Che Medill (2018-07-05)

  My dissertation considers the role of discourse in transnational migrants’ construction of moral and national identities for themselves, focusing on the case of women from Uzbekistan living in the United States. While ...

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• Exploring the emergence of an incipient English Pidgin in Kuwait: A continuum of bilingual behaviour 

  Almuhanna, Maryam (2018-07-02)

  This paper addresses the situation of increasing linguistic hybridity in the Arab Gulf state of Kuwait. With an Arabic-speaking country hosting to an influx of migrant workers since the 1960’s, a foundation for language ...

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• Comparing the effects of traditional and virtual reality enhanced task-based language instruction on Chinese L1-English L2 knowledge of phrasal verbs 

  Burkel, Alexander B. (2018-07-16)

  Until now the authenticity of materials used in Language Learning, and the context in which they are used, had been debated in a favorable light (Chomsky, 1965). Using current Virtual-Reality (VR) technology in the classroom ...

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• Why wait? Psycholinguistic investigations of the roles of learning condition and gender stability in L2 gender-based anticipation 

  Shantz, Kailen Thomas William (2018-07-02)

  It is well documented that grammatical gender poses a pervasive problem for adult second language learners. Whereas native speakers can use prenominal grammatical gender marking to anticipate upcoming nouns in sentences, ...

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