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• Interpretation and processing of overt pronouns in Korean, English and L2-acquisition 

  Kim, Eun Hee (2019-06-26)

  This dissertation investigates pronoun interpretation and processing of two languages (Korean and English), as well as in the second language (L2) acquisition of English by Korean speakers, with a focus on possible first ...

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• The roles of linguistic meaning and context in the concept of lying 

  Weissman, Benjamin Philip (2019-12-02)

  This dissertation adopts an experimental approach to studying lie judgments. It focuses on lie judgments to different types of meaning within a pragmatic framework – namely bare linguistic meaning, explicature, and implicature ...

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• A comparison of Chinese and American student academic email requests to faculty in higher education in the United States 

  Jia, Hanyu (2019-07-02)

  Emails have become one of the most commonly used medium for students to make requests to professors in institutional settings for their convenience and efficiency. However, many international students studying in the U.S. ...

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• Processing of canonical and scrambled word orders in native and non-native Korean 

  Kim, Myeong Hyeon (2019-07-08)

  The present study aims to investigate the nature of processing mechanisms in adult first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence processing, specifically, whether adult L2 learners are capable of developing native-like ...

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• An exploration of the LAL development of pre-service ESL teachers through the processes of item writing 

  Ho, Eric Chen Pei (2019-06-18)

  Language assessment literacy (LAL) has been recognized as an important component of language teacher development. Traditionally, TESOL programs have addressed the need of LAL for language teachers through language assessment ...

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