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El Sol, Christina Blanchard

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

El sol

Cambia a lo largo de la historia

Era la luz más importante

Significaba los comienzos y los finales

Era un dios

Se transportaba por un caballo divino en un país

Por un pez en otro

Y por una nave divina a través del cielo

Les ayudaba con la hora

Llegó a ser el centro del universo

Para los que por fin entendieron

Sanaba

Entendimiento, percepción

Cambio

El Violín, Amelia Christensen

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

La palabra violín viene de una palabra de latín que significa instrumento. También, había una diosa que se llamaba Vitula, y era la diosa de gozo. Entonces, hay un verbo en latín que es vitulari que significa “estar lleno de gozo”. El violín trae mucho gozo a los demás.

Los Auriculares, Madison Jenkins

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Mi dueño me perdió la semana pasada. Siempre estuve ahí, pero él no podía verme. Me acosté debajo de la cama, esperando a que me recogiera. Tenía que escuchar música, mirar televisión y hablar con sus amigos, solo. No le deseo eso a mi peor enemigo.

La Comida, Scotty Mccubbins

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

La comida quiere estar en un plato muy extravagante. Debe ser un plato que este hecho de porcelana blanca. Debe ser un plato que esté grande para enfatizar a la comida. Es necesario que el plato sea redondo para guardar la comida. Prefiere que el plato este sobre una mesa porque no quiere estar en el piso. Y más que nada es necesario que el plato tenga que estar acompañado por alguien que va a apreciar a la comida.

La Moto De Motocross, Matthew Murdock

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

A mí me encantan la moto y la adrenalina, a muchos no les gusta porque esta peligrosa pero eso no es cierto, al manejear se siente tranquilo.

El Calcetín, Lindsay Carreto

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Yo soy un calcetín que ha tenido muchas aventuras junto a mi hermano gemelo. Yo estoy muy feliz de compartir mi vida con él. Mi hermano es un gran líder y cuida mucho de mí. Nosotros somos como mejores amigos, nos contamos todo. Él es un gran apoyo en mi vida.

La Pluma, Megan Johnston

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

La pluma existe para escribir. La pluma usa sus ideas para crear mundos e historias. A veces usa sus ideas para dibujar. El propósito de escribir es compartir sus ideas con el mundo por sus escritos. Escribe para hacer un cambio en el mundo. La pluma quiere ayudar a las personas a formar sus ideas para publicarlos.

Kinetics For Enzymatic Conversion Of Biomass To Glucose, Jordan Broadwater

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Biofuels are a sought-after alternative for fossil fuels in today’s society. More specifically, cellulose-based biofuel is an avenue of research intending to limit waste and provide new renewable energy. Cellulose is a rigid polymer of glucose monomers that is found abundantly across different agriculture crops. However, its stability is a barrier to energy production from this source. Pretreatment followed by hydrolysis of cellulosic materials serves a potential to produce glucose to be used in biofuels in larger quantities compared to other methods. This project studied the effect microwave pretreatment and oxygenation have on hydrolysis of cellulose in Arundo Donax. Arundo …

The Acquisition Of English Phrasal Verbs By Native Spanish Speakers, Ryanne Mikunda

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The Acquisition of English Phrasal Verbs by Native Spanish Speakers

Ryanne Mikunda

Covadonga Sanchez Alvarado

This project investigates native Spanish speakers' acquisition of English phrasal verbs (PVs). A PV consists of a verb and preposition that function as a verb, e.g., pick up, think about, and go on. Prior research shows that because PVs are polysemous and idiomatic, they are difficult for learners of English as a second language to acquire (Moore Hanna, 2012; Garnier & Schmitt, 2016; Rovira Diaz, 2017). Additionally, the English concept of a PV does not exist in Spanish. To better understand how …

Oer Immersive Mulitmedia Materials Project: Vr As An Agent Of Change, Alexander Isin, Jade Basilius, Johana Barrero, Angeles Fernandez-Cifuentes

Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

OER-Immersive Multimedia Materials Project: VR as an Agent of Change Alexander Isin, Computer Science/ Spanish Major (Main researcher) Jade Basilius, Communication/ Spanish Major (Main researcher) Mentors: Johana Barrero, Ph. D., Ångeles Fernández Cifuentes, Ph. D. This project aims at the design and development of immersive instructional materials (with a focus on virtual reality) for the Spanish language, literature, and culture classroom. It specifically involves the design of an interactive 360-degree experience in Spanish about the Florida Keys Coral Reefs and their environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural impact on the community. My involvement in the project focused on the research of different …

Oer-Immersive Multimedia Materials Project, Jade Basilius

Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS)

Project of Merit Winner

The goal of this project is to create a bilingual 360 virtual reality experience specifically designed to allow second language learners to maximize their cognitive abilities to learn new grammar skills while learning about pressing and pertinent global climate change issues. This learning module will allow students to experience the coral reefs from the classroom, through the 360 virtual reality experience. They will be able to explore the reefs and learn about why they are important for our future. This module has been designed and created with the Cognitive Learning Theory for the purpose of maximizing …

Language Planning And The Case Of Catalonia: How Can Language Planning Revive A Suppressed National Identity?, Olivia Painchaud

Senior Theses and Projects

La planificación de lengua es un proceso que ocurre en forma de las políticas lingüísticas de un estado o una nación. Hay muchas razones por la planificación de lengua, incluyendo pero no limitado al establecimiento de una identidad homogénea, la denunciación de lenguas que no eran consideradas la lengua nacional, y para marcar la separación de una nación desde la otra. En la historia del conflicto entre España y Catalunya, vemos todas de estas posibilidades. En España, los esfuerzos para crear y mantener una identidad nacional sin divergencias resultaron en la persecución de la lengua catalana. La clasificación de esta …

La Variación Sociofonológica De /Tʃ/ En Chihuahua, México, Latasha L. Valenzuela-Hernandez

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis shows us the phonological variation of the pronunciation of [tʃ] in the vernacular Spanish of Chihuahua, Mexico, which variably converts into a different pronunciation, the variant [ʃ], through the process of lenition. Although this phenomenon is observed in various countries such as Spain, Panama, Venezuela, and the United States, it remained understudied in the sociolinguistic field until now. Therefore, this investigation contributes reliable information of the psycholinguistic, phonological, and geo-linguistic characteristics that are pertinent to the production of the fricative [ʃ]. The investigation’s methodology employs semi-directed interviews with a socially stratified corpus of thirty-two speakers from Chihuahua, Mexico. …

Learn, Try, Repeat: Experiential Learning In Adult Second Language Acquisition Of Spanish In Higher Education, Veronica Miller

Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to synthesize research of experiential learning for adult Spanish learners in higher education to identify important takeaways and propose draft curriculum to improve acquisition for learners through experience-based and hands-on practices. Hopefully, this will aid in understanding, identify gaps in existing research, and better inform lesson-planning for instructors. My research does not include any comparison to other languages or other levels of education. I approach the issue through exploratory and descriptive research through open-source data retrieval by information obtained from governmental and nongovernmental resources.

Systemic Functional Linguistics And Its Application To The Study Of Academic Conference Presentations, Carolina Viera, Maite Taboada

World Languages Faculty Publications and Presentations

Academic conference presentations (CPs) offer the possibility to study both the linguistic features of academic oral language and social conventions that take place during these events (Ventola, Shalom & Thompson, 2002). Academic conferences have been understudied (Robles Garrote, 2016), especially within the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). For this reason, researchers who investigate this topic have insufficient reference literature. This study contributes to the understanding of CPs by discussing theoretical and methodological aspects of the analysis of a corpus of 32 CPs given in Spanish in the United States to determine the generic structure or prototypical text structure …

The Island Heritage / El Patrimonio De La Isla, Susana Castillo-Rodriguez

Languages and Literatures

In 1926, Philip. J. Fisher published “The Island Heritage. Episodes from the Missionary History of Fernando Poo, West Africa. A Play for Young People”. This book has remained unknown until present. There is one copy at Archives and Special Collections, SOAS Library (London).

This play is of enormous interest not just for it has been mentioned above but also because:

1. It is a vivid narration of the settlement of Protestant missionaries in Clarence, based on historical facts and personal experience collected first hand by Philip. J. Fisher as he interviewed some of the protagonists in the play.

2. It is the …

The Imitation Of Ecuadorian Assibilated Rhotics By Naïve Andalusian Speakers From Seville, Maria De La Esperanza Ruiz-Peña

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The purpose of the present thesis is to establish whether Flege’s “equivalence classification” (Flege, 1995, p. 239) operates in the same way in auditory imitation of an unfamiliar dialect as it does in second language (L2) acquisition of speech. In order to do so, this study investigates how Andalusian Spanish speakers imitate assibilated rhotics produced in Ecuadorian Spanish. Despite substantial growth in interest in D2 phonological acquisition in later years (e.g., Babel, 2009; Nielsen, 2011), little research has been done to determine whether the mechanisms that underlie the production of L2 are also responsible for the auditory imitation of an …

A Computational Study In The Detection Of English–Spanish Code-Switches, Yohamy C. Polanco

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Code-switching is the linguistic phenomenon where a multilingual person alternates between two or more languages in a conversation, whether that be spoken or written. This thesis studies the automatic detection of code-switching occurring specifically between English and Spanish in two corpora.

Twitter and other social media sites have provided an abundance of linguistic data that is available to researchers to perform countless experiments. Collecting the data is fairly easy if a study is on monolingual text, but if a study requires code-switched data, this becomes a complication as APIs only accept one language as a parameter. This thesis focuses on …

Non-Vibrant Bilingual Rhotics In A Creole-Spanish Contact Scenario, Falcon Restrepo-Ramos

World Languages & Cultures Department Publications

This sociolinguistic study examines the non-vibrant rhotic realizations produced in a bilingual Spanish variety spoken by Creole-Spanish speakers in the Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia. These bilingual rhotic realizations were compared with the languages in contact, the monolingual varieties, Spanish and Creole, in terms of the best acoustic predictors for discriminating between linguistic groups. A discriminant function analysis selected segmental duration and formant frequencies (F3 and F2) as the acoustic correlates with the best predicting capabilities. These acoustic predictors extracted from zero-occlusion rhotics were further contrasted between varieties revealing that the bilingual Spanish is placed in an intermediate position between …

Bilingualism And Language Attitude In Melilla (Spain), Lotfi Sayahi, Miguel Àngel Montero Alonso

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.