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The Use Of Corpus Consultation To Enhance The Acquisition Of L2 English Infinitive And Gerund Complements Among Low English Proficiency L1 Thai Learners, Passaraporn Suriyapee Jan 2021

The Use Of Corpus Consultation To Enhance The Acquisition Of L2 English Infinitive And Gerund Complements Among Low English Proficiency L1 Thai Learners, Passaraporn Suriyapee

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study aimed to investigate how the corpus-based teaching approach could enhance L2 acquisition of English infinitive and gerund complements among low English proficiency L1 Thai young learners. Sixty-four secondary students were equally divided into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group learned English verbal complements through the corpus approach, while the control group did through the traditional teaching approach. Data were collected through a pretest, a posttest, and an interview. The results from the pretest revealed quite low scores on English infinitive and gerund complements in both participant groups and, based on the statistical data from …

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The Transfer Of Expressive Meaning In The Translation Of Thai Amplifiers In The Literary Works Into English, Maliwan Bunsorn Jan 2021

The Transfer Of Expressive Meaning In The Translation Of Thai Amplifiers In The Literary Works Into English, Maliwan Bunsorn

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study explores cross-language intensification in affirmative sentences by examining the translation of standard and strong amplifiers, words that scale upward from an assumed norm to emphasize a quality of any entities, from Thai into English, the types of shifts involved, as well as similarities and differences in the translation of amplifiers by native and non-native translators. The data comprises 1,254 source text amplifiers, which were drawn from a corpus of eight works of fiction in Thai and their English translations translated by professional translators. Research inquiries were made with two translators to identify decisions behind their translations. The analysis …

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A Study Of Chinese Young Learners' Beliefs In Eil Project-Based Language Learning In Rural Schools, Xiaoli Zheng Jan 2021

A Study Of Chinese Young Learners' Beliefs In Eil Project-Based Language Learning In Rural Schools, Xiaoli Zheng

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study explored learners' beliefs about English as an international language through project-based language learning in a Chinese rural school. Three English teachers and 102 Grade 6 Chinese EFL learners participated over two separate phases. Phase I explored how teachers implemented the project-based language learning via classroom observation and semi-structured interviews. The findings from this phase were used to construct the six aspects of the EIL project-based language learning questionnaire in Phase 2. The questionnaire was developed to explore learners beliefs about EIL and project-based language learning in a Chinese rural school. The questionnaire revealed that the learners strongly believed …

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A Learner Corpus-Based Study On The Use Of Spoken Discourse Markers By Thai Efl Learners, Zhaoyi Pan Jan 2021

A Learner Corpus-Based Study On The Use Of Spoken Discourse Markers By Thai Efl Learners, Zhaoyi Pan

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This research investigated and compared the use of English spoken discourse markers by Thai EFL learners and by native English speakers. Six English spoken discourse markers, namely like, so, well, you know, I think and I mean, are compared in two aspects: frequency and pragmatic function. A total of 60 learners were involved in the research: 30 Thai B1-level learners and 30 Thai C1-level EFL learners according to the CEFR standard. Spoken data in the genre of English daily conversation was collected and transcribed into written form to build a learner corpus for the analysis. The research examined the significant …

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An Investigation Of English Language Speaking And Writing Anxieties And Anxiety-Reducing Strategies In An Online Language Classroom Of Thai Undergraduates, Teaka Sowaprux Jan 2021

An Investigation Of English Language Speaking And Writing Anxieties And Anxiety-Reducing Strategies In An Online Language Classroom Of Thai Undergraduates, Teaka Sowaprux

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study seeks to understand how the online classroom apparatus within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic affects the degree of foreign language anxiety (FLA) towards productive skills (i.e., classroom speaking and writing) among Thai learners of English in two universities. This study was based on two frameworks, namely, the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) (Horwitz, Howitz & Cope, 1986) measuring classroom speaking anxiety and the Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) (Cheng, 2004), which investigates writing anxiety across three factors (i.e., somatic anxiety, avoidance behavior, cognitive anxiety). The field work took place over a period of 4 months. …

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A Study Of Reading Strategies Of Emi In Science Program Thai Learners, Namfar Boonkor Jan 2021

A Study Of Reading Strategies Of Emi In Science Program Thai Learners, Namfar Boonkor

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study aims to 1) explore the reading strategies of EMI in science program Thai learners 2) explore students’ opinions towards the use of reading strategies in EMI context. Participants include 71 students studying at Kamnoetvidya Science Academy, the science high school located in Rayong, Thailand. The research instruments consisted of the Reading Strategies Questionnaire and the semi-structure interview. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and content analysis. The results from the questionnaire showed that the students reported overall medium frequency of reading strategy use. The most used reading strategies were cognitive strategies, followed by metacognitive strategies, while the …

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การศึกษากลวิธีการแปลข้ามวัฒนธรรมจากภาษาไทยเป็นภาษาสเปน ในบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์ชุดเรื่องตำนานสมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช ภาค 1 องค์ประกันหงสา, พิชญาภา ปัญญาศิริ Jan 2021

การศึกษากลวิธีการแปลข้ามวัฒนธรรมจากภาษาไทยเป็นภาษาสเปน ในบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์ชุดเรื่องตำนานสมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช ภาค 1 องค์ประกันหงสา, พิชญาภา ปัญญาศิริ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้นำเสนอกลวิธีการแปลข้ามวัฒนธรรมจากภาษาไทยเป็นภาษาสเปนในบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์ชุดเรื่องตำนานสมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช ภาค 1 องค์ประกันหงสา โดยวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบกรณีการแปลคำศัพท์ทางวัฒนธรรม 60 คำที่ปรากฏในบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์ภาษาสเปนดังกล่าวเพื่อระบุกลวิธีที่ผู้แปลใช้ในการแปล และวิเคราะห์ประสิทธิภาพในการสื่อความหมายของ คำแปลที่ได้ จากการศึกษาพบว่า คำศัพท์ทางวัฒนธรรมที่พบมีทั้งหมด 6 หมวดหมู่ ได้แก่ หมวดนิเวศวิทยา หมวดวัตถุ หมวดการเมืองการปกครอง หมวดการงาน หมวดความเชื่อและศาสนา และหมวดชื่อสถานที่ และกลวิธีที่ผู้แปลเลือกใช้มีทั้งหมด 5 กลวิธี ได้แก่ การทับศัพท์ การใช้คำที่เป็นที่รู้จักแล้วในภาษาปลายทาง การแทนที่ด้วยคำเทียบเท่าทางวัฒนธรรม การสร้างความเทียบเท่าด้านการใช้งาน และการตัดออก โดยพบว่ากลวิธีที่มีการใช้มากที่สุดในการแปลคำทางวัฒนธรรมทุกหมวด ยกเว้นหมวดชื่อสถานที่ คือกลวิธีการสร้างความเทียบเท่าด้านการใช้งาน และปัจจัยที่ผู้แปลคำนึงถึงในการเลือกใช้กลวิธีการแปลคือการสื่อความหมายและการแปลให้อยู่ในหลักเกณฑ์ของบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์ ผู้วิจัยยังได้วิเคราะห์ประสิทธิภาพในการสื่อความหมายของคำแปลที่ได้จากแต่ละกลวิธี โดยจำแนกระดับความเทียบเท่าของความหมายที่เกิดขึ้นออกเป็น 3 ระดับ ได้แก่ ระดับความหมายอ้างถึง ระดับความหมายที่เข้าใจได้จากบริบทประกอบ ระดับความหมายที่เทียบเท่ากันเฉพาะด้านการใช้งาน และสรุปได้ว่าประสิทธิภาพของแต่ละกลวิธีขึ้นอยู่กับว่าผู้แปลเลือกใช้กลวิธีนั้นกับคำศัพท์ในหมวดหมู่ใด และคำแปลนั้นสามารถรักษาใจความสำคัญของเนื้อเรื่องในภาพยนตร์ ตลอดจนรักษาความเข้ากันกับบริบทและภาพที่ปรากฏในฉากนั้น ๆ ของภาพยนตร์ได้หรือไม่ วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้จะเป็นประโยชน์สำหรับผู้ที่สนใจศึกษาเกี่ยวกับกลวิธีการแปลคำศัพท์ทางวัฒนธรรมหรือกำลังหาแนวทางการแปลคำศัพท์ทางวัฒนธรรม โดยเฉพาะในรูปแบบบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์

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Writing The Womb, Writing The Wound: The Function Of Vulnerability In Autotheory, Madison Weaver Jan 2021

Writing The Womb, Writing The Wound: The Function Of Vulnerability In Autotheory, Madison Weaver

Master’s Theses

This thesis frames autotheory, a genre and practice of writing based in autobiographical and theoretical work, in the feminist genealogies established by Lauren Fournier and as a study in vulnerability. I revisit and reconsider Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of my Name (1982) and Cherríe Moraga’s Waiting in the Wings: A Portrait of Queer Motherhood (1997) in terms of contemporary conversation on autotheory that center on Nelson’s popular memoir The Argonauts (2015), arguing that Lorde, Moraga, and Nelson practice autotheory by writing through physical and metaphorical wounds. This thesis considers how vulnerability is tied to the autotheoretical impulse by …

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Fantastical Worlds And The Act Of Reading In Peter And Wendy, The Chronicles Of Narnia, And Harry Potter, Grace Monroe Jan 2021

Fantastical Worlds And The Act Of Reading In Peter And Wendy, The Chronicles Of Narnia, And Harry Potter, Grace Monroe

Master’s Theses

My thesis explores the relationship between the child reader and the protagonist within fantasy children’s literature. By examining the experience of the protagonist in the text, I am complicating the notion of escapism in children’s literature and offering a new way to look at how children read. Using narrative theory and Freud’s fort-da, I detail how the events within a novel, the danger and catharsis within the plot, show how both the protagonist and the reader use narrative to better understand and cope with anxieties in their worlds. The novels and series that I discuss, Peter and Wendy (1911), …

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Existential Reactions To Modernity: An Analysis Of Lovecraft's Nihilistic Cosmicism & Dostoevsky's Christian Existentialism, Olivia Maikisch Jan 2021

Existential Reactions To Modernity: An Analysis Of Lovecraft's Nihilistic Cosmicism & Dostoevsky's Christian Existentialism, Olivia Maikisch

Master’s Theses

Literary representations of existentialism demonstrate the movement’s efficacy as a tool for ideological and personal exploration, particularly as it pertains to issues of identity-formation, the Other, and rising concerns about modernized life. Despite their differences in genre, location, and time period, both H.P. Lovecraft and Fyodor Dostoevsky in their fiction greatly emphasize facets of existentialism as a response to their cultural concerns about modernity. They highlight complex relationships between socio-political concerns, philosophy, and literature in their different uses of existentialist themes. This study places both Dostoevsky’s Christian existentialism and Lovecraft’s nihilistic cosmicism within the existing spectrum of existential thought. The …

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Lifeglows Through The Anthropocene: Development Of The Radical Imagination And Response-Ability Within Superhero Comics, Reed G. Puc Jan 2021

Lifeglows Through The Anthropocene: Development Of The Radical Imagination And Response-Ability Within Superhero Comics, Reed G. Puc

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Scholars such as Amitav Ghosh, Timothy Clark, and Timothy Morton emphasize the importance of and challenge within the task of representing the power, scope, and scale of climate change in art and literature. These interrogations often emphasize the failures of extant works to animate their viewers towards action in a time of environmental crisis, but struggle to find any work that meets their expectations. This ‘game-over’ attitude, I argue, is the direct result of the cruel optimism present in the current scholarship’s attachment to ‘traditional’ forms of art and literature. By interrogating the conclusions Ghosh reaches about the novel’s function …

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On The Total Communicative Efficacy Of Music And Its Synthesis To Written Word Through Bob Dylan And Kendrick Lamar, Skyler Addison Jan 2021

On The Total Communicative Efficacy Of Music And Its Synthesis To Written Word Through Bob Dylan And Kendrick Lamar, Skyler Addison

CMC Senior Theses

In a social conversation, words spoken carry less than 35% of the interaction’s social meeting, with 65% conveyed by the non-verbal. While poetry relies on the word and it's subtext, songwriting may also weld the other 65%. By dissecting the dynamic communicative aspects of song, modern poets may find useful ways in which they can make their lines have more staying power with the listener, encompassing both the rhythmic catchiness of their lines to an all-encompassing emotive transfer. We may isolate the interwoven components of a song that dictate how a story is told in order to better understand how …

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Shakespeare’S Deviation From His Predecessors: Aligning "Romeo And Juliet" With Italian Renaissance Marriage Culture, Tara Lynn Hohn Jan 2021

Shakespeare’S Deviation From His Predecessors: Aligning "Romeo And Juliet" With Italian Renaissance Marriage Culture, Tara Lynn Hohn

Honors Theses and Capstones

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Teaching Trauma In Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, Kat Shuman Jan 2021

Teaching Trauma In Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, Kat Shuman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Using Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, this thesis outlines how to ethically and effectively teach literature that deals with trauma. My personal teaching philosophy as well as the current pedagogy surrounding trauma literature preface a detailed syllabus, lesson plans, assessments, and activities that would be useful in teaching a course centered around literature that deals with trauma. This thesis highlights the merits of teaching trauma fiction in the literature classroom.

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Cultures And Colonization In Tamora Pierce's Young Adult Novels, Jessica R. Dube Jan 2021

Cultures And Colonization In Tamora Pierce's Young Adult Novels, Jessica R. Dube

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The content represented in young adult literature can be a shaping force for adolescents as they begin to understand more about themselves and the world around them. Fantasy fiction is especially powerful, as it allows readers to consider issues outside of their own experiences and learn through the characters of a fictional world. This thesis focuses specifically on the works of Tamora Pierce, and the ways in which she represents sociopolitical issues in her fictional world of Tortall. I analyze the ways in which Pierce’s works fulfill Landt’s standards of good multicultural literature, and how the representation she presents can …

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A Personal History Of Invasive Hands And Endangered Lovers, Samuel Paul Boudreau Jan 2021

A Personal History Of Invasive Hands And Endangered Lovers, Samuel Paul Boudreau

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

I thought I could be ridden hard and put away wet, wet, wet. I thought death and rape and drunkenness and unrequited love were functions of a typical life, a this-is-how-it-goes kinda world. But, as I’ve emerged from hellish muck, there has been a realization: the way we treat each other and the soil, the aching earth, needs to change. “A Personal History of Invasive Hands and Endangered Lovers” explores the relationship between intimacy and pain through a history of ecology and consumption, a melancholy of sorts. It amplifies trauma as a call-to-action and refuses to sit and take it. …

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Beyond Realism: Reading The Ongoing Wounds Of Enslavement In Beloved And Kindred, Stephanie Fawell Jan 2021

Beyond Realism: Reading The Ongoing Wounds Of Enslavement In Beloved And Kindred, Stephanie Fawell

Honors Theses

In an introductory chapter, I synthesize a genealogy of African Diasporic thinkers that challenge traditionally conceptualized bounds of realism and modernism both aesthetically and intellectually. In the chapters that follow, I look closely at Morrison’s Beloved and Butler’s Kindred, as well as the scholarly discussions surrounding the elements in these novels that stretch the bounds of conventionally defined realism. In both novels the linearity of time and concreteness of space is challenged: in Beloved, the ghost of Sethe’s child continues to haunt her family after her death and then physically manifests as Beloved, crossing a mysterious bridge between …

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The Comic Way Towards The Universal Self: Socioecological Trauma And The Wounds Left By Survival, Gabriel Bugarin Jan 2021

The Comic Way Towards The Universal Self: Socioecological Trauma And The Wounds Left By Survival, Gabriel Bugarin

WWU Graduate School Collection

Since its prominent emergence in the 21st century, speculative writing has become a popular genre amongst marginalized, disenfranchised, and oppressed peoples, largely due to its omission of westernized themes and tropes that have had a stranglehold on genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Some of the subgenres that have emerged out of this “counter literature” include spec. personal history, solarpunk, indigenous futurism, dystopian/utopian lit, spec. poetry, and many others. Using speculative writing, coupled with Garcia Lorca’s perspective on the duende and Joseph Meeker’s ideology of “The Comic Way,” I have started to excavate what the recent death …

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Witch Pamphlets, Tsea M. Francisconi Jan 2021

Witch Pamphlets, Tsea M. Francisconi

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The witch hysteria that overtook Christian Europe during the Early Modern era inspired a mass paranoia over the conspiratorial belief that the Abrahamic religion’s personification of the world’s evils, also known as Satan, the Devil, demons, or Lucifer interchangeably, was attempting to rise up and cause harm to Christian communities during this time period. It was believed that in order to achieve this goal the Christian version of the Devil had been recruiting humans within Christian communities and turning these chosen humans into witches by granting them the ability to wield magical powers to spread their destruction, murder, and terror …

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