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Balanced Bilinguals' Unique Emotional Expressiveness, Maya Salloum
Balanced Bilinguals' Unique Emotional Expressiveness, Maya Salloum
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
In the contemporary globalized world, with diverse situations of language contact emerging, bilingualism is taking on dynamic new forms, yielding a new kind of bilinguals: balanced. Adopting a stance of resistance to the monolingual bias and with a view to refining the frameworks applied to the study of bilinguals, this research examines how balanced bilinguals process and express their emotions in each of their languages. This is a qualitative study that incorporates narrative inquiry and uses the narratives and autobiographical memories of five balanced bilinguals, of different language pairs and age/gender groups to better understand how these balanced bilinguals perceive …
A Curious Passport: The Impact Of World Language Immersion Education On Adult Alumni, Hannah Nicole Parks
A Curious Passport: The Impact Of World Language Immersion Education On Adult Alumni, Hannah Nicole Parks
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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A Biliteracy Dialogue Approach To One-On-One Writing Instruction With Bilingual, Mexican, Immigrant Writers, W. Jason Stegemoller
A Biliteracy Dialogue Approach To One-On-One Writing Instruction With Bilingual, Mexican, Immigrant Writers, W. Jason Stegemoller
Faculty Publications
This interpretive study explores the writing and writing experiences of 2 bilingual, Mexican, immigrant undergraduates at a US university. Hornberger and Skilton-Sylvester’s (2003) continua model of biliteracy situates writing interactions to understand how students explore and draw on their bilingual and bicultural resources as they develop academic writing in English in the university. Data include questionnaires, literacy history interview-conversations, text-based conversations, student writing, course syllabi, and assignment sheets. Biliteracy dialogues demonstrate how students approached writing. The 1st student, Diego, focused on negotiating what he perceived as appropriate to include in his writing, while the 2nd student, Nicolas, connected to academic …
The Never Ending Story Of Language Policies In Puerto Rico, Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo
The Never Ending Story Of Language Policies In Puerto Rico, Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo
Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo
This literature review addresses some of the issues discussed in the literature written about the controversial topic of English teaching in Puerto Rico. A deeper look into the language policies established in Puerto Rico since the island became a U.S. colony (1898) could lead us to understand why after more than a century of U.S. occupation, the majority of Puerto Ricans are still not bilingual in English and Spanish.