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Abbuhl, Rebekha (Ph.D.—2005) The effect of feedback and instruction on writing quality: Legal writing and advanced L2 learners Mentor: Alison Mackey & Andrea Tyler

Adams, Rebecca (Ph.D.—2005) Learner-Learner Interactions: Implications for Second Language Acquisition Mentor: Alison Mackey

Al Khalil, Maymona (Ph.D.—2011) Second language learning motivation: Its relationship to noticing and production in task-based interaction Mentor: Alison Mackey

Allbritten, Rachael (Ph.D.—2011) Sounding Southern: Acoustic realities of dialect perceptions Mentor: Natalie Schilling

Al-Zidjaly, Najma (Ph.D.—2005) Communication across ability-status: A nexus analysis of the co-construction of agency and disability in Oman Mentor: Ron Scollon

Aquil, Rajaa (Ph.D.—2007) The segmenting/parsing unit in Cairene Arabic spoken language Mentor: Alfonso Morales-Front

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Bauer, Matt (Ph.D.—2006) Prosodic Strengthening of Consonants in Iron Range English Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Brooks, Rachel (Ph.D.—2013) Comparing Native and Non-Native Raters of US Federal Government Speaking Tests Mentor: Jeffrey Connor-Linton

Callier, Patrick (Ph.D.—2013) Linguistic Context and the Social Meaning of Voice Quality Variation Mentor: Natalie Schilling

Campos, Marco (Ph.D.—2004) Lexical Effects in Bilingual Sentence Processing Mentor: Donna Lardiere

Carpenter, Helen (Ph.D.—2009) A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigation of Different Aptitudes for L2 Grammar in Learners Equated for Proficiency Level Mentor: Michael Ullman

Castillo Ayometzi, Cecilia (Ph.D.—2004) Discourse, Practice, and Identity Transformation: An Immigrant Experience of Religious Conversion Mentor: Ron Scollon

Choi, Myong Hee (Ph.D.—2009) The Acquisition of Wh-in-situ Constructions in Second Language Acquisition Mentor: Donna Lardiere

Chou, Wen-Ying Sylvia (Ph.D.—2005) End-of-Life Discourse: An Analysis of Agency, Coherence, and Questions Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Clagett Williams, Kathleen (Ph.D.—2012) The Sociolinguistic Language Awareness of Three College Writing Instructors: A Discourse Analysis Mentor: Natalie Schilling

Cochrane, Leslie (Ph.D.—2014) Telling Disability: Identity Construction in Personal and Vicarious Narratives Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

de Saint-Georges, Ingrid (Ph.D.—2004) Anticipatory Discourse: Producing Futures of Action in a Vocational Program for Long-term Unemployed Mentor: Ron Scollon

Dedaic, Mirjana (Ph.D.—2005) Discursive Construction of National Identity in American, South African, and Croatian 1999 State of the Nation Addresses Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin

Demo, Doug (Ph.D.—2007) Interactional competence in gatekeeping encounters: A discourse analysis of cross-cultural employment interviews Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Diercks, Michael (Ph.D.—2011) Issues in the morphosyntax of Bukusu Mentor: Raffaella Zanuttini

Disler, Edith (Ph.D.—2005) Talking in the Ranks: Gender and Military Discourse Mentor: Deborah Tannen

Egi, Takako (Ph.D.—2005) Recasts, Perceptions, and L2 Development Mentor: Alison Mackey

Eom, Soojeong (Ph.D.—2013) Automatic Presentation Of Sense-Specific Lexical Information In An Intelligent Learning System Mentors: Graham Katz & Markus Dickinson

Everts, Elisa (Ph.D.—2013) In the Face of Blindness: Modalities of Negotiating Identity and Relationship in Blind/Sighted Interaction Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Feizollahi, Zhaleh (Ph.D.—2010) Post-Lexical Categorical Changes: Turkish, Yoruba, and Norwegian Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Felling, Shiraz (Ph.D.—2006) Fading Farsi: Language Policy, Ideology, and Shift in the Iranian American Family Mentor: Kendall King

Fidler, Ashley (Ph.D.—2011) Extending the Language of Spece into Abstract Contexts in Child Hungarian Mentor: Donna Lardiere

Flannery, Mercia (Ph.D.—2006) Stories of Racial Discrimination in Brazil: Language, Stigma and Identity Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin

Fleischer, Astrid Alkistis (Ph.D.—2007) The politics of language in Quebec: Language policy and language ideologies in a pluriethnic society Mentors: Ralph Fasold & Monica Heller

Fogle, Evelyn (Ph.D.—2010) Language socialization in the internationally adoptive family: Identities, second languages, and learning Mentor: Kendall King

Fond, Marissa (Ph.D.—2013) Orienting to Topic in Clinical Discourse Elicitation of Everyday Conversation Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Fridman Mintz, Boris (Ph.D.—2006) Tense and aspect inflections in Mexican Sign Language verbs Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Fujii, Akiko (Ph.D.—2006) Individual differences in task performance: Aptitude profiles, orientation to form, and second language production in the EFL classroom Mentor: Alison Mackey

Gallagher, Colleen (Ph.D.—2012) Emergent Biliteracy in Kindergarten Dual Language Classrooms: Examining Cross-Cultural and Bilingual Developmental Processes through a Narrative Lens Mentor: Kendall King

Goo, Jaemyung (Ph.D.—2011) Corrective feedback, individual variation in cognitive capacities, and L2 development: Recasts vs. metalinguistic feedback Mentor: Alison Mackey

Grieser, Jessica (Ph.D.—2015) The Language of Professional Blackness:  African American English at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Class in Southeast Washington, D.C. Mentor: Natalie Schilling

Gruber, James (Ph.D.—2012) An Articulatory, Acoustic, and Auditory Study of Phonological Tone in Modern Burmese Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Hama, Mika (Ph.D.—2013) Strategic planning, recasts, noticing, and L2 development Mentor: Alison Mackey

Hamrick, Philip (Ph.D.—2013) Development of conscious knowledge during early incidental learning of L2 syntax Mentor: Alison Mackey

Harner, Hillary (Ph.D.—2016) Focus and the semantics of desire predicates and directive verbs Mentor: Paul Portner

Hilanto, Kimberly (Teague) (Ph.D.—2012) The interaction of lexical and discourse-level categories in second language phonetics: Evidence from Mandarin-English pitch Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Ho, Vu (Ph.D.—2012) Non-native argumentative writing by Vietnamese learners of English: Research and pedagogical implications Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Howald, Blake (Ph.D.—2012) The Transformation of Spatial Experience in Narrative Discourse Mentor: Graham Katz

Hutchinson, Corinne (Ph.D.—2013) Morphosyntactic Echoes: Contact Phenomena in Navajo Child English Mentor: Donna Lardiere

Hwang, Sun Hee (Ph.D.—2013) The acquisition of Korean plural marking by native English speakers Mentor: Donna Lardiere

Jacobsen, Natalia (Ph.D.—2013) Applying cognitive linguistics and task-supported language teaching to instruction of English conditional phrases Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Jamsu, Jermay Reynolds (Ph.D.—2012) Language variation and change in an Amdo Tibetan Village: Gender, Education and Resistance Mentor: Robert Podesva

Jeon, K. Seon (Ph.D.—2004) Interaction-driven learning: Characterizing linguistic development Mentor: Alison Mackey

Jocuns, Andy (Ph.D.—2005) Knowledge and Discourse: A Study of Knowledge in Social Interaction Using the Theories of Mediated Discourse and Distributed Cognition Mentor: Ron Scollon

Kajino, Sakiko (Ph.D.—2014) Japanese Women’s Language, Regional Variation and Social Meaning Mentor: Natalie Schilling

Kallayanamit, Saovapak (Ph.D.—2005) Intonation in Standard Thai: Contours, Registers and Boundry Tones Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Kang, Yunkyoug (Ph.D.—2013) Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Semantics of Spatial Relations in Korean Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Kelly, Justin (Ph.D.—2013) The Syntax-Semantics Interface in Distributed Morphology Mentor: Paul Portner

Kim, Jeong-eun (Ph.D.—2013) Explicit form-focused instruction and acquisition of implicit L2 knowledge in adult second language acquisition Mentor: Alison Mackey

Kim, Ki-Tae (Ph.D.—2006) Discourse of Oriental Medicine: Reference to Western Medicine and Co-construction of the Mind-body Relationship Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Kissling, Elizabeth (Ph.D.—2012) When and Why to Teach L2 Phonetics and Phonology: Exploring FL Learners’ Perception and Production of Spanish Phones Mentors: Jeff Connor-Linton & Cristina Sanz

Kodama, Yasue (Ph.D.—2007) Functions of Timeless Sentences in Japanese Oral Narratives Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin

Koutsomitopoulou, Eleni (Ph.D.—2004) A Neural Network Model for the Representation of Natural Language Mentor: Donald Loritz

Krawczyk, Elizabeth (Ph.D.—2012) Inferred Propositions And The Expression Of The Evidence Relation In Natural Language: Evidentiality In Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo And English Mentor: Paul Portner

Kripkee, Bernard (Ph.D.—2006) Perceived Linkage of English Pitch Accents with Syllables Mentor: Donald Loritz

Kuo, Chi-Hsien (Ph.D.—2006) The Information Status and Discourse Function of Conditionals in Mandarin Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin

Kuong, Io Kei (Ph.D.—2007) Clausal Peripheries and Resumptives: A Cross-linguistic Study of Topic-Comment Structures Mentor: Hector Campos

Lake, Julie (Ph.D.—2014) The role of individual differences in L1 and L2 processing of bridging and predictive inferences Mentors: Alison Mackey & Sanja Kotz

Lee, Chong Min (Ph.D.—2013) A Hybrid Approach to Inferring a Consistent Temporal Relation Set in Natural Language Text Mentor: Graham Katz

Lee, Eunji (Ph.D.—2015) L2 Acquisition of number marking: a bidirectional study of adult learners of Korean and Indonesian Mentor: Donna Lardiere

Lee, Jinsok (Ph.D.—2015) Language, Ethnicity and Identity In A New Jersey Korean-American Community Mentor: Natalie Schilling

Lin, Hui-Ju (Ph.D.—2009) Bilingualism, feedback, cognitive capacity, and learning strategies in L3 development Mentor: Cristina Sanz

Loehr, Daniel (Ph.D.—2004) Gesture and Intonation Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Logan-Terry, Aubrey (Ph.D.—2012) Achievement, Assessment, and Learning: A Study of English Language Learners in Mainstream Content Classrooms Mentors: Heidi E. Hamilton & Jeff Connor-Linton

Lou, Jia (Ph.D.—2009) Situating Linguistic Landscape in Time and Space: A Multidimensional Study of the Discursive Construction of Washington, D.C. Chinatown Mentor: Robert Podesva

Macgregor, David (Ph.D.—2007) On the relationship between intransitive and causative verbs in English Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Mahpeykar, Narges (Ph.D.—2015) A Principled Cognitive Linguistics Account of English Phrasal Verbs Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Marinova, Diana (Ph.D.—2008) Neutrality in Mediation Hearings: Managing the Mediation Process without Bias Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Matula, Suzanne (Ph.D.—2007) Incorporating a Cognitive Linguistic Presentation of the Prepositions On, In, and At in ESL Instruction: A Quasi-Experimental Study Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Mauck, Simon (Ph.D.—2008) Yehudah Hayyuj and Biblical Hebrew verbs Mentor: Solomon Sara

McFadden, Jennifer (Ph.D.—2011) Translating selves in public: Intersubjectivity, interaction and ethnography in an urban Bangladeshi market Mentor: Heid E. Hamilton

McQuaid, Goldie Ann (Dooley) (Ph.D.—2013) Variation at the Morphology-Phonology Interface in Appalachian English Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Mittelstaedt, Jennifer (Ph.D.—2007) Auxiliary Verb Leveling and Morphological Theory: The Case of Smith Island English Mentor: Natalie Schilling-Estes

Mozgalina, Anastasia (Ph.D.—2015) Applying an Argument-based Approach for Validating Assessments in Second Language Acquisition Research: The Elicited Imitation Test for Russian Mentor: John Norris

Murph, Karen (Ph.D.—2009) Negotiating the Master Narratives of Prostitution, Slavery, and Rape in the Testimonies by and Representations of Korean Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military (1939-1945) Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Nakahama, Yuko (Ph.D.—2004) Cross-linguistic Influence on the Development of Referential Topic Management in L2 Japanese Oral Narratives Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Nielsen, Rasmus (Ph.D.—2013) Reassembling Identity: Stylistic Variation in African American English Mentor: Natalie Schilling

Nikolaev, Vitaly (Ph.D.—2013) Za-perfectives of Russian motion verbs Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Nitisaroj, Rattima (Ph.D.—2006) Effects of Stress and Speaking Rate on Duration and Tone in Thai Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Nylund, Anastasia (Ph.D.—2013) Phonological Variation at the Intersection of Ethnoracial Identity, Place and Style in Washington, D.C. Mentor: Robert Podesva

Nuevo, Ana-Maria (Ph.D.—2006) Task complexity and interaction: L2 learning opportunities and development Mentor: Alison Mackey

Or, Winnie (Wing Fung) (Ph.D.—2004) ‘I’m not selling you vegetables in the market!’: A Sociocultural Analysis of the Discourse of Business Negotiation across Settings in Southern China Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Park, Jong Un (Ph.D.—2012) Clause Structure and Null Subjects: Referential Dependencies in Korean Mentor: Raffaella Zanuttini

Parrott, Jeffrey (Ph.D.—2007) Bridging the Gap: Distributed Morphological Mechanisms of Labovian Variation in Morphosyntax Mentor: Donna Lardiere

Petersen, Kenneth (Ph.D.—2010) Implicit Corrective Feedback in Computer-Guided Interaction: Does Mode Matter? Mentor: Alison Mackey

Premilovac, Aida (Ph.D.—2006) Voices of Trauma: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Study of Therapeutic Discourse Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Rees, Daniel (Ph.D.—2009) Towards Proto-Persian: An Optimality Theoretic Historical Reconstruction Mentor: Shaligram Shukla

Rico-Sulayes, Antonio (Ph.D.—2013) Quantitative Authorship Attribution of Users of Mexican Drug Dealing-Related Online Forums Mentor: Natalie Schilling

Ross-Feldma, Lauren (Ph.D.—2006) Task-Based Interactions Between Second Language Learners: Exploring the Role of Gender Mentor: Alison Mackey

Rubin Damari, Rebecca (Ph.D.—2012) Stancetaking as identity work: The case of mixed American/Israeli couples Mentor: Robert Podesva

Rus, Dominik (Ph.D.—2011) The acquisition of verbal inflection in child grammars in a variability model of early morphosyntactic development Mentor: Donna Lardiere

Sachs, Rebecca (Ph.D.—2011) Individual differences and the effectiveness of visual feedback on reflexive binding in L2 Japanese Mentor: Alison Mackey

Sacknovitz, Aliza (Ph.D.—2007) Linguistic Means of Orthodox Jewish Identity Construction: Phonological Features, Lexical Features, and the Situated Discourse Mentor: Natalie Schilling-Estes

Sanderson, Jason (Ph.D.—2013) Breizh Atao?: The Macrosociolinguistics of Word Choice, Language Ideology and Regional Identity in Contemporary Brittany Mentor: Natalie Schilling 

Sclafani, Jennifer (Ph.D.—2010) Talking Back to Newt Gingrich: Discourse Strategies in the Construction of Language Ideologies Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin

Seals, Corinne (Ph.D.—2013) Multilingual Identity Development and Negotiation Amongst Heritage Language Learners: A Study of East European-American Schoolchildren in the United States Mentor: Natalie Schilling

Shah, Sheena (Ph.D.—2013) Factors Affecting Proficiency among Gujarati Heritage Language Learners on Three Continents Mentor: Alison Mackey

Shaw, Emily (Ph.D.—2013) Gesture in Multiparty Interaction: A Study of Embodied Discourse in Spoken English and American Sign Language Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Shibuya, Yoshiho (Ph.D.—2006) Production and Perception of Consonant Clusters in the L2 Phonology of Japanese Learners of English Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Siebecker, Laura (Ph.D.—2015) The Basque Auxiliary Verb: Morphosyntactic Analysis and Implications for Second Language Acquisition Mentor: Ruth Kramer

Sondermann, Kerstin (Ph.D.—2013) The ‘Manual’ Way of Informing the Notion of ‘Balanced Bilinguals’ Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Soukup, Barbara (Ph.D.—2008) The strategic use of Austrian dialect in interaction: A sociolinguistic study of contextualization, speech perception and language attitudes Mentor: Natalie Schilling-Estes

Stockburger, Ingrid (Ph.D.—2011) Making Zines, Making Selves: Identity Construction in DIY Autobiography Mentor: Deborah Schiffrin

Suh, Bo Ram (Ph.D.—2010) Written feedback in Second Language Acquisition: Exploring the roles of type of feedback, top of linguistic targets, and awareness of an L2 writing task Mentor: Alison Mackey

Tagarelli, Kaitlyn (Ph.D.—2014) The neurocognition of adult second language learning: an fMRI study Mentor: Michael Ullman

Takada, Mari (Ph.D.—2007) Synesthetic Metaphor: Perception, Cognition, and Language Mentor: Andrea Tyler

Tlale Boyer, One (Ph.D.—2006) The Phonetics and Phonology of Sengwato, A Dialect of Setswana Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Tovares, Alla (Ph.D.—2005) Intertextuality in Family Interaction: Repetition of Public Texts in Private Settings Mentor: Deborah Tannen

Toye, Margaret (Ph.D.—2008) Interaction in the Production and Fanship of Train 48: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Study Mentor: Ron Scollon

Trester, Anna (Ph.D.—2008) Improvising onstage and off: Combining variationist, discourse, and anthropological approaches to style Mentor: Natalie Schilling-Estes

Van Guilder, Linda (Ph.D.—2008) Cross-language Perception in Foreign Name Transcription Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Villafaña Dalcher, Christina (Ph.D.—2006) Consonant Weakening in Florentine Italian Mentor: Elizabeth Zsiga

Wake, Virginia (Ph.D.—2006) Triadic Interaction in Prenatal Genetic Counseling Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Weger, Heather (Ph.D.—2008) Learner Motivations and Preferences: Realities in the Language Classroom Mentor: Jeff Connor-Linton

Winke, Paula (Ph.D.—2005) Individual differences in adult Chinese second language acquisition: The relationship among aptitude, memory and strategies for learning Mentor: Alison Mackey

Wright, Laura (Ph.D.—2008) Doing, Talking and Writing Science: A Discourse Analysis of the Resemiotization of Laboratory Activities in a Middle School Science Class Mentor: Heidi E. Hamilton

Ziegler, Nicole (Ph.D.—2013) Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication and Interaction: A Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis Mentor: Alison Mackey

Zubair, Cala (Ph.D.—2011) Ethnolinguistic Nationalism in Sri Lankan University Subcultures Mentors: Michael Lempert & Robert Podesva

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This collection contains open access and campus access Masters theses, made possible through Graduate Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The full content of open access theses is available to all, although some files may have embargoes placed on them and will be made available as soon as possible. The full content of campus access theses is only available to those either on the UMass Boston campus or with a UMass Boston campus username and password. Click on the "Off-Campus UMass Boston Users" link on the record page to download Campus Access publications. Those not on campus and those without a UMass Boston campus username and password may gain access to this thesis through resources like Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global or through Interlibrary Loan.

Theses from 2024 2024

Writing For Your Profession: L2 English Students' Acquisition of Academic English , Sonja Haakonsen

Theses from 2023 2023

The "Messy Middle": A Framework for Analyzing Raciolinguistic Inequity , Casey Erin Anthony

Japanese Reading Japlish: High School Students Study Their Own Fashion Linguistic Landscape , Gabriel Frost Johnson

Theses from 2021 2021

Meaning-Making Dynamics of Job Interview Performances , Jacquelyn K. Bertman

Theses from 2020 2020

Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Grammar in Second Language Development , Tina S. Randall

Limited Viewpoints: The Implementation of Multimodal Constructs in an ELL Model Curriculum Unit , Deborah A. Smith

Theses from 2019 2019

Adult Educators at the Crossroads of Language Learning and Workforce Development: A Qualitative Study of Teacher Agency , Liz Ging

Language Learning and ADA: An Observation of d/Deaf Adults and Their Interpreters in ESL Classrooms , Katharine M. Ward

Theses from 2017 2017

Languaging at Work: The Language Socialization of Support Staff in the Healthcare Workforce , Kristen E. Schlapp

Theses from 2016 2016

Performing Language and Identities: Adult Immigrant Students and the Creation of a Play , Kathleen R. McGovern

Theses from 2015 2015

Discourses and Capital in Court Trials: Representation of Witness Accounts and Identity , Misty Crooks

Theses from 2014 2014

What's in a Game? Identity Negotiations and Pedagogical Implications of Gameplay Discourse , Caleb Reed

Their Decision to Wear Al Hijab: The Stories of U.S. Northeastern Muslim Women , Hadeel Salman

Theses from 2012 2012

Meanings and Typologies of Duboisian Double Consciousness within 20th Century United States Racial Dynamics , Marc E. Black

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