DISSERTATIONS (1980 - 1989)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
SPRING 1989
Anderson, Neil <Neil_Anderson@byu.edu>
“Reading Comprehension in Tests Versus Academic Reading: What Are Second Language
Readers Doing?”
Contreras, Victoria
“A Rationale for the Teaching of Spanish Composition to the Native Speaker at the College
Level”
Pierce, James A.
“Sociolinguistic Relationships in Attitude toward Anglo and Mexican American Varieties
of English in Corpus Christi, Texas”
SUMMER 1989
Braine, George <georgebraine@cuhk.edu.hk>
“An Analysis of the Writing Tasks of Undergraduate Courses in the Natural Sciences and
Engineering”
Evans, Carol
“The Transmission of Spanish as a Family Language”
Mphande, Lupenga <mphande.1@osu.edu>
“A Phonological Analysis of the Ideophone in Chi Tumbuka”
Nokaeo, Preeya
“Central Thai and Northern Thai: A Linguistic and Attitudinal Study”
Red, David Lee <reddl@fsiwpoa.us-state.gov>
“Reading Academic Texts in a Foreign Language: A Case Study in Nepal”
Tamura, Fumiko
“A Comparison of Three Learning Approaches for Japanese Students to Avoid Errors in
Responding to English Negative and Tag Question”
FALL 1989
Pellikka, Paul
“A Commentarium Seriatim on the N-Town Mystery Cycle with Special Emphasis on
Linguistic and the Theatrical Principles”
Vassberg, Liliane
“Alsatian Acts of Identity: Language Use and Language Attitudes in Southern Alsace”
SPRING 1988
Boo, Kyung-soon
“Routines, Patterns, and Creative Constructions in Three Korean Children’s Learning of
English as a Second Language: An Information Processing Approach”
Brue, Corrine
“Identifying Effective Listening Behaviors Used by Supervisors Involved in Dyadic
Conversations with Subordinates”
De Camp, Jennifer <jdecamp@mitre.org>
“The Development of Foreign Language Text Processing Software: A Case Study of Xerox
Corporation”
Ghadessy, Esmael
“Some Problems of American Students’ Mastery of Persian Phonology”
Prince, Moneta
“The Development of Perception of English Vowels by Indonesian Students”
Toretta-Fuentes, June
“English as a First Language: A Longitudinal Study of Language Awareness in a ThreeYear-Old Child”
Tyler, Louis
“The Language of Ecclesiastes as a Criterion for Dating”
Wang, Yun-chien
“The Errors and Learning Strategies of a Chinese-Speaking Woman Learning English in
the United States”
Willis, Lucy
“The Cultural Content in Spanish One Textbooks Used in Texas Community & Jr
Colleges”
SUMMER 1988
Aymat, Oswaldo
“The Teaching of English in the Public Schools of Puerto Rico”
Cardenas, Dolores
“Teacher Planning and Decision-Making for Instruction of Linguistically Distinct
Students”
Castillo, Rigoberto
“Analysis of the Curricular Needs of the Program of English as a Foreign Language in a
School of Public Administration in Colombia”
Hoye, Marjorie
“The Effects of Summary Writing on the Reading Comprehension of American and ESL
University Freshmen”
Webb, Sarah
“Using Figurative Language in Epistemic Writing: The Purposes and Processes of First and
Second Language Writers”
FALL 1988
Kim, Mal-Soo
“Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Style and Language Acquisition by Korean Children”
Skinner, Anna
“Writing in a Law Firm: Cognitive Processes and Texts Grounded in Social Knowledge”
SPRING 1987
Ahn, Jeong Khn
“The Social Stratification of Umlaut in Korean”
Ahn, Soo Woong <swahn@pine.pknu.ac.kr>
“Sandhi-Variation and Affective Factors as Input Filters to Comprehension of Spoken
English among Korean Learners”
Bowie, David G. <dgbowie@geocities.com>
“Converting Thought to Oral Narrative Composition in a Second Language”
Diaz-Ortiz, Elia
“The Use of Chicano Literature in University and College Spanish-Language Courses in
the Southwestern United States”
Jansma, Kim <jansma@humnet.ucla.edu>
“The Perceptual Component of Prosody in Second Language Learners”
Kim, Hui-Sook
“Typological Approach to Language Universals and Language Transfer in Second
Language Acquisition: Language Typology of Word Order”
Storla, Steven
“The Role of Reading Materials in Composition Courses for Native Users of English and
for ESL Students”
Takalo, Ronald
“The Interaction of Field Independence/Dependence with Deductive/Inductive ComputerAssisted Instruction in College-Level Beginning Spanish Classes”
Verano, Miguel
“Achievement and Retention of Spanish Presented via Videodisc in Linear, Segmented, and
Interactive Modes”
SUMMER 1987
Dewberry, William <w.dewberry@mail.utexas.edu>
“An Exploration of Linguistic Pragmatics Describing an Exemplary Model for Computer
Assisted Instruction in English as a Second Language with Pragmatics as Content”
Galindo, Letticia
“Linguistic Influence and Variation on the English of Chicano Adolescents in Austin, TX”
Kaough, Judith
“Drama as Cross-Cultural Literature for Foreign Students in American Colleges: An
Instructional Model”
Kennedy, Barbara <BKENNEDY@bentley.edu>
“The Late L2 Learner’s Identification of Intonation Contours in English”
Kim, Nam-Soon
“Rationale and Design for Large Group Instruction of Korean College Students of English
as a Foreign Language for the Development of Communication Skills”
Mussallam, Ayshegul
“Attitudinal Effects on the Processing of Written Language by Native and Non-Native
Speakers of English”
Otake, Yasuko <yotake@nucba.ac.jp>
“Japanese Word Processing as an Instructional Activity for University Students Learning
Japanese as a Foreign Language”
Perry, Steven
“Structural Patterns in Proverbs 10:1-22:16: A Study in Biblical Hebrew Stylistics”
Yang, Tai-shiung
“A Study of the Relationship between TOEFL Scores and Ratings of Communicative
Competence in Taiwanese Students Preparing To Study in the United States”
FALL 1987
Pak, Yunhwa
“Age Differences in Morpheme Acquisition among Korean ESL Learners: Acquisition
Order and Acquisition Rate”
Puangmali, Suraprom
“Effects of Modal Instruction on Recall from Reading Informative Discourse”
Raizen, Esther
“Romanization of the Hebrew Script: Ideology, Attempts and Failure”
Velez, Jorge
“Contrasts in Language Use: A Conversational and Ethnographic Analysis of Service
Encounters in Austin and San Juan”
Vigil, Virginia
“Authentic Text in the College-Level Spanish Class as the Primary Vehicle of Instruction”
SPRING 1986
Brown, Robert Erwin
"The Theoretical Feasibility of a Supplemental Guideline for Aiding Adult Native English
Speakers in the Choice between Spanish Por and Para. "
McQuiddy, Ivalu Ogelman <ivym@mail.utexas.edu>
"Some Conventional aspects of indirectness in conversation"
Mirhosseini, Shamsossadat <smirhosseini@mail.doe.state.la.us>
"Morphological and Syntactic Error Analysis of the Oral Interlanguage of Six Adult
Persian Speakers Learning English as a Second Language"
Pitts, Walter Franklin
"Linguistic Variation as a Function of Ritual Frames in the Afro-Baptist Church in Central
Texas"
SUMMER 1986
Kwon, Oryang
"Cultural Connotations of English for Koreans: A Study of Acquisition and Attitudes"
Moosavi, Seyed M.
"Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Persian System of TAAROF and Its Implications for the
Teaching of Farsi"
Ouaouicha, Driss <faclm@mtds.com>
"Contrastive Rhetoric and the Structure of Learner-produced Argumentative Texts in
Arabic and English"
Robertson, Stewart
"The Order of Acquisition of Fourteen Grammatical Morphemes in English by a Native
Spanish-speaking Four-year-old Learning English in a Naturalistic Setting"
FALL 1986
Bear, Jean Munro
"Development Segments in Discourse: The Interaction of Topic and Cohesion with
Implications for Native and Non-native Speakers of English"
Chia-li, Caroline
"The Relative Clause Construction in Chinese: Noun Phrase Accessibility and Other issues"
Koo, Hee San
"An Experimental Acoustic Study of the Phonetics of Intonation in Standard Korean"
Riordan, James T.
"A Non-verbal Cue to Evoke Background Knowledge during an L2 Writing Task"
Schnell, Hartmut
"The Translation of Poetry: An Experimental Investigation in the Fifth-Semester German
Class"
SPRING 1985
Gartz, Irene
"Discourse and Fluency Features in the English Interlanguage Structures of Mexican
Bilingual Career College Students: A Longitudinal Study Based on Data Taken from
Compositions"
Killian, Patricia <killian@fiu.edu>
"English in Ireland: An Attitudinal Study"
Medeiros, Sandi
"A Model of Address from Negotiation: A Sociolinguistic Study of Continental
Portuguese"
Robinson, Timothy <trobinson@usia.gov>
"Evaluating Foreign Students' Compositions: The Effects of Rater Background and of
Handwriting, Spelling, and Grammar"
Wale, William <wwale@aol.com>
"The Interaction of an Adult Nonnative Speaker with Adult and Child Native Speakers: A
Naturalistic Study"
SUMMER 1985
Jones, Miles
"Rapid Learning, Language Acquisition, and the Critical Age Question: The Effect of a
Silent Period on Accent in Adult Second Language Learners"
Mitiche, Nora
"An Investigation of Selected Lexical Items in Kabyl-Berber"
Paniagua, Daniel <dap@mcc.cc.tx.us>
"A Study of Overt Versus Covert Error Correction in Foreign Language Teaching"
FALL 1985
Barakat, Ghias
"A Model for Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Syria with Particular Reference
to Listening Comprehension"
Brown, Robert Alan
"Orthography in Contemporary Japan: Illusion & Reality"
McCoy, Iwen
"Tense & Aspect: A Contrastive Study of Meaning in English and Bahasa Indonesia"
Young, Dolly <djyoung@utk.edu>
"The Relationship between Anxiety and Foreign Language Oral Proficiency Interview
Ratings"
SPRING 1984
Atmodarsono, Soewondo
"A Study of Context Effects and Some Suggestions for its Application to the Teaching of
English in Indonesia"
Bourenane, Karima
"English Learning in Algeria: An Analysis of Errors & Attitudes"
Huda, Nuril
"Orders of Acquisition of Monitored and Unmonitored English Morphemes by Indonesian
Speaking Students"
Jennings, Isabel Vera Cruz
"Filipino English: Contrastive Analysis and Interference in Three Syntactic
Structures"
SUMMER 1984
Attaprechakul, Damrong
"Learning Scientific Information through Reading in a First or Second Language"
Leffa, Vilson <leffa@atlas.ucpel.tche.br>
"The Role of Comprehension Monitoring Skills & Syntactic Competence on Reading
Comprehension in a Foreign Language"
Shu, Teresa <shu925@rs1.occc.edu.tw>
"Attitudes toward One's Own Ethnic Language: The Chinese in Houston"
VomSaal, Diane
"Verbal & Nonverbal Aspects of Intercultural Group Conversation"
FALL 1984
Leyen, Ina
"Native Language Attrition: A Study of Vocabulary Decline"
Long, David
"Extending the Classroom: Cocurricular Activities in Texas Secondary Foreign Language
Education"
Simon, Terry <tiep@tiec.org>
"On Sex, Hands, Handedness, Handwriting Position, Familial Handedness, and the
Cerebral Lateralization of Language in Monolinguals and Bilinguals"
SPRING 1983
Borges, Darryl Avrett
"Meaningfulness in Second Language Vocabulary Learning"
Guzman, Carlos Arnal
"Statistical Analysis of the Forms and Functions of the Noun Phrase in the Written English
of Science and Technology"
Kabore, Michel
"Syntactic Transfer in Third Language Learning: Pedagogical Implications"
Odlin, Terence Michael
"Part-of-Speech Anomalies in a Second Language"
Touchie, Hanna Yousef
"Transfer and Related Strategies in the Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Adult
Arab Learners"
SUMMER 1983
Kamel, Nermine
"Illiteracy in Egypt: A Problem Study and a Language Analysis of Literacy Primers Used
by Radio and Television"
Vanderzee, Armin
"An Approach to the Translation of Modern Poetry: Gunter Kunert's On the Way to
Utopia"
FALL 1983
Hewett, Nancy Maisto
"Cultural Variables and Impulsivity in Second-Language-Reading Acquisition"
Kim, Duk-ki
"Markedness as a Predictor of Second Language Learning Difficulties"
Klier, Betje Black
"The Design and Implementation of a Microcomputer-Based State Contest in French
Culture & Civilization"
Palikupt, Deeyoo <maitri@mozart.co.th>
"Central Thai and Northeastern Thai: A Linguistic & Attitudinal Study"
Porter, David
"Sentence Combining with Students of English as a Second Language"
SPRING 1982
Aftat, Mokhtar
"The Acquisition of Negation and WH-Questions in a Moroccan Arabic Speaking Four
Year Old Child"
El-Badarin, Moh. Nasser
"Transfer, Structural Complexity, and Learning Strategies in the Acquisition of English
Syntax by Arabic Speakers"
Evans, Daniel
"Relationships between Attitudes of Korean Businessmen and Three Types of English:
Global Proficiency, Intonative Performance, and Discrete-Point Academic Achievement"
Giesecke, William B.
"A Comparative Study of English Composition Errors of Japanese University Students with
Public School English Language Textbooks"
Hammoud, Moh. Salah-Dine <HammoudSD.DFF.USAFA@usafa.af.mil>
"Arabicization in Morocco: A Case Study in Language Planning and Language Policy
Attitudes"
Jiyad, Moh. Mossa
"A Linguistic Evaluative Study of the Textbooks Used to Teach English in Libya"
Maple, Robert Frank
"Social Distance and the Acquisition of English as a Second Language: A Study of
Spanish-Speaking Adult Learners"
Mathers, Mark Edward
"Problems in Proto-Viet-Mvong Phonology"
Putnam, Ann Marion
"Criteria for Evaluating Nonverbal Content in First Year College ESL Textbooks"
FALL 1982
Orth, John
"University Undergraduate Evaluational Reactions to the Speech of Foreign Teaching
Assistants"
SPRING 1981
Al-Mozainy, Hamza Qublan
"Vowel Alternations in a Bedouin Hijazi Dialect: Abstractness and Stress"
Garcia, Sonia Eugenia
"Areas of Learning Difficulty of the Subjunctive in Embedded Clauses in Spanish as a
Foreign Language"
Sayed, Abdel Rahman Ahmed
"The Phonology of Moroccan Arabic: A Generative Phonology Approach"
Tsai, Shu-Shu
"Verbal Aspect: A Contrastive Analysis of Mandarin and English with Pedagogical
Implications"
Walker, Laura Jo Ann
"A Study of the Word-Identification Strategies Used by Spanish-Speaking College Students
in Reading English as a Foreign Language"
SUMMER 1981
Miller, Max
"Interlanguage Simplification and Metropolitanization"
Murakawa, Hisako <murakawa@u-aizu.ac.jp>
"Teaching English Pronunciation to Japanese Adults"
Yang, I-li
"A Longitudinal Study of Two Mandarin Chinese Speaking Children Learning English as a
Second Language"
FALL 1981
Hottel-Burkhart, Nancy
"Cohesion in the English Essays of Canadian Speakers of French"
Mehdi, Moh. Farhat
"The Interference of Arabic in the Use of English Preposition"
Morse, Jerry Wayne
"Adverbial and Prepositional Particles in the Learning of English as a Second Language by
Mexican American Bilingual Adolescents"
Scales, Gloria Faye
"Motivation and Foreign Language Study among Black Students at Historically Black
Texas Colleges and Universities"
Tafolla, Carmen
"The Effects of Spanish-English Bilingual Dramatic Television on Language Attitudes"
White, Philip
"An Integration of Social and Linguistic Information in Second Language Acquisition: A
Case Study of English and Japanese Conversation"
SPRING 1980
Chen, Chen-kuan
"Dependent Clauses in Mandarin Chinese"
Hattori, Yukimasa
"Patterns of English Lexical Adoption in Japanese"
Johnson, Nancy
"An Analysis of Teachers' Response to First Grade Bilingual Students Oral Language
Errors"
Kambal, M. Osman
"An Analysis of Khartoum University Students' Composition Errors with Implications for
Remedial English in the Context of Arabicization"
Minaya, Liliana
"Analysis of Children's Peruvian-Spanish Narratives: Implications for the Preparation of
Basic Readers"
Reeves, Barbara
"Sociolinguistic Longitudinal Study (1969-1979) of a Texas Community, Including
Curricular Recommendations"
Perez, Charlene
"The Syntactic Complexity of the Bilingual Child: Some Theoretical Considerations and
Pedagogical Implications"
Phiri, Anacklet George
"A Description of Derivational Forms in Tumbuka"
Suksaeresup, Nitaya
"Current Practices and Trends in the Teaching of Written English Composition in Teacher
Training Colleges in Thailand"
SUMMER 1980
Chalaysap, Aree
"Syntactic Variables in the Written English of Thai University Students from Three
Proficiency Levels"
Cook, James Ralph C.
"A Theoretical Approach for Training Second Language Teachers in Motivation Based on
Atkinson's Achievement Motivation and Bandura's Social Learning Theories"
Delshad, Saber
"Persian and English Prepositions Compared and Contrasted from a Pedagogical Point of
View"
Galvan, Jose
"The Development of Aspectual Relations in Spanish-Speaking Children"
Hatcher, David
"An Analysis of the Errors Made in the Production of American English Vowels by Adult
Brazilian Learners of English as a Second Language"
Jenson, Kenneth M. <KMJenson@cbn.net.id>
"A Longitudinal Study of Certain Morphemes in the Interlanguage of Indonesian Learners
of English as a Foreign Language"
FALL 1980
DeBord-Schulze, Deborah
"Revealing American Culture through Time Magazine Advertising in Teaching English as
a Foreign Language"
Fallon, Peter <jfallon@aus.ac.ae>
"Cultures in Contact: Teacher Perceptions and Student Needs in the Arab EFL Case"
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Compiled by E.G. Kim-Rivera.
Comments to EGKimRivera@mail.utexas.edu