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Since 2009, most theses submitted by M.A. and M.S. recipients at the university are published online at the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center (EDT). This page lists theses submitted by recipients of the M.A. in Linguistics, beginning with the more recent theses which are avalable through EDT. We are currently in the process of extending the list back to the first OSU M.A. in Linguistics (Thomas Scovel's thesis on A distinctive feature analysis of the phonemic segments of Mandarin in 1964), and intend to provide a link to a pdf file or other publication information where available and otherwise a link to the OSU Library Catalog listing.

Riley Wagner

The Perception of Loan Verb Integration Strategies in Romanian Committee:  Brian Joseph (advisor) and Andrea Sims

Giorgio Sbardolini

Conventions and Change in Semantics Committee:  Craige Roberts (advisor)

Race, Gender, and /u/: Social Perceptions of a Non-Stereotype Feature Committee: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (advisor) and Donald Winford

Ajda Zeynep Gokcen

A Matter of Debate: Using Dialogue Relation Labels to Augment (Dis)agreement Analysis of Debate Data Committee:  Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (advisor) and Brian Joseph

Eric Snyder

Generalizing Individuating/Measure-Ambiguities Committee:  Craige Roberts and Shapiro Stewart (co-advisors)

Jennifer Qian Zhang

Nonsibilant Fricative Acquisition by Bilingual Guoyu-Taiwanese Southern Min Children Committee:  Mary Beckman (advisor) and Micha Elsner

Yourdanis Sedarous

Studies in Nominal Modification in Bohairic Coptic Committee:  Peter Culicover and Brian Joseph (co-advisors)

Lara Downing

Dutchified English in an Ohio Mennonite Community Committee: Brian Joseph and Donald Winford

Gregory Kierstead

Projectivity and the Tagalog Reportative Evidential Committee: Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser (co-advisors)

Robert Brice Russ

Examining Regional Variation Through Online Geotagged Corpora Committee: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler and Brian Joseph Since receiving his MA in Linguistics, Brice Russ has worked as a social media / policy consultant, including serving a three-year term as the first Director of Communications for the LSA.

Jeffrey Parker

Palatalization and Utilization of Contrast: An Information-theoretic Investigation of Palatalization in Russian Committee: Brian Joseph and Andrea Sims After receiving his MA in Linguistics, Jeffrey Parker transferred back to the Slavic Linguistics program , where he is currently finishing his dissertation before taking up a faculty position in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University.

"Y'all Done Up and Done It": The Semantics of a Perfect Construction in an Upstate South Carolina Dialect Committee: Donald Winford and Judith Tonhauser After receiving his MA, Eric Ruppe accepted the position of French immersion teacher at Meadow Glen Middle School in Lexington, SC .

Michelle Dionisio

The Syntax and Semantics of the Tagalog Plural Marker Mga Committee: Judith Tonhauser and Craige Roberts

Sara Phillips-Bourass

Implicit Imitation of Regional Dialects in Typically Developing Adults and Adults with High-Functioning Autism Committee: Cynthia Clopper and Shari Speer

Michael Collins

Cognitive Perspectives On English Word Order Committee: William Schuler and Peter Culicover

Hartman Brawley

What Informs Event Descriptions: Language, Salience, and Discourse in English and Japanese Committee: Laura Wagner, Shari Speer, and Kiwako Ito

Lia Mansfield

A CVG Approach to Verp-Particle Constructions in English Committee: Carl Pollard and Robert Levine

Youn Kyung Shin

Variability in the Use of Infinitival to in Present Day American English Committee: Brian Joseph, Robert Levine, and Donald Winford

Oxana Skorniakova

Sensitivity to Sub-Phonemic Variation: Evidence from a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) Goodness-Rating Task Committee: Mary Beckman and Shari Speer

Sarah Bibyk

The Development of Children’s Processing of English Pitch Accents in a Visual Search Task Committee: Shari Speer, Laura Wagner, Cynthia Clopper, and Kiwako Ito After receiving her MA, Sarah Bibyk was accepted into the doctoral program at the University of Rochester .

Parsing with Local Content Committee: Chris Brew, Laura Wagner, and Shari Speer After receiving his MA, John Pate went on to earn a PhD at the University of Edinburgh and was a post-doctoral research fellow in Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics at Macquarie University before taking up his current position on the faculty in Linguistics at the University of Buffalo .

Differential Object Marking in Paraguayan Guaraní Committee: Judith Tonhauser and Peter Culicover After receiving his MA, Cory Shain worked for several years as a linguist at SIL International before returning to Ohio State University and entering the doctoral program in Linguistics.

Rachel Shain

The Preverb Eis - and Koine Greek Aktionsart Committee: Judith Tonhauser, Brian Joseph, and Craige Roberts

Ross Metusalem

Evoking Upcoming Contrast through Accentual Prominence: The Effect of Producing L+H* on Discourse Entities and Discourse Markers Committee: Kiwako Ito and Shari Speer After receiving his MA, Ross Metusalem went on to earn a PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego , where he is now teaching in the Department of Psychology.

Jon Stevens

The Old English Demonstrative: A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation Committee: Brian Joseph and Judith Tonhauser After receiving his MA, Jon Stevens went on to earn a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania before taking up his current position on a postdoctoral researcher on the PRAGSales project in computational pragmatics at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin.

Sharon Ross

Interpretation by Adults and Children of Implicatures Generated through Contrastive Stress: Evidence that Prosodic Contrastive Stress has a Predominantly Presuppositional Character Committee: Peter Culicover and Laura Wagner After receiving her MA, Sharon Ross become a Fulbright Scholar doing research on The Semantics of Focus Marking and Contrastive Stress in Israeli Sign Language at the University of Haifa.

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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 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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Remember that you are responsible for scheduling your thesis defense in the semester in which you plan to file. Work with the graduate assistant to find a room once you and your committee have settled on a time. Allow two hours for the defense. 

Writing the MA Thesis in Linguistics

An MA thesis represents an original investigation into a problem or a research project that contributes new knowledge to the field.  A thesis is  not  required in our MA program.  You should undertake an MA thesis if some idea or observation intrigues you so much that you want to pursue it in depth, and you wish to have the experience of organizing and executing your own research project. Beyond this, some students may be motivated to write the MA thesis in order to produce a writing sample for PhD applications or because the MA degree may carry more weight professionally if associated with a thesis. Note that students who elect to write a thesis may count the oral thesis-defense as the concluding exam for the program in place of the written comprehensive exam taken by non-thesis-writers.

• Select a topic, enlisting the help of an advisor or advisors (official or not).   This is very important.  Most students will try to tackle a project that is much too big for the time and resources available. So you will need faculty help in refining your research question(s) and your methodology into something that can be managed for this project. You should do this no later than the middle of your second semester in the program ; the earlier, the better. 
• At the same time, you will select an official advisor. Faculty are not obliged to take on thesis projects, so listen to the feedback you receive from faculty and be prepared to ‘sell’ your idea to your chosen mentor. Eventually you will need to recruit a committee of three faculty members (including your advisor, two of whom must be from the Linguistics department), but many thesis projects get most of their input from a single advisor. Unlike a PhD thesis committee, an MA committee need not contain an external member (a CU faculty member from outside LING) . You are welcome to invite an external member to serve as the third member of your thesis committee, but faculty members from institutions outside CU are not permitted to serve on MA thesis committees. You must have your committee in place by early March (or late October for fall graduation) of your last semester in the program. Notify the Linguistics program assistant of your committee’s composition to be recorded in your file.
• Start early and observe the work schedule religiously.  Scrambling to get everything done in the last two weeks of the semester is neither fun nor good scholarly methodology, and it does not endear you to your faculty committee.

There are strict Graduate School procedures and deadlines governing the preparation and submission of the thesis.    Be sure to follow them . Linguistics Education Program Assistant Ethan McGinnis  is fully informed about the procedures and should be consulted about them. See this link for thesis formatting .Your thesis will be submitted electronically ; the signed title page is also submitted. 

The Schedule

Work backwards. If you plan to graduate with a completed thesis in May of 20xx, you must file your completed thesis by mid-April of 20xx (exact date set by the Graduate School each Academic Year). Before your thesis is filed, it must be researched, written, read by the committee, defended, revised, and re-read by the committee, and the defense and revision always happen at a time of the semester when both you and the faculty are extremely busy.  You must allow enough time between the defense exam and the filing date to make required revisions and allow the faculty readers sufficient time to evaluate the document carefully. Be aware that if you do not allow at least two weeks between your defense date and the thesis filing date, you will probably postpone the awarding of your diploma until the following graduation date (at least).

So for a spring graduation , your backwards schedule might look like this (the dates for a particular year will vary):

• late-April : File the thesis with the Graduate School by the thesis filing deadline, ensuring that you have conformed to the thesis specifications.
• early-April : Submit the final version of your thesis, incorporating revisions required by your thesis committee, to your thesis committee. Make sure to do this well ahead of the thesis filing deadline. While they read it, make sure all Graduate School procedures are understood and being followed.
• mid- to late-March (ideally before spring break) : Take the thesis defense exam. You must work with your committee and the program assistant in Linguistics to fix the time and room for your thesis defense. Allow two hours for the defense . Be sure to check with your thesis advisor about the appropriate format for the defense (e.g., how long your presentation should be, how many minutes to set aside for questions). 
• early March, depending on defense arrangements : Submit the completed thesis to your committee (at least two weeks before the defense date). Make certain that the exam report form, containing the names of your thesis committee members (and which your committee will sign once you have taken the exam), has been sent to the Graduate School at least two weeks in advance of the defense date.
• March 1 or earlier : Submit the final draft of your thesis to your advisor. The advisor needs time to read this draft before giving you clearance to circulate it to the rest of the committee. Expect to do some revising between now and the date when you will give the document to the whole committee.
• February or earlier : Make certain that all three of your desired committee members are willing to serve.  Ensure that you have notified the Linguistics program assistant of your committee’s composition.
• February 1, graduation year : File the Application for Candidacy form with the Graduate School (see below).
• April 1, first year (second semester in program) : Submit a thesis proposal (2 pages) that outlines your topic and methods to your advisor and one additional committee member.  Notify the Linguistics program assistant of your advisor to be recorded in your digital file. To be safe, double-check during advising to make sure that this information is in your official Record of Progress. You now have nearly a year in which to do the project and write the thesis.
• December, first year (end of first semester in program) :  Express "soft intent" to do a thesis. This means that you have discussed the thesis possibility with at least one interested faculty member and the Grad Advisor. At this point, you are not yet obligated to write a thesis; however, you are encouraged to take the Research in Linguistics course in Spring to further explore your interests.

Additional Regulations

• Credit hours : You must take (i.e., pay for) at least four, and may take up to six, credits of the course listed as MA Thesis in order to graduate under the thesis plan. You can register for those hours at any time that is convenient (financially most advantageous) for you and your advisor; the timing of the credits does not have to be the same as the timing of your work on the thesis.  You may take all the credits in one semester if you wish.  Those 4-6 credit hours substitute for course credits and contribute to the 30 total hours you need to graduate.

Master's Thesis Plan Form : Students completing a written thesis must now submit a Master’s Thesis Plan Form contained in this link:  https://www.colorado.edu/graduateschool/content/masters-thesis-plan-form This form should be submitted as early as possible in the graduate career and at the latest it should be submitted by the deadline to graduate posted for the semester in which the student plans to graduate.

Candidacy application : The Candidacy Application is a form required by the Graduate School before you can take your final exam (which, for thesis writers, is the thesis defense).  It is due very near the beginning of the semester in which you expect to take the exam. The candidacy form must be completed before the thesis defense and approved by the Graduate School at that time. 

• Comprehensive exam :  Starting July 2024,  students will have the option to either write an MA thesis or take the comprehensive exam in order to complete the MA degree requirements.  Students who pass the thesis defense are not required to take the written comprehensive exam.
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Theses from 2024 2024.

What the Debate about Spanish Gender-Inclusive Forms Reveals Regarding Ideological Beliefs about Language and Authority , Jalitza Gutierrez

Consonant (De)gradation in Ingrian? , Andrea M. Harrison

How Do We Learn What We Cannot Say? , Daniel Yakubov

Theses from 2023 2023

Applying Linguistics to the Adult ESOL Classroom: A Guide for ESOL Teachers in Community Centers , Lenore Costello

Towards Interpretable Machine Reading Comprehension with Mixed Effects Regression and Exploratory Prompt Analysis , Luca Del Signore

Neural Network vs. Rule-Based G2P: A Hybrid Approach to Stress Prediction and Related Vowel Reduction in Bulgarian , Maria Karamihaylova

Topics for He but not for She: Quantifying and Classifying Gender Bias in the Media , Tyler J. Lanni

Language of the Enemy: Impacts of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War on Linguistic and National Identity Paradigms in Ukraine , Julia Panter

A Sentiment Analysis of "Filipinx" on Twitter Using a Multinomial Naïve Bayes Classification Model , Clarisse Taboy

Pronunciation Ambiguities in Japanese Kanji , Wen Zhang

Theses from 2022 2022

The Realization of the Null Subject Parameter in Greek-American Children and Adults: Anaphora Resolution Patterns in Ambiguous Sentential Structures , Maria Elekidou

Does a Neural Network Inflect Spanish Verbs in a Human-Like Way? , Elizabeth Garza

A Study of Entrainment in Speech as a Possible Predictor of Perceived Trust , Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor

Gender-Informed Features of Film Reviews: A Statistical Linguistic Analysis , Matthew Kadish

A Machine Learning Approach to Text-Based Sarcasm Detection , Lara I. Novic

Covert Determiners in Appalachian English Narrative Declarative Sentences , William Oliver

From Sesame Street to Beyond: Multi-Domain Discourse Relation Classification with Pretrained BERT , Isaac R. Raff

Methods in Reverse Transliteration of English Loanwords in Japanese , Yuying Ren

Predicting Stress in Russian using Modern Machine-Learning Tools , John Schriner

Examining the Linguistic Ideology "Throaty Sounds Are Bad for Performers": The History of Negative Attitudes Towards Glottal Stops and Laryngealization in English , Dayle M. Towarnicky

Expanding the Pronominal Account of Tense: A Reexamination of the Double Access Reading in English , Brynne E. Wilkinson

Theses from 2021 2021

Evaluating the Role of Gender in Dementia-Related Language Deficiencies , Kelsey Bourque

Predicting Stock Price Movements Using Sentiment and Subjectivity Analyses , Andrew Kirby

From an Art to a Science: Features and Methodology in Computational Authorship Identification , Jonathan I. Manczur

The Production of Russian Vowels /i/ and /ɨ/ by Russian-English Bilingual Children , Evgeniya Maryutina

When Misclassification Is Misgendering: Gender Prediction in the Context of Trans Identities , Sean Miller

A Computational Study in the Detection of English–Spanish Code-Switches , Yohamy C. Polanco

Detection and Morphological Analysis of Novel Russian Loanwords , Yulia Spektor

Computational Representation of Russian Aspectual Morphology with a Focus on Perfective Prefixation , Natalia Tyulina

Theses from 2020 2020

From the Unspoken to the Verbalized: Different Ways of Communication and their Relationship to Culture in a Traditional Lakota Narrative "Ikto na wičhá ha kiŋ”, or “Ikto and the Racoon Skin” , Liliana R. Boladz-Nekipelov

Does the Word "Chien" Bark? Representation Learning in Neural Machine Translation Encoders , Emily Campbell

Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals , Christina N. Dadurian

Doing Away With Defaults: Motivation for a Gradient Parameter Space , Katherine Howitt

Genderlects in Social Media , Alina Korovatskaya

Inferring Research Fields in Administrative Records Using Text Data , Ekaterina Levitskaya

Tones in Shupamem Reduplication , Magdalena Markowska

Cot in the Act: Ethnicity and Age Affects Phonemic Perception of the Low-Back Merger in New York City English , Omar Ortiz

Acquisition Orders and Instructional Sequences: A Case Study of Russian Textbooks , Olga Ozhiganova

On the Temporal Interpretation of Epistemic Modals: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic , Alaa M. Sharif

Testing the Perceptual Magnet Effect in Monolinguals and Bilinguals , Michael C. Stern

Phonologically-Informed Speech Coding for Automatic Speech Recognition-based Foreign Language Pronunciation Training , Anthony J. Vicario

Ghost Peppers: Using Ensemble Models to Detect Professor Attractiveness Commentary on RateMyProfessors.com , Angie Waller

Mitigating Gender Bias in Neural Machine Translation Using Counterfactual Data , Alan Wong

Knowledge of the Present Perfect by Albanian/English Bilinguals , Erjon Xholi

Analysis of PRO-drop Errors in L2 English by L1 Spanish Speakers , Marcos R. Ynoa

Theses from 2019 2019

The Effects of Language Background and Foreign Accent on Listening Comprehension , Sita Carraturo

Demographic Factors as Domains for Adaptation in Linguistic Preprocessing , Sara Morini

Generative Adversarial Networks and Word Embeddings for Natural Language Generation , Robert D. Schultz Jr

Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects , LeeAnn S. Stevens

The Perception of Mandarin Tones in "Bubble" Noise by Native and L2 Listeners , Mengxuan Zhao

Theses from 2018 2018

Describing Doggo-Speak: Features of Doggo Meme Language , Jennifer Bivens

Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants , Lluvia Camacho Cervantes

The Social Perception of Three Features of New York City English , Giacomo Castronovo Jr.

Speech Perception in “Bubble” Noise: Korean Fricatives and Affricates By Native and Non-native Korean Listeners , Jiyoung Choi

English Influence on L2 Speakers’ Production of Palatalization and Velarization , Jennifer C. Gabriele

Recursive Neural Networks for Semantic Sentence Representation , Liam S. Geron

Input and Output in the Acquisition of Russian as a Heritage Language During the Third Year of Life , Ekaterina V. Kistanova

Intergroup Variability in Personality Recognition , Arundhati Sengupta

Revisiting Lockhart: A Case for a Conditional Operator , Eric J. Tsai

Theses from 2017 2017

Aspects of Quantifier Float in Thai , Khanin Chaiphet

Spatial Prepositions in Spanish , Carolina Fraga

From Rochel to Rose and Mendel to Max: First Name Americanization Patterns Among Twentieth-Century Jewish Immigrants to the United States , Jason H. Greenberg

A Sentiment Analysis of Language & Gender Using Word Embedding Models , Ellyn Rolleston Keith

Contesting Victimhood: A Linguistic and Legal Anthropological Analysis of Defendant Experiences in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention Courts , Mark T. Romig

ES-ESA: An Information Retrieval Prototype Using Explicit Semantic Analysis and Elasticsearch , Brian D. Sloan

A Discussion of Delimitative in Mandarin Chinese , Qi Zhang

Theses from 2016 2016

Infixer: A Method for Segmenting Non-Concatenative Morphology in Tagalog , Steven R. Butler

Processing Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese: An Effect of Language Exposure? , Stanley Chen

Nondescript: A Web Tool to Aid Subversion of Authorship Attribution , Robin Davis

Utilizing Linguistic Context To Improve Individual and Cohort Identification in Typed Text , Adam Goodkind

An Evaluation of POS Taggers for the CHILDES Corpus , Rui Huang

Event Parsing In Narrative: Trials And Tribulations Of Archaic English Fairy Tales , Rebecca Lovering

An ERP Study of Sensory-Linguistic Processing in the Context of ASD Research , Larissa R. Miller

An Examination of Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution Techniques , Maxwell B. Schwartz

Voicing the Other: Mock AAVE on Social Media , Hanna L. Smokoski

Theses from 2015 2015

/n/:/r/ Correspondences in Albanian Dialects: Understanding the n>r Sound Change , Katie Albany

Techniques for Automatic Normalization of Orthographically Variant Yiddish Texts , Yakov Peretz Blum

Vocabulary Through Affixes and Word Families - A Computer-Assisted Language Learning Program for Adult ELL Students , Magdalena Kieliszek

Syntactic Constraints and Social Uses of Greek-English Intrasentential Codeswitching , Despina Stefanou Malliaroudakis

Obstruent Voicing and Tone in Siklis Gurung , Danielle Ronkos

The Incidence and Evolution of Palatalized Consonants in Latvian , Linda Zalite

Theses from 2014 2014

The Influence of Pseudo-relatives on Attachment Preferences in Spanish , David Branco-Moreno

The Inner Workings of Text Summarization Systems , Hope Cotton

HUU-FA THESIS DAT?: A Syntactic Analysis of Possessive Jamaican Creole Possessive WH-elements , Toni Ashlie Foster

Canvas: A fast and accurate geometric sentence alignment system using lexical cues within complex misalignment settings , Hussein M. Ghaly

Representational Implications of the Phonologization of Contour Tones , Benjamin Kirkland Macaulay

Echolocation: Using Word-Burst Analysis to Rescore Keyword Search Candidates in Low-Resource Languages , Justin Richards

Some complexities in English article use and acquisition , Victoria Somogyi

Understanding Doubly Center-Embedded Sentences Through Contrastive Focus , Ashley Caroline Thorne

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A master’s student with a thesis requirement will submit the file through Brown's  electronic theses and dissertation (ETD) system . The system is designed to collect and archive the thesis or dissertation as a text-based PDF file. An electronic file submitted through the ETD will appear in the Library's  discovery service  and in the Brown  digital repository .

Web Searches and Unrestricted Downloads

In the spirit of the dissemination of new knowledge that is a hallmark of higher education, a thesis or dissertation will be subject to web searches and unrestricted downloads unless the student requests to opt out of the system and have the thesis or dissertation unavailable for download outside of the Brown community. A request to restrict download access to a thesis or dissertation has an initial two-year window from the time of degree conferral. Guidelines associated with restricted dissertation access are:

• The full text version will be available for download only to members of the Brown community.
• Web searches including the citation and abstract of restricted theses or dissertations will continue to be available to the general public.
• After two years the restriction will elapse.
• Restrictions on full text download may be renewed for two-year periods up to a total of ten years from the date of degree conferral. Requests for additional two-year restrictions should be made to the Graduate School.
• Any requests to extend the restriction beyond ten years must go to the Graduate Council for approval.
• In cases where the thesis or dissertation is a co-worked piece and there is disagreement between the student and the advisor over whether the material will or will not be available for download outside of the Brown community, the dispute will be brought before the Graduate Council for resolution.

To use the ETD system, the student must possess a valid username and password for accessing Brown’s computer network. If you are unable to create an account in the system, please contact  [email protected]  for assistance.

Graduate students are eligible to have degrees conferred, and to receive their diploma, at three different times over the course of the academic year. 

For students who complete their degree requirements the preceding summer term. The Application to Graduate opens on July 1, 2024 and closes on September 6, 2024. Degrees are conferred on October 20, 2024.

For students who complete their requirements the preceding fall term. The Application to Graduate opens on October 1, 2024 and closes on January 10, 2025. Degrees are conferred on February 9, 2025.

For students who complete their requirements over the preceding spring term. The dissertation deadline is May 1, 2024.  Please note, the Application to Graduate deadline is April 19, 2024.

The master's thesis and all of the associated forms and documents related to the completion of the degree must be submitted to the Graduate School by the deadlines listed above. 

Registration

If a student registers for Semester I and completes all of the requirements for the degree during that semester, a fee for Semester II will not be charged.

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As part of the overall completion process, the student must separately submit one signature page, which may be sent electronically to  [email protected] . The signature page should bear the signature of the director (not the graduate representative or chairperson). The typed name of the director should appear under the signature line. Electronic signatures are acceptable. An unsigned copy of the signature page should be uploaded to the  ETD system .

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Every effort should be made to have the manuscript as perfect as possible in form and appearance. Pages containing handwritten corrections, typewritten strikeovers and unsightly erasures and the like will not be accepted. Good references for editorial details are the  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations  (Modern Language Association), Kate Turabian's  A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations  (University of Chicago Press), and  The Chicago Manual of Style  (University of Chicago Press). The department should also be consulted regarding its policies or preferences in matters of format and style.

If publication of the thesis is anticipated, the medium of publication likely to be used should be considered when preparing the manuscript. If it is known in advance that the thesis will be published by a particular publisher or journal, the editorial practices of that publisher or journal should be followed. The form of footnotes and bibliography, in particular, may vary with different publishers and journals.

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Typefaces set to print at 10-, 11-, or 12-point font are acceptable. Typing or printing should be double-spaced, except for footnotes (single-space footnotes, with double spacing to separate one note from the next).

Page Numbers

Be consistent. Either put all page numbers (both Roman and Arabic) at the top of the page, or put all page numbers (both Roman and Arabic) at the bottom of the page. 

Most theses consist of preliminary pages which are numbered using Roman numerals, and the thesis proper, which is numbered using Arabic numerals.

The preliminary pages must appear in the following order:

• Title page (do not number)
• Signature page (ii)
• Vita* (iii)
• Preface and acknowledgments (iv)
• Table of contents (v)
• List of tables vi List of illustrations (vii)

Should any element of the preliminary pages be longer than one page, number the pages consecutively. The preliminary pages should appear in this order but not necessarily with the page numbers shown above.

The thesis proper (including introduction, main body of the text, illustrations, appendices, and bibliography) is numbered using Arabic numerals. The numbering begins with 1 and runs consecutively to the end.

* The vita is an optional statement giving a short biography of the candidate, including  institutions attended, degrees and honors, titles of publications, teaching or professional experience, and other pertinent information. Do not include date or location of birth or phone numbers.

Dating the Thesis

Because degrees are conferred three times a year, the title page should include the date that the degree is conferred.

The Abstract

If it is appropriate for the thesis to be accompanied by an abstract, it should, in a concise manner, present the problem of the dissertation, discuss the materials and procedure or methods used, and state the results or conclusions. Mathematical formulas, diagrams, and other illustrative materials should be avoided. The abstract should not be part of the thesis itself nor should it be included in the table of contents. It should be headed as follows:

Abstract of (TITLE OF THESIS), by (AUTHOR'S NAME), Degree [A.M., or ScM.], Brown University, May (YEAR IN WHICH DEGREE IS TO BE AWARDED).

The abstract should be prepared carefully since it will be published without editing or revision. The abstract should be double-spaced and may not exceed 350 words (maximum 2,450 characters — including spaces and punctuation — about 70 characters per line with a maximum of 35 lines).

Submission of Final Thesis

When the thesis is submitted electronically to the Graduate School, it must be in final form. It may not be revised in any way after it is presented.  See the list of required items below and note that some, where noted, may be sent electronically to the Graduate School’s Academic Affairs Manager, Barbara Bennett. The thesis will not be accepted and the student’s degree will not be conferred if any item from this list is missing or incomplete. The online submission system will send notifications when each document has been received and approved by the Graduate School.

• One copy of the title page, which may be sent electronically.
• One signed signature page, which may be sent electronically to to  [email protected] .

Digital Supplementary Material

Students interested in depositing digital supplementary materials along with their thesis are welcome to contact the Library for assistance. Please contact: Andrew Creamer in the Library at  [email protected] .

Publishing the Master's Thesis

It is University policy that all research done at the University under its sponsorship must be freely published without restriction. Since 1954, the Graduate School has required that dissertations be published. In 1985, the Graduate Council reaffirmed that decision and approved the following policy:

"All Ph.D. dissertations and Master's theses will be open documents. The Graduate Council will not recommend the awarding of the Ph.D. or Master's degree until the dissertation or thesis is submitted to the Graduate School and accorded unlimited distribution status."

Exceptions to this requirement will be made only if there is a letter from a publisher stating that the dissertation will be published within one year after the degree is awarded and that requests that circulation of the dissertation be withheld for twelve months after the degree is conferred. Six months will be allowed for the clearing of a patent.

If you have a question about temporarily removing your dissertation from the  Library's digital repository , please contact [email protected] .

The Diploma

The Office of the Registrar's Application to Graduate provides the degree candidate with an opportunity to indicate how the diploma name should appear. Otherwise, the name that will appear on the diploma and in the Commencement program, and under which the Library will catalog the dissertation, is the name under which the candidate is officially registered. Any request for a change of registered name should be addressed to the Office of the Registrar and accompanied by supporting legal documentation, such as a court order, marriage license, passport, driver’s license, or social security card. 

Certificate of Completion

If all academic requirements for the degree and all financial obligations have been met before May 1, the Office of the Registrar will issue a certificate of completion within three weeks of the candidate's request.

If you have any questions regarding the submission of your thesis, please contact  Barbara Bennett  in the Graduate School at (401) 863-2843.

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Critical Analysis of Anti-Asian Hate in the News , Benardo Douglas Relampagos

A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of NASA's Instagram Account , Danica Lynn Tomber

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

A Computer Science Academic Vocabulary List , David Roesler

Variation in Female and Male Dialogue in Buffy the Vampire Slayer : A Multi-dimensional Analysis , Amber Morgan Sanchez

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Differences in Syntactic Complexity in the Writing of EL1 and ELL Civil Engineering Students , Santiago Gustin

A Mixed Methods Analysis of Corpus Data from Reddit Discussions of "Gay Voice" , Sara Elizabeth Mulliner

Relationship Between Empathy and Language Proficiency in Adult Language Learners , Mika Sakai

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

College Student Rankings of Multiple Speakers in a Public Speaking Context: a Language Attitudes Study on Japanese-accented English with a World Englishes Perspective , John James Ahlbrecht

Grammatical Errors by Arabic ESL Students: an Investigation of L1 Transfer through Error Analysis , Aisha Saud Alasfour

Foreign Language Anxiety, Sexuality, and Gender: Lived Experiences of Four LGBTQ+ Students , James Donald Mitchell

Verb Stem Alternation in Vaiphei , Jesse Prichard

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Teacher and Student Perceptions of World Englishes (WE) Pronunciations in two US Settings , Marie Arrieta

Escalating Language at Traffic Stops: Two Case Studies , Jamalieh Haley

Lexical Bundles in Applied Linguistics and Literature Writing: a Comparison of Intermediate English Learners and Professionals , Kathryn Marie Johnston

Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Opinions from Spanish-Speaking English Learners from Mexico, Central America, and South America , Cailey Catherine Moe

An Analytical System for Determining Disciplinary Vocabulary for Data-Driven Learning: an Example from Civil Engineering , Philippa Jean Otto

Loanwords in Context: Lexical Borrowing from English to Japanese and its Effects on Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition , Andrew Michael Sowers

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Effect of Extended Instruction on Passive Voice, Reduced Relative Clauses, and Modal Would in the Academic Writing of Advanced English Language Learners , Audrey Bailey

Identity Construction and Language Use by Immigrant Women in a Microenterprise Development Program , Linda Eve Bonder

"That's the test?" Washback Effects of an Alternative Assessment in a Culturally Heterogeneous EAP University Class , Abigail Bennett Carrigan

Wiki-based Collaborative Creative Writing in the ESL Classroom , Rima Elabdali

A Study of the Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Interpretability of Standard Marine Communication Phrases as Perceived by Chinese Mariners , Lillian Christine Holland

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Empowering All Who Teach: A Portrait of Two Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in a Globalized 21st Century , Rosa Dene David

A Corpus Based Analysis of Noun Modification in Empirical Research Articles in Applied Linguistics , Jo-Anne Hutter

Sound Effects: Age, Gender, and Sound Symbolism in American English , Timothy Allen Krause

Perspectives on the College Readiness and Outcome Achievement of Former Intensive English Language Program (IELP) Students , Meghan Oswalt

The Cognitive Development of Expertise in an ESL Teacher: A Case Study , Lyndsey Roos

Identity and Investment in the Community ESL Classroom , Jennifer Marie Sacklin

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Code Switching Between Tamazight and Arabic in the First Libyan Berber News Broadcast: An Application of Myers-Scotton's MLF and 4M Models , Ashour S. Abdulaziz

Self-Efficacy in Low-Level English Language Learners , Laura F. Blumenthal

The Impact of Wiki-based Collaborative Writing on English L2 Learners' Individual Writing Development , Gina Christina Caruso

Latino Men Managing HIV: An Appraisal Analysis of Intersubjective Relations in the Discourse of Five Research Interviews , Will Caston

Opportunities for Incidental Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary from Teacher Speech in an English for Academic Purposes Classroom , Eric Dean Dodson

Emerging Lexical Organization from Intentional Vocabulary Learning , Adam Jones

Effects of the First Language on Japanese ESL Learners' Answers to Negative Questions , Kosuke Kanda

"Had sh'er haute gamme, high technology": An Application of the MLF and 4-M Models to French-Arabic Codeswitching in Algerian Hip Hop , Samuel Nickilaus McLain-Jespersen

Is Self-Sufficiency Really Sufficient? A Critical Analysis of Federal Refugee Resettlement Policy and Local Attendant English Language Training in Portland, Oregon , Domminick McParland

Explorations into the Psycholinguistic Validity of Extended Collocations , J. Arianna Morgan

A Comparison of Linguistic Features in the Academic Writing of Advanced English Language Learner and English First Language University Students , Margo K. Russell

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

The First Year: Development of Preservice Teacher Beliefs About Teaching and Learning During Year One of an MA TESOL Program , Emily Spady Addiego

L1 Influence on L2 Intonation in Russian Speakers of English , Christiane Fleur Crosby

English Loan Words in Japanese: Exploring Comprehension and Register , Naoko Horikawa

The Role of Expectations on Nonnative English Speaking Students' Wrtiting , Sara Marie Van Dan Acker

Hypothetical Would-Clauses in Korean EFL Textbooks: An Analysis Based on a Corpus Study and Focus on Form Approach , Soyung Yoo

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Negative Transfer in the Writing of Proficient Students of Russian: A Comparison of Heritage Language Learners and Second Language Learners , Daria Aleeva

Informal Learning Choices of Japanese ESL Students in the United States , Brent Harrison Amburgey

Iktomi: A Character Traits Analysis of a Dakota Culture Myth , Marianne Sue Kastner

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Motivation in Late Learners of Japanese: Self-Determination Theory, Attitudes and Pronunciation , Shannon Guinn-Collins

Foreign Language Students' Beliefs about Homestays , Sara Racheal Juveland

Teaching Intonation Patterns through Reading Aloud , Micah William Park

Disordered Thought, Disordered Language: A corpus-based description of the speech of individuals undergoing treatment for schizophrenia , Lucas Carl Steuber

Emotion Language and Emotion Narratives of Turkish-English Late Bilinguals , Melike Yücel Koç

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

A Library and its Community: Exploring Perceptions of Collaboration , Phoebe Vincenza Daurio

A Structural and Functional Analysis of Codeswitching in Mi Vida Gitana 'My Gypsy Life,' a Bilingual Play , Gustavo Javier Fernandez

Writing Chinuk Wawa: A Materials Development Case Study , Sarah A. Braun Hamilton

Teacher Evaluation of Item Formats for an English Language Proficiency Assessment , Jose Luis Perea-Hernandez

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Building Community and Bridging Cultures: the Role of Volunteer Tutors in Oregon’s Latino Serving Community-Based Organizations , Troy Vaughn Hickman

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Beyond the Classroom Walls: a Study of Out-Of-Class English Use by Adult Community College ESL Students , Tracey Louise Knight

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

A Dialect Study of Oregon NORMs , Lisa Wittenberg Hillyard

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

The Acquisition of a Stage Dialect , Nathaniel George Halloran

Self-perceptions of non-native English speaking teachers of English as a second language , Kathryn Ann Long

The Development of Language Choice in a German Immersion School , Miranda Kussmaul Novash

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

Writing in the Contact Zone: Three Portraits of Reflexivity and Transformation , Laurene L. Christensen

A Linguistic Evaluation of the Somali Women's Self Sufficiency Project , Ann Marie Kasper

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

Attitudes at the Bank : A Survey of Reactions to Different Varieties of English , Sean Wilcox

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

A Comparison of the Child Directed Speech of Traditional Dads With That of Stay-At-Home Dads , Judith Nancarrow Barr

Error Correction Preferences of Latino ESL Students , John Burrell

The Relationship Between Chinese Character Recognition Strategies and the Success of Character Memorization for Students of Mandarin Chinese , Hui-yen Emmy Chen

Portland dialect study: the story of /æ/ in Portland , Jeffrey C. Conn

On Communicative Competence : Its Nature and Origin , Mary Lou Emerson

The Influence of Cultural Backgrounds on the Interpretations of Literature Texts Used in the ESL Classroom , Barbara Jostrom Gates

Chinese Numeratives and the Mass/Count Distinction , David Goodman

Learning, Motivation, and Self : A Diary Study of an ESL Teacher’s Year in a Japanese Language Classroom , Laura Ruth Hawks

Portland Dialect Study - High Rising Terminal Contours (HRTs) in Portland Speech , Rebecca A. Wolff

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

The Bolinger Principle and Teaching the Gerunds and Infinitives , Anna Maria Baratta-Zborowski

Training for Volunteer Teachers in Church-Affiliated English Language Mission Programs , Janet Noreen Blackwood

Šawaš ılıˀ--šawaš wawa: A Participant Observation Case Study of Language Planning by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon , Gregry Michael Davis

Phonological Processing of Japanese Kanji Characters , Randy L. Evans

Academic ESL Reading : Semantic Mapping and Lexical Acquisition , Jeffrey Darin Maggard

The Representation of Gender in Current ESL Reading Materials , Kyunghee Ma

Perception of English Passives by Japanese ESL Learners : Do Adversity Passives in L1 Transfer? , Koichi Sawasaki

Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997

Non-Literate Students in Adult Beginning English as a Second Language Classrooms - A Case Study , Sandra Lynn Banke

A Case Study of Twelve Japanese ESL Students' Use of Interaction Modifications , Darin Dooley

The Home-School Connection: Parental Influences on a Child's ESL Acquisition , Catharine Jauhiainen

A Comparison of Two Second Language Acquisition Models for Culturally and Linguistically Different Students , Karen Dorothy Kuhn

ESL CD-ROM Principles and their Application: A Software Evaluation , Stephanie Burgi LaMonica

Developing a Language in Education Policy for Post-apartheid South Africa: A Case Study , Nancy Murray

Video Self-Monitoring as an Alternative to Traditional Methods of Pronunciation Instruction , P. C. Noble

Analysis of Rhetorical Organization and Style Patterns in Korean and American Business Fax Letters of Complaint in English , Mi Young Park

The Importance of Time for Processing in Second Language Comprehension and Acquisition , Jennifer Lee Watson

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

The Constraints of a Typological Implicational Universal for Interrogatives on Second Language Acquisition , Dee Anne Bess

An Assessment of the Needs of International Students for Student Services at Southern Oregon State College , Molly K. Emmons

The relationship between a pre-departure training program and its participants' intercultural communication competence , Daniel Timothy Ferguson

An Exploratory Evaluation of Language and Culture Contact by Japanese Sojourners in a Short-term US Academic Program , Elizabeth Anna Hartley

Correction of Classroom Oral Errors: Preferences among University Students of English in Japan , Akemi Katayama

An Analysis of Japanese Learners' Comprehension of Intonation in English , Misako Okubo

An Evaluation of English Spoken Fluency of Thai Graduate Students in the United States , Sugunya Ruangjaroon

A Cross-cultural Study of the Speech Act of Refusing in English and German , Charla Margaret Teufel

Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995

An Examination of the English Vocabulary Knowledge of Adult English-for-Academic-Purposes Students: Correlation with English Second-Language Proficiency and the Validity of Yes/No Vocabulary Tests , Robert Scott Fetter

English in the Workplace: Case Study of a Pilot Program , Kim Roth Franklin

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Theses/dissertations from 2022 2022.

Temporal Fluency in L2 Self-Assessments: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Spanish, Portuguese, and French , Mandy Case

Biblical Hebrew as a Negative Concord Language , J. Bradley Dukes

Revitalizing the Russian of a Heritage Speaker , Aaron Jordan

Analyzing Patterns of Complexity in Pre-University L2 English Writing , Zachary M. Lambert

Prosodic Modeling for Hymn Translation , Michael Abraham Peck

Interpretive Language and Museum Artwork: How Patrons Respond to Depictions of Native American and White Settler Encounters--A Thematic Analysis , Holli D. Rogerson

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Trademarks and Genericide: A Corpus and Experimental Approach to Understanding the Semantic Status of Trademarks , Richard B. Bevan

First and Second Language Use of Case, Aspect, and Tense in Finnish and English , Torin Kelley

Lexical Aspect in-sha Verb Chains in Pastaza Kichwa , Azya Dawn Ladd

Text-to-Speech Systems: Learner Perceptions of its Use as a Tool in the Language Classroom , Joseph Chi Man Mak

The Effects of Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback on the Accuracy and Complexity of Writing Produced by L2 Graduate Students , Lisa Rohm

Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions as Applied to Motivation in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition , Lindsay Michelle Stephenson

Linguistics of Russian Media During the 2016 US Election: A Corpus-Based Study , Devon K. Terry

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Portuguese and Chinese ESL Reading Behaviors Compared: An Eye-Tracking Study , Logan Kyle Blackwell

Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions to Lower Test Anxiety , Asena Cakmakci

The Categorization of Ideophone-Gesture Composites in Quichua Narratives , Maria Graciela Cano

Ranking Aspect-Based Features in Restaurant Reviews , Jacob Ling Hang Chan

Praise in Written Feedback: How L2 Writers Perceive and Value Praise , Karla Coca

Evidence for a Typology of Christ in the Book of Esther , L. Clayton Fausett

Gender Vs. Sex: Defining Meaning in a Modern World through use of Corpora and Semantic Surveys , Mary Elizabeth Garceau

The attributive suffix in Pastaza Kichwa , Barrett Wilson Hamp

An Examination of Motivation Types and Their Influence on English Proficiency for Current High School Students in South Korean , Euiyong Jung

Experienced ESL Teachers' Attitudes Towards Using Phonetic Symbols in Teaching English Pronunciation to Adult ESL Students , Oxana Kodirova

Evidentiality, Epistemic Modality and Mirativity: The Case of Cantonese Utterance Particles Ge3, Laak3, and Lo1 , Ka Fai Law

Application of a Self-Regulation Framework in an ESL Classroom: Effects on IEP International Students , Claudia Mencarelli

Parsing an American Sign Language Corpus with Combinatory Categorial Grammar , Michael Albert Nix

An Exploration of Mental Contrasting and Social Networks of English Language Learners , Adam T. Pinkston

A Corpus-Based Study of the Gender Assignment of Nominal Anglicisms in Brazilian Portuguese , Taryn Marie Skahill

Developing Listening Comprehension in ESL Students at the Intermediate Level by Reading Transcripts While Listening: A Cognitive Load Perspective , Sydney Sohler

The Effect of Language Learning Experience on Motivation and Anxiety of Foreign Language Learning Students , Josie Eileen Thacker

Identifying Language Needs in Community-Based Adult ELLs: Findings from an Ethnography of Four Salvadoran Immigrants in the Western United States , Kathryn Anne Watkins

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Using Eye Tracking to Examine Working Memory and Verbal Feature Processing in Spanish , Erik William Arnold

Self-Regulation in Transition: A Case Study of Three English Language Learners at an IEP , Allison Wallace Baker

"General Conference talk": Style Variation and the Styling of Identity in Latter-day Saint General Conference Oratory , Stephen Thomas Betts

Implementing Mental Contrasting to Improve English Language Learner Social Networks , Hannah Trimble Brown

Comparing Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) Frequency Bands to Leveled Biology and History Texts , Lynne Crandall

A Comparison of Mobile and Computer Receptive Language ESL Tests , Aislin Pickett Davis

Yea, Yea, Nay, Nay: Uses of the Archaic, Biblical Yea in the Book of Mormon , Michael Edward De Martini

L1 and L2 Reading Behaviors by Proficiency Level: An English-Portuguese Eye-Tracking Study , Larissa Grahl

Immediate Repeated Reading has Positive Effects on Reading Fluency for English Language Learners: An Eye-tracking Study , Jennifer Hemmert Hansen

Perceptions of Malaysian English Teachers Regarding the Importation of Expatriate Native and Nonnative English-speaking Teachers , Syringa Joanah Judd

Sociocultural Identification with the United States and English Pronunciation Comprehensibility and Accent Among International ESL Students , Christinah Paige Mulder

The Effects of Repeated Reading on the Fluency of Intermediate-Level English-as-a-Second-Language Learners: An Eye-Tracking Study , Krista Carlene Rich

Verb Usage in Egyptian Movies, Serials, and Blogs: A Case for Register Variation , Michael G. White

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Factors Influencing ESL Students' Selection of Intensive English Programs in the Western United States , Katie Briana Blanco

Pun Strategies Across Joke Schemata: A Corpus-Based Study , Robert Nishan Crapo

ESL Students' Reading Behaviors on Multiple-Choice Items at Differing Proficiency Levels: An Eye-Tracking Study , Juan M. Escalante Talavera

Backward Transfer of Apology Strategies from Japanese to English: Do English L1 Speakers Use Japanese-Style Apologies When Speaking English? , Candice April Flowers

Cultural Differences in Russian and English Magazine Advertising: A Pragmatic Approach , Emily Kay Furner

An Analysis of Rehearsed Speech Characteristics on the Oral Proficiency Interview—Computer (OPIc) , Gwyneth Elaine Gates

Predicting Speaking, Listening, and Reading Proficiency Gains During Study Abroad Using Social Network Metrics , Timothy James Hall

Navigating a New Culture: Analyzing Variables that Influence Intensive English Program Students' Cultural Adjustment Process , Sherie Lyn Kwok

Second Language Semantic Retrieval in the Bilingual Mind: The Case of Korean-English Expert Bilinguals , Janice Si-Man Lam

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Korean Heritage-Speaking Interpreter , Yoonjoo Lee

Reading Idioms: A Comparative Eye-Tracking Study of Native English Speakers and Native Korean Speakers , Sarah Lynne Miner

Applying the Developmental Path of English Negation to the Automated Scoring of Learner Essays , Allen Travis Moore

Performance Self-Appraisal Calibration of ESL Students on a Proficiency Reading Test , Jodi Mikolajcik Petersen

Switch-Reference in Pastaza Kichwa , Alexander Harrison Rice

The Effects of Metacognitive Listening Strategy Instruction on ESL Learners' Listening Motivation , Corbin Kalanikiakahi Rivera

The Effects of Teacher Background on How Teachers Assess Native-Like and Nonnative-Like Grammar Errors: An Eye-Tracking Study , Wesley Makoto Schramm

Rubric Rating with MFRM vs. Randomly Distributed Comparative Judgment: A Comparison of Two Approaches to Second-Language Writing Assessment , Maureen Estelle Sims

Investigating the Perception of Identity Shift in Trilingual Speakers: A Case Study , Elena Vasilachi

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Preparing Non-Native English Speakers for the Mathematical Vocabulary in the GRE and GMAT , Irina Mikhailovna Baskova

Eye Behavior While Reading Words of Sanskrit and Urdu Origin in Hindi , Tahira Carroll

An Acoustical Analysis of the American English /l, r/ Contrast as Produced by Adult Japanese Learners of English Incorporating Word Position and Task Type , Braden Paul Chase

The Rhetoric Revision Log: A Second Study on a Feedback Tool for ESL Student Writing , Natalie Marie Cole

Quizlet Flashcards for the First 500 Words of the Academic Vocabulary List , Emily R. Crandell

The Impact of Changing TOEFL Cut-Scores on University Admissions , Laura Michelle Decker

A Latent Class Analysis of American English Dialects , Stephanie Nicole Hedges

Comparing the AWL and AVL in Textbooks from an Intensive English Program , Michelle Morgan Hernandez

Faculty and EAL Student Perceptions of Writing Purposes and Challenges in the Business Major , Amy Mae Johnson

Multilingual Trends in Five London Boroughs: A Linguistic Landscape Approach , Shayla Ann Johnson

Nature or Nurture in English Academic Writing: Korean and American Rhetorical Patterns , Sunok Kim

Differences in the Motivations of Chinese Learners of English in Different (Foreign or Second Language) Contexts , Rui Li

Managing Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback: Perceptions of Experienced Teachers , Rachel A. Messenger

Spanish Heritage Bilingual Perception of English-Specific Vowel Contrasts , John B. Nielsen

Taking the "Foreign" Out of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale , Jared Benjamin Sell

Creole Genesis and Universality: Case, Word Order, and Agreement , Gerald Taylor Snow

Idioms or Open Choice? A Corpus Based Analysis , Kaitlyn Alayne VanWagoner

Applying Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis to an Unrestricted Corpus: A Case Study in Indonesian and Malay Newspapers , Sara LuAnne White

Investigating the effects of Rater's Second Language Learning Background and Familiarity with Test-Taker's First Language on Speaking Test Scores , Ksenia Zhao

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Influence of Online English Language Instruction on ESL Learners' Fluency Development , Rebecca Aaron

The Effect of Prompt Accent on Elicited Imitation Assessments in English as a Second Language , Jacob Garlin Barrows

A Framework for Evaluating Recommender Systems , Michael Gabriel Bean

Program and Classroom Factors Affecting Attendance Patterns For Hispanic Participants In Adult ESL Education , Steven J. Carter

A Longitudinal Analysis of Adult ESL Speakers' Oral Fluency Gains , Kostiantyn Fesenko

Rethinking Vocabulary Size Tests: Frequency Versus Item Difficulty , Brett James Hashimoto

The Onomatopoeic Ideophone-Gesture Relationship in Pastaza Quichua , Sarah Ann Hatton

A Hybrid Approach to Cross-Linguistic Tokenization: Morphology with Statistics , Logan R. Kearsley

Getting All the Ducks in a Row: Towards a Method for the Consolidation of English Idioms , Ethan Michael Lynn

Expecting Excellence: Student and Teacher Attitudes Towards Choosing to Speak English in an IEP , Alhyaba Encinas Moore

Lexical Trends in Young Adult Literature: A Corpus-Based Approach , Kyra McKinzie Nelson

A Corpus-Based Comparison of the Academic Word List and the Academic Vocabulary List , Jacob Andrew Newman

A Self-Regulated Learning Inventory Based on a Six-Dimensional Model of SRL , Christopher Nuttall

The Effectiveness of Using Written Feedback to Improve Adult ESL Learners' Spontaneous Pronunciation of English Suprasegmentals , Chirstin Stephens

Pragmatic Quotation Use in Online Yelp Reviews and its Connection to Author Sentiment , Mary Elisabeth Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Conditional Sentences in Egyptian Colloquial and Modern Standard Arabic: A Corpus Study , Randell S. Bentley

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Russian Word Order Patterns , Stephanie Kay Billings

English to ASL Gloss Machine Translation , Mary Elizabeth Bonham

The Development of an ESP Vocabulary Study Guidefor the Utah State Driver Handbook , Kirsten M. Brown

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• 3 credit hours LITZ 5302 Foundations in Critical Reading and Research
• 6 credit hours dedicated to any of Signum’s language courses*
• 6 credit hours dedicated to any of Signum’s literature courses*
• 12 credit hours dedicated to a combination of Signum’s language or literature courses
• See the Master’s Thesis Guidelines for more information about thesis requirements.

*Some classes may be eligible for either literature or language credit. For special circumstances, speak with your advisor or contact the University .

The University offers a flexible timeframe to complete these requirements: Students are granted a minimum of two (2) years and a maximum of eight (8) years to finish their degree program. During that time, students are welcome to take most courses at the pace that best suits them.

These degree requirements effective 1 August 2022.

Core Courses

LITZ 5302 Foundations in Critical Reading and Research

Beginning in the Fall 2022 term, all credit students are required to take LITZ 5302 Foundations in Critical Reading and Research. This course must be completed within the first two (2) calendar years of the M.A. program. Students admitted before Fall 2022 are encouraged but not required to take this course.

Concentrations

Students admitted to the M.A. program or the graduate diploma program may choose one of four concentrations :

• Tolkien Studies
• Imaginative Literature
• Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Literature
• Germanic Philology

One course for each concentration is offered every term. However, it is not required that students choose a concentration in order to complete the Graduate Diploma (or the MA degree). 

Students choosing to pursue a concentration must take at least five (5) courses from that concentration for the M.A. degree or four (4) courses for the graduate diploma.

At least one language course is offered in every term.

Capstone Project

All students seeking a M.A. Degree in Language and Literature are required to complete a capstone project, often referred to as the thesis.

In its final form, your thesis should be suitable for publication in a scholarly journal and/or presentation at an academic conference. While it might originate from an idea you explored in a previous course project, the final thesis will be the result of new research, substantive revision, and significant expansion.

The capstone project is divided into three semesters. These courses are taken after the student has successfully completed the required number of credits and the thesis application has been accepted by the Thesis Director .

• LITZ6390 Thesis Preparation
• LITZ6391 Thesis Development
• LITZ6392 Thesis Revision and Presentation

This three-credit sequence is optional for students who have passed their seventh course toward their M.A. before the beginning of the Fall 2022 term, who may elect the prior two-credit sequence. If a student who meets this criterion elects to take the two-credit sequence, they must enroll in the first semester by Fall 2024 and complete the sequence by Summer 2025. The three-credit sequence is mandatory for all other students.

See the Master’s Thesis Guidelines for more information about thesis requirements and the Academic Calendar for application deadlines.

Watch the Thesis Theater presentations of Signum’s previous students in our playlist on YouTube .

M.A. Advisory Council

The Advisory Council for the M.A. in Language and Literature program at Signum University was formed in 2020. Our Advisory Committee has three members whose areas of expertise were chosen to align closely with our program and its mission.

Our Advisory Council meets once per year as part of our annual program review process. Their feedback is solicited every term as part of our semester-long course review process.

Dr. Holly Ordway, Fellow at the Word on Fire Institute, Visiting Professor, Houston Baptist University

Holly Ordway is a celebrated writer on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. She received her PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts in 2001, and she has been a literature professor for fifteen years. For the last nine years, she has been a Professor of English at Houston Baptist University, and served as Department Chair for the first three of those years.

Dr Adam Oberlin, Senior Lecturer, Princeton University

Adam Oberlin received his PhD in Germanic Medieval Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2012 and has taught Germanic languages, literatures, history, culture, and world geography to students ranging from middle school grades to retirement in a variety of schools, universities, and adult educational institutes. His research and teaching interests include historical and corpus linguistics, digital approaches to textual analysis, and content-based instruction.

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English Masters Thesis Collection

Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

A winter of animal suffering: sacrificial logic, the discourse of animality, and sensory rhetoric in Richard Adam's Watership down , Miina De Lara

Dreamin in Sahuptin: considering David Sohappy , Mikelle Gaines

The acceptance of womanhood: gender performance and self-actualization in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the island , Lauren M. Hinshaw

Queer historicism as literary theory: an exploration of three texts , Theodore D. Kenning

Performative history: parody and rock 'n' roll in David Bowie's The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars , William R. McPhee

Extranormal sorcery in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon , HarleyQuinn Wahl

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Realism as weaponry: challenging Victorian ideals of femininity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's secret and Wilkie Collins' Armadale , Taylor Aalgaard

Navigating the labyrinth of House of leaves through a postmodern archetypal literary theory , Samuel K. Hval

The value hierarchies of J.R.R. Tolkien and his legacy: a reimagining of fantasy fiction and the propagation of colonial racism , Alexander Richburg

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

"Trying hard to keep her from feeling outdoors": race, ability, and eugenics in early Morrison , Grace Caraway

Teaching fantasy fiction in K-12 classrooms: purpose, texts, and unit plans , Rachel Lynne Carroll

(Missed) connections: how the textual communication environment caused by Covid-19 impacted English Composition instructors' ability to communicate and connect with colleagues and students , Alyssa G. Cummings

Animistic poetics: William Carlos Williams' Paterson and Animistic ecology , Kurtis Ebeling

"It's odd, isn't it?": irony, breakdown, and self-healing in Doris Lessing's The golden notebook , Rachel M. Goodner

"To find healing in my wounds": the transformation of memory and trauma into art in J.R.R. Tolkien's The lord of the rings , Graysen S. Russell

Creating usable and accessible courses through usability testing in higher education: a Canvas usability assessment for diverse students , Carrie Schreiner

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Teaching in hagwons in South Korea: a novice English teacher’s autoethnography , Brittany Courser

Facing the horror of uncertainty: using female slashers as a model for thinking about and practicing English Literature and Composition , Rose Hall

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Mapping the Intertextual Parataxis “Cover Her Face”: Feminist Geography and the Reclaiming of Masterless Women , Cheryl L. Beedle

“A dark archway of rusticated stone”: depictions of moral obligation in Greene’s The Human Factor and Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited , Thomas J. Carter

“Racism doesn’t exist anymore, so why are we talking about this?”: An action research proposal of culturally responsive teaching for critical literacy in democratic education , Natalie Marie Giles

"Could I annoy you for a drink?" : Social management and alcoholism in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Tender is the night , Lucy Anderson Granroth

Stylistic imitation as an English-teaching technique : pre-service teachers’ responses to training and practice , Min Yi Liang

Considerations for selecting an edition of Daisy Miller , Katie J. Peterson

Sororal bonds actualized: sisterhood in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley and Louisa May Alcott's Work , Lorin Richard

Higher-order thinking in synchronous online discussion , Kathy L. Rowley

Telling stories and contextualizing lived experiences in the Cuban heritage language and culture: an autoethnography about transculturation , Tatiana Senechal

“This is the oppressor’s language, yet I need it to talk to you”: a critical examination of translanguaging in Russian speakers at the university level , Nora Vralsted

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Multimodal Approaches to Literacy and Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the University Level , Ghader Alahmadi

Educating Saudi Women through Communicative Language Teaching: A Bi-literacy Narrative and An Autoethnography of a Saudi English Teacher , Eiman Alamri

The value of journaling on multimodal materials: a literacy narrative and autoethnography of an experienced Saudi high school English teacher , Ibrahim Alamri

Strategic Contemplation as One Saudi Mother’s Way Of Reflecting on Her Children’s Learning Only English in the United States: An Autoethnography and Multiple Case Study of Multilingual Writers at the College Level , Razan Alansari

“If you wanted me to speak your language then you should have stayed in your country”: a critical ethnography of linguistic identity and resiliency in the life of an Afghan refugee , Logan M. Amstadter

Comparing literate and oral cultures with a view to improving understanding of students from oral traditions: an autoethnographic approach , Carol Lee Anderson

Practical recommendations for composition instructors based on a review of the literature surrounding ESL and identity , Patrick Cornwall

One size does not fit all: exploring online-language-learning challenges and benefits for advanced English Language Learners , Renee Kenney

Understanding the potential effects of trauma on refugees’ language learning processes , Charis E. Ketcham

Let's enjoy teaching life: an autoethnography of a novice ESL teacher's two years of teaching English in a private girls' secondary school in Japan , Danielle Nozaka

Developing an ESP curriculum on tourism and agribusiness for a rural school in Nicaragua: a retrospective diary , Stan Pichinevskiy

User experiences of Spanish-speaking Latinos: usabiltiy of the Frontier Behavioral Institute website , Raquel Ramos

A Literacy Narrative of a Female Saudi English Teacher and A Qualitative Case Study: 12 Multilingual Writers Identify Challenges and Benefits of Daily Writing in a College Composition Class , Ghassoon Rezzig

Proposed: Technical Communicators Collaborating with Educators to Develop a Better EFL Curriculum for Ecuadorian Universities , Daniel Jack Williamson

Capital games: the Bourdieuxian movements of Heathcliff and Nelly Dean in Neo-Victorian revisitations of Wuthering Heights , Ryan S. Wise

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

BELL HOOKS’ “ENACTMENT OF NON-DOMINATION” IN THE “PRACTICE OF SPEAKING IN A LOVING AND CARING MANNER”: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF A SAUDI “WIDOW’S SON” , Braik Aldoshan

WHEN SPIRITUALITY AND PEDAGOGY COLLIDE: ACKNOWLEDGING RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND VALUES IN THE ESL CLASSROOM , Carli T. Cumpston

HERITAGE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE: A MEXICAN AMERICAN MOTHER’S SUCCESS WITH RAISING BILINGUAL CHILDREN , Maria E. Estrada-Loehne

TEACHING THE BIOGRAPHY OF PEARL S. BUCK: DEVELOPING COLLABORATIVE READING STRATEGIES FOR MULTILINGUAL WRITERS , Nichole S. La Torre

An Autoethnography of a Novice ESL Teacher: Plato’s Cave and English Language Teaching in Japan , Kevin Lemberger

INQUIRY-BASED PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE FOR ESL COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND FOR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS , Aiko Nagabuchi

A TRIPLE CASE STUDY OF TWO SAUDI AND ONE ITALIAN LANGUAGE LEARNERS' SELF-PERCEPTIONS OF TARGET LANGUAGE (TL) SPEAKING PROFICIENCY , Jena M. Robinson

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

"I am from Epifania and Tomas": an autoethnography and bi-literacy narrative of a Mexican American orchard workers' daughter , Brenda Lorena Aguilar

Technology use in young English language learners: a survey of Saudi parents studying in the United States , Hamza Aljunaidalsayed

Bilingualism of Arab children in the U.S.: a survey of parents and teachers , Omnia Alofii

"If you're not talkin' mess, then you should be ok": collegiate student-athletes' strategies and practices on social networking sites , Marc C. Anderson

College-level ELLs in two English composition courses: the transition from ESL to the mainstream , Andrew J. Copley

Increasing multimedia literacy in composition for multilingual writers: a case study of art analysis , Sony Nicole De Paula

Reviewing critical pedagogy's criticisms and providing a pragmatic heuristic , Dominick S. Giguere

Be loved from the other side: Amy Denver's influence in Toni Morrison's Beloved , Aubra D. Godwin

Multilingual writers' unintentional plagiarism: action research in college composition , Jacqueline D. Gullon

Games for vocabulary enrichment: teaching multilingual writers at the college level , Jennifer Hawkins

Exploring methodologies in feminist rhetoric and education: using Kirsch and Royster's terms of engagement in the college classroom , Elizabeth M. Matresse

The warrior kings and their giants: a comparative study of Beowulf and King David , Fred McFarland

Critical reflection and the savior role in service learning , Bradley W. Plummer

Identifying as author: exploring the pedagogical basis for assisting diverse students to discover their identities through creatively defined literacy narratives , Amber D. Pullen

Saltine box full of dreams: one Mexican immigrant woman's journey to academic success , Adriana C. Sanchez

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

An integrative approach to English composition, ESL, English for specific/special purposes (ESP), and technical communication , Brandy R. Bippes

Teaching the biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder: fostering a media literacy approach for multilingual writers , Kelly G. Hansen

Implementing a modified intercultural competency curriculum in an integrated English 101 classroom , Kathryn C. Hedberg

"Don't wake me, my desk is far too comfortable": an autoethnography of a novice ESL teacher's first year of teaching in Japan , Delaney Holland

ESL ABE, VESL, and bell hooks' Democratic education: a case study of four experienced ESL instructors , Michael E. Johnson

Hunter S. Thompson and gonzo journalism as literature , Michael P. Kiernan

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Beyond Fascism: W.B. Yeats’s A Vision and the Complexities of His Authoritarian Politics , Justin Abel

Using Media to Teach Grammar in Context and UNESCO Values: A Case Study of Two English Teachers and Students from Saudi Arabia , Sultan Albalawi

A Double Case Study of Latino College Presidents: What Younger Generations Can Learn From Them , Sara Aymerich Leiva

ENTROPY, EVOLUTION, AND INFORMATION THEORY: SOCIAL ANXIETIES IN THE TIME MACHINE AND THE CRYING OF LOT 49 , Sara Jo Barrett

WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK IN THE L2 WRITING CLASSROOM , Daniel Ducken

Clothing in An American tragedy: a "True picture of life" , Rachel L. Flynn

Academic Reading and Writing at the College Level: Action Research in a Classroom of a homogeneous Group of Male Students from Saudi Arabia , Margaret Mount

TRANSFORMATIVE PEDAGOGY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION: TEACHING TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION STUDENTS TO BRIDGE WITH ANZALDÚAN THEORIES OF SOCIAL CHANGE , Carlos Munoz

Reflections on Teaching and Host Mothering Chinese Secondary Students: A Novice ESL Teacher’s Diary Study and Autoethnography , Diane Thames

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Peer editing in composition for multilingual writers at the college level , Benjamin J. Bertrand

Educating Ana: a retrospective diary study of pre-literate refugee students , Renee Black

Coming home: storytelling, place, and identity in N. Scott Momaday's House made of down and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony , Azalyn Croft

The loathly lady from archaic to modern tales , Kirsten M. Dresker

Social pressure to speak English and the effect of English language learning for ESL composition students in higher education , Trevor Duston

The ABC's of font: effects of changing default fonts , Amanda P. Erickson

"The worry that you are yourself": Darl's unforgivable neurodiversity in As I lay dying , Neal Hallgarth

The Ogbanje in Little Bee by Chris Cleave , Courtney A. Harler

Othello as an enigma to himself: a Jungian approach to character analysis , Eric Iliff

Once upon a time: fairytales past and present , Jordan L. Keithley

Poetry in translation to teach ESL composition at the college level , Peter M. Lacey

Using media to teach a biography of Lincoln and Douglass: a case study of teaching ESL listening & viewing in college composition , Pui Hong Leung

The rhetoric of hyperreal hybrids: taming the multiracial woman in advertising , Karhonkwison Logan

"Rosa alchemica," "The tables of the law," and "Adoration of the magi," edited and with an introduction , Brady J. Peneton

Developing a pedagogy of pluralistic linguistic expression in the first year composition classroom , April Dawn Ridgeway

Learning how to learn: teaching preliterate and nonliterate learners of English , Jennifer L. Semb

Non-cognitive factors in second language acquisition and language variety: a single case study of a Saudi male English for academic purposes student in the United States , Nicholas Stephens

Teaching English in the Philippines: a diary study of a novice ESL teacher , Jeffrey Lee Svoboda

ARABIC RHETORIC: MAIN IDEA, DEVELOPMENT, PARALLELISM, AND WORD REPETITION , Melissa Van De Wege

Reality and imagination: the authorial decisions of May Welland Archer and Emma Woodhouse , Melinda R. Vetter

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Chinese Masters Theses Collection

Theses from 2023 2023.

Insights into Chinese Second Language Acquisition: The Relationship between Glossing and Vocabulary Recall in Reading , Steven S. DeVellis, Chinese

Acquisition of Chinese Measure Words by Chinese as Second Language Learners: A Corpus-based Study of Lexical, Semantic, and Syntactic Characteristics , Yutong Feng, Chinese

Between Verb and Preposition: Diachronic Stages of Coverbs in Mandarin Chinese , Glynis Jones, Chinese

The Near-Synonymous Classifiers in Mandarin Chinese: Etymology, Modern Usage, And Possible Problems in L2 Classroom , Irina Kavokina, Chinese

Voices Against an Era: Alternative Voices, Cultural Heroics, and the Impact of He Yong and Zhang Chu on Chinese Rock Music , Peter J. Moncur, Chinese

Theses from 2022 2022

Second Language Competence and Translation Ability: An Investigation of English-native Speakers Learning Chinese as a Second Language , Chensimeng Pan, Chinese

The Different Waves of "Chineseness": Analysis of Culture References and Lyrics in Zhongguofeng Music , Austin S. Ye, Chinese

An Investigation into American University Students’ Motivation for Chinese Learning: A Case Study , Qingqing Zhang, Chinese

Theses from 2021 2021

The Acquisition of Advanced Level Chinese Heritage Language (CHL) Learners：A Comparative Analysis Concerning The Aspect Marker “LE了” , Jingjing Ao, Chinese

Self-representation in Selected Poems of Gu Taiqing (1799-1877) , Li-Ting Chang, Chinese

On Shattered Ruins: The Cultural Practices and Production of the Great Tanghsna Earthquake in Post-Mao Literature and Film , Jinhui Chen, Chinese

TBLT in Virtual L2 Classroom: Challenges, Actions and Insights , Jianan He, Chinese

Women in a Fallen City: The Rape of Nanking and The Flowers of War , Tianle Wang, Chinese

Theses from 2020 2020

LITERARY PORTRAYALS OF RELIGIOUS AWAKENING THROUGH SUFFERING AND LOSS - BUDDHIST, DAOIST, AND CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES , Robert Canning, Chinese

INVESTIGATION OF THE CONSONANT ENDINGS OF THE CHAOSHAN DIALECT: A RESULT OF LANGUAGE CONTACT AND HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION , Jin Chen, Chinese

A Textbook-Based Study on Cultural Knowledge Acquisition in Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language , Feng Gao, Chinese

Urbanlization and Internet Literature: Zhang Jiajia and His Healing Story , Shayue Qi, Chinese

Perfective Marker Dao in the Nanjiang Dialect , Kun Yue, Chinese

The Sutras as Poetry: Wang Wei's Use of Buddhist Philosophy as Poetic Image , Yan Zhang, Chinese

Theses from 2019 2019

READING AND TRANSLATING “NOW-NESS” AND “CONTINUITY” IN THE IMAGISTIC LANGUAGE OF TANG POEMS , Mei Du, Chinese

Translation Issues in Modern Chinese Literature: Viewpoint, Fate and Metaphor in Xia Shang's "The Finger-Guessing Game" , Jonathan Heinrichs, Chinese

The Morality Of Chinese Legalism: Han Fei’s Advanced Philosophy , Yuan Ke, Chinese

A Study on English-speaking Learners' Acquisition of Three Chinese Modal Auxiliary Verbs: NENG, HUI ,And KEYI , Anqi Li, Chinese

NEW WINE IN AN OLD BOTTLE: PROPAGANDA AND ADAPTATION OF THE WHITE-HAIRED GIRL IN POST-SOCIALIST CHINA , Ha Yeon Shin, Chinese

A Triad of Dilemmas in Sylvia Chang’s Films: Women in Love, Family and Society , Fanzhe Yang, Chinese

Reconsidering Diasporic Literature: "Homeland" and "Otherness" in The Lost Daughter of Happiness , Qijun Zhou, Chinese

Theses from 2018 2018

Probing into the Historical and Geographical Variants of Mandarin: A Computational Approach , Annie Chen, Chinese

Psychological with a Xuanyi Afterthought: A Translation of Cai Jun's "Kidnapped" and a Critical Introduction to His Popular Suspense Fiction , Katherine G. Holtrop, Chinese

A Study of the Intertexts in The Stone Of Goddess Nüwa (Nüwa Shi 女娲石) , Zhimo Li, Chinese

Studies on L2 Acquisition of Chinese Verbs of 'Change' by English Speakers , Baoqing Qian, Chinese

Decentralization in Wei Te-sheng's Film , Ji Wang, Chinese

ROLE-PLAY IN THE CHINESE CLASSROOM , Matthew Werth, Chinese

QUEST FOR PURE LOVE AND EQUAL RELATIONSHIP: THE GENESIS AND MEANING OF CHINESE DANMEI NOVEL , Mengwu Yun, Chinese

Theses from 2017 2017

Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Verb-Noun Collocations , Ying Cai, Chinese

Storytelling in the Age of Post-socialism: Wang Xiaoshuai’s “Third Front Trilogy” , Xuesong Shao, Chinese

A Linguistic Study on the Four Editions of Bǎijiā xìng 百家姓 in hP’ags-pa Script , Sicheng Wang, Chinese

Theses from 2016 2016

The Phonological System of A Xin'an Idiolect , Shuiying Lu, Chinese

THE HARMONIOUS CONCLUSIONS OF PEONY PAVILION & THE LUTE , Alexander McCartin, Chinese

Buddhist Depiction of Life in the Verse of the Tang Dynasty Poet Han Shan , Sijia Niu, Chinese

A Study On the Mutual Replacements of Three des in Chinese Blogs , Hui Sha, Chinese

A Textbook-Based Study on Measure Word Acquisition in Learners of Chinese as A Second Langauge , Shaofang Wang, Chinese

Genuineness and Love: A Study of Feng Menglong's Collection of Mountain Songs (Shan'ge 山歌) , Yujia Ye, Chinese

Youth Narrative in Feng Tang's The Beijing Trilogy , Mingjia Zhang, Chinese

Theses from 2015 2015

Building a Democratic Consciousness in Taiwan: An Analysis of Lung Ying-tai’s Political Essays Over Three Decades (1984–2003) , Conrad W. Bauer, Chinese

Analyzing Two Key Points of the Huaihai Campaign Using Sun Tzu's Net Assessment , Jimmy Chien, Chinese

Dwelling in the Vision of Utopia: A Politico-Religious Reading of Tao Qian , Jiani Lian, Chinese

THE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHINESE EMOTICON , Xiangxi Liu, Chinese

The Effectiveness of Explicit Instruction Versus Implicit Instruction Method on Chinese Grammar Acquisition , Fuyang Peng, Chinese

Theses from 2014 2014

An Investigation of Native and Non-Native Chinese Language Teachers and Their Pedagogical Advantages , Thomas Burns, Chinese

Acoustic Analysis of the Tones in the Shantou Dialect , Danni Li, Chinese

A Study on the Acquisition of Chinese Directional Complements , lin lin, Chinese

Inferring Word-Meaning, Morpheme-Based, and Word-Based Second Language Vocabulary Teaching Methodologies , Qingli Liu, Chinese

An Investigation of Chinese Learners' Acquisition and Understanding of Bushou and Their Attitude on Formal In-Class Bushou Instruction , Yan P. Liu, Chinese

THE PHONOLOGICAL CHARACTERITICS AND THE HISTORICAL STRATA OF THE QIANJIANG DIALECT , Liyan Luo, Chinese

Theses from 2013 2013

The Reflexes of Middle Chinese Zhi and Zhao Initials in Modern Mandarin and Wu Dialect , Yu-jung Liang, Chinese

Study on Shan Gui: From Religious Text to Visual Representations , Le Lu, Chinese

The History of the Introduction of Chinese Language and Culture into the American Higher Education System , Chelsea H. Nakabayashi, Chinese

The Foundations of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language: An Investigation of Late 19th Century Textbooks , Lena Pearson, Chinese

The plural forms of personal pronouns in Modern Chinese , Baoying Qiu, Chinese

A Translation of Qiu Miaojin's "The Crocodile Diaries" , Alexandra Valencik, Chinese

The Use of Multimedia Material in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language and Pedagogical Implications , Zhongyuan Williams, Chinese

Dialects into Films----The Element of “Dialect” in Chinese Films , Shun Yao, Chinese

The Comparison Of Meaning-inferred, Meaning-given, And Sentence Translation Methods For Chinese Vocabulary Teaching , Yani Zeng, Chinese

A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Input-based Activities And Output-based Activities on the Acquisition of Chinese Language , Xiaolei Zhang, Chinese

Theses from 2012 2012

A Diachronic and Synchronic Examination of the Disposal Construction in Min and Mandarin Chinese , Chunching Chang, Chinese

The Artist as Creator: The Theory of Art in Du Fu's Poems about Paintings , James H. Edwards, Chinese

Danmei Literature as Indicator of Social Change: A Sociocultural Analysis of Xiao Chun’s Collide , Patrick l. Hamilton, Chinese

Xunzian Political Philosophy: Pioneering Pragmatism , Brandon King, Chinese

Motivation of Chinese Language Learners: A Case Study in a Intermediate Chinese Class , Hong Yan, Chinese

The Phonological Features of Sino-Khitan and Its Relations to the Origin of Northern Mandarin , Man Zhang, Chinese

Theses from 2011 2011

The Phonological Features and the Historical Strata of the Heyang Dialect , Xiaoying Li, Chinese

The Effects of Recasts and Explicit Feedback on Chinese Language Acquisition in the Task-based Classroom , Lei Yang, Chinese

Theses from 2010 2010

Teaching Character Formation Rationales with a Computer-Assisted Courseware , Bo Feng, Chinese

Expressions of Self in a Homeless World: Zhang Dai (1597-1680?) and His Writings in the Ming-Qing Transition Period , Wenjie Liu, Chinese

Readings Of Chinese Poet Xue Tao , Lu Yu, Chinese

Theses from 2009 2009

A Record of the Defense of Xiangyang's City Wall, 1206-1207 , Julie J. Avery, Chinese

The Pursuit and Dispelling of Holy Heterosexual Love: from "Love Must Not Be Forgotten" to Wu Zi , Li Li, Chinese

Bai Juyi's poems about women/ , Xiaohua Liu, Chinese

Formation Of The Xikun Style Poetry , Jin Qian, Chinese

The Cfl Students’ Perspective of the Chinese Ambiguous Sentences , Ting Juan Song, Chinese

Theses from 2008 2008

Integrating multimedia into Chinese character teaching and learning for Cfl beginners/ , Weijia Li, Chinese

The Moral and Racial Socialization of Children: The Image of Wu Feng in Taiwan School Readers , Claire R. Maccabee, Chinese

A study of the standardization of Chinese writing/ , Ying Wang, Chinese

Theses from 2007 2007

Reinventing the wheel or creating a tale's genealogy? :: a comparison of twelve versions of the tale of Mulan/ , Julie Anne Lohr, Chinese

The variegated blossoms :: studies on the children characters in the literary productions of Chi Zijian/ , Xuebo Sun, Chinese

Theses from 2006 2006

A comparison of the Guodian and Mawangdui Laozi texts/ , Dan Murphy, Chinese

Theses from 2005 2005

The images of Jiangnan in Zhao Mengfu's (1254-1322) poetry/ , Li E, Chinese

Uniting the ancestors :: Cheng Minzheng (1445-1499) and the creation of the Comprehensive Genealogy of the Xin'an Cheng (Xin'an Chengshi Tongzong Shipu)/ , Neil E. Mcgee, Chinese

Theses from 2004 2004

An annotated translation of "Accounts of supernatural retribution"/ , Elliot Meier Billings, Chinese

Theses from 2003 2003

Toponyms of the Nanzhao periphery/ , John C. Lloyd, Chinese

Theses from 2002 2002

Chinese color word evolution/ , Mary E. Franck, Chinese

We undergo, we experience and we write :: an analysis of contemporary Chinese women writers and their writings/ , Yujie Ge, Chinese

Theses from 2000 2000

Role models in the contemporary Chinese essay :: Ba Jin and the post-cultural revolution memorial essays in Suixiang lu/ , Larissa Castriotta, Chinese

The 1977-1978 archaeological excavations of the Lu cemeteries at Qufu, Shandong/ , James Patrick Draine, Chinese

Purity, modernity, and pessimism :: translation of Mu Shiying's fiction/ , Rui Tao, Chinese

Theses from 1999 1999

Li Zhi (1527-1602) and his literary thought/ , Qingliang Chen, Chinese

Theses from 1998 1998

Opening the Lancang (Mekong) River in Yunnan :: problems and prospects for Xishuangbanna/ , Merrick Lex Berman, Chinese

The single-child policy and its impact on Chinese kinship terms among kindergarten children in Shanghai/ , Xiaoxue Dai, Chinese

Theses from 1996 1996

Translation of Yuan Qiongqiong's Fever, with introduction/ , Julie Felice Marcus, Chinese

Theses from 1993 1993

New features of Confucianism as seen in Lu Jia's Xinyu/ , Shaodan Luo, Chinese

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Master's Theses - English Language and Literature

Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

“Hideous things have happened here”: Rape myths, rape culture, and healing in adolescent literature , Holly J. Greca

Moments of excess: Type 1 diabetes and the myth of control in adolescent fiction for girls , Michelle E. LeGault

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

A sociophonetic analysis of female-sounding virtual assistants , Alyssa Allen

Vampire narratives: Looking at queer-centric experiences in comparison to hetero-centric norms in order to model a new queer vampiric experience , Marah Heikkila

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Overhearers’ perceptions of familiarity between interlocutors in computer-mediated communication based on GIF usage , Alexa F. Druckmiller

Feminism by proxy: Jane Austen’s critique of patriarchal society in Pride and Prejudice and Emma , Alexis Miller

The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling , Jessica Tapley

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Body image/imagining bodies: Trauma, control, and healing in graphic memoirs about anorexia , Kristine M. Gatchel

Word-final /t/-release and linguistic style: An investigation of the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit , Janet Leppala

Hermione syndrome: Reexamining feminist sidekicks and power in 2000-2010 children’s and young adult fantasy literature , Josiah Pankiewicz

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Fear and (non) fiction: Agrarian anxiety in “The Colour Out of Space” , Antonio Barroso

Sculpted from clay, shaped by power: Feminine narrative and agency in Wonder Woman , Mikala Carpenter

Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello , Darcie Rees

Reclaiming racial/ethnic identity vs. reconstructing Asian American masculinity in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese , Hyun-Joo Yoo

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

The organization of turn-taking in fieldwork settings: A case study , Amy Brunett

Exploring the political impact of literature and literary studies in American government , Taylor Dereadt

"We met in a bar by happenstance": Master narratives in couples stories , Brent A. Miller

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

What is the negro woman's story?: Negro Story Magazine and the dialogue of feminist voices , Maureen Convery

Illustrating adolescent awareness: Teaching historical injustices and promoting agency through picture books in secondary classrooms , Melissa Hoak

Phonemic inventory of the Shor language , Uliana Kazagasheva

Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo , Michelle Lietz

Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze , Kelsey McLendon

Haec fortis sequitur illam indocti possident: A linguistic analysis of demonstratives in genres of early Latin fragments , Erica L. Meszaros

Tricking for change: Establishing the literary trickster in the western tradition , Christopher Michael Stuart

Because, x: A new construction of because in popular culture , Stephanie Walla

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Guidelines for Master’s Theses

There are very few formal requirements when writing your master’s thesis. We have put together the most important of these as well as additional helpful information in our guidelines for master’s theses .

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MA in English Theses

Theses/dissertations from 2018 2018.

Implementing Critical Analysis in the Classroom to Negate Southern Stereotypes in Multi-Media , Julie Broyhill

Fan Fiction in the English Language Arts Classroom , Kristen Finucan

Transferring the Mantle: The Voice of the Poet Prophet in the Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson , Heidi Brown Hyde

The Effects of Social Media as Low-Stakes Writing Tasks , Roxanne Loving

Student and Teacher Perceptions of Multiliterate Assignments Utilizing 21st Century Skills , Jessica Kennedy Miller

The Storytellers’ Trauma: A Place to Call Home in Caribbean Literature , Ilari Pass

Post Title IX Representations of Professional Female Athletes , Emily Shaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

“Not as She is” but as She is Expected to Be: Representations, Limitations, and Implications of the “Woman” and Womanhood in Selected Victorian Literature and Contemporary Chick Lit. , Amanda Ellen Bridgers

The Intrinsic Factors that Influence Successful College Writing , Kenneth Dean Carlstrom

"Where nature was most plain and pure": The Sacred Locus Amoenus and its Profane Threat in Andrew Marvell's Pastoral Poetry , James Brent King

Colorblind: How Cable News and the “Cult of Objectivity” Normalized Racism in Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign , Amanda Leeann Shoaf

Gaming The Comic Book: Turning The Page on How Comics and Videogames Intersect as Interactive, Digital Experiences , Joseph Austin Thurmond

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Nature, Function, and Value of Emojis as Contemporary Tools of Digital Interpersonal Communication , Nicole L. Bliss-Carroll

Exile and Identity: Chaim Potok's Contribution to Jewish-American Literature , Sarah Anne Hamner

A Woman's Voice and Identity: Narrative Métissage as a Solution to Voicelessness in American Literature , Kali Lauren Oldacre

Pop, Hip Hop, and Empire, Study of a New Pedagogical Approach in a Developmental Reading and English Class , Karen Denise Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Abandoning the Shadows and Seizing the Stage: A Perspective on a Feminine Discourse of Resistance Theatre as Informed by the Work of Susanna Centlivre, Eliza Haywood, Frances Sheridan, Hannah Cowley, and the Sistren Theatre Collective , Brianna A. Bleymaier

Mexican Immigrants as "Other": An Interdisciplinary Analysis of U.S. Immigration Legislation and Political Cartoons , Olivia Teague Morgan

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

"I Am a Living Enigma - And You Want To Know the Right Reading of Me": Gender Anxiety in Wilkie Collins's The Haunted Hotel and The Guilty River , Hannah Allford

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Gender Performance and the Reclamation of Masculinity in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns , John William Salyers Jr.

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

"That's a Lotta Faith We're Putting in a Word": Language, Religion, and Heteroglossia as Oppression and Resistance in Comtemporary British Dystopian Fiction , Haley Cassandra Gambrell

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Mirroring the Madness: Caribbean Female Development in the Works of Elizabeth Nunez , Lauren Delli Santi

"Atlas Shrugged" and third-wave feminism: An unlikely alliance , Paul McMahan

"Sit back down where you belong, in the corner of my bar with your high heels on": The use of cross-dressing in order to achieve female agency in Shakespeare's transvestite comedies , Heather Lynn Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Between the Way to the Cross and Emmaus: Deconstructing Identity in the 325 CE Council of Nicaea and "The Shack" , Trevar Simmons

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