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The Digital Literacy Practices of Transfronterizx ESOL College Students: "Los De ESOL"
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Laura Enriqueta Mendoza-Fierro – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation aims to contribute knowledge to the literature about ESOL students' digital literacy practices related to educational purposes. I studied the varied digital literacy practices the students used as mediating tools to perform their university activities (e.g., crossing to come to school, communicate with classmates/instructors…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Unaccusativity and Word Order in Mexican Spanish: An Examination of Syntactic Interfaces and the Split Intransitivity Hierarchy
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Roggia, Aaron B. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Recent research in language contact has investigated bilingual deviations from monolingual norms where syntax interfaces with the lexical and discourse components of the grammar (e.g. Iverson & Rothman 2008; Lozano 2006; Montrul 2004, 2005; Sorace & Filiaci 2006; Tsimpli et al. 2004). Such studies generally show that the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Verbs, Syntax
A Sociolinguistic Study of Sustained Veneto-Spanish Bilingualism in Chipilo, Mexico
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Barnes, Hilary – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation project examines the language contact situation of Chipilo, a Veneto-Spanish bilingual community of immigrant origin in central Mexico, focusing both on the social motivations for the sustained bilingualism observed and the linguistic outcomes in the Spanish of the community. Chipilo is a unique community in that Veneto, a…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Ethnicity, Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics