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September 1997 - August 1998

Dennis Conrad
Department: French
Dissertation: Self-reported Opinons and Perceptions of First and Fourth-semester Foreign Language Learners Toward Their Language Learning Experience: A Cross-sectional, Cross-linguistic Survey
Director: Alice Hadley
Degree Date: 10/15/97

Masahiro Kasai
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: The rule space model applied to the reading comprehension section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
Director: Fred Davidson
Degree Date: Oct. 15, 1997

Guy Moyer
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Dissertation: The Practical Application of Bakhtin and Related Theory to English and Foreign Language Education
Director: Bonnie Armbruster
Degree Date: 10/15/97

Rongchang Li
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Dissertation: Effects of Simultaneous Listening and Reading on Second Language Learner's Comprehension
Director: Robert Hart
Degree Date: 5/17/98

Su Jung Min
Department: Linguistics
Dissertation: Constructing Meaning: A Critical Linguistic Perspective on New Discourse
Director: Yamuna Kachru
Degree Date: 5/17/98

September 1998 - August 1999

Susan Frenck
Department: Linguistics
Dissertation: Gender in natural conversation and literary discourse: A sociolinguistic study
Director: B. Kachru
Degree Date: May 15, 1999

Robert Good
Department: Linguistics
Dissertation: Strategies in the Writing of Chinese Characters by Intemediate and Advanced Students of Chinese as a Foreign Language
Director: Jerome Packard
Degree Date: Oct. 15, 1998

Laura Hahn
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Native speakers' reactions to non-native stress in English discourse
Director: W. Dickerson
Degree Date: May 15, 1999

Volker Hegelheimer
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Effects of Textual Glosses and Sentence-level Audio Glosses on On-Line Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Recall
Director: Fred Davidson
Degree Date: 10/15/98

Eunha Jung
Department: Linguistics
Dissertation: Universal Grammar Parameter-setting Model Revisited: Korean Learners' Acquisition of English Anaphora
Director: Cowan
Degree Date: 01/15/99

Sungwoo Kang
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Modeling relationships between the use of English as a second language learning strategies and the test performance of Asian students
Director: F. Davidson
Degree Date: 5/15/99

Elizabeth Martin
Department: French
Advisor: Braj Kachru
Dissertation: Code-mixing and Imaging of America in France: The Genre of Advertising
Degree Date: 10/15/98

Maria Luci Moreira
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: On listening comprehension: Linguistic strategies used by second language learners in non-collaborative discourse
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: Oct. 15, 1998

Kazumi Ohira
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Have you Changed? Pragmatic Transfer of Back-Channel Behavior by Japanese Bilingual Speakers
Director: Erica McClure
Degree Date: Oct. 15, 1998

Mark Overstreet
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: The effect of textual enhancement on second language learner reading comprehension and form recognition
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: May 15, 1999

Hisami Saito Scott
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Cognitive Diagnostic Perspectives of a Second Language Reading Test
Director: Delwyn Harnisch
Degree Date: Oct. 15, 1998

Dongil Shin
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Construct validation of a diagnostic L2 learning test: An operational model utilized and multidimensionality issues revisited
Director: F. Davidson
Degree Date: May 15, 1999

Rosangela Silva
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: Pragmatic Competence and Transferability: Native and Non-native Speakers of Portuguese
Director: Yamuna Kachru
Degree Date: Oct. 15, 1998

Miao-fen Tseng
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: A pragmatic study on speech acts in Chinese invitational conversations
Director: C.C. Cheng
Degree Date: May 15, 1999

September 1999 - August 2000

Joe Barcroft
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: The Effects of Sentence Writing as Semantic Elaboration on the Allocation of Processing Resources and Second Language Acquisition
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: May 15, 2000

Silvana Dushku
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: An Evaluation of English Language Teaching Aid: Albania Case Study
Director: Numa Markee
Degree Date: May 15, 2000

Sun Lee
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: A Contrastive Rhetoric Study of Korean and English Research Paper Introduction
Director: Erica McClure
Degree Date: May 15, 2000

Reiko Makino
Department: Linguistics
Dissertation: Japanese Nouns Koto and no
Director: Georgia Green
Degree Date: May 15, 2000

Nuria Sagarra
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: The longitudinal Role of Working Memory on Adult Acquisition of L2 Grammar
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: May 15, 2000

Joyce Sukumane
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Language Planning and Education: the Case of Nambia
Director: Eyamba Bokamba
Degree Date: May 15, 2000

Diana Steele
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Assessing the Parallelism of Four Speak Test Forms
Director: James Wardrop
Degree Date: May 15, 2000

Matthew Tittle
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Assessing University Students' Epistemological Beliefs about Foreign Language Learning
Director: Jenny Singleton
Degree Date: May 15, 2000

Wynne Wong
Department: French
Dissertation: The Effects of Textual Enhancement and Simplification in L2 Comprehension and Acquisition of Non-meaningful Grammatical Form
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: May 15, 2000

September 2000 - August 2001

Yeonsuk Cho
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Examining a Process-Oriented Writing Assessment in a Large-Scale ESL Testing Context
Director: Gary Cziko
Degree Date: May 15, 2001

Andrew Farley
Department: Spanish
Dissertation: The Relative Effects of Processing Instruction and Meaning-based Output Instruction on L2 Acquisition of the Spanish Subjunctive
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: October 15, 2000

Suzanne Hilgendorf
Department: Germanic Languages and Literatures
Dissertation: Language Contact, Convergence, and Attitudes: The Case of English in Germany
Director: Braj Kachru
Degree Date: May 15, 2001

Shwu-yi Leu
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Dissertation: Struggles to become "Americans": Historical and contemporary experiences of Asian Pacific American immigrants in children's and young adult fiction, 1945-1999
Director: Violet Harris
Degree Date: May 15, 2001

Reiko Makino
Department: Linguistics
Dissertation: Japanese Nouns Koto and no
Director: Georgia Green
Degree Date: May 15, 2000

Diana Pulido
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: The Impact of Topic Familiarity, L2 Reading Proficiency, and L2 Passage Sight Vocabulary on Incidental Vocabulary Gain through Reading for Adult Learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: October 15, 2000

September 2001 - August 2002

Manal Mohammad Alghazo
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Dissertation: A Linguistic and LIterary Analysis of the Writings of Arab Americans in English
Director: Violet Harris
Degree Date: October 15, 2001

Pedro Cordova
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: Learners' Input on L2 Testing: An Issue of Washback
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: October 15, 2001

Mary Katherine Hahn
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: The persistence of learned primary phrase stress patterns among learners of English
Director: Wayne Dickerson
Degree Date: May 15, 2002

Casilde Isabelli
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: The Impact of a Study-Abroad Experience on the Acquisition of L2 Spanish Syntax: The Null Subject Parameter
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: October 15, 2001

Louise Neary
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: Lexical representation and Processing in Second Language Learners
Director: Paola E. Dussias
Degree Date: October 15, 2001

Kim Potowski
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: Language use in a Spanish-English dual immersion classroom: A sociolinguistic perspective
Director: Anna Maria Escobar
Degree Date: May 15, 2002

September 2002 - August 2003

Saleh Al-Busaidi
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Dissertation: Academic Needs of EFL Learners in the Intensive English Language Program
Director: Klaus Witz
Degree Date: May 15, 2003

Yi-ping Hsu
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: "Use your own words!": Plagiarism issues in the ESL classroom
Director: Rajeshwari Pandharipande
Degree Date: May 15, 2003

Michael T. Leeser
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: Second language comprehension and processing grammatical form: The effects of topic familiarity, mode, and pausing
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: October 15, 2002

Kristina McCollam
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: The interface between instruction type and learner readiness in the acquisition of Spanish personal A and the subjunctive
Director: Bill VanPatten
Degree Date: May 15, 2003

Maria Spicer-Escalante
Department: Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Dissertation: Liberalismo y Nación: El contradiscurso de la narrativa de la generación del 80
Director: Ivan Schulman
Degree Date: Oct. 15, 2002

September 2003 - August 2004

Samira El Atia
Department: French
Dissertation:
Director:
Degree Date: May 15, 2004

Mary Holbrock
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Dissertation: "Que no olviden su cultura, y también el idioma": A case study of Mayan literacy revival in the 'Pan-Maya Culture and Language Revitalization Movement' in Guatemala
Director: Robert Jimenez
Degree Date: May 15, 2004

Hee-Kyung Lee
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Constructing of field-specific writing test for an ESL placement procedure
Director: Fred Davidson
Degree Date: May 15, 2004

Paul Arthur Sundberg
Department: Educational Psychology
Toward an architecture of instructional hypertext in SLA:
A comparison of two navigational interfaces for a cognitive flexibility hypertext in the ill-structured domain of foreign-language (Brazilian) culture
Chair: Gary Cziko
Final Exam Date: July 19, 2004

Pavel Trofimovich
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Second-language speech learning: An investigation of auditory word priming
Director: Gary Cziko and Molly Mack
Degree Date: Oct. 15, 2003

Francis Scott Walters
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: An application of conversation analysis to the development of a test of second-language pragmatic competence
Director: Fred Davidson
Degree Date: May 15, 2004

September 2004 - August 2005

Frederique Grim
Department: French
The Intergration of Focus-on-Form Instruction within Culture-Based Lessons: Its Effects on Students' Knowledge on Vocabulary, Grammar, and Culture in 2nd- and 3rd-Semester French Courses
Chair: Alice Omaggio Hadley
Final Exam Date: April 8th, 2005

Eunice Eunhee Jang
Department: Educational Psychology
A Validity of Narrative: Effects of Reading Skills Diagnosis on Teaching and learning in the Context of Next Generation TOEFL
Chair: Thomas Schwandt
Final Exam Date: March 29th, 2005

Young-Ju Lee
Department: Educational Pychology
Construct Validation of an Integrated, Process-Oriented, and Computerized English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Placement Test: A Mixed Method
Approach
Chair: Fred Davidson
Final Exam Date: April 18th, 2005

Guiboke Seong
Department: Eductional Psychology
Dissertation: Conversational repair strategies of teachers' of English as a second language
Director: Erica McClure
Degree awarded: Oct. 15, 2004

Mary Watts
Department: Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese
Dissertation: The Role of Grammatical Word Class in Second Language Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading
Director: Diane Musumeci
Degree Date: Oct. 15, 2004

Young-Mi Yun
Department: Educational Psychology
An exploratory modeling of EFL writing performance
Chair: Fred Davidson
Degree Date: May 12, 2005

September 2005 - August 2006

Jin-Suk Byun
Department: Linguistics
The Effect of Output Practice on the Automatization of Korean Morphosyntactic Rules
Chair: James Yoon
Final Exam Date: May 24th 2006

Dan Kim
Department: Human Resource Education (Educational Policy)
English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) and Training: Two Languages or One? : The Perception and Practice of EOP in Korea
Chair: Steven Aragon
Final Exam Date: March 11th 2006

Tae-Eun Kim
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Writing Instruction for English Language Learners: Teacher Beliefs, Writing Tasks, and Methods
Chair: Bonnie Armbruster
Final Exam Date: May 11th, 2006

Li-jen Kuo
Department: Educational Psychology
Dissertation: Effects of Bilingualism on Development of Phonological Competence
Chair :
Final Exam Date: May 11th 2006

Lu-Chun Lin
Department: Speech and Hearing Science
Effects of Early English Education on Phonological Awareness and Language Development of Taiwanese Bilingual Children
Chair: Cynthia Johnson
Final Exam Date: Jan. 18th 2006

Alexis Lopez
Department: Curriculum and Instruction
Examining the potential washback of a new large-scale English proficiency test: Aligning tests, teaching, and learning
Chair: Fred Davidson
Degree Date: Dec. 19th 2005

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