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Of heroes and victims: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the satirical post-9/11 novel

Resano, Dolores (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)

This dissertation analyzes a typically overlooked novel within the corpus of post-9/11 fiction studies, Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), and puts forward some hypotheses for this under-examination. It suggests that the debates ...

Più donne che cavalieri. Orlando furioso: il poema di Bradamante

Condina, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2020-01-20)

Este trabajo aborda por primera vez de forma sistemática y monográfica el papel desempeñado por los personajes femeninos en el Orlando furioso (1532) de Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), evidenciando su carácter profundamente ...

Recepción y análisis de las traducciones alemanas de dos obras principales de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz en el ámbito germanohablante: Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz y Primero sueño

Buchholz, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)

En la presente tesis se indaga la recepción del Primero sueño y de la Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz en el ámbito germanohablante a lo largo del siglo XX por medio de las versiones alemanas de estas dos obras principales ...

Representations of Memory in Contemporary South African Literature by Young, Black, Female Authors

Winstanley, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-04-21)

[eng] This thesis explores the representation and construction of collective memory published in South Africa since 2007 by young, black, female authors. Collective memory is what is remembered about the past in order to ...

The Role of Cognitive Ability in the Acquisition of Second Language Perceptual Phonological Competence

Safronova, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)

Many second language (L2) learners find L2 pronunciation difficult and experience perception and production problems leading to accented speech. There exists a great inter-learner variation in L2 phonological acquisition ...

South Africa: The Diseased Nation? An Analysis of HIV/AIDS Sufferers’ Critique of the Redemptive Discourse of Nation-Building and the (Dis)Closure of National Traumas in Post-Apartheid South African HIV/AIDS Life-Writing

Ortega Montero, Óscar (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)

This Ph.D. dissertation explores the transformative potential of the HIV/AIDS experience in post-apartheid South Africa during the age of denialism under Thabo Mbeki’s mandate (1999-2008). To that end, the selection of ...

Succes or failure? The effect of the language of test on students’ academic achievement in rural Senegal

Martín-Chazeaud, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2017-11-17)

In most Sub-Saharan countries, children grow up in a local environment attached to a culture and an identity which are embraced by a local language. However, when they start compulsory school at the age of six, they have ...

Task-based pronunciation teaching and learning of L2 vowels in EFL learners: task complexity effects

Mora Plaza, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2023-06-06)

[eng] Second language (L2) pronunciation learning in foreign language instructional contexts is particularly challenging due to insufficient quantity and quality of L2 input. Decades of L2 speech acquisition research have ...

Task-Modality Effects: A Study of Task Complexity Effects in Speech and Writing

Vasylets, Olena (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)

One of the major areas of interest in task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) has been the psycholinguistically-oriented strand, which explores the way in which task design may interact with second language (L2) ...

The effects of distribution, difficulty, and quantity of digital flashcard practice on language learning

Serfaty, Jonathan (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)

[eng] According to research into second language (L2) practice, learners should repeatedly engage in output activities with feedback in order to develop accuracy. Digital flashcards can be used to prompt L2 output and ...

The Performance of Racial and Gender Terror in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye (2018) and Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz (2018)

Massana Vidal, Elisabeth (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)

[eng] This PhD thesis, entitled “The Performance of Racial and Gender Terror in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye (2018) and Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz (2018)” contributes to the field of theatre studies by analysing how ...