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Theses from 2024

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Writing For Your Profession: L2 English Students' Acquisition of Academic English, Sonja Haakonsen

Theses from 2023

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The "Messy Middle": A Framework for Analyzing Raciolinguistic Inequity, Casey Erin Anthony

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Japanese Reading Japlish: High School Students Study Their Own Fashion Linguistic Landscape, Gabriel Frost Johnson

Theses from 2021

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Meaning-Making Dynamics of Job Interview Performances, Jacquelyn K. Bertman

Theses from 2020

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Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Grammar in Second Language Development, Tina S. Randall

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Limited Viewpoints: The Implementation of Multimodal Constructs in an ELL Model Curriculum Unit, Deborah A. Smith

Theses from 2019

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Adult Educators at the Crossroads of Language Learning and Workforce Development: A Qualitative Study of Teacher Agency, Liz Ging

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Language Learning and ADA: An Observation of d/Deaf Adults and Their Interpreters in ESL Classrooms, Katharine M. Ward

Theses from 2017

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Languaging at Work: The Language Socialization of Support Staff in the Healthcare Workforce, Kristen E. Schlapp

Theses from 2016

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Performing Language and Identities: Adult Immigrant Students and the Creation of a Play, Kathleen R. McGovern

Theses from 2015

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Discourses and Capital in Court Trials: Representation of Witness Accounts and Identity, Misty Crooks

Theses from 2014

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What's in a Game? Identity Negotiations and Pedagogical Implications of Gameplay Discourse, Caleb Reed

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Their Decision to Wear Al Hijab: The Stories of U.S. Northeastern Muslim Women, Hadeel Salman

Theses from 2012

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Meanings and Typologies of Duboisian Double Consciousness within 20th Century United States Racial Dynamics, Marc E. Black