Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
ROOTLESS - The Body ReMembers what the Mind has Forgotten, Helena Omana-Zapata
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
THE WYANDOT OF ANDERDON NATION: MEANING-MAKING, CONSTRUCTING, AND AFFIRMING THEIR TRIBAL IDENTITIES THROUGH ARCHIVING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, Elizabeth Ann Berton Reilly
THE LANGUAGE TO LABOR: CRITICAL NARRATIVES OF LATINA WOMEN SPEAKING UP ABOUT ESL, Magdalena Vázquez Dathe
A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY OF ASL MENTORING FOR THE FIELD OF INTERPRETING, Andy Lim
A Phenomenological Exploration of Language Shift of iKalanga in Botswana: Implications for Language Revitalization, Annah Sephene Macha
Teachers’ Self-reported Practices of Teaching Academic Writing in Pakistani Universities, Hafiz Yar
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Si solo nos dan esta oportunidad: Stories of transnational students in an intercultural secondary program in Santa Fe de la Laguna, Michoacán, México., Minea Armijo and Minea Armijo Romero
READING AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE: USING RETROSPECTIVE MISCUE ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND KICHWA-SPANISH BILINGUALS’ MEANING CONSTRUCTION, Sandra Leonor Cabrera Moreno
TEACHERS-AS-DESIGNER IN CULTURALLY REVITALIZING AND SUSTAINING INDIGENOUS EDUCATION, Joshua Colin Krause
PRAGMATIC ELEMENTS IN EFL LEARNERS’ REQUEST E-MAILS TO TEACHERS: A STUDY OF LEARNERS’ COMMUNICATIVE SUCCESS, Hamzah Ahmad A. Kuriri
SCHOOL VOICES: AN EXPLORATION OF EARLY CAREER TEACHERS’ NARRATIVES ON STUDENT VOICE AND DIALOGIC PRACTICES, Rachel Ada Meiklejohn
LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE: KENYAN TEACHERS BRINGING COMMUNITY CULTURAL WEALTH INTO PRACTICE, Peter Njagi Mwangi
“THAT FELT WEIRD”: INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS’ EMERGING CRITICAL AWARENESS OF THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH MICROAGGRESSION, Romaisha Rahman
DEICTIC POINTING AND DEMONSTRATIVE USAGE IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE, Paul Twitchell
Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels, Fatima Y. van Hattum
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
EFL Teachers’ Understandings of the Role of Assessment in Second Language Learning, Evelyn Almeida
An Application of Tajfel’s Social Identity Theory to Understand Gamer as a Social Identity Among Saudi College-Level Students, Mohammad M. Assiri
MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS COMMUNICATING COMPUTATIONAL THINKING: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS-CASE STUDY OF BILINGUAL, COLLABORATIVE TEACHING/LEARNING OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON, Jose Antonio Lecea Yanguas
Writer Identity Construction of Thai EFL Students: A Phenomenological Study, Kittika Limpariwatthana
“WE ARE SO MUCH ALIKE, BUT NOBODY WANTS TO ADMIT IT”: REACTIONS TO A CRITICAL BERNALILLO NUEVOMEXICANO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE CURRICULUM, Joseph Moreno
HOW HEARING PARENTS WITH DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING CHILDREN CONSTRUCT DEAFNESS THROUGH THEIR EARLY INTERVENTION EXPERIENCE, Bettie T. Petersen
CREATING COUNTER-HEGEMONIC SPACES IN A SPANISH LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM, Mercedes Valenzuela
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
A CORPUS-BASED INVESTIGATION OF PHRASAL COMPLEXITY IN L1, L2 PHD STUDENTS, AND EXPERT WRITERS IN EDUCATION FIELD, Hani Albelihi
Saudi EFL female teachers' beliefs: A single case study, Eman Saleh Bosaad
The Bluff River Trail: A Community Land Ethic, Kelly F. Davis
A Matrilineal Ethnohistory of São Paulo, Jeanne de Montlaur
My Story to Tell: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Instructional Coaching for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy through Multicultural Literature in Elementary Classrooms, Annette Melissa Fiedler
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Cross-Language Morphological Activation: The Case of Arabic-English Bilinguals, Anas Alkhofi
STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES TOWARD A CURRICULUM THAT INCORPORATES THEIR INPUT, Janneth V. Chumana
THE EFFECT OF SEMANTIC NEIGHBORHOOD DENSITY ON VOCABULARY LEARNING IN SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE AND SPANISH AS A HERITAGE LANGUAGE, Marián Giráldez Elizo
REFLECTIONS ON LEARNING, COMMUNICATION, AND IDENTITY IN A HYBRID COURSE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, Anni Leming
On Love and Treason: Critical White Feminist Thought for Social Justice Praxis, Amanda Joyce Parker
Indigenous Wisdom, Storytelling, and Language Renewal ᎠᏂᏰᎪᎩ, ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ ᎠᎧᏙᎥᎯᏍᏗ ᎤᏂᎭ, ᎠᏤᎯᏐᏗᏱ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ, Arlo Starr
Retaining the Power to Teach and Advocate in the Era of "Reform", David Aram Wilson and David Aram Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS OF THE DISCOURSE OF ENGLISH FRIDAY SERMONS, Ahmad Alenezi
AN ODYSSEY TO THE SELF: VOICES OF L2 ARAB WRITERS AND INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES, Majed Abduallah Alharbi
Formulaic Sequences: An Investigation of an EFL Textbook in Saudi Arabia, Assem Alqarni
RESAKA KOLONTSAINA LE RAHA (IT IS ABOUT CULTURES): CULTURES AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING IN MADAGASCAR, Iarintsambatra Rijasoa Andriamanana Josoa
Toward a Nuevomexicana Consciousness: An Exploration of Identity through Education as Manifest through the Colonial Legacy, Mercedes V. Avila
Investigating Arabic Pragmatic Markers in Teacher Talk: A Multi-layered Analytical Approach, Yaseen Ali Azi
LINGUISTIC DISCRIMINATION AGAINST NATIVE SPANISH SPEAKERS IN THE NEW MEXICO BAR EXAMINATION IN THE 1970s, Marie Chávez
THE IDENTIFICATION OF FORMULAIC SEQUENCES IN URDU LANGUAGE AND THEIR PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATION FOR SLA (ESL/USL), Hafiz-Muhammad Fazal e Haq
Jack D. Forbes and the Search for a Decolonizing Philosophy of Education, Joshua T. Frank
Transborder Testimonios of Language Learning and Socialization, Maria Teresa Guevara Beltrán
Becoming Biculturally Competent an Autoethnographic Journey of a Guera Woman, Bernadette M. Hall-Cuarón
A DIALECTICAL RELATIONAL ANALYSIS OF TESOL QUARTERLY 2006 SPECIAL ISSUE ON RACE: DISCOURSE, RACE, AND WHITE SUPREMACIST IDEOLOGY, Ginger A. Looney
FOUND IN SPACE: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN ENGLISH MAP TASK PERFORMANCE, Susan K. Metheny
Using the linguistic experiences of youth and their families as curriculum: The language box project, Molly A. Perara-Lunde Ms.
RICH POINTS IN BETWEEN CULTURES, LANGUAGES, AND PEDAGOGIES: EXPERIENCES AND PERSPECTIVES OF INTERNATIONAL TEACHING ASSISTANTS IN THE USA, Natalia V. Rud
What Can We Learn from Adult ESL Students’ Responses to Children’s Literature?, Monique C. Stone
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM STUDENTS WITHIN A GLOBALIZED EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT, Noha Ghali
The Impact of Ideology on Lexical Borrowing in Arabic: A Synergy of Corpus Linguistics and CDA, Sami Hamdi
VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITY AS CLASSROOM LITERATURE: THOUGHTS, EXPERIENCES, AND LEARNING WITH 8TH GRADE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, Miles M. Harvey
TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING TEACHERS IN SAUDI ARABIA, Mustafa Abdo Hersi
DECOLONIAL GESTURES OF ANDEAN BILINGUAL COLLEGE STUDENTS PROMOTING QUECHUA: COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH WITH PHOTOVOICE, Yuliana H. Kenfield
DINÉ EPISTEMOLOGY: SA’AH NAAGHÁI BIK’EH HÓZHÓÓN TEACHINGS, Vangee Nez
RACE, DISABILITY AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF RADICAL AGENCY: TOWARD A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF DECOLONIAL CRITICAL HERMENEUTICS IN LATINX DISCRIT, Alexis C. Padilla
Historical Traditions and Critical Perspectives: An Exploration of the Textual and Pedagogical Choices of Four Language Arts Teachers in an Urban, Diverse Secondary School, Annmarie L. Sheahan
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Using the Aesthetic Stance to Achieve Historical Thinking, Heather J. Bassett Dahl
From Project to Teacher to Student: A Qualitative Case Study Exploring the Complexities of Student Writing at a Project-Based Learning High School, Jamie Mae Collins
An Ethic of Love: A Frommean Critique of Education, Katrina E. Dillon
FAMILY EMOTIONAL LITERACY: A CRITICAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION, Anna L. Dinallo
Indonesian Students' Perceptions of Written Feedback in Second Language Writing, Rahmah Fithriani
Experiences of Adolescents and Drama: "This is bullsh*t. I can't do it", Erin K. Hulse PhD
CRITICAL SOCIAL JUSTICE THEORY IN ACTION: A PRACTITIONER INQUIRY INTO THE SERVICE-LEARNING CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE, Julie A. Jaynes
Diné Bina'nitin Dóó O'hoo'aah/Education For Us, By Us: A Collective Journey in Diné Education Liberation, Lyla June Johnston
THINKING-FOR-SPEAKING AND THE EFL MIND: FACE-TO-FACE DIALOGUE TO TALK ABOUT VERTICAL SPACE, Kunisawa
REDISCOVERING MISINTERPRETED CONCEPT OF VOSPITANIYE, CORE CONSTITUENT OF VYGOTSKIAN ZPD, THROUGH SCHOLAR’S SOCIO-CULTURAL ACTUALITY, Svetlana Mylnikova
AGENCY, THE UNCANNY, AND STRANGEWAYS: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC JOURNEY THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL WUNDERLAND., Roberto T. Ollivier
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, LITERACIES, AND IDENTITY: EXPERIENCES OF HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED ADOLESCENTS, Daniel Olufemi Dr.
The War Against Teachers: How the Discourse of A Nation At Risk Set the Agenda for Contemporary New Mexico Education Policy, Christine P. Wernle
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
HEGEMONY IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE G8-BROADER MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA PARTNERSHIP FROM 2004-2013, Abdulaziz S. Abumilha
Language, Power, and Ideology in High School EFL Textbooks in Saudi Arabia, Abdullah Al Jumiah
Promoting EFL Learning Outside the Classroom Through the Use of Web-based Technologies After the Adoption of Blackboard in a Saudi University, Ahmed Saad Al Shlowiy
A CASE STUDY OF NON-NATIVE ENGLISH-SPEAKING INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, Linka G. Crosby
Responding to the Storyworld of The Hunger Games through a Fan Fiction Fandom, Misty Nichole Horning
Black Women's Search for Meaning: An Existential Portraiture Study on How Black Women Experience the 4 Existential Givens, Tamiko Lemberger-Truelove
Memoir of a Bear Clan Woman's Educational Journey, Angelina Frances Medina
Discourse, Power, and the Language of Racism: The Establishment of the Racial Contract in New Mexico, Jesse A. Romero
Applied Literature: Expanding Cultural Understanding For Language Learners, Ahmed Sallam
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
An Institutional Ethnographic Account of Mandatory Professional Development in New Mexico, LaNysha Adams
AN APPLICATION OF THE COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT) APPROACH FOR ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) LEARNERS IN THE ARAB CONTEXT, Rana Saad Al-Khafaji
Teachers' Experiences with the Implementation of the Common Core State Standards, Julie A. Bryant
Spanish-Speaking Students Perceptions of EFL as Demonstrated in Writing for an Undergraduate English Phonetics and Phonology Course in Bogotá Colombia, Claudia Helena Lombana Giraldo
Whose Meanings: Constructing Environmental Justice, Sofia L. Martinez
The Racial Discourses of Teacher Education Students in the Urban Southwest, Virginia Necochea
