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Afrika, Afrikaner und schwarze Deutsche in Wolframs Von Eschenbach Parzival, Sebastian Musters Cosmographei von 1550, "Aneaso, der Neger aus dem Ibo-Lande" und Joy Denalandes Wem gehort die Welt

Oduro-Opuni, Obenewaa (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

This study deals with the representation of Africa and Africans as well as Black Germans in four selected texts from different time periods of German literature, from medieval to contemporary literature. It should thus ...
À la recherche des Ètats-Unis D'Afrique: une approche linguistique

Vignon, Kpatagnon Maxime (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

After centuries of colonization, the African continent saw most of its present nation-states emerge from colonization and achieve independence in the 1960s. Sixty years later, various formidable obstacles have hampered the ...
The body beautiful and the abject: a look into the manifold mirror of age

Myers, Kathryn Kori (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

This project studies four novels by Rosa Montero, Te trataré como a una reina (1983), Bella y oscura (1993), La hija del caníbal (1997), and Instrucciones para salvar el mundo (2008), as well as four novels by Agnès Desarthe, ...
Bringing the past to life: the effects of historical linguistics instruction on motivation, enjoyment, and identity in the foreign language classroom

Thomas Coffman, Jana M. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

For centuries, languages have been changing and evolving in complex, systematic ways. The study of past stages of a linguistic system and the overarching linguistic patterns characterizing the arc of change over time ...
Comparatisme Du Conte Francophone : Poétique De La Réécriture Et Enjeux Transtextuels Chez Tahar Ben Jelloun Et Amélie Nothomb.

Kadji, Deproux (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

Dissertation Abstract Central to this dissertation is a reflection on the properties of deformability and variability that occur in the retelling of an oral tale. The tale is defined as a text with multiple origins whose ...
Con voz propia: Creación de una rúbrica autoevaluativa para valorar la participación diaria en las clases elementales de español como lengua extranjera

Rubio, Laura (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

One of the implicit aims of higher education is to enable students to become better judges of their own work. The present study is the first to examine the effect of self-assessment on the daily class participation of ...
Creating conditions for authenticity in the Spanish classroom: promoting agency, empathy, and inquiry through a U.S.-Mexico role-immersion simulation

Finney, Sara (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

The present study investigates if and how a US-Mexico border role-immersion simulation creates conditions for authenticity in an intermediate Spanish classroom. Aiming to promote whole-person engagement within a rich ...
Culture, l2 self, and emotion in the digital realm: developing learners’ interest in continuing to study Spanish

Mitchell, Claire Mitchell (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

The present study centers on developing cross-cultural awareness using contextualized cultural projects. Drawing on the ubiquity of social media in learners’ lives, I used Pinterest as a means of exploring real-world ...
Developing pronunciation skills at the introductory level: motivating students through interpersonal audio discussions

Lepore, Cindy E. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

This study investigated students' motivation to develop pronunciation skills while participating in shared conversations called interpersonal audio discussions because research has suggested that learners desire pronunciation ...
Die Darstellung des Luftkriegs bei Hans Erich Nossack, Heinrich Böll, Alexander Kluge und Dieter Forte

Fink, Fabian (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

W.G. Sebald claimed that German writers of the post-war time have remained silent when it came to writing about the air-raids over Germany, the bombing of the German cities and the suffering of the people living there. ...
The effects of authentic reading activities on the written production of novice college spanish students

Capanegra, Ana Isabel (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

Many scholars have researched reading-to-writing relations, some of which found reading to be an effective enhancer of writing (Al-Jarf, 2004; Asenciór, 2006; Lee, 1986a; Lee & Riley, 1990; Pérez-Sotelo & González-Bueno, ...
El arte nuevo de hacer vidas: the soldier, the playwright, and the mystic: multiple transgressions in the presentation of their vidas/lives

Mooney, Jane (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

This dissertation contemplates the lives and writings of three seventeenth-century Spanish Colonial conventual authors - Catalina de Erauso, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Madre Jerónima Nava y Saavedra - from a feminist ...
El impacto de textos en contextos familiares en comunidades de práctica para la adquicisción de vocabulario y estructuras gramáticales de español inicial acelerado

Burgos, Francisco (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

This study, which involved classroom-based experimental research conducted during the Fall semester of 2013 in a Spanish class at Oakwood University, aimed at extending the findings of previous studies on the use of familiar ...
Elementos definitorios de la posvanguardia y el posmodernismo en México y Guatemala: transculturación, intertextualidad e indentidad en la ficción corta de seis autores

McCrary, Virginia Ledesma (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

This dissertation entitled: Elementos definitorios de la posvanguardia y el posmodernismo en México y Guatemala: Transculturación, intertextualidad e identidad en la ficción corta de seis autores, investigates six collections ...
Embodied activities and communicative strategies: a case study in French formal and classroom conversation

Tanous, Chelsea (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

The purpose of this project is to add to the growing research on the impact of embodied activities and communicative strategies in conversational second language settings. Studies performed by Atkinson, Nishino, Churchill, ...
En Busqueda del Sumak Kawsay: Hacia un Nuevo Cine Indigenista Ecuatoriano del Siglo XXI

Tarco Carrera, Henry Rubén (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

This dissertation examines indigenista cinema from Ecuador and how non-native Ecuadorian directors enact a process of decolonization in their cinematographic productions through construction of different images that seek ...
Espacio y violencia en la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI

Rojas-Arce, Laura (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

Throughout the 21st century, Central America has experienced widespread violence despite the signing of the Peace Agreements during the 1990s. The existing conflict has inevitably influenced the literature of this region ...
Espejo de identidades: género, inmigración y violencia en cine dirigido por mujeres españolas y latinoamericanas

Boris, Marta (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

My dissertation Espejo de identidades: género, inmigración y violencia de género en directoras latinoamericanas y españolas, examines four 4 Latin American films and two 2 Spanish films, all of which were directed by ...
Experimental methods in phonosemantics: preliminary testing of the antonymic hypothesis as a way of mediating between the arbitrary nature of linguistic representation and aspects of iconism

Freeman, Geremy Richard (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The question of whether or not linguistic sounds might convey inherent meaning has never conclusively been resolved. This is an empirical study weighing evidence for and against the existence of phonosemantics, also known ...
Étude des manuscrits conservés de La Chanson du Chevalier au Cygne et de Godefroi de Bouillon (Buxelles, Ms. 10391, Lyon, Ms. 744): prolégeomènes à édition critique

Emplaincourt, Edmond A. (1975)

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