Aliaga-Garcia, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Adult second language learners often experience major difficulties in perceiving and producing non-native speech sounds. Several perception training studies (Iverson & Evans, 2007; Nishi, & Kewley-Port, ...
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 ...
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 ...