Advising at Georgetown

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Ph.D. Dissertation Mentoring

(8 doctoral degrees completed. 5 dissertations in progress)

 

Budsaba Kanoksilapatham (2003). A Corpus-based Investigation of Scientific Research Articles: Linking Move Analysis With Multidimensional Analysis.

Yuko Nakahama (2003). Cross-linguistic Influence on Topic Continuity in L2 Japanese Oral Narratives.

Sarah Jung (2001). The Effect of Meta-linguistic Discourse Cues on Listening Comprehension of Academic Lectures.

Jo Mackiewicz (2001). Politeness and Gender in Peer-tutoring Writing Conferences.

Mohammed Alhawary (2000). The Processability Model of Second Language Acquisition and Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Language Instruction: The Case of Arabic as a Foreign/Second Language.

Carole Cloutiere (2000). Variation inLanguage Production in Task-Based Communicative Tasks.

Vyvyan Evans (2000). The Conceptualization of Time in English: A Cognitive Linguistic Examination.

Allison Edwards (1996). Readability Revisited: Evaluation of a Functional Approach.

Boris Fridman-Mintz (In progress). The Verbal Morphology of Mexican Sign Language: A Cognitive Approach.

Mari Takada (In progress). Metaphors of the Senses.

Suzanne Matula (In progress). Temporal Extensions of Spatial Particles: An Experimental Investigation.

Douglas Demo (In progress). Gatekeeping in the Job Interview.

Jindaporn Sangganjanavanish (In progress). L2 Prosodics: An Instrumental Investigation of the Acquisition of English Prosodics by Native Speakers of Thai.

 

Thesis Reading

Masters research papers

(30 completed)

Darya Shakhova (2003). Principled Polysemy in the Semantics of the Russian Preposition "Za" : A Cognitive Approach .

Dainora Kupscinski (2001). English Metaphor Structure in Lithuanian Speech of Lithuaniuan-AmericanEnglish Bilinguals

Kumiko Inutsuka (1999). Does Unfamiliar Rhetorical Organization Affect Reading Comprehension?

Mitsuyo Sato (1999). On the Use of Japanese A-series from Different Perspectives .

Midori Yokota (1999). Does Unfamiliar Rhetorical Organization Affect Reading Comprehension?

Chikako Mori (1998). The Japanese Spatial Marker ?ni .

Viphavee Vongpumivitch (1998). Interpreting English Phrasal Verbs Ending With Particles OFF and OUT” .