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Author:

Zhang, Jie

Title:

ACQUISITION OF THE CHINESE RESULTATIVE VERB COMPLEMENTS BY LEARNERS OF CHINESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: A LEARNER CORPUS APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

learner corpus analysis
resultative verb complements
Chinese language acquisition
learners of Chinese as a foreign language

File:

Download JieZhang_DissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

James Lantolf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Lantolf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Kwanghyun

Title:

Enhancing Lexicogrammatical Performance through Corpus-Based Mediation in L2 Academic Writing Instruction

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Learner-Corpus Interaction
L2 writing
Lexicogrammar
Genre-based pedagogy

File:

Download Kwanghyun_Park_dissertation_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Celeste S Kinginger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Xingren

Title:

EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF AGING THROUGH TRANSITIVITY: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO CHINESE ELDERS’ NARRATIVES

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

narratives
Chinese
transitivity
aging

File:

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Committee Members:

Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sandra J. Savignon, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Committee Member

Author:

Lai, Wei

Title:

Concept-based Foreign Language Pedagogy:teaching the Chinese Temporal System

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

sociocultural theory
concept-based approach
teaching Chinese as a foreign language
foreign language pedagogy

File:

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Committee Members:

James Lantolf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Meredith Christine Doran, Committee Member

Author:

Davis, Tracy S

Title:

Undergraduate vs. graduate academic English: A corpus-based analysis.

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

corpus
corpus-based
academic English
graduate
undergraduate

File:

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Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert William Schrauf, Committee Member
Athelstan Canagarajah, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Special Member

Author:

Bhatia, Sumit

Title:

Enabling Easier Information Access In Online Discussion Forums

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

online discussion forums
web forums
query suggestion
discussion summarization
speech act
dialog act.

File:

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Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Special Member

Author:

Jin, Seunghee

Title:

The Use Of Facebook To Promote Korean EFL Learners' Intercultural Competence

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Web 2.0
Social networking
Facebook
EFL
ESL
Intercultural communication
Intercultural competence
telecollaboration

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Edward Poehner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamie Myers, Committee Member
Mark Thomas Kissling, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member

Author:

Fernandez, Julieta

Title:

Social networks and youngspeak in study abroad

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

study abroad
youngspeak
social networks
pragmatics

File:

Download Fernandez_dissertation_July2013_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Celeste S Kinginger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert William Schrauf, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Colleen Connolly Ahern, Committee Member

Author:

Hartig, Alissa Joy

Title:

Connecting disciplinary concepts and language: A study of legal literacy development in a second language and legal culture

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Legal writing
English for Specific Purposes
concept-based instruction
second language writing

File:

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Committee Members:

Celeste S Kinginger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Caroline Sheldon, Special Member
Dorothy H Evensen, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Xian

Title:

The Teachability Hypothesis and Concept-based Instruction: topicalization in Chinese as a Second Language

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Processability Theory
Teachability Theory
Sociocultural Theory
Concept-based teaching

File:

Download Xian_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

James Lantolf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ning Yu, Committee Member
Ping Li, Committee Member

Author:

Tsai, Mei-hsing

Title:

Usage-based cognitive semantics in L2 collocation: A microgenetic analysis of EFL students' collocational knowledge

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

L2 collocation
cognitive semantics
sociocultural theory
concept-based instruction
EFL

File:

Download Dissertation_Mei-Hsing_Tsai_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Lantolf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Committee Member

Author:

Bluemel, Brody Terry

Title:

Parallel Corpora and Pedagogy: Enhancing Chinese foreign language learning experience through parallel corpus technology

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Parallel Corpora
Chinese as a Foreign Language
Teaching Technology
Corpus Studies
Corpus Design

File:

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Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ning Yu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert William Schrauf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Ai, Haiyang

Title:

Promoting second language development with concept-based language instruction and intelligent computer-assisted language learning

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

second language acquisition
computer-assisted language learning
ba-construction
Vygotsky
zone of proximal development

File:

Download Haiyang_Ai_Dissertation_Final_Revision.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Lantolf, Committee Member
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Committee Member

Author:

Furniss, Edie Anne

Title:

A Web-based Instructional Module for the Teaching of Routine Formulas in Russian

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Russian as a Second Language
Corpus Linguistics
Pragmatics
Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Language Teaching Materials

File:

Download Dissertation_Edie_Furniss_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Celeste S Kinginger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gabriela Appel Lantolf, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Michael Marion Naydan, Committee Member
Maria Shardakova, Special Member

Author:

Gevara, Jeremy Ray

Title:

CONFIRMING THE IMPACT OF PERFORMANCE TASKS ON LATENT CLASS MEMBERSHIP AND PLACEMENT DECISIONS

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Performance Tests
English as a Second Language
International Teaching Assistants
Placement Tests
Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Latent Class Analysis

File:

Download Dissertation_Manuscript.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert William Schrauf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert William Schrauf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Outside Member

Author:

Banerjee, Siddhartha

Title:

AUTHORING CONTENT AUTOMATICALLY USING ABSTRACTIVE SUMMARIZATION

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Abstractive summarization
Automatic authoring
Text summarization
Text-to-text generation

File:

Download BanerjeeThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
David Reitter, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Yafei

Title:

Does linguistic alignment facilitate support functions: a big data analysis on online health communities

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Linguistic alignment; online health communities
social support
Linguistic alignment
Social support
Online health communities

File:

Download Yafei_PSU_Thesis_New-5.pdf

Committee Members:

John Yen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Yen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vasant Gajanan Honavar, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Outside Member
David T Reitter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Al-Fahid, Mai Fahid

Title:

DISRUPTIVE PRACTICE IN SAUDI EFL STUDENT TEACHERS' LEARNING TO TEACH THROUGH FLIPPED CLASSROOM AND REHEARSAL: A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

distruptive practice
learning to teach
EFL preservice teachers
teacher educators
rehearsal
flipped classroom
practice pedagogy
teacher education
saudi arabia
student teachers

File:

Download Alfahid_Dissertation_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Anne Angiline Whitney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Angiline Whitney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Committee Member
Jamie M. Myers, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Outside Member

Author:

Kisselev, Olesya Viktorovna

Title:

WORD ORDER AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN THE WRITING OF HERITAGE AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS OF RUSSIAN: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

word order
information structure
learner language
Russian as a heritage language

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Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Lantolf, Committee Member
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
Irina Mikaelian, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Pin Yun

Title:

A Cognitive-Pragmatic Study on Modal Verbs of Possibility in Chinese

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

modality
discourse function
Interactional Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
force dynamics
mental space

File:

Download Wang_Chinese_possibility_modals.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan G. Strauss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan G Strauss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ning Yu, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Outside Member

Author:

Leelasetakul, Mathurin

Title:

Lexical Bundle Use by Thai Undergraduate Learners of English

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

lexical bundles
writing
corpus
corpus lingusitcs
Thai learners of English

File:

Download Mathurin_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Member
Ning Yu, Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Outside Member

Author:

Song, Jinyuan

Title:

DO YOU SEE THEM COMING? ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF FIRMS’ ATTENTION TO NONTRADITIONAL COMPETITORS

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

nontraditional competitors
firms’ attention to competitors
managerial career variety
newly appointed outside executive
broker executive
verbal attack
behavioral attack
competitive tension

File:

Download Dissertation_Song_0625_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Wenpin Tsai, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wenpin Tsai, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald C Hambrick, Committee Member
Raghu B Garud, Committee Member
Vilmos Fosnocht Misangyi, Outside Member
Xiaofei Lu, Outside Member

Author:

Casal, Joseph

Title:

An integrated corpus and genre analysis approach to writing research and pedagogy: Development of graduate student genre knowledge

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Applied Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Second Language Writing
Sociocultural Theory
Content-Based Instruction

File:

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Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Matthew Edward Poehner, Outside Member
Robert William Schrauf, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Diaz, Brett

Title:

The affective practices of health policy implementation: Rural, elderly health policy in the face of the opioid epidemic

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

applied linguistics
corpus linguistics
mixed methods
health policy implementation
emotion
evaluative language
discourse analysis
opioid epidemic
elder services

File:

Download diaz_affectivepracticesofhpi.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert William Schrauf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert William Schrauf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Member
Christopher Daryl Cameron, Outside Member
Daniel Max Crowley, Committee Member
Robert William Schrauf, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Yingying

Title:

Multiword constructions in published and student mechanical engineering research articles

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics (PHD)

Keywords:

multiword constructions
academic writing
corpus-based genre analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Ning Yu, Outside Field Member
Catherine Berdanier, Outside Unit Member
Kevin McManus, Major Field Member
Xiaofei Lu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen E Johnson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Genggeng

Title:

Authorial Stance in Research Articles: An intertextual perspective

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics (PHD)

Keywords:

citation
academic writing
research writing
English for Academic Purposes
stance
engineering writing

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Committee Members:

Tommaso Milani, Program Head/Chair
Susan Strauss, Major Field Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Unit & Field Member
Deryn Verity, Major Field Member
Xiaofei Lu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Liao, Jian

Title:

Place-Based Foreign Language Learning via Telepresence Robots

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

telepresence robots
robot-assisted language learning
communicative competence
place-based learning
communicative-language teaching

File:

Download DissertationJianLiao.pdf

Committee Members:

Simon Richard Hooper, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon Richard Hooper, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Committee Member
Tyler S Hollett, Committee Member
Xiaofei Lu, Outside Member
Susan Mary Land, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vosburg, Donald M

Title:

Language Learning in an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game): A Case Study of L2 Learners of German

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

German
SLA
MMORPG
World of Warcraft
Language Learning
Applied Linguistics

File:

Download Dissertation_Vosburg.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Richard Page Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member

Author:

Pang, Min

Title:

Weakening the harm of corruption: How ruling party institutionalization mitigates the negative impact of corruption

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Authoritarian politics
Party institutionalization
Corruption
Protest
Text as data

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Committee Members:

Vineeta Yadav, Major Field Member
Joseph Wright, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Boliang Zhu, Major Field Member
Xiaofei Lu, Co-Chair, Outside Unit & Outside Field Member
Michael J Nelson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Wang, Tianfang Sally

Title:

The concept of conceptual metaphor as a psychological tool for L2 development: A conceptual metaphor theory-informed concept-based language instruction

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Concept-based Language Instruction
L2 pedagogy
Micro-genetic analysis

File:

Download Wang_Dissertation_CMT_CBLI.pdf

Committee Members:

Ning Yu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Poehner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Deryn Verity, Major Field Member
Xiaofei Lu, Major Field Member
Tommaso Milani, Program Head/Chair
Celeste Kinginger, Major Field Member