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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 1Amyotte, Josee J.
- 1Anton, Kathryn F.
- 1Bright, Amy L
- 1Brine, Patricia
- 1Cotton Cornwall, Olivia
- 1Dyck, Jonathan A
- 4Department of Elementary Education
- 4Department of English and Film Studies
- 3Department of Educational Psychology
- 3Department of Psychology
- 2Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
- 2Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
- 3Cummine, Jacqueline (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- 2Kim, Esther (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
- 2Westbury, Chris (Psychology)
- 1Abbott, Marilyn (Educational Psychology)
- 1Boliek, Carol (Communications Sciences and Disorders)
- 1Boliek, Carol (Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology)
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Fall 2016
Recent research by Neilsen reports that adult readers purchase 80% of all young adult novels sold, even though young adult literature is a category ostensibly targeted towards teenage readers (Gilmore). More than ever before, young adult (YA) literature is at the center of some of the most...
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Spring 2013
Reading and listening are two skills used in language processing. Many studies have investigated reading ability but fewer have looked at listening skills and no studies to date have studied the association between the two. This dissertation looks at the relationship between reading skill and...
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Vocabulary learning through reading: The effects of multimedia glosses for contextualized vocabulary use and acquisition
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Research in the field of incidental vocabulary learning through reading has concentrated on various types of foci. In particular input enhancement techniques such as glosses have been the subject of many studies (Ariew & Ercetin, 2004; Ko, 2005; Miyasako, 2002; Yoshii & Flaitz, 2002), leading to...