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Spring 2016

Nisbet, Brett

This thesis reviews how in-level wayfinding cues in video games can be harnessed to create immersive and enjoyable game experiences. It conducts an extensive literature review of game level design, and examines how modern games guide players to their destination. Many modern games rely heavily on...

Fall 2022

Sadatian, Forough

Language anxiety (LA) is a relatively common phenomenon that is likely to negatively influence the well-being and success of students learning a second language. Despite this, very few studies on this type of anxiety experienced by English-speaking students from French immersion environments who...

Fall 2013

Lemire, Josée N

Vocabulary plays an important role in students’ ability to understand academic content. For Francophone students in a minority setting, a poor vocabulary not only results in their difficulty at grasping the content, but it also impedes their ability to understand reading materials in core...

Spring 2012

Longard, Jeffrey S

Following advancements in linguistics in the 1950s and 1960s, second language teaching and research became dominated by the notion that a second language could be learned as naturally as the first, without explicit grammar instruction. This natural or communicative approach, though improving...