Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2005 Fluency through Friends: authentic video, subtitle modification, and oral fluency Christopher Mark Rozendaal Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, English Language and Literature Commons, and the First and Second Language Acquisition Commons Recommended Citation Rozendaal, Christopher Mark, "Fluency through Friends: authentic video, subtitle modification, and oral fluency" (2005). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 14405. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/14405 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Fluency through Friends: Authentic video, subtitle modification, and oral fluency by Christopher Mark Rozendaal A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Major: Teaching English as a Second Language/Applied Linguistics Program ofStudy Committee: Volker Hegelheimer, Major Professor Denise Schmidt Roberta Vann Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2005 Graduate College Iowa State University This is to certify that the master's thesis of Christopher Mark Rozendaal. has met the requirements of Iowa State University Signatures have been redacted for privacy Ill TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES iv CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION i CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 4 CHAPTER 3. THE CURRICULUM UNITS i6 CHAPTER 4.