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A proposal for the implementation of a multimodal approach in Cambridge Preliminary English Test listening tasks
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)The global expansion of the English language has generated a necessity for non-native speakers to learn it as a foreign language for either communicative, occupational or academic purposes. Under these circumstances, the ... -
A study in vowels: Comparing phonetic difficulties between languages
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2018)Decade after decade language learning still proves difficult for EFL learners all around the world. Countries are consistently having the same phonetic problems they had. This article wants to present two ... -
An Analysis on Oral Communicative Competence in the Teaching and Learning Process of English as a Foreign Language
Universitat Jaume I (2017)This document is an educational research work, which adopts a survey design about oral communication competence in the teaching and learning process of English as a foreign language. The surveys are addressed to three ... -
Comparing phonetic difficulties by EFL learners from Spain and Japan.
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2017)After decades of improving language learning methods, English as a Foreign Language (hereafter EFL) still makes Spanish and Japanese learners struggle with the correct pronunciation. Each country ... -
Computer games in the EFL classroom: a suitable tool to teach English
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10)During the past few decades, literature has experienced numerous changes due to the spread and development of new techniques of telling stories, many through the new technologies. Several authors have studied the ... -
Conceptual metaphor in EFL teaching: a comparison between two approaches to teach lexicon through metaphors
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-12)During the last few years, vocabulary retention has been identified as a problematical area in the EFL classroom (Boers, 2013). In this sense, there are numerous teaching methods whose effectiveness has been questioned ... -
Corpus Pragmatics and Multimodality: Compiling an ad-hoc Multimodal Corpus for EFL Pragmatics Teaching
Gate Association for Teaching and Education (GATE) (2020-12-05)The teaching and acquisition of foreign language pragmatics as a part of the communicative competence paradigm has been reported as essential since the deviation from the Chomskian competence-based model to a more ... -
Creation of a serious videogame prototype “the Engineer” in the digital age to promote engineering English in Higher Education
International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED) (2022)The technological advances that have taken place in recent decades have led to curricular changes at all levels. In particular, these changes have been affected by the demands of new generations - 'digital natives' (Prensky, ... -
The Effects of an Online Task on Legal English Students’ Perceptual Learning Styles and Academic Achievement
Universitat Jaume I amb el suport del Servei de Comunicació i Publicacions (2023)Advances in educational technology offer many opportunities in the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classroom: the development of students’ motivation and autonomy; the integration and evolution of Task-Based Language ... -
EMI and the Teaching of Cultural Studies in Higher Education: A Study Case
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2021)This paper examines students’ perspectives on the challenges raised by their first encounter with EMI pedagogy in higher education. The research was conducted with a group of beginner students with no previous experience ... -
English for Specific Purposes: A Teaching Proposal for Undergraduate Nursing Students in Spain
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-13)In the new global economy, English as Foreign Language (EFL) has become a central issue for professionals in all fields, leading to what is known as English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Throughout this dissertation, the ... -
Exploring the Teaching and Learning of Pronunciation: Approaches and Problems for Spanish Speakers
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-17)The aim of the current paper is to provide a general overview of the attention that pronunciation teaching and learning has received in English as a second or foreign language lessons throughout the years. The different ... -
Functional Approach to Multiliteracy
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (2008)This paper presents a cybertask designed to be performed by students of journalism within the subject “English for Journalists”. As a departure point, students were provided with a website which gives access to all the ... -
Functional diversity in higher education: curriculum accommodation for people with vision disability or hearing impairment in the English as a Foreign Language classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2022-07-14)This doctoral dissertation sets out to find useful and applicable inclusive practices that aim at UDL that could be implemented in the EFL context to make it accessible to learners with visual or aural diversity, with three ... -
Gamifying The EFL Class: attitudes toward learning and improvement in the recognition and correction of false friends among adult learners
Universitat Jaume I (2020-11-02)False friends area frequent source of mistakes among non-native speakers in EFL comprehension and production. Like many other aspects of the English language,false friendsare often taughtthrough conventional ... -
How do students read on the Internet in the new technological era?
Universitatis Petru Maior (2014)The principal focus of this investigation is to discuss how EFL students read on the Internet after completing a Cybertask. Our main concern is to find out how students read on the Internet in the new technological era. ... -
Information and communication technologies as a tool to improve English in Asperger students
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-07)One of the problems that teachers have to face in their classes every day is not only the increase of ratio that the classrooms have suffered in the last years, but also the students' big diversity that exists in all ... -
Introducing pronunciation in the adult EFL classroom: a pedagogical proposal for teaching word stress
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-12)It is known that learning a Foreign Language (FL) has become a main objective because of a different number of reasons. Unfortunately, the process of learning a FL can be affected by a series of factors as for example age. ... -
Investigación en acción en el aula de inglés como lengua extranjera: elaboración, implementación, evaluación y reflexión sobre una propuesta didáctica
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-28)Currently, different theories are emerging for language teaching with the objective of getting the best results. Throughout this work, I suggest an investigation in which it is intended to know if the designed activities ... -
Learning Pronunciation with OERs: a practical case for Medicine students
Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València (2017)The aim of this study is to improve English pronunciation in the university classroom of first-year Medicine students through the use of OERs. Technologies such as Voki or LEO network are used in the practical sessions of ...