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English in Tourism: A comparative analysis of tourist texts and its main discoursal features
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-21)The aim of the present paper is to investigate some features of tourism discourse found in tourist brochures from Castellón de la Plana targeted at an English-speaker visitor. Five brochures published by the Patronato ... -
English Neologisms in modern Spanish: An analysys of new media influence on lexical changes
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-17)The research aims at studying the use of neologisms in a new web genre known as blogs. Blogs are nowadays the latest form of communication to express opinions about current topics. However, this new format can be considered ... -
English vowels in third language acquisition. An analysis of multilingual teenagers' pronunciation.
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-16)This paper aims to examine English language learners' vowel pronunciation by focusing on the contribution of their mother tongue to the acquisition of English phonics skills. In this study, phonetics lessons will also ... -
Evaluating Motivation in the English as a Foreign Language classroom at a Secondary School Level
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)The teaching and learning of a Second or Foreign Language has always raised the interest of researchers seeking to improve learning outcomes and teaching practices. The aim of this paper is to check the degree of motivation ... -
Evolution of the translation of Culture-Bound Terms in TV sitcoms from the 1960s to 2010s
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-17)Translation is transferring a message from one language to another. One of the most used type of translation is audiovisual translation which can be produced in different forms such as dubbing. The procedure to dub an ... -
Examining Teacher’s Corrective Feedback and Learner’s Uptake at Different Proficiency Levels: A Study in ESO and Bachillerato English Classes
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-07)The development of Schmidt’s (1990) Noticing Hypothesis and Swain’s (1985) Output Hypothesis helped to spread the importance of giving learners Corrective Feedback (CF) in an effort to make them progress in their foreign ... -
Existentialism and the Theatre of Absurd in Waiting for Godot
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-23)In this essay, an analysis and discussion of the enigmatic play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett will be carried out in terms of philosophy, form and content. Regarding the topic of the philosophy, the point of view of ... -
Exploring factors that contribute to third-language performance anxiety in EMI contexts
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)In most cases, third language performance anxiety is influenced by individual factors. Some of these factors include the level of willingness to communicate (WTC) from speakers, their self-perceived competence in English ... -
Exploring pragmatic multicompetence in multilingual learners: an analysis of discourse-pragmatic markers in instructional tasks
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-03)The intersection between pragmatics and multilingualism has received scare attention so far, in spite of the advantages of being a multilingual. In order to cover this research gap, the present study explores how languages ... -
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 ... -
Eyes are the Windows of the Soul, Voice is the Front Door: Using Gaze and Voice to Convey a Message in Presentations
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-10)Public speaking is the best way to communicate ideas involving both verbal and nonverbal communication. In addition, according to Wolvin, Berko & Wolvin (1999) speaking in public is an act of communication occurring between ... -
Falling in language: the affective side of interlinguistic relationships and their impact on the perception of EMI contexts
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)Improved mobility and access to global communication have recently encouraged the emergence of multilingualism as a new linguistic dispensation (Aronin & Singleton, 2012). Moreover, mobility was enhanced by the implementation ... -
FEAR OF DEATH: POE’S “THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH” AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-09)The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most difficult situations humanity has faced in modern times, although it is not the only pandemic human beings have experienced. In order to confront this medical and social ... -
Female characters in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09)The purpose of this project is to develop a critical analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer's the Canterbury Tales, focused on the representation of the female characters as narrators and main characters of some tales. Moreover, ... -
Feminist Critical Dystopian Fiction: A New Emerging Subgenre?
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-10)Despite historical achievements in women’s life, gender inequality is still one of the most prominent and contemporary concerns in nowadays society. As a matter of fact, this has influenced the economy, politics, arts ... -
Feminist Representation in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and other Stories
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-09)Feminism has been present in our Society for a long time, the fight has been divided into three differentwaves; the first wave wasmainlydirected to achieve the voting right for women.Second Wave feminism tried to fight ... -
Final undergraduate dissertation teaching pragmatics: explicit instruction and task-based language teaching
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-05)This paper explores the effects of learning pragmatics, specifically on the speech act of requesting in English in an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) context. Explicit instruction and Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) ... -
Flotsam : a motivating resource to enhance writing among Spanish students
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-13)The use of picture books in education has been thought to be specially for young children. Progressively, they are also been used in secondary education. Can a wordless picture book also be useful for teaching writing ... -
Food for thought : analysing idiomatic english from advertising
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)Since languages are continuously evolving and growing due to technological advances and sociocultural improvements, the vocabulary of any language becomes rich, too. Thus, English language is flexible and has many idiomatic ... -
Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) in the English Classroom: an Implementation of Alleviating Strategies to Reduce Oral FLA
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)It is a fact that learning a Foreign Language (FL) has become a main goal among individuals either as a communicative need or because of particular motives as for example academic purposes. Unfortunately, the process of ...