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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 ... -
Foreign language anxiety in the English classroom: A teaching proposal
Universitat Jaume I (2018-10-02)It is widely believed that in these days, learning Foreign Languages (FLs) has become a goal due to professional or personal reasons. However, FL acquisition can be considered a challenging experience in the learning ... -
Fostering communicative competence through reading: An analysis of a current EFL textbook
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-22)Reading is one of the most challenging skills and it is also a crucial factor for the attainment of communicative competence (Hymes 1971). For readers to achieve success in this task, they must be able to comprehend what ... -
Frankenstein : a study of its adaptation to popular culture
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-23)When we hear the name of Frankenstein, we associate it with the monster that terrifies children during the night of Halloween. However, not many people know that this name belongs, actually, to the Swiss doctor who created ... -
Free tours: present and future of a new model of business
Universitat Jaume I (2017-09-28)The sector of tourism is one of the best examples of collaborative business nowadays and free tours are one of the relatively newest models of business in this sector. Traditional guided tours have monopolised the focus ... -
French Loan influence in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)This paper is an approach which attempts to revise and analyse the loan influence French had on English during the Middle English period, specifically on a fragment of the romance “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight” . This ... -
Gender Roles in "The Age of Innocence" and "The Portrait of a Lady"
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-18)This paper aims to present the role of men and women in the 19th century so as to see the difference between both genders. So as to illustrate those differences, the main characters of two novels will be analyzed in ... -
Georgian and Gothic Architecture in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-03)It is said that architecture plays a very significant role in literature. Jane Austen focused most of her works in specific settings where architecture is relevant for the development of characters. Likewise, settings ...