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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 ... -
'Give a hoot, don't pollute’ – ‘Si bebes no conduzcas’: Translation techniques in the american TV show "Two and a half men"
Universitat Jaume I (2014)The present study provides real evidence on how manifold techniques are used during any translation process to avoid possible misinterpretations of meaning among the intended target audience. Knowing how to use translation ... -
Good Is Up: Unveiling Metaphoricity in a TV Commercial from Babbel
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-03)Conceptual Metaphor Theory developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) suggested that we use metaphors to evaluate and communicate in our various environments. Although metaphors encompass a large variety of taxonomies, ... -
Gothic literature influence on XXI century horror films
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-12)It is believed that when Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto in 1764, he marked a milestone in British literature leading to a new literary genre, Gothic fiction, a genre characterised by providing the reader ... -
Historical evidence in Vikings’ TV series: an episode analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-23)This paper is intended to analyse how the Viking Age has been depicted in audiovisual materials, namely in a present-day television series called ‘Vikings’. With that purpose in mind, some historical evidences on these ... -
How metaphors describe them all
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)In almost every culture, evil deeds happen in darkness and they are usually made by ugly people. This also happens the other way around: good deeds happen in light and they are made by beautiful people. These aspects are ... -
Humour as a powerful tool to reach the audience in TED Talk presentations: a Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-25)This paper reflects on the importance of humour and its presentation and use in general communication and specifically in TED Talk presentations. Humans are depicted as social beings and there is a main aim to achieve when ... -
ICTs Implementation in the English Pronunciation Classroom: The Case of Voki
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-15)English has emerged as a truly global language in our society. Historical, political, economic, practical, intellectual and entertainment reasons (Crystal, 2006) explain such a status and the reason why an increasing number ... -
Identity and social prestige in the Comunitat Valenciana. A case study on Valencian and English
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-19)This paper studies the case of the western variety of the Catalan language (henceforth Valencian) as a sign of identity for it speakers in contrast to the eastern variety of Catalan (henceforth Catalan), as well as the ... -
Identity in Coser y Cantar and Almost a Woman
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-24)This study contemplates the different definitions of North American identity and the relation between these concepts and the role immigrants are given as part of this nation as displayed in Coser y Cantar and A lmost a ... -
Implementation of communicative-based teaching approaches in the English language classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-08)The importance of English as lingua franca and its high demand has boosted the requirement of an effective teaching method that is useful and motivates students into learning the language. The exploration of some of the ... -
Implementation of Task-Based Language Teaching: Developing English- speaking abilities in the international context of the Comenius programme
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)The global phenomenon of globalization derives in the consecutive spread of English as the lingua franca that allows cross-cultural communication. The worldwide dominance of this language leads to the substantial increase ... -
Implementation of Task-based Language Teaching: enhancing students’ motivation in learning English as a Foreign Language
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-08)The process of globalization is nowadays spreading faster. Consequently, countries arenow more connected between them, and the need for a common language for communication appears.Nowadays, the language ... -
Improving reading skills in secondary education students with the integration of ICT in public institutions
Universitat Jaume I (2018-10-01)ICT has been a field of study during the last decades all over the world due to its importance because of the large number of applications and performances provided in all domains. ICT has offered a new branch of ...