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Multicultural London English: a dialect emerged from immigration
Universitat Jaume I (2015-05-23)Nowadays, London has become one of the cities with the highest level of immigration. People from many parts of the world have arrived to the last few years to London seeking new opportunities and enriching this city with ... -
Multilingualism and its affective factors: Narrative analysis of students’ linguistic biography at Universitat Jaume I
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-07)The emergence of positive or negative attitudes towards language learning, also known as the affective factors, can significantly affect not only students' academic but also private lifetime. According to Henter (2013), ... -
Multilingualism: A focus on children
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)Multilingualism is a growing phenomenon of importance due to the development of globalisation during the centuries, provoking that many languages are exposed to people in today’s different communities. Therefore, this ... -
Multimodal resources within evaluative language: a contrastive analysis between English and Catalan
Universitat Jaume I (2018-10-02)This paper reports a contrastive analysis in which different semiotic modes are analyzed when producing evaluative language in English and Catalan, that is, when a speaker manifests attitudes, shows points of view, and ... -
Multiple intelligences applied to english as a second language
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)The concept of Multiple Intelligences has a lot of importance in the teaching of second languages. This theory would give to the students more opportunities of working by the ways they consider better, so this method ... -
Nonverbal Communication: Improving Academic Presentations through Body Language
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-22)Nonverbal Communication has been proven to be almost essential if a prosperous communication is to take place. It is usually forgotten that elements such gestures, body posture, melody of the voice and many others actually ... -
Norse Gods and Comics: a Compartive Study of Tales of Asgard
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)In this assignment, a comparative study is developed between the written documents and files about the Norse gods and several comic books of the five-page featurette Tales of Asgard inside the comic series “Thor” created by ... -
Northumbrian and West-Saxon: analysis of their differences
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-03)In this work a description of two of the different dialects of the Old English language, as well as an analysis of a text, is going to be provided in order to understand their division and know their differences with the ... -
Novel and society in nineteenth-century England: Charles Dickens
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-23)One of the most relevant periods for England is the one under the kingdom of Queen Victoria, also known as the Victorian Era (1837-1901). During this period, England grew as a country as a whole in almost every field ... -
Olaudah Equiano's Hybrid Identity
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-25)The present thesis revolves around Olaudah Equiano's literary work, T he Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African. Written by Himself . This essay is intended to illustrate the ... -
Older Learners: Influence of Age in Their Second-Language Acquisition Goals
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-04)This study diagnoses influence of senior students' age in their goals of learning English as second language (L2) and contributes to the language skills analysis the bilingualism. The aim of this paper is to study age ... -
Omnipresence of metaphors in God is a Woman music video: a filmic analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-05)Metaphors have always been considered linguistic devices (spoken or written). However, nowadays researchers claim that they can be examined from other perspectives because people use different means of expression to create ... -
Online Resources and their Effect on the Four Skills in the EFL Classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2019-09-30)The past thirty years have seen increasingly rapid advances in the field of language learning, and the necessity to learn a foreign language with a limited amount of time or specific lifestyle, the appearance of the ... -
Overcoming textbooks’ pragmatic deficiencies: A teaching proposal to the instruction of requests in the EFL classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)Over the years, English has become the language of the world. As a result, there has been a rising demand for learning the language, and consequently, a significant emergence of English courses. Nevertheless, some deficiencies ... -
Pecha Kucha Nights: an Analysis of 10 Performances
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-04)A new way of presenting has been invented under the name of Pecha Kucha, an innovative presentation format. As in traditional presentations, the message has to be clear and well presented. For this reason, there are some ... -
Personality, Learning Styles and Learning Strategies in SLA/FLA: Implications of individual differences in SLA/FLA
Universitat Jaume I (2014)Research have stated the importance of individual differences such as personality, learning styles and learning strategies, in predicting success in second or foreign language acquisition. Particularly, investigations in ... -
Persuading population through metaphors: a cognitive linguistic analysis of Obama’s and Trump’s inaugural addresses
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)As Lakoff & Johnson claim in their book Metaphors We Live By (1980: 3), “metaphor is typically viewed as a characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought and action”. From this affirmation, some ... -
Persuasive Strategies in Multimodal Metaphor: A Contrastive Analysis of the Advertisements “Good Girl” & “Bad Boy”
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-25)According to Lakoff & Johnson (1980), metaphors not only are a formal aspect of language, but they are used to understand one concept in terms of another and they are pervasive in our daily life. Conceptual Metaphors (CM) ... -
Persuasive techniques in TV commercials: contrasting MCDONALD’S and BURGER KING
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-07)Advertising has become part of our daily lives and it can be seen consciously or unconsciously everywhere. According to Frank Jefkins (1984), advertising is considered as the spreading of ideas, services or products in ... -
Pirlo Scores!!! An Analysis of Live English Football Commentary
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-07)Through the last decades, football has become one of the most popular sports all over the world. This status brings an immense responsibility upon the live football commentators, who have to bare in mind many of ...