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Age-Related Differences in Language Learning
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)Learning a language is not an easy task, and age plays a fundamental role when engaging the process of learning. This topic has turned to be very controversial over the last decades, since there is the belief that ... -
American English versus British English as EFL models
Universitat Jaume I (2017-09-26)American English and British English are two varieties of the same language. This topic, belonging to the Dialectology subject is a sub-field of sociolinguistics and an optional course of the English Studies Degree. This ... -
An adaptation of a Cambridge exam: is the same topic necessary in the four language skills?
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-10)Cambridgecertificates exams test students’four skills (reading, listening, writing and speaking). However, all of the parts involved in a real Cambridge exam are not properly contextualised.Instead, each of the parts ... -
An analysis of Gulliver's Travels: the power of satire from 1726 to 2017
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-08)Satire is a literary mode that intends to describe the world by means of parody, irony and sarcasm. Although the main goal of Jonathan Swift when writing Gulliver’s Travels was to satirise the society he was living in, the ... -
An analysis of Shakespeare’s Works Influence on the TV Series Carnival Row
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-30)From the beginning of cinema’s history -around the 20th century-, literature and the screen are closely connected. A large part of the first films was inspired by existing works, that is, the directors used literary ... -
An analysis of the most spoken varieties of English language in Netflix series
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-07)Studies have been conducted on showing the differences between British and American English in terms of pronunciation and lexicon. Therefore, we have analysed ten minutes of two series chapters from Netflix with the help ... -
An Analysis of two Arthurian Knights of the Round Table: Tristan and Lancelot
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)King Arthur is one of the most famous literary characters of all time. He has been a literary source all over the world, from medieval times to the present. His arduous battles and knightly adventures have turned this ... -
An analysis on the use of irony in Emma
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-20)This paper introduces the analysis of irony in one of Jane Austen’s most important works, Emma. First of all, I give an account of the life and times of this English novelist who published her works during the Regency ... -
An Approach to Autonomous Language Learning through ICTs
Universitat Jaume I (2017-09-26)The role that ICTs take in the Language Learning field it is increasingly noticeable, as they are becoming essential resources both inside and outside the classroom environment. The use of this technologies and devices ... -
An overview of the approaches and methods in language teaching: A TBLT Proposal in a CLIL program
Universitat Jaume I (2019-11-11)The increase of communicative competence in foreign languages has become one of the central points of educational policies in Europe. Since 2001 it has been reported an increase in the number of students learning a first ... -
An overview of the Latin influence in the Early Modern English period
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-23)The aim of the present paper is to analyse and examine the influence and the presence of Latin in the English language during all of the Early Modern English period. The Latin language has spread its influence over the ... -
An overview of the methods and approaches in language teaching: a reading proposal based on a TBLT approach
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-30)The aim of this paper is to introduce a Reading Proposal that presents the English language in a more real an authentic way than the readings implemented in traditional contexts and more teacher-centered classrooms. In ... -
Analysing Conceptual Metaphors of Emotion in Mindfulness Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-04)Metaphors are widely used in daily discourse in order to clarify meaning or illustrate concepts (Lakoff, 1993). Besides, different aspects on the use of metaphorical expressions have been extensively investigated (Lakoff, ... -
Analysing Disney Stories: How Disney Princesses are Depicted
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-25)We live in a globalised world in which what is considered politically correct is in vogue. Since childhood we understand that the knight is the one who saves the princess and not vice versa. Throughout this paper, sexism ... -
Analysing metaphors in commercial advertising
Universitat Jaume I (2015)According to the Cognitive Linguistic view, a metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) is defined as a tool which allows us to understand one conceptual domain in terms of another. At first, it was thought that metaphors could ... -
Analysing pragmatics in textbooks: Requests and topics in listening transcripts
Universitat Jaume I (2017-10-03)Textbooks are one of the main sources of input learners receive in the classroom. Most of the times, they are considered the key component of the curriculum in English Language Teaching (ELT). However, they have been often ... -
Analysing the speech act of refusing in Grey’s anatomy series
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)Appropriate refusal interactions may be a difficult task for learners of English in a foreign context since they tend to apply rules from their native language to the target language when refusing. Consequently, they can ... -
Analysis and comparison of the emotions in novels of the 18th and 21st centuries
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-17)Literature has experienced considerable advances over 19th and 21st centuries. There are many aspects which characterize each period; one of them is the expression of emotions, which has been gradually altered among both ... -
Analysis of metaphors in cartoons
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-20)Metaphors are tools that help us to conceptualize life by establishing links between two domains (Gibbs, 2006). Lakoff and Johnson (1980) introduced the study of metaphors from the point of view of cognitive linguistics ... -
Analysis of Metaphors in Sports and Drinks Advertisements
Universitat Jaume I (2017-10-05)The aim of this paper is to reveal and analyze the argumentative value of metaphors as a resource present in advertisements. It proposes, in turn, an analysis and identification of such metaphors, focusing on the complex ...