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British accents and dialects: The case of Cockney
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-17)Currently, each country has one or two official languages albeit with many accents and dialects. In some cases, the distinction between accent and dialect can be as complex as that between language and dialect. The fact ... -
British Accents and Dialects: The Case of Scottish English
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-07)It seems difficult to listen to an individual speaking paying attention just to the information he or she is providing and ignoring completely the speaker’s identity. There is general agreement that one of the main ... -
Capturing the Magic of Teaching: Harry Potter in the Classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-22)Many researchers have examined the Harry Potter series and dealt with themes such as domestic violence, feminism, homosexuality or the role of women. However, few scholars have paid attention to the importance of teaching ... -
Censorship in translation during Franco's regime: 1984 by George Orwell (english to spanish)
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-03)Censorship during Franco's Spain (1936-1975) has been, over the years, a subject of study with great impact for some researchers and academics who wanted to study the effect of translations and the incoming texts from ... -
Challeging Darl Bundren’s insanity: a study on trauma
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-12)Critics have frequently read Darl Bundren from Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying as a mentally insane individual. The aim of this paper is to challenge the label of insane attached to Darl and interpret him as a traumatized ... -
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre Andmary Wollstoncraft’s Avindication of the Rights of Woman: an Analysis of Feminist Traits
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-04)Feminism is often studiedthrough a political lens, focusing on the different feminist theories and their influence on society. Nevertheless, literature can also be a way in which feminism is presented and studied. ... -
Cinema adaptations of "The Great Gatsby": A theoretical review
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-20)It is unquestionable that there is hardly a sphere of reality which is not echoing some form of previously established image or text. Undoubtedly, the best example of this theory is that of cinema adaptations, a common ... -
CLIL: Physical Education teaching proposal based on corporal expression through feelings and music
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-13)The educational system is changing and improving swiftly with the main purpose of offering new teaching methods. Moreover, due to the necessity of multilingual contexts, the educational system is implementing the learning ... -
Cockney influence on Standard English. A Survey of native speakers speech
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-18)Languages in contact can influence each other and produce linguistic changes by the adoption of new features not only in terms of grammar, but also in accent and speech forms. The present paper thoroughly focuses on this ... -
Colour Symbolism in The Handmaid’s Tale
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-12)The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985) narrates the creation of a totalitarian and patriarchal society called Gilead, arranged into several social classes whose power variates depending on their status. At the ... -
Communicative Language Teaching: A Pedagogical Proposal based on the Content and Language Integrated Learning
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)Because of its international demand and recognition as a worldwide language, English has recently become part of our education system. Accordingly, the use of the English language has increased in different sectors all ... -
Comparative study of ICT in education Spain and the United States
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-16)For the last 20 years Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have appeared into all fields of the society. For this reason, different areas of it have been adapting to apply the possible advantages of these new ... -
Comparison between face-to-face communication and computer-mediated-communication: The use of WhatsApp
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-18)It has been argued that misunderstandings are more likely to appear in computer-mediated communication (CMC) than in face-to-face (F2F) communication due to the lack of emotional cues in CMC contexts. The aim of this ... -
Conceptual Metaphors in still pictures, a theoretical review
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-07)Metaphors in antiquity were considered an element of decoration in poetry and rhetorical discourse, but in recent decades metaphors have become an element more closer to thought than language. Metaphor of thought or ... -
Controlling time is power: an analysis of filmic metaphors in the lotus advertisement “shine”
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-14)According to Lakoff and Johnson (1980), a metaphor is a tool which helps us understand one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain. Initially, metaphors were explored solely verbally; however, later on, a ... -
Corpus Linguistics: an Inspiring Methodology to Design English Didactic Materials
Universitat Jaume I (2017-09-28)In the last decades, it has been said that in foreign language learning settings the correct selection of didactic materials is paramount in order to provide learners with appropriate input of the target language (TL) ... -
Cosmic Horror and Pacing in Lovecraft's Dagon and the Shadows Over Innsmouth
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-10)Nowadays, most horror movies have smeared the credibility of the horror genre by using screamers, which are fast scenes with loud noises meant to get viewers to jump from their seats. Apart from that, movies with a ... -
Developing Requests in EFL Instructional Contexts: The Role of Age
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-02)Over the last five decades, the field of pragmatics has grown largely, so many researchers have attempted to provide useful approaches to teach pragmatics in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) educational contexts. As ... -
Developmental and transfer errors in SLA
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)During the process of learning a new language it is common that most students make errors as they still do not know all the elements, rules and features of that language. Errors have been analyzed and studied for many ... -
Dialogic literary gatherings through universal literature (A Teaching proposal)
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)This essay is based on a possible teaching proposal about how to teach dialogic literary gatherings of universal literature in Compulsory Secondary Education students. Nowadays, an optional subject has been established ...