• openAccess   A study in vowels: Comparing phonetic difficulties between languages 

      Juan-Checa, José-Javier Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2018)
      Decade after decade language learning still proves difficult for EFL learners all around the world. Countries are consistently having the same phonetic problems they had. This article wants to present two ...
    • openAccess   Comparing phonetic difficulties by EFL learners from Spain and Japan. 

      Juan-Checa, José-Javier Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2017)
      After decades of improving language learning methods, English as a Foreign Language (hereafter EFL) still makes Spanish and Japanese learners struggle with the correct pronunciation. Each country ...
    • openAccess   Suburbia as a Narrative Space in the Cinematic Universe of Douglas Sirk 

      Alberola Crespo, Nieves; Juan Checa, José Javier Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2021)
      Douglas Sirk, now fully recognized as an influential filmmaker, was considered a successful but uninteresting director in the 1950s. His melodramas were considered bland and subsequently ignored because they focused on ...