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A Corpus-Based Analysis of Recurrent Structural Metaphors and Domains in Financial Times
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)The purpose of this undergraduate dissertation is to analyze a corpus extracted from the “Companies and Markets” section of the Financial Times. The focus of the analysis is set in the identification of the most common ... -
A corpus-based study of visual metaphors in anti-smoking advertisements
Universitat Jaume I (2017)This paper aims to investigate the role of visual metaphors in antismoking advertisements. With this purpose in mind, a corpus of 27 printed advertisements extracted, mainly, from Internet, has been compiled. The study ... -
A corpus-based study on social media english lexicon: comprenhensibility in ESL and EFL students
Universitat Jaume I (2017)The current status of English as ‘lingua franca’ acquired throughout the last two centuries, as well as the development and rise of Internet and social media have originated the emergence of a new kind of language with ... -
A critical study of metaphors in the economic field
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)This assignment has as main point to explain the process in which metaphors are understood as a cognitive linguistic process. Having several theories that differently interpret this procedure, two different theories are ... -
A depiction of Jane Austen’s society in Pride and Prejudice
Universitat Jaume I (2017)The aim of this paper is to analyse how Jane Austen depicts a fictional society in Pride and Prejudice, in order to explore her position towards this topic, as well as to understand the reasons for her criticism about ... -
A didactic proposal based on the application of a virtual digital tool
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-24)Over the last few years, there has been a growing tendency in the use of innovative didactic proposals mixed with more traditional methods to make students more interested in English language learning. Due to this, more ... -
A Didactic Proposal Introducing the Use of Metaphors in Video game ESP Vocabulary Teaching
Universitat Jaume I (2019-11-01)Conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) demonstrated that metaphors go beyond being simple embellishing instruments in human discourse, and that in fact metaphors (that is, conceptual metaphors under CMT)) are mental constructs ... -
A Didactic Unit Proposal Based on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970) for Students of EFL
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-15)Literature can be a successful resource for teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). The goal of this paper is to offer an improvement proposal to demonstrate the importance of teaching English through literature. ... -
A feminist analysis of the black woman in The Bluest Eye
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-25)Identifying a feminist piece of writing or considering a particular essay as such is a very intricate issue, since the term feminism itself has been qualified by most philologists, psychologists and historians as a really ... -
A focus on pragmatics : an evaluation of EFL textbooks in presenting suggestions
Universitat Jaume I (2015)In the past decade, many different English as foreign language textbooks under the label of communicative were easily found in any syllabus. Being communicative involves a number of different aspects including the teaching ... -
A Land of Fire and Ice; An Overview on Viking Literature and Mythology
Universitat Jaume I (2014-09-24)The Norsemen or Vikings came from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the islands surrounding the Northern Sea) and were mainly known as traders, explorers, soldiers and settlers. They navigated along the Northern ... -
A pedagogical proposal based on the implementation of CLIL approach in physical education class
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-12)English is increasing rapidly as a medium of communication between different cultures due to the use of the language by non-native speakers, who represent a huge part of the speakers of such language. Despite the importance ... -
A Pedagogical Proposal Based on the Incorporation of Tablets in the Contemporary EFL Approaches
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-10)The importance of promoting new language teaching methodologies in the EFL classroom is being more present in language teaching contexts than ever. Hence, the current language pedagogical syllabus is significantly based ... -
A proposal for a translation of the poem The Wife’s Lament
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)This project involves translating the Old English poem of The Wife’s Lament that can be found in the Exeter Book, a very old codex that collects Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. There are several controversies surrounding the poem ... -
A proposal for the implementation of a multimodal approach in Cambridge Preliminary English Test listening tasks
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)The global expansion of the English language has generated a necessity for non-native speakers to learn it as a foreign language for either communicative, occupational or academic purposes. Under these circumstances, the ... -
A review of the CLIL approach: a proposal for the content subject of Biology
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-30)We live in a world in which global communications take place every day. So, English teaching does not have to be limited to the study of its structure, but to the study of English in different situations for being able to ... -
A study of code-switching at home and in the L3 English classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-15)Codeswitching is still considered an intriguing aspect in the sociolinguistic context. The aim of this study is to include theoretical background, followed by the clarification of codeswitching at home and in the L3 ... -
A Study of the Translation of Humour in the Sitcom "How I Met Your Mother"
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-07)The main objective of this piece of research is to analyse the translation’s impact on TV shows once they are translated into a target language. In many cases, the essence of humour is lost in the translation process, due ... -
A study on interactive whiteboards used to teach grammar to young english learners
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-08)The aim of this final undergraduate dissertation is to determine if the use of Interactive Whiteboards when teaching English grammar to young learners is more effective and motivational than the use of traditional ... -
A study on language use and language attitudes by arabs living in Spain
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-15)Multilingualism is already a key concept when dealing with languages around the world and the Arab population in the Valencian Community, Spain, is a clear example of the presence of more than one language living in a ...