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Teachers’ background and attitudes towards CLIL in secondary education
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-19)The ability to express and communicate appropriately in English has become an imperative requirement in society, which is typified by internationality and mobility across countries. Within this context, Content and ... -
Adulthood and motivation: an approach to foreign language learning
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-19)In this project I am going to present the different aspects we have to bear in mind whwn teaching a doreign language (in this case English). Thus, it is essential to know the different characteristics of our students as ... -
The Relevance of Dance in Jane Austen’s Novels
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-19)This paper presents the importance of dance in the great majority of Jane Austen’s novels. In the first place, I describe the epoch in which Austen, who is considered by many critics, one of the most outstanding writers ... -
The Linguistic sitacion of Scotland: a study on Scots, Gaelic and Scottish English
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-20)The aim of this study was to analyze the linguistic situation in which Scotland is involved nowadays offering first a diachronic perspective of the main languages spoken in the country and then a sociolinguistic approach ... -
Popular science: A new genre within academic writing?
Universitat Jaume I (2014-09-24)The objective of academic writing is the presentation of new knowledge via (a) a review of what is currently known about a given topic as (b) the foundation for the author's new views or perspectives on the topic' ... -
Boxing and chess confronted: an insight into conceptual metaphor theory and blending theory
Universitat Jaume I (2014-09-24)Recent studies in Cognitive Linguistics suggest that the perception of metaphor has changed significantly since the end of the 20th century. As a consequence, several authors have written theories about metaphor ... -
Specialised language of science and technology and communication
Universitat Jaume I (2014-09-24)This paper has a twofold objective. On the one hand, it tries to describe the specific linguistic features that allow differentiation between general and specialised scientific and technical language. On the other hand, ... -
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 ... -
Teaching literature through the thinking routines
Universitat Jaume I (2015)Literature is an expression of life through the medium of language. Taken to mean only written works, literature was first produced by some of the world's earliest civilizations—those of Ancient Egypt and Sumeria—as early ... -
Spanish as a second language in two english schools : a case study
Universitat Jaume I (2015)The aim of this project is to provide a portrait of second language learning in a foreign country (England) and to have an overall point of view about language learning in England from students. In the same line, Language ... -
Reviewing the history of language teaching : emphasizing on the role of the teacher
Universitat Jaume I (2015)The main aim of this work relies on the revision of every existing method so far in order to carry out the analysis of the several and different roles that teachers have performed along the history referring second language ... -
The Irishness of Irish Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2015)Both Ireland’s literary history and how such a small country could produce such a vast amount of prestigious writers are aspects that have been of interest to many. The basis of this research was to, first of all, briefly ... -
Surveillance and Language Manipulation in "1984"
Universitat Jaume I (2015)This paper presents the importance of surveillance and language manipulation in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. In the first section, I provide a brief introduction about how the thesis is going to be arranged, ... -
English for professional purposes : english for footballers
Universitat Jaume I (2015)Communication in football is key. Football professionals not only have to understand and be understood by their teammates, they also have to confront several TV and press interviews during their football careers. Lots of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Women's roles in Shakespeare's times and works
Universitat Jaume I (2015-05-25)The aim of this paper is to present the role of women in Renaissance period, as well as the role they assumed in some of Shakespeare’s works. In the first place, I expose, in a general view, the status of women in this ... -
Men and women in discourse: An experiment on gender identification in discourse
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06)Diverse studies on how men and women make use of discourse (Lakoff, 1975; Coates, 1993) have obtained certain features that appear to characterise male and female texts. Nevertheless, it seems difficult to find a system ... -
Tim's Burton's Interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland: A Sequel with a New Alice
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06)This paper presents a comparative study between Alice in Wonderland movie by Tim Burton (2010) and the books by Lewis Carroll, on which it is based A lice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and A lice Through the ...