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Self-motivation strategies in second language learning
Universitat Jaume I (2017)In the field of Applied Linguistics, the acquisition of languages has become the object of study of numerous investigations. In fact, a great number of works have focused on the acquisition of foreign and second languages. ... -
Self-Sacrifice vs Self-Preservation in Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-07)Thomas Hardy is distinguished by the controversy created by his special portrayal of the Victorian woman. Aiming at detaching the female figure from the contemporary ideal of the perfect and pure woman, his heroines are ... -
Serials for Integrating Pragmatics in EFL Educational Contexts: A Research-based Proposal for Developing Refusals
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)Over the span of the last few decades, pragmatics has risen to prominence amongst linguistics literature. Pragmatics, the study of meaning in interaction, happens to be pivotal when developing educational curricula from a ... -
Sexual Repression vs. Sexual Openness in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-04)The African-American Civil Rights Revolution during the 60s unleashed a period of general awakening where fundamental rights started to beclaimed for marginal collectives, especially for the LGBTQcommunity. Homosexual ... -
Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its cinema adaptations an analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-08)The longest and best of the Bard’s tragedies is well known all over the world. However, depending on the eye of the beholder, Hamlet is seen in different ways. Basically, to adapt what is undoubtedly the greatest work in ... -
Show’em the Ropes: The Importance of Teaching ‘Slang’ in EFL Settings
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-06)Slang has made its way into our everyday language and nowadays even dictionaries add words like Google, emoji and selfie. Slang language determines the way one community of speakers adapts to linguistic arising needs. ... -
Skype in the classroom: A necessary web tool connecting cultures all over the world
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-12)For a long time, information and communication technologies have been breaking into society and directly influencing the lives of people. The incorporation of these new technologies has revolutionized several fields, but ... -
Slang Knowledge among Spanish Students of English
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-15)Defining and studying slang has always been a difficult task because of its oral use and limited written records. It is a lexicon known and used by native English communities of speakers but it is unknown the knowledge ... -
Social networking: the evolution of the English language
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-17)This paper reports on the results of an innovative study about a social networking tool and its influence on the English language. The exploratory study, framed within a conventional collection data approach compiled ... -
Social Networks: New Patterns of Language
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-16)In recent years, due to the increase of the use of technologies, there have been different opinions about its use and its effects. The present paper aims to explore the aspects of the use of technology in different cases. ... -
“Something was set between the words and the world”: Trauma and Testimony in the Poetry of World War II
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-07)Research in trauma theory in literature has gained prominence in the last couple of decades, especially since 1996, with the publication of Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience and Tal’s Worlds of Hurt. Trauma studies, however, ... -
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 ... -
Spanish speakers of English as a Foreing Language current pronunciation errors: The case of /ʃ/ /ʒ/ and /v/
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)The process of learning English as a foreign language can be challenging for some Spanish learners (Carrillo, & Gayoso, 2008) because it involves acquiring and developing new skills including reading, writing, listening ... -
Spanish teenagers’ acquisition of english as a foreign language: a focus on L1 influence
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-07)The main objective of this dissertation is to examine specific L1 transfer errors from three different groups of secondary school learners of English as a foreign language, as well as to determine the general view of ... -
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, ... -
Spoken Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom
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Study of potential application of literary texts in language teaching
Universitat Jaume I (2014)The following academic paper deals with acknowledging the potential application in incorporating literary texts in language classes as a tool to teach English as a second language, the paper will also focus on discussing ... -
Study on language attrition
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-19)Nowadays, people do not know if they are or not aware of one of the most significant issues of immigrant population across different countries; the contact among languages in dissimilar situations can affect the skills of ... -
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, ... -
Symbolism in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-11)The aim of this paper is to present an interpretative analysis of the imagery and symbolism in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. This analysis has been undertaken from a feminist perspective while always taking the reader ...