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The Elizabethan Era Nowadays: analysis of the role of women in Shakespeare’s drama from a contemporary perspective
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-18)The aim of this paper is focused on the importance of the role of women in Shakespeare’s drama from a contemporary point of view. Thus, it is necessary to analyze the society in which Shakespeare was born and by which he ... -
“The Eve of St. Agnes”: a Celebration of Enchantment
Universitat Jaume I (2017-05-07)The use of the imagination is one of the main features that can be seen in the poetry of the Romantic period but it is also present in the narratives of the Gothic genre. One of the most well-known Romantic poets, John ... -
The evolution of English diphthongs as a reflection of the process of standardisation of the language: A case study of the Bible
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-11)This paper is going to focus mainly on the phonological and lexical changes that the English language suffered all over the centuries as a reflection of the Great Vowel Shift (GVS). As a main point of reference to realise ... -
The evolution of the theories of SLA: Implementing interaction through teaching
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)Throughout the years, a process that has captivated many human beings is that of first language acquisition. Researchers find interesting how our brain evolves to acquire a first language without previous knowledge. ... -
The Excalibur Legend in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-05)The medieval Age era, was characterised by a historical and literary context, where several changes passed throughout Europe. These social and political consequences were reflected in the society and literature of that ... -
"The Great Gatsby": Society, symbolism and style
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-24)The aim of this essay is to analyse The Great Gatsby and the main themes that the novel considers. This literary work depicts a realistic situation of the social classes’ nature and how they behave during the historical ... -
The Hate U Give: Identity and Blackness
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-26)The aim of this dissertation is to investigate how identity is formed in cross-cultural environments through the analysis of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. By telling this story, the author wanted to illustrate the ... -
The impact of motivation in SLA: implementing motivational strategies following a TBLT approach
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)Globalisation has increased the peoples’ need to learn English as a FL. Therefore, the conditions of learning and teaching an L2 have changed. In addition, linguistic research has focused on SLA so that the learning and ... -
The implementation of ICT to teach pragmatics in spanish secondary schools: a focus on apologies
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-03)This paper is about teaching pragmatics challenging the traditional methods used in education. The need to teach speech acts, specifically apologies, has developed the creation of a teaching proposal. The implementation ... -
The implementation of information and communication technologies in the English language classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-12)This paper attempts to design a lesson plan that focuses on improving different language skills using a tool created for designing activities via internet, and with which students are able to interact directly, immediately ... -
The Importance of Storytelling on Communicative Events: Ted Talks Conferences
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-10)Over the course of the human communicative history, the storytelling process represented an important contributing factor in order to conform and convey different meanings, normally, not exempted of different determined ... -
The influence of anglicisms on the Spanish language of fashion
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-06)Over the last decades, Spanish has incorporated a large number of words from the English language. This could be attributed to globalization and the increasing influence of various aspects that Spanish society has adopted. ... -
The influence of bilingualism in English as a third language
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)Third Language Acquisition (TLA) is considered to be a new area of research that has got the attention of many scholars (Cenoz, 2001; De Angelis, 2007, among others). There has been plenty of discrepancies regarding this ... -
The influence of Edgar Allan Poe on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories: an analysis of selected tales
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-05)The detective story has been and continues to be, enormously popular in our literary landscape. “It is read, either aggressively or shamefacedly by nearly everyone, and it must be, at the present moment, the most popular ... -
The Influence of Individual Differences in the Learning Process: The Case of Language Learning Strategies
Universitat Jaume I (2017)Due to the phenomenon of globalization, an increasing interest in learning languages has recently arisen. As a consequence, many scholars have devoted their efforts to the study of linguistics. One of the most relevant ... -
The influence of Social Media on Gen-Z students’ knowledge of slang: How motivation and age influence this process
Universitat Jaume I (2022-06-06)Social media platforms are used worldwide by a lot of people, especially among young generations (Karthigesu et al., 2018, Pikhart & Botezat, 2021, and Dean, 2021). Specific vocabulary is used in these kinds of ... -
The Influence of YouTube on Students’ Motivation: A Comparison between Traditional and Digital EFL Environments
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-11)Students live surrounded by new technologies that are principally used to communicate. However, the use of these technologies can also be integrated into an educational environment to enhance students’ learning and feel ... -
The influence, or not, of religion on the behaviour of Shakespeare's main characters in Hamlet and Macbeth
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)The Elizabethan England, its people and the morals of the time are reflected in many of Shakespeare's plays. Conversely, religion is a subject that is not entirely defined in some of his plays. The doubts about which was ... -
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 ... -
"The Jungle Book: An approach to wild children in Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-24)The paper introduces different stories about feral children being raised by animals, since the first works of Ancient Mesopotamia, to the novels in modern prose, and names some of the diverse cases of feral children ...