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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 ... -
The lord and the ring: morality, ethics and religion in “The lord of the rings”
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-23)J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings are names that will not only sound familiar, but also inspire a deep feeling of respect to any fantasy fan. It would be rare to find someone who has not heard of Tolkien and his ... -
The loss of brain and heart in dystopian worlds: totalitarian control of the mind and emotions in “Nineteen eighty-four” and “Brave new world”
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-18)The dystopian novel is a genre that has gained importance as a branch of science fiction especially at the beginning of the 20th century. Authors such as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have made this literary genre reach ... -
The missing link between multilingualism and education
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)It is not a novelty that the term multilingualism has acquired a powerful influence in the actual world and society through the recent years. Nowadays, multilingualism has become a daily issue of debate in the educational ... -
The Modern Zombie and its Origins in Lovecraft's Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-25)In modern culture zombies are now in the mainstream. They have become an important element in films, books and TV series recently. This paper aims to analyse the modern zombie and also the Lovecraftian zombie as a possible ... -
The Monster in the Closet: Representation of Homosexual Desire in American Gothic Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-11)Gothic fiction, as of late, has been associated with having homosexual connotations. In this paper, this phenomenon will be explored profusely through the analysis of three short stories by three different authors of the ... -
The Odyssey and The Great Gatsby in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-14)The present dissertation will present the exploration of the literary references regarding Homer’s Odysseyand The Great Gatsbythat are found in the twenty-firstcentury graphic novel titled Fun Home. The ... -
“The owl and the nightingale” and “The parliament of fowls” : a comparison and contrast of old english words and borrowings in two mediaeval poems
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)Borrowing is basically a process whereby a word from one language enters a different language. Various reasons try to give an account of the motivation behind the loan of words, such as completing missing information or ... -
The Pedagogical role of subtitles in foreign language learning
Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-06)The present study pursues to demonstrate how subtitles can adopt a pedagogical role in the foreign language learning process. Additionally, this study seeks the implementation of subtitles outside the educational environment ... -
The Phonological Evolution of current spoken English: a case study
Universitat Jaume I (2014)The present project aimed at examining the innovative phonological features of current spoken English. In order to accomplish this intricate task, several theoretical sections were introduced as essential background ... -
The portrayal of intergenerational bilingual contexts in TV seriesfrom a multimodal perspective: the case ofthe Villanueva familyin Jane the Virgin
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-09)Over the last few decades, television and film companies have started to show more linguistic diversity in their productionsby portraying bilingual and even multilingual scenariosin anattemptto ... -
The portrayal of melancholy in Hamlet
Universitat Jaume I (2017)This project is going to focus on one of the greatest and most complex plays of the English literature, Hamlet. The purpose of this research is to study the role of melancholy in this play, in particular, how melancholy ... -
The potential of sitcoms to present refusals in extended discourse
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-02)Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of teaching the speech act of refusals in classroom settings since their face-threatening nature complicates their attainment (Fernández-Guerra, 2013). In this vein, it has ... -
The power of alienation: an analysis of George Orwell's 1984
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-14)Totalitarianism is the most detrimental regime a society can have as it stops citizens from having freedom, personal identity and individualism, which eventually leads to the alienation of individuals and the destruction ... -
The Power of Visual Metaphors on Political Propaganda during 1929 and 1935
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-11)Metaphors are not only used as a rhetorical figure concerning a literary ornament, but they are actually employed in our daily language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). They permeate much of our thinking and speech. The notion ... -
The Practice of Speech Acts in Textbooks
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The presence of the Supernatural in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Universitat Jaume I (2018-10-02)This article explores the supernatural in S ir Gawain and the Green Knight , a poem which lies in a 14th century manuscript. It talks about a hero who proves his courage as a knight, and nephew of King Arthur, facing the ...