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The role of languages in the affective connections of bilingual families: A mother’s perspective
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-04)Swain (1972) proposed that bilingualism is the new first language for those children who, when born, acquire two languages simultaneously, due to the fact that they are part of a bilingual family. At present, these types ... -
The Role of Motivation in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-26)Motivation is one of the most relevant factors for successful second language learning. First, we will define the concept of motivation, discuss some of the major theories of motivation in learning and explain how ... -
The role of Supernatural in Beowulf
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-04)This article explores the supernatural in the epic poem Beowulf, which lies in a manuscript dated between the 8th and 12th century. It talks about Beowulf, son of Hygelac, king of the Jutes. From a young age, he showed ... -
The role of women in Shakespearean tragedies
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)The role of women in Shakespeare’s Works is an important issue to take into account due to the different stereotypes that reflect the end of the sixteenth century. This article explores the particular feminine roles that ... -
The role of women represented in Cosmopolitan magazine
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-21)This paper examines the role of women represented in the famous magazine Cosmopolitan. Nowadays, feminism is an increasing movement in our society. Despite this fact, women are usually portrayed in magazines as an object ... -
The role of written corrective feedback on FL learners: A teaching proposal to implement error correction in the classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-12)The effect of error correction in the acquisition of a second or foreign language has been studied extensively in recent years. Theorists and researchers have become interested in analysing to what extent corrective feedback ... -
The runic alphabet evolution, variables and connotations for the english language
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-05)The aim of this research is to focus on how the runic alphabet has changed in its evolution from oral to written system, mainly in its three variables as it is the Elder Furthark or Anglo-Saxon, Younger Furthark or ... -
The Unacknowledged Nineteenth Century Woman: The Portrayal of the Governess in Victorian Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-08)The Victorian era was characterised for being a period of changes not only in technology, politics and economy but also in society, primarily with the growth of the middle class. This fact enabled the proliferation of a ... -
The use of innovative technologies in the English language classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)The area of English language instruction is very dynamic and, during decades, teaching methods have evolved continuously, changing from one to the other and looking for the perfect way to teach a language. Nowadays, with ... -
The use of subframes and inheritances
Universitat Jaume I (2019-11-01)Frame semantics has been often brought as a topic of discussion during the past and most recent years, given its potential to explain how the several concepts of lexical units group and interact among themselves. Through ... -
The Younger the Better? Learning a Foreign Language in the 21st Century
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-10)This paper presents a renewed perspective on the relationship between the age at which a foreign language begins to be studied and its successful learning. It is universally acknowledged that learning a foreign language ... -
Theoretical Conditions for Learning Pragmatic Competence:Pedagogical Applications
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-18)Linguistic competence as postulated by Noam Chomsky (1965) has long been questioned and today a number of researchers and scholars view language acquisition as something more than a sheer mastery of grammatical competence. ... -
“They´re full of wicked wiles!”: analysing language to raise classroom awareness of gender stereotypes in Disney films.
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)The aim of the present study is to analyze how women are stereotyped in the Media, specifically in Disney films, and how this is reinforced through language, to construct gendered identities. Moreover, the objective of ... -
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 ... -
Too Cool for the School: EFL Learners’ Perception of SNS as Good Slang-Learning Spaces and their Views on English-Language Slang Inclusion in Instructed Contexts
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-25)This study investigated the out-of-school contact with slang in Social Networking Sites (SNS) and the need for teaching English-language slang in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructional settings. In order to ... -
Too young to flip? A study of the flipped classroom in Spain and its effectiveness across age
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-03)In recent years, the ICTs developments have opened new outlooks for language teaching and learning, offering students the possibility to learn at almost any time and any place. In the case of Spain, there is growing ... -
Top Girls and Pygmalion seen from the feminist prism
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-25)The present paper aims to study and analyse the female characters on two different British plays that belong to the 20th century. This analysis will be made from a feminist perspective, that is to say, the named analysis ... -
Transferring culture-bound terminology in literary texts: a comparative approach
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-11)Through this paper, Transferring Culture-Bound Terminology in Literary Texts: A Comparative Approach, a comparison and contrast of cultural references appearing in two English literary texts and its translations into ... -
Transition from High School to University: The Case of the English Studies Degree Students at Universitat Jaume I
Universitat Jaume I (2020-11-11)Transition from secondary school to university is a vital experience that affects students in very different ways. The first year at the university carries considerable challenges for every student, not only academically ... -
Translanguaging as a new trend in multilingual education
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-08)Traditionally, teaching and learning languages have been carried out from a monolingual perspective. The past methods of the 20th century focused on the language itself instead of the learners and their needs. That is ...