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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 ... -
Translating Realia (Spanish- English): Translating Strategies [El Tapeo]
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-15)Translating culture constitutes a great challenge for translators, who have to bear in mind that the way something is translated will affect the target culture (TC) reader’s perception and understanding of the source ... -
Translation of english film titles into spanish and russian: a comparative study
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-14)Inasmuch as translation of movie titles from English into Spanish and Russian has not received much attention, the aim of the present paper is to analyse the techniques applied to translate English film titles into Spanish ... -
Two arts come together as one: Painting in Girl Reading
Universitat Jaume I (2017-10-02)Painting and literature are usually two different art branches, however, in this paper they will be studied altogether in order to identify the different approaches to the art of painting within the art of literature. ... -
Type and frequency of English : using learning strategies in written tests by Spanish students from British Schools
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-09)With the boost of human psychology, the relation between teaching and learning has characterized the students’ motivation of a second language and its affection in behaviorism within the educational system. In this sense, ... -
Use of Dictionaries in Secondary Education: A Didactic Unit to Introduce Different Types of Dictionaries
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)Nowadays, language students do not pay enough attention to the importance of how to use a dictionary, the correct use of them and the full range of dictionaries that are available to them. The aim of this project is to ... -
Use of Metaphors in Scientific Domains: The Case of The Big Bang Theory, a Multimodal Analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-10)Metaphors are one of the most paramount figures of speech in language use and their application dates back to Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC) and Rhetoric (c. ~400 BC). They consist in understanding entities by means ... -
Using English to escape the pandemic: An educational escape room proposal
Universitat Jaume I (2020-09-13)In the last few years, the development of technologies has brought new methodologies to the field of education. One of them is gamification, the use of game elements in contexts different from games (Deterding, Khaled, ... -
Using innovative resources to teach English for students with special needs
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-07)This paper discusses various approaches related to the term Special Educational Needs (SEN) in relation to hospital admissions. SEN in hospitals could be considered a new field of special needs that are essential for those ... -
Verbal behavior by Skinner under Chomsky's review
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-07)In some articles like “ Formal Analysis and Functional Analysis of Verbal Behavior: Notes on the Debate between Chomsky and Skinner” (1976) and “The case against B. F. Skinner 45 years later: An encounter with N. Chomsky” ... -
Violence and abuse in Maya Angelou's autobiography: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-03)The aim of this dissertation is to reflect upon the effects of abuse, racism, and segregation on the African-American community through the analysis of the autobiographical novel by Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged ... -
Vocabulary Acquisition Through Video Games: a Visual Approach
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-19)The purpose of this research is to investigate acquisition of English vocabulary analysing the benefits exerted by video games in English at the present time. Video games can be considered an additional tool in order to ... -
Vocalic changes in the geordie dialect : Auf wiedersehen, Pet
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-15)This paper describes the phonological variations and changes in the vowel system in Geordie dialect, a Northern English dialect spoken in Newcastle upon Tyne by the analysis of the BBC TV show, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. It ... -
Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye . Beauty standards and their influence on the main characters’ lives
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)White beauty standards have influenced American society and contributed to the development of racism, colorism and even, sexism. African American women have been disfavored due to their blackness, either among the white ... -
When the conversation doesn’t include you: representations of transgender identities in EFL source materials
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-04)Language has a strong symbolic power that needs to be understood in relation to its social meaning. From a poststructuralist perspective, it is through language that individuals construct and negotiate their multiple ... -
Which language skills improve the most after an Erasmus+ Programme?
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-22)Language learning is considered to be a complex process. To overcome this possibility there are international programmes people can take advantage of. Taking classes or travelling are good opportunities to learn a second ... -
Why the original version of Disney songs is not literally translated into Spanish but 'adapted'
Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-06)This work is focused on the comparative analysis of the translation from English to Spanish of several songs from Disney movies. The main objective of the study is to understand why Disney songs are not literally translated ... -
Women and education in 19th century English Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-07)This paper will focus on the analysis of several ideas that Mary Wollstonecraft addressed in her “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792) by illustrating them with examples extracted from different novels of the first ... -
Women and emancipation in Kate Chopin’s works
Universitat Jaume I (2014)In the mid-nineteenth century, more precisely in 1850, one of the most important American writers was born: Catharine O’Flaherty Faris, better known as Kate Chopin. She is considered a precursor in her times who ... -
Women in The Canterbury Tales: the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, the Second Nun, a hen and a lady falcon
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-05)In a society controlled by men, the Church and its authorities, fourteen century women had little space for their personal aspirations in life. Their submission and passivity to men controlled all the facets of their ...