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Analysing Disney Stories: How Disney Princesses are Depicted
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-25)We live in a globalised world in which what is considered politically correct is in vogue. Since childhood we understand that the knight is the one who saves the princess and not vice versa. Throughout this paper, sexism ... -
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 ...
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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 ...
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A review of the CLIL approach: a proposal for the content subject of Biology
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-30)We live in a world in which global communications take place every day. So, English teaching does not have to be limited to the study of its structure, but to the study of English in different situations for being able to ...
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An overview of the methods and approaches in language teaching: a reading proposal based on a TBLT approach
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-30)The aim of this paper is to introduce a Reading Proposal that presents the English language in a more real an authentic way than the readings implemented in traditional contexts and more teacher-centered classrooms. In ...
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Female characters in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09)The purpose of this project is to develop a critical analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer's the Canterbury Tales, focused on the representation of the female characters as narrators and main characters of some tales. Moreover, ...
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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, ...
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Analysis and comparison of the emotions in novels of the 18th and 21st centuries
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-17)Literature has experienced considerable advances over 19th and 21st centuries. There are many aspects which characterize each period; one of them is the expression of emotions, which has been gradually altered among both ...
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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 ...
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English in Tourism: A comparative analysis of tourist texts and its main discoursal features
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-21)The aim of the present paper is to investigate some features of tourism discourse found in tourist brochures from Castellón de la Plana targeted at an English-speaker visitor. Five brochures published by the Patronato ...
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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 ...
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Mother Figures in a Selection of Maya Angelou's Autobiographical Works
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-22)The subsequent study targets the late African-American writer Maya Angelou´s first autobiographical work, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), and her seventh and last one, Mom & Me & Mom (2013), in an attempt to ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Early language learning: bilingualism
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)The 21st century is characterized as the great revolution of language learning because of the necessity to communicate and either to become a well-prepared person in a world where globalisation is a current issue. The ...
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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 ...
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Teaching motivational strategies through Folktales in the EFL classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)One of the problems that some students show in learning English is a lack of motivation. This paper focuses on teaching motivational strategies in EFL classrooms and how the traditional concept of motivation has changed ...
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Multilingualism: A focus on children
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)Multilingualism is a growing phenomenon of importance due to the development of globalisation during the centuries, provoking that many languages are exposed to people in today’s different communities. Therefore, this ...
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Affective factors in SLA: a focus on motivation
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)Affective factors play a very important role in learners' language achievement. In this paper, I want to investigate both influence and effect degrees of these factors, mainly motivation, over students along their second ...
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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 ...
