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Teaching irregular verbs through interactive boards
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-06-16)
The shift that education has experimented affected in the way of teaching and learning from learning by memorizing according to the Grammar Translation Approach to a virtual learning environment. The teacher’s role changes ...
"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 ...
Scandinavian influence in Old English poetry: a study of The Battle of Brunanburh
(Universitat Jaume I, 2017)
One of the ways in which the general interest on the Viking world has
been reflected in academia is the study of the influence that the language of
these Northern peoples had in Old English during the Scandinavian ...
Persuading population through metaphors: a cognitive linguistic analysis of Obama’s and Trump’s inaugural addresses
(Universitat Jaume I, 2018-06-12)
As Lakoff & Johnson claim in their book Metaphors We Live By (1980: 3), “metaphor is typically viewed as a characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought and action”. From this affirmation, some ...
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 ...
Representation of Love against the World in Shakespeare's Plays: Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth
(Universitat Jaume I, 2018-06-05)
William Shakespeare is possibly one of the most important writers in the universal literature. Born in England in 1564, he wrote poetry and more than thirty plays, which have survived the passing of time and have become a ...
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 ...
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. ...
Information and Communication Technologies and their application in the english language classroom
(Universitat Jaume I, 2018-06-14)
With the development of new technologies and its implementation in today’s society, Information and communication technologies has become a huge influence in the way in which speech communities use written language. Thus, ...
Serials for Integrating Pragmatics in EFL Educational Contexts: A Research-based Proposal for Developing Refusals
(Universitat Jaume I, 2018-06-12)
Over the span of the last few decades, pragmatics has risen to prominence amongst linguistics literature. Pragmatics, the study of meaning in interaction, happens to be pivotal when developing educational curricula from a ...