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Strategic construal of in and out in English particle verbs (PVs)
Universitat Jaume I (2011-12)The central aim of this work is to describe the strategic construal of in and out in English particle verbs. The term strategic construal assumes the following: 1) exploration of strategic thinking in L2 learning and ... -
Strategies of Subtitling Egyptian Idiomatic Expressions and Proverbs into English
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2023)Several platforms, such as Netflix, offer subtitles of different works and movies in several languages, including Arabic and English. In this study, the researchers discuss the strategies used to overcome the challenges ... -
Students’ perceptions on learning independence: how self-regulated learning strategy helps?
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2022)This study aims to determine the effects of a self-regulated learning strategy on students’ independence in Literal Reading education. Literal Reading is an educational course working on literal comprehension and assigned ... -
Suburbia as a Narrative Space in the Cinematic Universe of Douglas Sirk
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2021)Douglas Sirk, now fully recognized as an influential filmmaker, was considered a successful but uninteresting director in the 1950s. His melodramas were considered bland and subsequently ignored because they focused on ... -
Sustainable development goals and transversal competences through L2/3 virtual exchange
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2024)This pilot study explores the effects of virtual exchange in the higher education setting. The core goal is to investigate the potential new training environments in second or third-language learning and relate their use ... -
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Teacher Targets: A model for CLIL and ELF teacher education in polytechnic settings
(2013)The objective of this paper is to present an alternative model for CLIL/ELF teacher education, called the Teacher Target Model, which may help hard-science teachers undertake English-medium instruction more efficiently. ... -
Teacher’s feedback vs. computer-generated feedback: A focus on articles
(2018)As attested by a vast number of studies, in the process of second/foreign language acquisition feedback plays an important role as it may trigger learners’ noticing of the mismatch between their interlanguage and the target ... -
Teaching apps for the learning of language through sports: Technology and sports in the English and Spanish as a L2/FL classroom
(2017)This paper presents a selection of teaching apps for the teaching and learning of both English and Spanish through sports. In the frame of a funded research project on Applied Linguistics to the teaching of modern languages ... -
Tertiary education learning outcomes, a case study: “You want us to think!”
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2021)Present perceptions about the poor production of university students in the last decades might be the same other professors had in previous centuries. Nonetheless, more corseting forms of assessment and the irruption of ... -
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: a European framework for foreign language speech development?
(2014)This paper explores the representation of speech development and particularly perceptive skills in the CEFR level descriptions. The speech-related CEFR sections and related level descriptions are vague and none of the ... -
The effect of L4 on translation students’ L1/L2 writing scripts
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2021)The aim of this study was to determine whether learning how to use certain microparametric aspects – adverbial pronouns – in L4 (French) had an effect on students’ L1/L2 (Catalan) writing scripts. The study was conducted ... -
The impact of peer assessment on the attainment level of oral presentations skills
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2020)The aim of contemporary language for specific purposes (LSP) is to prepare students for independent and competent performance in the globalised world of English as a lingua franca, with oral presentations as an indispensable ... -
The modal forms 'must' and 'should' in English academic discourse by Spanish postgraduates
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2023)This paper presents a corpus linguistic study investigating the use and functions of the modal verbs, must and should, in academic discourse. The study analyses a corpus of doctoral dissertations within two distinct fields ... -
The Translation of Neapolitan mafia nicknames in the TV series 'Gomorra' into English and Spanish
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2023)This study deals with the translation for subtitling and dubbing of a type of Italian expression called contronomi traditionally used by members of the Neapolitan mafia. We have focused on this special kind of nickname ... -
The use and abuse of language by a Chicano from Aztlán (both words unknown)
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The voice of the cypresses. Cyrus Cassells and the poetry of Salvador Espriu
Universitat Jaume I (2012-12)“To the cypress again and again” is Cyrus Cassells’s poetic response to the work of Salvador Espriu, a poet whose reception has been limited by his belonging to a minority culture and his commitment to the Catalan language. ... -
Topological vs. lexical determination in English particle verbs (PVs)
Universitat Jaume I (2011-12)The central aim of this work is to describe semantic determination, i.e., topological vs. lexical determination, by investigating aspects of construal (Langacker 1987) in English PVs with in and out. The paper focuses on ... -
Transitive phrasal verbs in acquisition and use: A view from construction grammar
Universitat Jaume I (2012-07)This paper surveys a number of aspects involved in viewing transitive phrasal verbs as verb-particle constructions in the construction-grammar sense of the term. The two word-order templates Verb-Object-Particle and ...