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Variability in L2 acquisition of formulaic sequences: A study of linguistic factors in the use and learning of phrasal verbs by non-native speakers
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-07)
In this paper, the acquisition of phrasal verbs (PVs) by L2 learners is explored from the perspective provided by a usage-based approach to language. This involves looking at low scope or item-specific schemas, which in ...
Jacqueline Woodson’s narrative style in The Other Side: An African American picture book for children
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
The Other Side (2001) is a children’s story with multicultural characters and themes that can be regarded as an aesthetic exploration of the human experience in the process of the acquisition of knowledge. Following the ...
Koritha Mitchell. Living with Lynching
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
Diasporic dialogues: The role of gender, language, and revision in the neo-slave narrative
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
In this article I examine the creation of neo-slave narratives, or fictional texts written in the 20th and 21st centuries, yet set during an imagined period of American slavery or indentured servitude. In these novels the ...
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 ...
Michael Rundell. Macmillan Collocations Dictionary for Learners of English
(Universitat Jaume I, 2011-12)
Dubbing television advertisements across cultures and languages: A case study of English and Arabic
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2022)
The differences between Arab and English cultures make the task of Translating English advertisements into Arabic challenging. This study investigates the strategies used by translators to dub English advertisements into ...
Do top-down and bottom-up agents agree on internationalisation? A mixed methods study of Spanish universities
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2022)
This paper explores the implementation of internationalisation in the Spanish university system and its effects from a mixed methods approach, combining quantitative corpus linguistics techniques and qualitative interview ...
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 ...
Insights into the subtitling of films from Arabic into Spanish
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2021)
Audiovisual translation studies (AVT) have experienced an exponential growth in the last twenty years, have consolidated proven analysis methodologies, and attracted the interest mainly of Western scholars. It is interesting ...