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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 ...
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 ...
Methodology for the process of validating qualifications i n the Basque language and their adaptation to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
(2014)
In the Basque Country there are currently more than
140,000 people with accredited qualifications that
certify their knowledge of Euskara (Basque Language
). These qualifications have been issued by a ...
Table of Contents
(2014)
Audiovisual translation tools for the assessment of hard of hearing students
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2020)
The Spanish University requires all its students to reach a specific level in a foreign language, as part of the requisites to obtain their degrees. At present, there is a lack of homogeneity in the criteria set for the ...
Learning vocabulary for IELTS academic reading: An evaluation of some pedagogical materials
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2020)
A large receptive vocabulary could have a significant impact on scores in the IELTS Academic Reading test. However, the lack of official information about vocabulary in this test raises questions regarding how lexis is ...
English in the linguistic landscape of Thailand: A case study of public signs in Hat Yai
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2020)
During the last decades, English has become an international language in all kinds of contexts, including business and tourism, and Asian linguistic landscapes are a good reflection of this phenomenon. This paper focuses ...
Motivation and constraints of illocution in the lexical constructional model: the case of the Aux NP construction
(2014)
This article addresses the motivation and constraints of illocutionary meaning production. Within the
framework of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), I explore how our knowledge of illocution is
understood in terms ...
An investigation of scaffolding strategies to support structured inquiry language teaching to novice learners in a primary school setting
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2020)
Se cree que el Aprendizaje Basado en la Indagación (IBL, por sus siglas en inglés) proporciona una instrucción útil y significativa de la L2 gracias a su enfoque contextualizado y experimental. El IBL, que ha ganado ...
Implicatures in the Tweets of Climate Change Skeptics
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2023)
The article attempts to provide a speech act analysis of tweets which are posted by climate change skeptics. It argues that their deliberate flouting and violation of Grice’s Cooperative Principle show that substitute overt ...