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A Multimodal evaluation of Malala Yousafzai's speech at Harvard University
Universitat Jaume I (2014)Through language speakers express thoughts, experiences, feelings, values and attitudes. Nevertheless, language is not only verbal communication, as multiple devices are included in interaction in order to make something ... -
A study in vowels: Comparing phonetic difficulties between languages
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2018)Decade after decade language learning still proves difficult for EFL learners all around the world. Countries are consistently having the same phonetic problems they had. This article wants to present two ... -
A study on language use and language attitudes by Arabs living in Spain
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2016)Multilingualism is a key concept when dealing with languages around the world. The Arab population in the Valencian Community, Spain, is a clear example of the presence of more than one language coexisting within the same ... -
An Analysis of Blogs in Communicative Classrooms: Exploring its Potential
Universitat Jaume I (2014)The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in language learning and teaching has greatly increased in the last decade. Among the different technological tools used in the learning process, blogs have ... -
An analysis of second life in foreign language learning and teaching: exploring its potential
Universitat Jaume I (2013)The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in language learning and teaching has greatly increased in the last decade. Among the different technological tools used in the learning process, virtual worlds ... -
An experimental comparison of cognitive versus traditional approaches to teaching the prepositions: in, on, at
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2018)When learning a new language, prepositions are as commonly used as they are difficult to master. In the Spanish learning context, the first and most common prepositions to be taught in Secondary Educati ... -
Analysing formality and informality in the speech act of requesting in emails from the field of maritime English
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2018)The globalization of trade and the removal of linguistic barriers led to the development of English for Business Purposes (EBP), as used in the business world and its communication processes. Email correspondence ... -
Analysing the speech act of refusing in the TV show Grey’s Anatomy
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2016)Appropriate refusal interactions may be a difficult task for learners of English in a foreign context since they tend to apply the pragmatic rules of their native language to the target language. As a consequence, they may ... -
Analysis of prepositions: near and away from Frames of reference.
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2017)Traditional strategies and procedures to learn a foreign language include the study of rules of grammar and doing exercises such as filling the gaps, repetition of words, drills, memorization of irregular verbs ... -
Analysis of the correlation between self-perceived linguistic competence and language attitudes in the Valencian multilingual context
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2018)Language learning, language use and language attitudes are narrowly interrelated concepts, whose significance becomes even more relevant in diglossic settings involving a majority, a minority and a foreign ... -
Applying semantic frames to effective vocabulary teaching in the EFL classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2014)This study intends to shed some light on the advantages Cognitive Semantics can provide to vocabulary teaching in EFL (English as a Foreign Language), by describing how our knowledge is organized and what cognitive ... -
Are the female characters stereotyped in king lear as demonised or sanctified women?
Universitat Jaume I (1999) -
Cajun Vernacular English. A study over a reborn dialect
Universitat Jaume I (2012) -
Challenging Darl Bundren’s insanity: A study on trauma
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2018)William Faulkner’s fifth novel, As I Lay Dying (1930) (henceforth AILD) is the author’s tour the force as he delves into the depths of the family sphere and skilfully portrays the complex, almost patholo ... -
Comparing phonetic difficulties by EFL learners from Spain and Japan.
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2017)After decades of improving language learning methods, English as a Foreign Language (hereafter EFL) still makes Spanish and Japanese learners struggle with the correct pronunciation. Each country ... -
Comparing the use of valencian, castilian and english in public universities' web pages of the valencian community
Universitat Jaume I (2003) -
Comprehensible input and learning outcomes
Universitat Jaume I (1996)In Krashen’s terms, optimal input has to be comprehensible to the learner if we want acquisition to take place. An overview of the literature on input indicates two ways of making input comprehensible: the first one is ... -
Computers and their role for the teaching/learning languages
Universitat Jaume I (1996) -
Conrad’s Horror in Eliot’s Waste Land
Universitat Jaume I (2004) -
Controlling time is power: An analysis of filmic metaphors in the Lotus advertisement «Shine»
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2018)Generally speaking, when talking about metaphors, the first thing that comes to our minds is that they are figures of speech whose main aim is to embroider and beautify the meaning of ...