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E-lexicografía pedagógica especializada: Necesidades y usos en el campo del inglés científico-técnico
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso: Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje., 2016)
El objetivo principal de este artículo es determinar el uso dado por los estudiantes así como la percepción que éstos tienen de una herramienta a menudo desaprovechada, mal empleada e incluso infravalorada como es el ...
18th century scientific writing: A study of make complex predicates in the Coruña Corpus
(International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, 2008)
Complex predicates formed by the verb make plus a noun are suitable for being
studied historically with very interesting results, as it was observed in previous
literature. However, our interest lies in tracing, comparing ...
The presentation of self in résumés: an intercultural approach
(Università degli Studi di Foggia, 2008)
In this paper, résumés in two languages and two cultures, Peninsular Spanish and
American English, are analysed. For this qualitative analysis, we have relied on the
dual perspective proposed by Flowerdew (2005) which ...
Exploring the role of strategy instruction on learners? ability to write authentic email requests to faculty
(Sage, 2022-01-07)
This study used a pre-test post-test research design to investigate the role of explicit strategy instruction on Spanish English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ ability to write authentic email requests to faculty. ...
Teaching the pragmatics of English as an international language: A focus on pragmatic markers
(Sage, 2021-12-29)
The current era of globalization and emergence of English as an international language (EIL) has brought about new opportunities for L2 pragmatic learning and teaching. The common view of pragmatic learning as an approximation ...
Modal density in structuring segments containing organizational metadiscourse versus content sequences
(ESP Today, 2022-01-18)
Organizational metadiscourse in lectures helps to facilitate comprehension and is
frequently found in structuring segments placed in between content sequences. In
contrast, content sequences are those parts of the discourse ...
The multilingual turn in pragmatics: Is the use of hedges and attitude markers shared across languages in trilingual writing?
(John Benjamins, 2022-02-01)
In the Valencian Community in Spain, the coexistence of Spanish and Catalan as co-official languages and English as a foreign language, which is learned as a third language (L3), shapes a unique multilingual setting. This ...
Language Teacher Educators’ Identity Construction through Teaching and Supporting Action Research: A Trioethnographic Study
(SAGE Publications, 2023)
Action research is a form of inquiry that allows language educators to understand and improve their own practice. The literature suggests that language teachers can employ it as a self-led and self-directed source of ...
Integrating the Speech Act of Refusals in the Instructed Setting
(Universidad de Vigo, 2012)
The purpose of this paper is to provide aninstructional approach for the integration of a particularpragmatic aspect, specifically, the speech act of refusals.To do that, the paper begins with a description of ...