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A Practical Corpus-based Approach to Teaching English for Tourism
(Australian International Academic Centre, 2014-01)
The benefits derived from the use of corpora in the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) class seem out of question
nowadays despite being a challenging task both for teachers and learners. Learning through a corpus-based ...
English for specific purposes in spanish higher education settings: a diagnostic focus on students‟ preliminary language awareness, attitudes and expectations
(Academy Publisher, 2012)
The present study tries to illustrate and analyse the initial or preliminary level of ‘ESP awareness’
that Spanish students from different scientific degrees have when first joining an ESP course. It also seeks to
examine ...
The formation of the image of top-ranked hotels through real online customer reviews: a corpus-based study of evaluative adjectives as image-formers/providers
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013)
This study is grounded on a corpus-based analysis of evaluative adjectives as hotel image-formers/providers
conducted from a multifaceted yet complementary perspective which departs from the notion of destination
image ...
Mitigating e-mail requests in teenagers’ first and second language academic cyber-consultation
(De Gruyter, 2013)
The study analyses teenagers’ e-mail requests during academic cyber-consultation, exploring how the performance of request modifiers is influenced by participants’ perceptions of the degree of imposition of the speech act ...
University research and practices in the field of special needs: an overview
(Fundación Infancia y Aprendizaje, 2020)
Training and research in special educational needs (SENs) are crucial in order to properly implement strategies that foster inclusive education at university. Today more than ever, education is connected to new job ...
Mastering Presenters by Means of Visual Aids: Assessing Students' Oral Presentations
(David Publishing, 2013-05)
The introduction of the ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in education has set a new paradigm in knowledge acquisition. The Internet, overhead projectors and interactive boards, presentation and animation ...
Teachers’ awareness and beliefs towards corrective feedback in L2 pragmatics
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2023)
Nurses presenting in English: Needs and requirements in the Spanish University
(University of Belgrade. Faculty of Economics, 2021-01-16)
Disseminating nursing research in English is always a difficult task when English is
not a primary language. In the case of Spanish nurses, the literature suggests that
while nurses are starting to get used to the idea ...
Commentary on Copp Mökkönen dissertation summary
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2013-09)
The summary of Alicia Copp Mökkonen’s dissertation presents a timely phenomenon that has received increasing interest in the last twenty years (Schieffelin and Ochs, 1996; Duff, 2012), namely that of language socialization ...
Children's books by canonical authors in the EFL classroom
(Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE), 2020-10-27)
Students’ imperfect grasp of the target language is cited by educators as one of the main tenets and conundrums against the use of real literature in the EFL classroom. However, previous reviews have proven that children ...