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A Taste of Metaphor Variation: Contrasting the Metaphorical Extensions of “stew” and “guisar”
Universidad de Vilnius (Lituania) (2024)This article examines the range of metaphors activated by the cooking term stew in English and its Spanish counterpart guisar. The data were drawn from Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Corpus del Español: ... -
Academic discourse markers: A contrastive analysis of the discourse marker then in English and Spanish lectures
Universidad Camilo José Cela (2016-04)Este trabajo investiga ciertas características del discurso académico hablado, concretamente el género de la clase magistral en Inglés y Español. Algunos estudios sobre este género han analizado ... -
Academic writing and publishing: A focus on Spanish English-linguistics scholars’ self-reported attitudes, practices and perceptions as regards academic life and the creation and publication of their research articles
John Benjamins Publishing Company (2021-07-22)Among the challenges facing scholars at university today, producing quantity and quality publications with the highest possible impact is probably perceived by most of them as the greatest. This pressure places scholars ... -
Accommodating the Syllabus to Visually Impaired Students in the English Language Classroom: Challenges and Concerns
Universidad de Murcia (2021-06-29)The inclusion of students with disabilities in the education system results in content or assessment accommodations to suit the students’ special needs and to ensure they have acquired the objectives listed in the curriculum. ... -
Address Forms and Politeness Markers in Spanish Students’ Emails to Faculty
Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, AESLA (2022)In the present era of global online communication, email exchanges are one the most common means of interaction between students and professors (Tseng, 2015). However, emails may convey an impolite tone if students do ... -
Adult Brain: Game of Metaphors for Understanding the Internet
Universitat per a Majors de la Universitat Jaume I (2016)With the increasing apogee of the digital world and Internet use by older people, one may wonder how adults understand these virtual spaces. The aim of this article is to see to what extent the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor ... -
Affordances and constraints on research publication: A comparative study of the language choices of Spanish historians and psychologists
(2015-06-16)Research publication in the international arena, is crucial for multilingual scholars in most disciplinary areas. For many, among them Spanish scholars, it still represents a considerable hurdle. The findings we report ... -
Age Factor And Gender Influence When Learning Languages. A Study Of Learner’s Learning Limitations
Invention Journals (2018-05)This research has focused on how influent are gender and age when learning a second or foreign language and more specifically in English language. Participants were Spanish learners with different level and age who had ... -
La Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible en la clase de inglés para fines específicos: Una propuesta para la implementación de los ODS en el Grado en Turismo
Universidad de Valladolid (2022-09)La Agenda 2030 para el desarrollo sostenible es la hoja de ruta que promueve un cambio a nivel global fomentando la sostenibilidad y la resiliencia. A través de los 17 objetivos para el desarrollo sostenible y las 169 ... -
Alegorías de inmortalidad y género en Lucy de Luc Besson
Universitat Jaume I. Institut Universitari d'Estudis Feministes i de Gènere (2015)Entre los estrenos de 2014 destaca la película Lucy del director francés Luc Besson, producción que nos sorprende desde el punto de vista narrativo e iconográfico al presentarnos una metáfora visual de la divinidad. El ... -
Analysing the Digital World and its Metaphoricity: Cybergenres and Cybermetaphors in the 21st Century
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2019-11-06)The Internet has significantly affected the linguistic field since the virtual world has instigated scholars to explore users’ interaction with Cybergenres (Girón-García & Navarro i Ferrando, 2014; 2015). In Cognitive ... -
Analysis of the implementation of a Webquest for learning English in a secondary school in Spain
University of the West Indies (2016)In this technological era we live in, the educative scenario is changing rapidly and significantly due to the incorporation of the Internet. Therefore, education should pay special attention to society needs considering ... -
Análisis contrastivo de las traducciones al español y catalán de The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me de Roald Dalh
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (2010)The present study is a contrastive analysis of two translations into Spanish and Catalan of a children’s book in English. A multidisciplinary approach adopted to analyse both preliminary norms (external agents to the text), ... -
Análisis multimodal del discurso mediante sistemas electrónicos: Un posible avance
Instituto Cervantes (2019)Oral academic discourse is multimodal. Tus, research on this feld should study verbal and non-verbal features of speakers. Moreover, regarding university teachers, this is usually combined with emotions which can be ... -
Applying Appraisal theory for the interpretation of experienced researchers’ interviews on Open Access
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso: Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje (2022)Interviews are a recognized and valued method for obtaining research data. Usually, these data are drawn from the content of interviews. However, words and prosodic elements that accompany them may reveal complementary, ... -
Archer, A. and Breuer, E. O.: Multimodality in Higher Education
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arte@aeropuertos.com — un paseo para la imaginación
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Vicente Aguilera Cerni de Vilafamés (MACVAC) (2019-12-16)Desde la década de los setenta del pasado siglo, encontramos ejemplos de aeropuertos que han ido adquiriendo obra de artistas de reconocido prestigio que exhiben en sus instalaciones y forman parte de sus colecciones ... -
Assessing dictionary skills
Springer (2015)This article discusses the role of dictionary skills in language learning as part of professional reference skills and as life-long language learning skills. It advocates for the integration of these skills in the language ... -
Assessing video game narratives: Implications for the assessment of multimodal literacy in ESP
Elsevier (2024-04)Research into the contribution of multimodality to language learning is gaining momentum. While most studies pave the way for new understandings of language teaching and learning, there is an increasing demand for comprehensive ... -
Authentic materials in the Business English classroom: Annual Reports
Vilnius University (2015)International firms are interested in getting the best possible professionals, those who are able to communicate accurately at the workplace. To help them, the use of authentic materials in the classroom can enhance ...