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Pronunciation and Comprehension of Oral English in the English as a Foreign Language Class: Key Aspects, Students’ Perceptions and Proposals*
(Academy Publisher, 2014-03)
Traditionally, little attention has been paid to learners’ perceptions of pronunciation and comprehension instruction in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. This study is aimed at putting forward a series of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The need for successful communication in intercultural and international business settings: Analytic and comparative studies, new trends and methodologies
(Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (AELFE), 2013)
Communicating is a need in today’s business world; if professionals are not
able to express their ideas appropriately, it will be difficult for them to reach
positive agreements while operating internationally. This ...
Team Teaching in the University: Description of a Collaborative Experience between the Computer Engineering and the English Departments
(International Journal of Language and Applied Linguistics, 2015)
— In the last twenty years, English for Specific
Purposes (ESP) courses have become very popular due to
the growth of science, technology, politics and economics,
and also due to the condition of lingua franca of ...
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 ...