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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 ...
Perceptual Parameters, Animacy and Reference Frames in the Semantics of "Opposite" and "In Front of"
(Petru Maior University Press, 2013)
In this paper we combine topological and dynamicity analysis with other parameters li
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reference frames, animacy, and function, in order to depict the polysemy of two prepositions that
express spatial relationships ...
A Review of the Traditional and Current Language Teaching Methods
(IJIRES, 2016-03)
Nowadays, there is a need to fit into a world
increasingly globalized, in which communication and foreign
languages have more importance than some years ago. The
English language is, nowadays, the language of ...
Three-dimensional metaphorical objects in street advertising
(Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA), 2015)
This paper aims at unravelling the role of metaphor in three street marketing campaign
advertisements. Each advertisement is the product of a creative process involving metaphorical
mappings from an urban object (shelter, ...
Muerta pero no enterrada: Hannah Dustan y la creación de una comunidad norteamericana de memoria
(Universitat de València: Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació, 2019)
Apresada por un grupo de indios abenakis, el 15 de marzo de 1697, Hannah
Dustan presenció el asesinato de su bebé a manos de sus captores y sufrió todo tipo de
torturas físicas y psicológicas. Ante el temor a padecer ...
Teachability and bilingualism effects on third language learners' pragmatic knowledge
(Walter de Gruyter, 2012)
The present study focuses on the benefits that teaching the speech act of refusal from a discourse perspective can have on third language learners’ pragmatic knowledge. Additionally, it also explores whether receptive and ...
A Pilot Didactic Unit as a Support to the History Subject
(IJHSSI, 2016)
Nowadays, there is a need to fit into a world increasingly globalized, for that reason English
teaching should not be limited to the study of its structure, but to the use of the language in different contexts in
order ...
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 ...
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 ...