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Technology and task-based language teaching (TBLT): Exploring pragmatics
(The University of the West Indies, 2018-08)
This paper focuses on the teaching of pragmatics in English as a Foreign Language classroom and how the traditional way of teaching languages can be challenged. It also aims to highlight the importance of incorporating ...
Metaphors in the conceptualisation of meditative practices
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2017)
Pragmatic Development During Study Abroad: An Analysis of Spanish Teenagers’ Request Strategies in English Emails
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Previous research has shown that adolescent second language learners benefit from pragmatic instruction during study abroad (Alcón-Soler, 2015). As a follow-up investigation, the present study looked at late adolescent ...
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 ...
Using American Coming-of-Age Stories in the ELT Classroom
(Janice Bland, Christiane Lütge and Sandie Mourão, 2017-05)
Reading constitutes solid grounds for the development of basic language and critical skills as well as for the improvement of Intercultural Communicative Competence. However, in a world dominated by visual media and ...
Pragmatic gains in the study abroad context: Learners' experiences and recognition of pragmatic routines
(Elsevier, 2018-10)
The present study investigates second language (L2) learners' pragmatic development during study abroad (SA) programs by focusing on the recognition of pragmatic routines, and how sociocultural adaptation and intensity of ...
Evaluation in discussion sessions of conference presentations: theorical foundations for a multimodal analysis
(2014)
Discussions sessions have not received much attention within the genre of conference presentations. In this paper, we present the theoretical framework that underlies the approach followed to analyse the multimodal expression ...
From the editors: Multiword Patterns: Considering Phrasal Verbs and their Underlying Semantic Systems (I)
(Universitat Jaume I, 2011-12)
From the editors: Multiword Patterns: Considering Phrasal Verbs and their Underlying Semantic Systems (II)
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-07)
Conceptual metaphor types in oncology: Cognitive and communicative functions
(Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2017)
Este artículo propone un análisis de los tipos de metáfora conceptual descritos en la Teoría Conceptual de la Metáfora – imagística, orientacional, ontológica y estructural –, en relación con sus funciones cognitivas y ...