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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 ...
Introducing Business Presentations to Non-Native Speakers of English: Communication Strategies and Intercultural Awareness
(Università degli Studi di Verona, 2019)
In international business environments, the ability to communicate effectively is essential. Good
communication skills help professionals to clinch deals, to sell more products and to enhance the economic
stability of a ...
Manuscript contexts and the transmission of the Agnus Castus herbal in MS Sloane 3160
(Universidad de OviedoSociedad Española de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa Medieval = Spanish Society for Medieval English Language & Literature, SELIM, 2019)
MS Sloane 3160 is a miscellaneous volume containing one copy of the herbal Agnus Castus in Middle English. Traditionally, editions focused on texts in isolation and did not look in detail to the rest of the material, ...
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 ...
Frames and semantic roles in metaphorical mappings. A contrastive study of English boil and Spanish hervir
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2024)
Conceptual Metaphor Theory describes metaphorical mappings as correspondences between domains. Nevertheless, the interrelations of the mapped elements still need to be characterised. This study analyses metaphorical mappings ...
Examining students’ reflections on a collaborative online international learning project in an ICLHE context
(ELSEVIER, 2022-01-15)
This paper explores students’ reflections towards the application of language and content, along
with cross-disciplinary skills and cultural awareness, when participating in the Virtual Business
Professional (VBP) ...
Metonymy and Anaphoric Reference: Anaphoric Reference to a Metonymic Antecedent in Dude, Where’s My Country, Stupid White Men, The Da Vinci Code and Deception Point
(Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, 2007)
Departing from the postulates of Ruiz de Mendoza and his collaborators on
metonymic anaphora (Ruiz de Mendoza 1997, 1999; Ruiz de Mendoza; Otal 2002; Ruiz de
Mendoza; Díez 2004), this paper analyzes some of the most ...
Diachronic change in the semantic configuration of six verb-preposition combinations
(Universitatea Petru Maior, 2007)
In this paper we analyse the semantic load that prepositions In and On contribute to six verb-preposition
combinations following the syntactic pattern “V + prep. + n/pron.”. The analysis is grounded on real language ...
Computer-assisted instruction: ‘JClic’ as a new pedagogical tool for EFL learners
(The University of the West Indies, 2017)
The present study has a double purpose: firstly, to evaluate the effect of JClic on students' performance in the use of Simple Present Perfect in English and secondly, to establish the impact of the use of JClic on students' ...
Presentación: Metáfora y discurso
(Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, 2007)