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The influence of discipline, medium and target audience in multimodal recontextualization practices: The case of popular science online videos
(Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (AELFE), 2023-12-15)
This study contributes to our knowledge about the rapidly evolving repertoire of genres that support Open Science communication practices online. The focus lies on popular science online videos (i.e., 10-minute videos that ...
Revisiting pragmatic tests in the FL context: Towards interactive tests to examine speech act performance1
(2015-11)
The aim of this study is to explore the task effect of two different research methods, namely those of
interactive discourse completion tasks/tests (IDCTs) and role-play tasks (RPTs). The two research
methods employed ...
Rabih Alameddine, Kim Addonizio, and Kellie Wells: Fairy-Tales in the 21st Century
(Hemeroteca Científica Catalan, 2021-10-27)
The main aim of this study is to explore if and, if so, how Rabih Alameddine, Kim Addonizio, and Kellie Wells have managed to sustain, replicate, disregard, or redefine the patriarchal ideology customarily associated to ...
Literacy and technologies in EFL settings: Fostering reading comprehension on the Internet
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015-06)
In a period of dramatic technological change (Kellner, 2000) Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are developing exponentially and this has inevitably had an impact on how learning and literacy in the 21st ...
The influence of social distance and power in email politeness in an academic context
(Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas (AJL), 2021)
This study examined the influence of
social and power distance on students’ preferences
of openings and closings and requestive strategies
used when sending an email in an academic
context. Students were more ...
Modal density and coherence in science dissemination: Orchestrating multimodal ensembles in online TED talks and youtube science videos
(ElsevierBritish Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP), 2022-05-13)
As science communication goes beyond the traditional borders of academia, new science dissemination genres emerge. This paper presents a multimodal analysis of two online science videos uploaded to YouTube: a recorded TEDx ...
Metaphorical Models, Cybergenres and User Strategic Modes in Virtual Space
(Universitatea Petru Maior, 2015)
In recent decades, new technologies have evolved so rapidly that the use of computers and the
Internet
has resulted in the appearance of a new type of genre, i.e. Cybergenre (Shepherd & Watters, 1998;
Shepherd, Watters ...
Practicing your English writing skills in a community learning through an Edublog
(Verónica Marín Díaz, 2015)
En esta investigación, combinamos la competencia digital, en este caso el uso de un blog y la competencia cultural con el fin de practicar las habilidades de escritura. A través del blog queremos cuestionar los métodos ...
Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe and Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe: Speech acts and politeness across languages and cultures
(De Gruyter, 2015-06)
As the title suggests, this books deals with speech acts and politeness across
languages and cultures. This volume seeks to provide further evidence for
pragmatic research, more specifically on the pragmatic unit under ...
Modal density in structuring segments containing organizational metadiscourse versus content sequences
(ESP Today, 2022-01-18)
Organizational metadiscourse in lectures helps to facilitate comprehension and is
frequently found in structuring segments placed in between content sequences. In
contrast, content sequences are those parts of the discourse ...