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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) ...
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' ...
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 ...
The transmission of the Agnus Castus Herbal: from manuscript to early print
(Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN, 2021)
This article aims at understanding how scientific writing was evolving from the medieval to the Early Modern times through the study of two copies of the same text belonging to both periods: the Agnus Castus ...
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 ...