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18th century scientific writing: A study of make complex predicates in the Coruña Corpus
(International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, 2008)
Complex predicates formed by the verb make plus a noun are suitable for being
studied historically with very interesting results, as it was observed in previous
literature. However, our interest lies in tracing, comparing ...
Functional Approach to Multiliteracy
(Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, 2008)
This paper presents a cybertask designed to be performed by students of journalism
within the subject “English for Journalists”. As a departure point, students were provided with a
website which gives access to all the ...
Learning how to mitigate requests throught an explicit pragmatics-based method
(Servicio de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo, 2008)
It is widely agreed that the goal of language
teaching is to develop learners’ communicative
competence (Usó-Juan and Martínez-Flor, 2006).
Consequently, instructional practices should focus not
just on the knowledge ...
Teaching learners to appropriately mitigate requests
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
It is commonly recognized that, for lecturers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in a university setting, the goal of their teaching is to develop learners' ability to communicate appropriately in this language. This ...
Transfer phenomena and intercultural movements of texts
(Intercultural communication, 2009-01)
The complexity of contemporary international communication requires an analysis of the transfer phenomena occurring within it. This paper addresses the subject from the perspective of cultural approaches to translation by ...
Enhancing multimodal communicative competence in ESP: the case of job interviews
(De Gruyter, 2021-10-04)
ESP teaching has traditionally centred on the discourse practices of specific genres to develop students’ discursive competence in the target language. However, with the advent of studies on multimodality, there has been ...
Reading printed versus online texts: a study of EFL learners’ strategic reading behavior
(Universidad de Murcia, 2009)
With the development of the WWW and Internet, hyperreading has become an issue for discussion in the educational field and more specifically in the field of English as a second or foreign language. Yet, very little is known ...
Multimodality in discussion sessions: corpus compilation and pedagogical use
(Universitat Jaume I, 2011-10-06)
Discussion sessions of conference paper presentations are spontaneous and unpredictable, in contrast to the prepared lecture that precedes them. These can be challenging, especially for novice presenters whose worst fear ...
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 ...