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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 ...
Examining U.S. and Spanish Annual Reports: Crisis Communication
(SAGE Publishing, 2014-12)
Crisis has affected businesses worldwide. Many international corporations must cope with this turmoil, which affects their economic liability. Firms express their actual financial situation in the annual reports they issue ...
Designing Oral-based Rubric for Oral Language Testing wiht Undergraduate Spanish Students in ESP Contexts
(Association of Gazi Foreign Language Teaching, 2015)
During several decades, considerable attention has been paid to speaking assessment procedures. Probably, the reason for this relevance lies in the difficulties in dealing with oral assessment and in determining the adequate ...
The effect of awareness-raising and explicit instruction of compensatory strategies on young learners? EFL oral and written production
(Centre for Language Studies of the National University of Singapore, 2023-06)
This article presents a study intended to analyze the effects of awareness-raising and explicit strategy instruction
on the performance of young learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in a multilingual context. ...
The Rhetoric of Emotions and Food Consumption in Desperate Housewives
(Universidad de Valencia, 2023)
In Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption, Roland Barthes
defines food as «a system of communication, a body of images, a protocol of usages, situ-
ations and behaviour». Taking into account that ...
Reseña "Las Lenguas profesionales y académicas"
(Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (AELFE), 2008)
The Interactive Effects of Pragmatic-Eliciting Tasks and Pragmatic Instruction
(American Council on the teaching of foreign languages, 2008)
The effects of data-gathering methods on pragmatic data have been well
documented, yet an inquiry into the interactive effects of assessment tasks with pragmatic
instruction has received scant attention. This study ...
Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through the Four Skills
(Universidad de Alicante, 2008)
Nowadays, the most accepted instructional framework in second or foreign
language (L2) programs is Communicative Language Teaching, whose
main goal is to increase learners’ communicative competence. This
theoretical ...
The Effect of Instruction on Learners’ Pragmatic Awareness: a Focus on Refusals
(Universidad de Murcia, 2010)
The benefits of instruction on learners’ production and awareness of speech acts is well documented (see Alcón and Martínez-Flor, 2008, for a review of pragmatics in instructional contexts). However, few studies examine ...
Refusal strategies : a proposal from a sociopragmatic approach
(Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 2009)
The aim of this paper is to present an open typology of refusal strategies which may be employed in the analysis of refusal performance from a discourse approach. We will first review previous research carried out on ...