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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 ...
Authentic materials in the Business English classroom: Annual Reports
(Vilnius University, 2015)
International firms are interested in getting the best possible professionals, those who
are able to communicate accurately at the workplace. To help them, the use of authentic
materials in the classroom can enhance ...
Oral-based rubrics design: A case study with undergraduate Spanish students in ESP settings
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015-09)
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 ...
Hybrid Subjects and Fluid Identities in Women's Indian Captivity Narratives: the Stories of Frances Slocum and Olive Oatman
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016-01)
During the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, adoptions of white children by Native
American tribes and interracial marriages were extremely disturbing issues for
Euro-American society. Women such as Eunice Williams, Mary ...
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 ...
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 ...
Presentación
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d’Estudis Anglesos i Departament de Llengues i Cultures Europees, 2015)
The Power of Words: Marcus Antonius’ Funeral Oration in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
(2013)
En este artículo se estudia el discurso fúnebre de Marco
Antonio en la obra de Shakespeare Julio César como ejemplo del poder
de la palabra en la retórica clásica. Se resume la situación socio-cultural
y política de la ...
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 ...