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Use of Dictionaries in Secondary Education: A Didactic Unit to Introduce Different Types of Dictionaries
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)Nowadays, language students do not pay enough attention to the importance of how to use a dictionary, the correct use of them and the full range of dictionaries that are available to them. The aim of this project is to ... -
Use of Metaphors in Scientific Domains: The Case of The Big Bang Theory, a Multimodal Analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-10)Metaphors are one of the most paramount figures of speech in language use and their application dates back to Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC) and Rhetoric (c. ~400 BC). They consist in understanding entities by means ... -
Using English to escape the pandemic: An educational escape room proposal
Universitat Jaume I (2020-09-13)In the last few years, the development of technologies has brought new methodologies to the field of education. One of them is gamification, the use of game elements in contexts different from games (Deterding, Khaled, ... -
Using innovative resources to teach English for students with special needs
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-07)This paper discusses various approaches related to the term Special Educational Needs (SEN) in relation to hospital admissions. SEN in hospitals could be considered a new field of special needs that are essential for those ... -
Verbal behavior by Skinner under Chomsky's review
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-07)In some articles like “ Formal Analysis and Functional Analysis of Verbal Behavior: Notes on the Debate between Chomsky and Skinner” (1976) and “The case against B. F. Skinner 45 years later: An encounter with N. Chomsky” ... -
Violence and abuse in Maya Angelou's autobiography: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-03)The aim of this dissertation is to reflect upon the effects of abuse, racism, and segregation on the African-American community through the analysis of the autobiographical novel by Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged ... -
Vocabulary Acquisition Through Video Games: a Visual Approach
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-19)The purpose of this research is to investigate acquisition of English vocabulary analysing the benefits exerted by video games in English at the present time. Video games can be considered an additional tool in order to ... -
Vocalic changes in the geordie dialect : Auf wiedersehen, Pet
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-15)This paper describes the phonological variations and changes in the vowel system in Geordie dialect, a Northern English dialect spoken in Newcastle upon Tyne by the analysis of the BBC TV show, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. It ... -
Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye . Beauty standards and their influence on the main characters’ lives
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)White beauty standards have influenced American society and contributed to the development of racism, colorism and even, sexism. African American women have been disfavored due to their blackness, either among the white ... -
When the conversation doesn’t include you: representations of transgender identities in EFL source materials
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-04)Language has a strong symbolic power that needs to be understood in relation to its social meaning. From a poststructuralist perspective, it is through language that individuals construct and negotiate their multiple ... -
Which language skills improve the most after an Erasmus+ Programme?
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-22)Language learning is considered to be a complex process. To overcome this possibility there are international programmes people can take advantage of. Taking classes or travelling are good opportunities to learn a second ... -
Why the original version of Disney songs is not literally translated into Spanish but 'adapted'
Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-06)This work is focused on the comparative analysis of the translation from English to Spanish of several songs from Disney movies. The main objective of the study is to understand why Disney songs are not literally translated ... -
Women and education in 19th century English Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-07)This paper will focus on the analysis of several ideas that Mary Wollstonecraft addressed in her “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792) by illustrating them with examples extracted from different novels of the first ... -
Women and emancipation in Kate Chopin’s works
Universitat Jaume I (2014)In the mid-nineteenth century, more precisely in 1850, one of the most important American writers was born: Catharine O’Flaherty Faris, better known as Kate Chopin. She is considered a precursor in her times who ... -
Women in The Canterbury Tales: the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, the Second Nun, a hen and a lady falcon
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-05)In a society controlled by men, the Church and its authorities, fourteen century women had little space for their personal aspirations in life. Their submission and passivity to men controlled all the facets of their ... -
Women's roles in Shakespeare's times and works
Universitat Jaume I (2015-05-25)The aim of this paper is to present the role of women in Renaissance period, as well as the role they assumed in some of Shakespeare’s works. In the first place, I expose, in a general view, the status of women in this ... -
Writing Methods taught to ESL Students in Secondary Education at Elian’s British School: An Overview
Universitat Jaume I (2017-09-28)This article is an overview that aims to describe and justify the methods used to improve the writing skills of the ESL secondary education learners of Elian’s British School. In the paper, these methods are divided ...