• closedAccess   Teachers’ background and attitudes towards CLIL in secondary education 

      Guillamón Suesta, Francisco Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-19)
      The ability to express and communicate appropriately in English has become an imperative requirement in society, which is typified by internationality and mobility across countries. Within this context, Content and ...
    • closedAccess   Teaching Requests: A Contrast between Comprehension-Based and Production-Based Approaches 

      Mestre Segarra, María Ángeles Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-19)
      The purpose of this research is to suggest how to teach pragmatics to EFL learners, specifically requests, following two approaches: comprehension-based and production-based approaches. The intention of this study is to ...
    • closedAccess   The Relevance of Dance in Jane Austen’s Novels 

      Rosca, Emanuela Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-19)
      This paper presents the importance of dance in the great majority of Jane Austen’s novels. In the first place, I describe the epoch in which Austen, who is considered by many critics, one of the most outstanding writers ...
    • closedAccess   The Linguistic sitacion of Scotland: a study on Scots, Gaelic and Scottish English 

      Pitarch Santos, Miguel Ángel Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-20)
      The aim of this study was to analyze the linguistic situation in which Scotland is involved nowadays offering first a diachronic perspective of the main languages spoken in the country and then a sociolinguistic approach ...
    • closedAccess   Boxing and chess confronted: an insight into conceptual metaphor theory and blending theory 

      Fernández Moreno, María del Carmen Universitat Jaume I (2014-09-24)
      Recent studies in Cognitive Linguistics suggest that the perception of metaphor has changed significantly since the end of the 20th century. As a consequence, several authors have written theories about metaphor ...
    • closedAccess   Specialised language of science and technology and communication 

      Gil García, María José Universitat Jaume I (2014-09-24)
      This paper has a twofold objective. On the one hand, it tries to describe the specific linguistic features that allow differentiation between general and specialised scientific and technical language. On the other hand, ...
    • closedAccess   A Land of Fire and Ice; An Overview on Viking Literature and Mythology 

      Casteràs Borràs, Rusé Universitat Jaume I (2014-09-24)
      The Norsemen or Vikings came from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the islands surrounding the Northern Sea) and were mainly known as traders, explorers, soldiers and settlers. They navigated along the Northern ...
    • closedAccess   Popular science: A new genre within academic writing? 

      Izquierdo Hermosilla, Ulises Universitat Jaume I (2014-09-24)
      The objective of academic writing is the presentation of new knowledge via (a) a review of what is currently known about a given topic as (b) the foundation for the author's new views or perspectives on the topic' ...
    • closedAccess   Teaching literature through the thinking routines 

      Lozano Herrero, José Antonio Universitat Jaume I (2015)
      Literature is an expression of life through the medium of language. Taken to mean only written works, literature was first produced by some of the world's earliest civilizations—those of Ancient Egypt and Sumeria—as early ...
    • closedAccess   Analysing metaphors in commercial advertising 

      Moreno Rodríguez, María Irene Universitat Jaume I (2015)
      According to the Cognitive Linguistic view, a metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) is defined as a tool which allows us to understand one conceptual domain in terms of another. At first, it was thought that metaphors could ...
    • closedAccess   A focus on pragmatics : an evaluation of EFL textbooks in presenting suggestions 

      Martínez Buffa, Ignacio Universitat Jaume I (2015)
      In the past decade, many different English as foreign language textbooks under the label of communicative were easily found in any syllabus. Being communicative involves a number of different aspects including the teaching ...
    • closedAccess   English for professional purposes : english for footballers 

      Mundó Simó, Oriol Universitat Jaume I (2015)
      Communication in football is key. Football professionals not only have to understand and be understood by their teammates, they also have to confront several TV and press interviews during their football careers. Lots of ...
    • closedAccess   Surveillance and Language Manipulation in "1984" 

      López Ruiz, Carla Universitat Jaume I (2015)
      This paper presents the importance of surveillance and language manipulation in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. In the first section, I provide a brief introduction about how the thesis is going to be arranged, ...
    • closedAccess   The Irishness of Irish Literature 

      Nolan, Victoria Universitat Jaume I (2015)
      Both Ireland’s literary history and how such a small country could produce such a vast amount of prestigious writers are aspects that have been of interest to many. The basis of this research was to, first of all, briefly ...
    • closedAccess   Spanish as a second language in two english schools : a case study 

      Ouskir Abdelmoulí, Sofía; Fernández Guerra, Ana Belén Universitat Jaume I (2015)
      The aim of this project is to provide a portrait of second language learning in a foreign country (England) and to have an overall point of view about language learning in England from students. In the same line, Language ...
    • closedAccess   Reviewing the history of language teaching : emphasizing on the role of the teacher 

      Miranda Sales, Rocío Universitat Jaume I (2015)
      The main aim of this work relies on the revision of every existing method so far in order to carry out the analysis of the several and different roles that teachers have performed along the history referring second language ...
    • closedAccess   Multicultural London English: a dialect emerged from immigration 

      Segovia López, Sara Universitat Jaume I (2015-05-23)
      Nowadays, London has become one of the cities with the highest level of immigration. People from many parts of the world have arrived to the last few years to London seeking new opportunities and enriching this city with ...
    • closedAccess   Women's roles in Shakespeare's times and works 

      Gimeno Galdón, Andrea 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 ...
    • closedAccess   Tim's Burton's Interpretation of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland: A Sequel with a New Alice 

      Cuevas Gosalbo, Denis Pedro Universitat Jaume I (2015-06)
      This paper presents a comparative study between Alice in Wonderland movie by Tim Burton (2010) and the books by Lewis Carroll, on which it is based A lice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and A lice Through the ...
    • closedAccess   Men and women in discourse: An experiment on gender identification in discourse 

      Blat Castillo, Marta Universitat Jaume I (2015-06)
      Diverse studies on how men and women make use of discourse (Lakoff, 1975; Coates, 1993) have obtained certain features that appear to characterise male and female texts. Nevertheless, it seems difficult to find a system ...