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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 ...
The evolution of English diphthongs as a reflection of the process of standardisation of the language: A case study of the Bible
(Universitat Jaume I, 2020-06-11)
This paper is going to focus mainly on the phonological and lexical changes that the English language suffered all over the centuries as a reflection of the Great Vowel Shift (GVS). As a main point of reference to realise ...
Capturing the Magic of Teaching: Harry Potter in the Classroom
(Universitat Jaume I, 2020-06-22)
Many researchers have examined the Harry Potter series and dealt with themes such as
domestic violence, feminism, homosexuality or the role of women. However, few scholars
have paid attention to the importance of teaching ...
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 ...
A Comparative Study of Racism in Shakespeare’s Othello and Jonathan Miller’s Film Adaptation
(Universitat Jaume I, 2020-06-30)
This paper deals with the issue of racism in Shakespeare’s The
Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice, and its 1981 film adaptation
directed by Jonathan Miller and broadcasted on the BBC. Othello is
one of the most ...
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) at Universitat Jaume I: An Empirical Study of Digital Teaching about Brexit in the Law Degree
(Universitat Jaume I, 2020-06-11)
With the passage of time, technology has become an incentive for the development of new concepts in
communication and information. New technological implementations have influenced most of the
areas in daily life, but ...
Pragmatics in the EFL classroom: teaching apologies with Socrative
(Universitat Jaume I, 2020-06-30)
One of the main objectives of teaching English is for students to acquire intercultural
communicative competence. This competence is the skill that EFL learners must acquire in
order to be able to conduct a sensible and ...
The Role of Motivation in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
(Universitat Jaume I, 2020-06-26)
Motivation is one of the most relevant factors for successful second
language learning. First, we will define the concept of motivation, discuss some of
the major theories of motivation in learning and explain how ...
Persuasive Strategies in Multimodal Metaphor: A Contrastive Analysis of the Advertisements “Good Girl” & “Bad Boy”
(Universitat Jaume I, 2020-06-25)
According to Lakoff & Johnson (1980), metaphors not only are a formal aspect of language, but they are used to understand one concept in terms of another and they are pervasive in our daily life. Conceptual Metaphors (CM) ...
Teaching Requests: A Contrast between Comprehension-Based and Production-Based Approaches
(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 ...