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The phraseology of intertextuality in English for professional communication.
Universitat Jaume I (2011-10-06)There is increasing interest in researching phraseology and intertextuality, but they are not usually studied together. This paper explores the implications of combining the two in the learning and teaching of English ... -
Possible implementation of subjects taught using English as a Medium of Instruction methodology in tourism studies
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2021)The present study analyses which conditions would be necessary to implement subjects taught using English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) methodology in the undergraduate degree in tourism studies at the University of Las ... -
PowerPoint Presentations in the classroom: Re-evaluating the genre
(2018)Since the late 1990s, Microsoft PowerPoint has become the expected presentation genre. However, several studies have demonstrated its many faults, such as the pre-formatted construction of discourse leading to the abuse ... -
Preface in memoriam of Raquel Segovia Martín: Translation studies and film studies: New trends
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2021)This is the fourteenth issue of Language Value, the journal created by the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I (UJI) over 12 years ago. Since its beginning, the journal has grown and progressed, and, at ... -
Prof Stance in CELiST: A vindication of text - reading
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2023)Stance in academic writing has been discussed extensively within the fields of discourse analysis andpragmatics (Alonso-Almeida, 2015; Hyland,2005; White, 2003). Thus, Hyland and Jiang (2016) identify certain linguistic ... -
Psychological stress experienced by Arab simultaneous interpreters
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2023)This research elucidates the psychological stress encountered by interpreters proficient in the Arabic <> English language pair. Utilizing a five-Likert-point survey, the study seeks to ascertain the perceptions of these ... -
Research on new methods for testing language skills: a focus on speaking performance
(2015)The current issue has speaking performance as a conducting thread, specifically, the research undertaken on new methods to test it. Testing language skills and defining the constructs under which tests need to be constructed ... -
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 ... -
Revisiting views of grammar and grammar learning strategy use: A multiple case study in Vietnam
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2022)A qualitative multiple case study was conducted to understand how Vietnamese high school students (n=6) experienced grammar learning by exploring their views on the role of grammar and their use of grammar learning strategies. ... -
Science Communication on the Internet: Old genres meet new genres
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2022)Science Communication on the Internet, by Luzón and Pérez-Llantada (2019) deals with traditional, new, and incipient trends and genres on scientific online communication that have arisen due to the evolution of the Web 2.0 ... -
Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical Introduction to Real World Applications
(2017)Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical Introduction to Real World Applications by Alessandro G. Benati and Tanja Angelovska (2016) is without doubt a help for undergraduate students and trainee teachers who need to ... -
Sounding natural: improving oral presentation skills
(2011-10-06)This paper discusses how multimodal resources can be used to teach oral communication strategies, as exemplified in a course taught at the University of Padua, Italy. The course focused on lexicon and language structures ... -
Speaking an additional language: Can study abroad do the trick?
(2015-11)The present article sets out to provide an overall picture of the acquisition of speaking abilities in a given second language acquisition (SLA) learning context, namely study abroad (SA), so as to ascertain whether SA ... -
Specialised English: New Directions in ESP and EAP Research and Practice
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2020)The field of specialized English has expanded on an unprecedented scale. We have already seen that there is a plethora of research articles in specialized top journals like Journal of English for Academic Purposes and ... -
Stance matrices licensing that-clauses and interpersonal meaning in nineteenth-century women's instructive writing in English
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2023)This paper examines stance matrices licensing that-clauses in a corpus of instructional texts authored by women during the nineteenth century, gathered under the label COWITE19. These matrices can reveal various aspects ... -
Strategic construal of in and out in English particle verbs (PVs)
Universitat Jaume I (2011-12)The central aim of this work is to describe the strategic construal of in and out in English particle verbs. The term strategic construal assumes the following: 1) exploration of strategic thinking in L2 learning and ... -
Strategies of Subtitling Egyptian Idiomatic Expressions and Proverbs into English
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2023)Several platforms, such as Netflix, offer subtitles of different works and movies in several languages, including Arabic and English. In this study, the researchers discuss the strategies used to overcome the challenges ... -
Students’ perceptions on learning independence: how self-regulated learning strategy helps?
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2022)This study aims to determine the effects of a self-regulated learning strategy on students’ independence in Literal Reading education. Literal Reading is an educational course working on literal comprehension and assigned ... -
Suburbia as a Narrative Space in the Cinematic Universe of Douglas Sirk
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos (2021)Douglas Sirk, now fully recognized as an influential filmmaker, was considered a successful but uninteresting director in the 1950s. His melodramas were considered bland and subsequently ignored because they focused on ...