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Language and Access to Work: The Role of English in Recruiting
La present tesi és un estudi etnogràfic que analitza el paper dels coneixements d’anglès a l’accés a llocs de treball de nivell júnior i sènior a Barcelona. Se centra en les operacions internes de les agències de contractació ...
Language and translation policies in the Intellectual Cooperation Organization (1922-1946). Promoting the internationalization of the intellectual field
This doctoral thesis reconstructs the language and translation policies implemented by the Intellectual Cooperation Organization (ICO), an international organization created under the auspices of the League of Nations to ...
Language Aptitude in Young Learners: The Elementary Modern Language Aptitude Test in Spanish and Catalan
The present dissertation is concerned with language aptitude in young learners. The first aim of this dissertation is to validate the content of two new instruments: the adaptation to both Spanish (MLAT-ES) and Catalan ...
Language attitudes in a multilingual and multicultural context. The case of autochthonous and immigrant students in Catalonia
Considerant, d’una banda, la comprovada importància que adopten les actituds lingüístiques en l'adquisició de les llengües i, de l’altra, que esdevenen potenciadores de la integració social en contextos plurilingües, com ...
Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study
[eng] Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) show considerable difficulties in the linguistic production of verbal morphology marks and function words. The present study analyzes the capacity of children with SLI ...
Language Factors Modulate Audiovisual Speech Perception. A Developmental Perspective
In most natural situations, adults look at the eyes of faces in seek of social information (Yarbus, 1967). However, when the auditory information becomes unclear (e.g. speech-in- noise) they switch their attention towards ...
Language learner engagement in asynchronous discussion forums: an exploratory study
Aquesta tesi explora la implicació (engagement) d’estudiants d’idiomes en fòrums de discussió asíncrons que formen part d’un curs d’aprenentatge de l’anglès en línia per a adults a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. La ...
Language Learning from Subtitled TV Series in the Primary EFL Classroom
[eng] Even if audiovisual materials have been shown to offer several advantages for L2 learning (Danan, 2004), in previous literature very little attention has been paid to L2 learning from multimodal input in young ...
Language Learning Motivation: The Palestinian Context. Attitudes, Motivation, and Orientations
Given that motivation is held to be a major affective variable influencing SLA, the present study examines L2 motivation among Palestinian students from the age of 12 to 18 years old. Considering the present situation in ...
Language learning tasks ans automatic analysis of learner language : connecting FLTL and NPL in the design of ICALL materials supporting effective use in real-life instruction
Esta investigación se encuentra en la encrucijada entre el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural y el Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras y, en concreto, dentro del área denominada Aprendizaje de Lenguas Asistido ...
Language learning through extensive TV viewing. A study with adolescent EFL learners
This doctoral dissertation explores the benefits of an extensive exposure to L2 television for content comprehension and vocabulary learning with beginner, adolescent EFL learners, through a longitudinal classroom-based ...
Language learning with correction queries
In the field of grammatical inference, the goal of any learning algorithm is to identify a target concept from a given class by having access to a specific type of information. The main learning settings are Gold's model ...
Language policy and internationalisation: The experience of international students at a Catalan university
La internacionalització la universitat ha generat un increment de la comunicació intercultural entre els estudiants i el personal acadèmic i administratiu. En universitats públiques com la Universitat de Lleida (UdL), ...
Language transfer in second language acquisition. Some effects of L1 instruction (Romanian) on L2/L3 learning (Catalan/Spanish)
In migration contexts, the diversity of languages in contact triggers the processes of second language (L2) acquisition and language transfer; as well as drawing attention to the importance of mother tongue (L1) maintenance. The ...
Language: universals, principles and origins
Here, old and new linguistic universals, i.e. properties obeyed by all languages on Earth are investigated. Basic principles of language predicting linguistic universals are also investigated. More precisely, two principles ...
Languages Generated by Iterated Idempotencies.
The rewrite relation with parameters m and n and with the possible length limit = k or :::; k we denote by w~, =kW~· or ::;kw~ respectively. The idempotency languages generated from a starting word w by the respective ...
Lanthanide-based dielectric nanoparticles for upconversion luminescence
En esta tesis se ha estudia la luminiscencia y la emisión anti-stokes visible por excitación infrarroja a 980 nm, en iones lantánidos embebidos en nanoestructuras de Lu2O3 y KLu(WO4)2, en los cuales los iones lantánidos ...
Large cardinals and resurrection axioms
In the current dissertation we work in set theory and we study both various large cardinal hierarchies and issues related to forcing axioms and generic absoluteness. The necessary preliminaries may be found, as it should ...
Large scale analysis of communication cues in negotiation
Què fa que algunes persones siguin millors negociadors que altres? En aquesta tesi, faig servir programari de reconeixement d'expressió facial, processament de llenguatge natural i eines estadístiques recents (com la tècnica ...
Large scale battery systems in distribution grids
The increasing integration of renewable energy installations at the distribution grid level has led to a strong increase in grid reinforcement measures in recent years. Since the costs are being passed on to the general ...
