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Language acquisition in bilingual infants : Early language discrimination in the auditory and visual domains

Nácar García, Loreto (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)

Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fundamental difference between infants growing up in monolingual versus bilingual environments is the necessity of the latter ...

Language and Access to Work: The Role of English in Recruiting

Klimava, Hanna (Date of defense: 2022-02-28)

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 Aptitude in Young Learners: The Elementary Modern Language Aptitude Test in Spanish and Catalan

Suárez Vilagran, María del Mar (Date of defense: 2010-11-26)

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

Ianos, Maria Adelina (Date of defense: 2014-03-13)

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

Christou, Spyros (Date of defense: 2018-03-04)

[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

Birulés Muntané, Joan (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)

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

Robbins, Jacqueline (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)

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

Casulleras Marquès, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2023-04-21)

[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

Musleh, Rana Yaser (Date of defense: 2011-01-28)

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

Quixal Martínez, Martí (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)

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

Pujadas Jorba, Geòrgia (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)

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

Tirnauca, Cristina (Date of defense: 2009-01-09)

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

Gallego Balsà, Lídia (Date of defense: 2014-07-02)

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)

Popa, Simona (Date of defense: 2016-05-02)

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 ...