Miralpeix Pujol, Immaculada (Date of defense: 2008-02-29)
This dissertation analyses the effects of age on the acquisition of vocabulary in English as a Foreign Language (FL). It focusses on productive vocabulary because it is a crucial aspect in language ...
Wisniewska, Natalia (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
This doctoral dissertation examines the benefits of extended exposure to multimodal input through captioned videos for second language pronunciation development. It investigates the effects of TV viewing ...
Reining, Stefan (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)
My central aim in this dissertation is to propose a new version of local scepticism regarding the a priori, namely, a version of scepticism regarding the apriority of (knowledge of) truths about certain ...
Obrador Cursach, Bartomeu (Date of defense: 2018-07-03)
Phrygian is a fragmentary Indo-European language recorded in inscriptions found mainly in central Anatolia, dated to between ca. 800 BC and the 3rd century AD. The main objective of this dissertation ...
Gao, Qian (Date of defense: 2016-09-15)
This doctoral thesis explores the relationship between archaeological tourism, World Heritage and social value in contemporary China. It intends to provide an innovative insight into such connections ...
Llauradó Singla, Anna (Date of defense: 2012-10-18)
In the life long process of language development, the school years play a major role. The linguistic knowledge of schoolers can hardly be characterized without taking into account their performance in ...
Puyuelo Ureña, Eva (Date of defense: 2022-11-21)
[eng] Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015) is nowadays considered one of the most detailed registers of the different forms that racial violence takes—from direct manifestations of physical ...
Vila Rigat, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
Paraphrasing is generally understood as approximate sameness of meaning between snippets of text with a different wording. Paraphrases are omnipresent in natural languages demonstrating all the aspects ...
Mackay, Jessica (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
El Sistema Motivacional del Yo L2 (L2MSS) propuesto por Dörnyei (2005, 2009a) reconceptualiza la motivación en el aprendizaje de la segunda lengua (L2) en un contexto globalizado. Basándose en las teorías ...
Horden, John (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
The four main chapters in this dissertation, while each largely self-standing, can be seen as together providing an extended defence of the view that classical mereology is analytically true. In chapter ...