A Cognitive Linguistics Analysis of the Effect of a 3D Video Game as an Educational Resource on the Learning of the prepositions “in” and “on” in a Higher Education Context 

    Boghiu Balaur, Sorina (Date of defense: 2024-02-16)

    This thesis investigates the pivotal role of prepositions in the English language, emphasizing their significance in conveying spatial and temporal relationships. Focusing on the challenges faced by EFL learners, the ...

    A contrastive study of the EFL vowel system in native Spanish, French, German and Russian learners 

    Juan Checa, José Javier (Date of defense: 2021-03-03)

    This thesis focuses on the phonetic difficulties that learners of English as a foreign language will encounter. This research wants tó propose a new point of view; a different and wider angle on how to approach this ...

    A Plurilingual Approach to English Language Teaching from an Ecological Perspective: An international comparative study 

    Chabert Ull, Alicia (Date of defense: 2020-07-22)

    The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the application of multilingualism and plurilingualism theories and the use of the mother tongue in the English classroom in primary education using a communicative teaching ...

    A Study of Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad in Light of Appropriation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Through Translation and Adaptation Studies 

    mahmood, karzan (Date of defense: 2023-07-27)

    This doctoral thesis examines both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus (1888), and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2014) in light of adaptation and appropriation by employing the framework of ...

    Academic Evaluation within the Applied Linguistics response Article: An Analysis of Writer Mediated Praise and Criticism as Rhetorical strategies 

    Moreno Pichastor, Soledad (Date of defense: 2009-09-29)

    The present dissertation deals with the analysis of rhetorical strategies of evaluation used in the "response" article in the field of applied linguistics. Based on a genre approach to discourse, our study shows how writers ...

    Acculturation and acquisition of pragmatic routines in the study abroad context 

    Sánchez Hernández, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2017-06-09)

    The present study explores the influence of acculturation on learning pragmatic routines in the study-abroad context by students of diverse cultural backgrounds. It is a longitudinal investigation that involves a mixed-method ...

    Análisis descriptivo de la accesibilidad a los contenidos audiovisuales de webs del Parlamento Europeo 

    Serrat Roozen, Iris (Date of defense: 2019-07-11)

    Esta tesis estudia, por una parte, la traducción audiovisual en el contexto institucional y por otra, analiza el cumplimiento de los requisitos de accesibilidad de los contenidos audiovisuales establecidos por las Pautas ...

    Análisis empírico-descriptivo de los géneros notariales: el caso del "poder de representación" y su traducción 

    Juste Vidal, Natividad (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)

    Nuestro objetivo es analizar contrastivamente los documentos notariales españoles y anglosajones, desde la lingüística aplicada y la teoría del análisis de géneros, para crear herramientas y recursos traductológicos ...

    Aplicaciones pedagógicas del informe empresarial en el aula del inglés de los negocios: implementación de recursos discursivos escritos en contextos de especialidad 

    Ruiz Garrido, Miguel F. (Date of defense: 2003-05-29)

    La competencia comunicativa exigida en el mundo empresarial actual y el papel que el inglés juega como lengua de comunicación internacional constituyen la base de la proliferación investigadora en los géneros del inglés ...

    A Multimodal Approach to Metadiscourse as an Organizational Tool in Lectures 

    Bernad-Mechó, Edgar (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)

    This thesis explores the uses of organizational metadiscourse in lectures from a multimodal perspective, thus providing a holistic view of its use. Moreover, this study explores how the use of organizational metadiscourse, ...

    Complaint sequences across proficiency levels: the contribution of pragmatics and multimodality 

    Beltrán Palanques, Vicente (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)

    El objetivo de esta tesis es contribuir a la investigación en pragmática del interlenguaje y multimodalidad. El objetivo principal es explorar como aprendices de lengua en distintos niveles de lengua realizan quejas desde ...

    Contacto de lenguas en un corpus diacrónico: la huella del catalán en expedientes judiciales de los siglos XVIII y XIX en una comunidad castellonense 

    Moreno Gallego, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)

    En la presente tesis nos planteamos llevar a cabo una mirada retrospectiva sobre el marco diacrónico para rastrear algunos de los rasgos dialectales más característicos del español hablado en la Comunidad Valenciana durante ...

    Contrasting the Polysemy of Prepositions in English and Albanian 

    Fera, Ardian (Date of defense: 2020-02-25)

    The process of learning a foreign language can be exhausting for almost all language learners. In this study, it is aimed at providing students an accessible way to reducing commitment of errors while speaking or learning ...

    "Cooking" in the mind: a frame-based contrastive study of culinary metaphors in American English and Peninsular Spanish 

    Esbrí Blasco, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2020-06-22)

    The present thesis aims at identifying and contrasting metaphorical expressions and their underlying conceptual metaphors grounded in the COOKING domain in American English (AmE) and Peninsular Spanish (PenSp). To achieve ...

    Corrective Feedback in the EFL Classroom: Grammar Checker vs. Teacher’s Feedback. 

    Hernández Puertas, Tamara (Date of defense: 2022-02-18)

    The aim of this doctoral thesis is to compare the feedback provided by the teacher to that obtained by the software called Grammar Checker on grammatical errors in the written production of English as a foreign language ...

    Developing, Applying, and Testing FILMIP: the Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure 

    Bort Mir, Lorena (Date of defense: 2019-05-09)

    The analysis and identification of figurative language is one of the largest research areas in cognitive linguistics, and metaphor is one of these tropes. This thesis develops The Filmic Metaphor Identification ...

    Digital patient narratives in the spotlight: a multilingual analysis of metaphors and medical terminology 

    Moreno Moreno, Jenifer (Date of defense: 2023-11-21)

    Health discourse analysis has become particularly attractive in recent years. It provides information about how the public understands certain more general concepts, such as health or disease, or more specific ones, such ...

    Discourse markers within the university lecture genre:A contrastive study between Spanish and North-American lectures 

    Bellés Fortuño, Begoña (Date of defense: 2007-02-02)

    La tesis doctoral que aquí se presenta se podría enmarcar dentro de tres campos lingüísticos: el análisis de género, la retórica contrastiva y el análisis de corpus.<br/>El análisis de género (Swales 1981, 1990; Dudley-Evans ...

    Discussion sessions in specialised conference paper presentations. A multimodal approach to analyse evaluation 

    Querol Julián, Mercedes (Date of defense: 2011-02-04)

    This thesis aims at contributing to the research on academic conference paper presentations, particularly to the discussion sessions that follow them. The main purpose of this study is to explore the speaker's expression ...

    Diseño de un programa de subtitulación de vídeos pedagógicos 

    Cacheiro Quintas, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-12-11)

    Esta tesis doctoral trata el proceso de desarrollo de un programa de subtitulación adaptado al contexto de la enseñanza superior. Comienza con una revisión de los fundamentos teóricos de la Traducción Audiovisual y de la ...