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Recent Submissions

Content Support in Second Language Writing and Its Impact on Writing Performance and Writing Processes 

Li, Yanmei (Date of defense: 2024-06-20)

[eng] The study of writing as a site for language learning has led to the exploration of learning affordance of task complexity in L2 writing, a task implementation feature that has received growing attention in task-based ...

Lexical development in very young EFL learners: A longitudinal study on early multilingualism 

Alexandrescu, Cristina (Date of defense: 2024-03-20)

[eng] Multilingualism is one of the many effects of globalisation. The need to be proficient in several languages has sprung from people’s need to expand their universe outside their countries of origin in search for a ...

De conques i altres cavernes. Orificialitat i visió en ficcions del segle XXI 

Isern Ordeig, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-09-29)

[cat] Inscrita en el marc dels estudis de gènere i sexualitat i servint-se de les eines de la teoria literària i la literatura comparada, aquesta tesi explora la interrelació entre l’orificialitat i la visió en ficcions ...

Task-based pronunciation teaching and learning of L2 vowels in EFL learners: task complexity effects 

Mora Plaza, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2023-06-06)

[eng] Second language (L2) pronunciation learning in foreign language instructional contexts is particularly challenging due to insufficient quantity and quality of L2 input. Decades of L2 speech acquisition research have ...

Representations of Memory in Contemporary South African Literature by Young, Black, Female Authors 

Winstanley, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-04-21)

[eng] This thesis explores the representation and construction of collective memory published in South Africa since 2007 by young, black, female authors. Collective memory is what is remembered about the past in order to ...

Neoliberalism, class, subjectivity: a sociological perspective on post-recession british theatre = Neoliberalisme, classe, subjectivitat: una mirada sociològica al teatre britànic post-crisi 

Mendez Panadés, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-05-02)

[eng] This PhD dissertation, entitled “Neoliberalism, Class, Subjectivity: A Sociological Perspective on Post-Recession British Theatre / Neoliberalisme, classe, subjectivitat: una mirada sociològica al teatre britànic ...

Exploring lifelong learning motivational ecologies through the narratives of senior language users 

Darnault, Bérénice (Date of defense: 2023-07-11)

[eng] In the context of an ageing and increasingly more independent learning population, a narrative inquiry into the life stories of highly motivated senior language users remains a promising yet relatively unexplored ...

The Performance of Racial and Gender Terror in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye (2018) and Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz (2018) 

Massana Vidal, Elisabeth (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)

[eng] This PhD thesis, entitled “The Performance of Racial and Gender Terror in debbie tucker green’s ear for eye (2018) and Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz (2018)” contributes to the field of theatre studies by analysing how ...

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 ...

The effects of distribution, difficulty, and quantity of digital flashcard practice on language learning 

Serfaty, Jonathan (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)

[eng] According to research into second language (L2) practice, learners should repeatedly engage in output activities with feedback in order to develop accuracy. Digital flashcards can be used to prompt L2 output and ...

Bearing Witness to Atrocity: Racial Violence and the Limits of Representation in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Works 

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 assaults, including ...

New Leaves: Fashionable Reading and Literary Celebrity in British Vogue (1918-1939) 

Baró Gonzalez, Jana (Date of defense: 2022-09-01)

[eng] This thesis explores British Vogue’s self-appointed role as a guide to modern fashions and manners, that is, as a cultural intermediary, during the interwar period (1918-1939). Through a close reading of its essays, ...

South Africa: The Diseased Nation? An Analysis of HIV/AIDS Sufferers’ Critique of the Redemptive Discourse of Nation-Building and the (Dis)Closure of National Traumas in Post-Apartheid South African HIV/AIDS Life-Writing 

Ortega Montero, Óscar (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)

This Ph.D. dissertation explores the transformative potential of the HIV/AIDS experience in post-apartheid South Africa during the age of denialism under Thabo Mbeki’s mandate (1999-2008). To that end, the selection of ...

Heroínas del feminismo popular: autoría de mujeres en Hollywood 

Cruz Pereira, Irina (Date of defense: 2022-02-03)

En 1990, Marjorie Ferguson expone su argumento sobre la «falacia del feminismo», negando que exista una correlación entre la creciente consciencia social feminista, la autoridad de las profesionales en los medios de ...

Ese aire de mágico aislamiento: Herman Melville y la construcción de Latinoamérica en el siglo XIX 

Ramírez Paredes, Roberto Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)

La tesis doctoral propone un recorrido por la prosa de ficción y de viaje de Herman Melville, en la que construye imaginarios regionales de identidad latinoamericana. La investigación inicia con el análisis de las ficciones ...

Writers On Screen: Embodying The "Life-Text" In The Literary Biopic 

Haiduc, Sonia Amalia (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)

This thesis examines the sub-genre of the literary biopic and its intersections with literary texts and other film genres through the lens of the melodramatic mode. It explores the dramatization of the ‘life-text’, defined ...

Figuras impropias. La violencia como expresión de la disidencia en la narrativa de Marta Sanz y Sara Mesa 

Videira, Joana (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)

Esta tesis nace de la interrogación sobre las posibilidades críticas de la representación literaria de la violencia, más específicamente de la búsqueda de la representación de la violencia en los personajes femeninos ...

L1 / L2 subtitled TV series and EFL learning: A study on vocabulary acquisition and content comprehension at different proficiency levels 

Gesa Vidal, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)

Whether and how video viewing is beneficial for language learning has been a matter of debate over the last decades (Vanderplank, 2015). Multimedia learning theories (Mayer, 2009; Paivio, 1986) suggest that exposure to ...

Più donne che cavalieri. Orlando furioso: il poema di Bradamante 

Condina, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2020-01-20)

Este trabajo aborda por primera vez de forma sistemática y monográfica el papel desempeñado por los personajes femeninos en el Orlando furioso (1532) de Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), evidenciando su carácter profundamente ...

Recepción y análisis de las traducciones alemanas de dos obras principales de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz en el ámbito germanohablante: Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz y Primero sueño 

Buchholz, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)

En la presente tesis se indaga la recepción del Primero sueño y de la Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz en el ámbito germanohablante a lo largo del siglo XX por medio de las versiones alemanas de estas dos obras principales ...

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