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

    Puyuelo Ureña, Eva (Data de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Li, Yanmei (Data de defensa: 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 ...

    Crosslinguistic influence in L2 English oral production: the effects of cognitive language learning abilities and input 

    Ortega Duran, Mireia (Data de defensa: 2016-11-18)

    The study of crosslinguistic influence (CLI), a phenomenon that emerges due to the interaction of different languages in the learners’ mind, has attracted the attention of SLA researchers since the emergence of the field. ...

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

    Isern Ordeig, Maria (Data de defensa: 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 ...

    The effect of auditory and articulatory phonetic training on the perception and production of L2 vowels by Catalan-Spanish learners of English 

    Aliaga-Garcia, Cristina (Data de defensa: 2017-12-14)

    Adult second language learners often experience major difficulties in perceiving and producing non-native speech sounds. Several perception training studies (Iverson & Evans, 2007; Nishi, & Kewley-Port, 2007; Carlet & ...

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

    Ramírez Paredes, Roberto Marcos (Data de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Darnault, Bérénice (Data de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Videira, Joana (Data de defensa: 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 ...

    Globalisation in David Greig’s Theatre Space, Ethics and the Spectator 

    Rodríguez Morales, Verónica (Data de defensa: 2016-12-16)

    The present PhD thesis, entitled “Globalisation in David Greig’s Theatre: Space, Ethics and the Spectator”, aims to contribute to the field of contemporary British drama and theatre studies in the form of an extended ...

    Heroínas del feminismo popular: autoría de mujeres en Hollywood 

    Cruz Pereira, Irina (Data de defensa: 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 ...

    "Ich bin Spaniolin". Veza Canetti im Fokus ihres jüdisch-sephardischen Erbes 

    Patz Sievers, Evelyn (Data de defensa: 2018-04-10)

    Die drei schlichten Worte „Ich bin Spaniolin” im Titel der vorliegenden literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsarbeit beinhalten das fundamentale Bekenntnis der jüdisch-sephardischen Schriftstellerin Veza Canetti, dessen ...

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

    Gesa Vidal, Ferran (Data de defensa: 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 ...

    La cultura española en la obra de Elsa Morante 

    García Melenchón, Francisco Javier (Data de defensa: 2016-12-02)

    La obra de Elsa Morante está sembrada de elementos relacionados con la cultura española, que se van intensificando hasta alcanzar pleno protagonismo en su última novela Aracoeli. El presente estudio aborda el problema por ...

    Language Learning from Subtitled TV Series in the Primary EFL Classroom 

    Casulleras Marquès, Montserrat (Data de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Alexandrescu, Cristina (Data de defensa: 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 ...

    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 (Data de defensa: 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 ...

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

    Baró Gonzalez, Jana (Data de defensa: 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, ...

    Of heroes and victims: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the satirical post-9/11 novel 

    Resano, Dolores (Data de defensa: 2017-09-22)

    This dissertation analyzes a typically overlooked novel within the corpus of post-9/11 fiction studies, Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), and puts forward some hypotheses for this under-examination. It suggests that the debates ...

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

    Condina, Alessandro (Data de defensa: 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 (Data de defensa: 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 ...