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