Departament de Llengües i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos: Recent submissions
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The Role of L2 Speaking Anxiety in L2 Speaking Fluency, Pronunciation Accuracy and Comprehensibility in Instructed English
[eng] Socio-psychological factors such as Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) are an important source of individual differences in foreign language acquisition of (Horwitz et al., 1986). FLA is known to hinder language achievement ...
Towards a Semantics of Narrative Emotions: The Case of Extreme Empathy
[eng] Despite rising attention to affect and empathy in recent literary studies, the formal construction and narrative function of emotions remains underexplored. Motivated by the lack of narratological and semantic analyses ...
Interlanguage Pragmatics in Greek as a Foreign Language by Spanish/Catalan Bilinguals: An Analysis of Requests
[eng] The speech act of requests has been widely investigated in the field of Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP) throughout the years (i.e., Alcón Soler et al., 2005, Barón, 2015; Cohen & Shively, 2007; Martínez-Flor, 2003; ...
Content Support in Second Language Writing and Its Impact on Writing Performance and Writing Processes
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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)
[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
[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
[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
[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)
[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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
