Departament de Llengües i Literatures Modernes i d'Estudis Anglesos: Recent submissions
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L1 / L2 subtitled TV series and EFL learning: A study on vocabulary acquisition and content comprehension at different proficiency levels
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
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
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 ...
A voz heroica nas margens. Potencial político e terapêutico dos relatos de "si-mesma"
A operação estrutural pela qual as mulheres, como diferenças do padrão masculino e heroico, foram representadas negativamente na cultura reside no cerne da fundação da democracia ocidental, com consequências éticas, políticas ...
"Ich bin Spaniolin". Veza Canetti im Fokus ihres jüdisch-sephardischen Erbes
Die drei schlichten Worte „Ich bin Spaniolin” im Titel der vorliegenden literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsarbeit beinhalten das fundamentale Bekenntnis der jüdisch-sephardischen Schriftstellerin Veza Canetti, dessen ...
The effect of auditory and articulatory phonetic training on the perception and production of L2 vowels by Catalan-Spanish learners of English
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 & ...
Traducción y creación en la obra de Teodoro Llorente
Teodoro Llorente (1836-1911) fue un personaje prolífico donde los haya: traductor, poeta en valenciano y castellano, periodista, fundador y director de Las Provincias, político, crítico e historiador de Valencia. Su legado ...
Of heroes and victims: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the satirical post-9/11 novel
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 ...
Succes or failure? The effect of the language of test on students’ academic achievement in rural Senegal
In most Sub-Saharan countries, children grow up in a local environment attached to a culture and an identity which are embraced by a local language. However, when they start compulsory school at the age of six, they have ...
Task-Modality Effects: A Study of Task Complexity Effects in Speech and Writing
One of the major areas of interest in task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) has been the psycholinguistically-oriented strand, which explores the way in which task design may interact with second language (L2) ...
The Role of Cognitive Ability in the Acquisition of Second Language Perceptual Phonological Competence
Many second language (L2) learners find L2 pronunciation difficult and experience perception and production problems leading to accented speech. There exists a great inter-learner variation in L2 phonological acquisition ...
Globalisation in David Greig’s Theatre Space, Ethics and the Spectator
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 ...
Crosslinguistic influence in L2 English oral production: the effects of cognitive language learning abilities and input
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. ...
La cultura española en la obra de Elsa Morante
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 ...
