Browsing Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya by Date of defense

Presencia de las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación en el aula de inglés de secundaria: Descripción del marco contextual y análisis de la motivación de los alumnos, La

Martínez Rico, Patricia-María (Date of defense: 2006-06-30)

Esta Tesis tiene dos grandes objetivos. En primer lugar, ofrecer una descripción de la sociedad actual en relación con las TIC, y de éstas con la enseñanza, para seguidamente comprobar por medio de un estudio experimental, ...

"This is just a story": la ficción como verdad en la obra de Tim O'Brien

Alsina, Cristina (Date of defense: 2006-09-26)

Esta tesis analiza la relación entre ficción y efectos de verdad en la obra del novelista contemporáneo Tim O'Brien y examina la reflexión implícita en dicha obra en torno al concepto de verdad. Pondera, además, el efecto ...

Traduccions de Wagner al català, Les. "La Walkiria".

Buj Casanova, Anna M. (Date of defense: 2007-06-27)

L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi doctoral és analitzar i valorar les traduccions adaptades a la música de l'obra de Richard Wagner "Die Walküre" al català. La tesi s'ha estructurat partint de les característiques sonores, tant ...

Time Distribution and the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language

Serrano Serrano, Raquel (Date of defense: 2007-11-23)

The purpose of the present dissertation is to investigate the effect of time distribution of practice (or instruction hours) on the acquisition of English as a foreign language. The general objective is to have an overall ...

Working-class Culture and Work as portrayed in Texts and Films of Alan Sillitoe´s "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"

Keady, Stephen (Date of defense: 2008-01-18)

My aim is to recreate from the texts and films the world which is shown, and then examine it in order to demonstrate a number of points. I hope to show that there is such a phenomenon as an English working class, and that ...

Influence of Age on Vocabulary Acquisition in EFL, The

Miralpeix Pujol, Immaculada (Date of defense: 2008-02-29)

This dissertation analyses the effects of age on the acquisition of vocabulary in English as a Foreign Language (FL). It focusses on productive vocabulary because it is a crucial aspect in language learning which is also ...

A corpus-based study of the phraseological behaviour of abstract nouns in medical English. A Needs Analysis of a Spanish medical community

Laso Martín, Natàlia Judith (Date of defense: 2009-01-23)

It has been long acknowledged (Carter 1998, Williams 1998; Biber 2006; Hyland 2008) that writing a text not only entails the accurate selection of correct terms and grammatical constructions but also a good command of ...

Teachers' Reactions to Foreign Language Learner Output

Vicente-Rasoamalala, Leticia (Date of defense: 2009-12-23)

OF THE DISSERTATION: "Teachers' Reactions to Foreign Language Learner Output" BY: Leticia Vicente-Rasoamalala TEXT: A series of theoretical and practical educational studies have suggested ...

From Lifewriting to postcolonising dreaming narrative: uncanny articulations of race, class and gender in the Indigenous Australian corpus

Renes, Cornelis Martin (Date of defense: 2010-01-28)

[eng] This dissertation and its prequel, my minor thesis, have their seeds in a concern with a certain uncanniness embedded in multicultural developments in Western society. In his 1919 essay “The Uncanny”, Freud explains ...

La revista «Post-Guerra», la generació de 1930 i la recepció d’autors alemanys en les editorials d’avançada

Jové, Xavier (Date of defense: 2010-06-28)

A partir de la constatació, en el marc de la família de les editorials anomenades “d’avançada” (Madrid, 1928-1936), d’un considerable cabal traductogràfic d’autors originalment en llengua alemanya, el treball, a més d’oferir ...

Language Aptitude in Young Learners: The Elementary Modern Language Aptitude Test in Spanish and Catalan

Suárez Vilagran, María del Mar (Date of defense: 2010-11-26)

The present dissertation is concerned with language aptitude in young learners. The first aim of this dissertation is to validate the content of two new instruments: the adaptation to both Spanish (MLAT-ES) and Catalan ...

Learning from the input: syntactic, semantic and phonological cues to the noun category in English

Feijóo Antolín, Sara (Date of defense: 2010-12-16)

Las líneas centrales de la teoría lingüística de los últimos años han descrito la adquisición y el desarrollo de primeras lenguas como un proceso basado en el conocimiento innato de las propiedades gramaticales de la lengua ...

Language Learning Motivation: The Palestinian Context. Attitudes, Motivation, and Orientations

Musleh, Rana Yaser (Date of defense: 2011-01-28)

Given that motivation is held to be a major affective variable influencing SLA, the present study examines L2 motivation among Palestinian students from the age of 12 to 18 years old. Considering the present situation in ...

Lexical bundles in scientific English: A corpus-based study of native and non-native writing

Lorenzo Salazar, Danica Joy (Date of defense: 2011-11-24)

The present dissertation is a corpus-based investigation of the frequency, structure and functions of lexical bundles in published scientific writing in English, whose main objective is the creation of an inventory of the ...

Gebrauch von gehen und kommen im Kontext: diathetische und deiktische Alternanz nach textthematischer, multimodaler und stilistischer Variation

Tapia Yepes, Eduard (Date of defense: 2012-03-02)

Zusammenfassung Der Forschungsgegenstand der Dissertation ist die multidimensionale Variation bei den unakkusativischen Bewegungsverben gehen und kommen im Gebrauch. Diese Variation erfolgt nämlich auf struktureller ...

Joan Maragalls Rezeption deutscher Literatur im Identitätsdiskurs der Moderne

Grünewald, Heidi (Date of defense: 2012-04-27)

Gegenstand der Dissertation ist die eingehende Beschäftigung des katalanischen Dichters Joan Maragall i Gorina (1860-1911) mit Goethe, Nietzsche und Novalis. Diese Rezeption prägt in großem Maße auch seine Überlegungen zu ...

La construcción española [DE + INFINITIVO] con valor condicional. Un análisis contrastivo con las condicionales inversas del inglés

Krnetić, Daniela (Date of defense: 2012-07-03)

El tema de esta tesis doctoral lo constituyen dos análisis. El primer análisis comprende una descripción de la construcción no finita española [DE + infinitivo] con valor condicional (De estar por casa sin pantuflas, te ...

The Embodied Basis of Discourse Coherence

Castaño Castaño, Emilia (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)

This doctoral dissertation investigates the corporeal basis of global and local coherence. As far as global coherence is concerned, the main argument of this thesis is that the search for global coherence is often guided ...

Deterritorialising patriarchal binary oppositions: Deleuze & Guattari, Virginia Woolf, Masculinities and Film Adaptations

Ortega, Dolors (Date of defense: 2013-01-30)

This thesis aims to problematise the hegemonic set of relations that has been aligned to gender and sex within the framework of binary thought when reading Woolf’s narrative of gender. Woolf’s elusive and intense style, ...

Estrategias persuasivas en los anuncios de prensa escrita alemana: desarrollo temático, ilocución e implicación emocional

Panadés Guerrero, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)

El objetivo general de esta investigación se ha centrado en comprobar cómo se manifiestan los aspectos emocionales en la parte verbal de los anuncios publicitarios en prensa escrita en lengua alemana, sin la pretensión de ...