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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 ...
Fullana Rivera, Natalia (Date of defense: 2005-11-04)
The present dissertation aims to contribute to the to date more limited findings of studies examining the factor of starting age in second language (L2) phonological learning in a formal instruction setting. Thus, its main ...
Mackay, Jessica (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
El Sistema Motivacional del Yo L2 (L2MSS) propuesto por Dörnyei (2005, 2009a) reconceptualiza la motivación en el aprendizaje de la segunda lengua (L2) en un contexto globalizado. Basándose en las teorías de psicología ...
Andria, Maria (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the influence of first language (L1) patterns on the acquisition of Greek as a foreign language (L2) by Spanish/Catalan L1 learners, as well as to determine whether L2 ...
Muñoz Lahoz, Carme, 1955- (Date of defense: 1986-05-01)
El interés que me movió a realizar el siguiente trabajo nació de una experiencia temprana de profesora de lengua inglesa como lengua extranjera. Esta actividad profesional dio pie a reflexiones sobre el aprendizaje de ...
Marsol Jornet, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-11-20)
This dissertation examines the English language learning experience of primary school learners in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom settings. It focuses, on ...
Montero Micharet, Lidia (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to the field of second language (L2) communication strategies (CS) and, particularly, to examine which factors or combinations of factors are involved in the use and ...
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 ...
Artieda Gutiérrez, Gemma (Date of defense: 2014-01-17)
In today’s globalised world it is becoming increasingly common that adults need to learn new languages at any age. And while the number of foreign language adult learners keeps growing, there is still a dearth of research ...
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 ...
Pérez Vidal, Carmen (Date of defense: 1995-10-11)
Esta tesis describe la adquisición natural del inglés de un niño bilingüe catalán/inglés, entre sus 3’3 y 4’2 años. Es un estudio longitudinal, exploratorio e interpretativo, que se aborda desde la lingüística, para analizar ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Strunk, Oliver (Date of defense: 1998-01-01)
In der vorliegenden Untersuchung soll ausgehend von einer produktorientierten, korpuslinguistischen Methode die akademische Textproduktion von Deutschlernern zu vergleichbaren Textprodukten von Muttersprachlern dargestellt ...
Kivistö de Souza, Hanna (Date of defense: 2015-11-27)
El propósito de esta tesis es incrementar el conocimiento de la consciencia fonológica en L2 a través de tres objetivos: estudiar la naturaleza de la consciencia fonológica en L2 y su relación con diferencias individuales, ...
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, ...
Brennan, Kerry Anne (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
Throughout history there has been tremendous debate about what comprises the best methods and approaches to foreign or second language (L2) teaching and learning, without any decisive universal conclusions. Since the 1980s, ...
Gilabert Guerrero, Roger (Date of defense: 2005-01-21)
This study explores the impact of manipulating Task Complexity simultaneously along both pre-task planning time and the degree of displaced, past time reference on L2 narrative oral production. By drawing on consolidated ...