Universitat de Barcelona
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Das wissenschaftliche Interesse an der Iberischen Halbinsel hat eine lange Tradition in Deutschland. Deutsche Forscher und Gelehrte haben früh damit begonnen, Aspekten der spanischen Kultur auf den Grund zu gehen, sei es ...
This dissertation argues that Herman Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is a universalist poem which analyzes the necessity, political potentiality, and challenges of intersubjectivity to the ...
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 ...
Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Kinder- und Jugendtheater im deutschsprachigen Raum, genauer mit dem Theater für Kinder und Jugendliche, um einer Verwechslung des Theaters mit Kindern und Jugendlichen ...
This dissertation analyzes the fiction of South African author Zoë Wicomb (1948- ) through her two collections of short stories: You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) and The One that Got Away (2008) and two novels: David’s ...
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, ...
El presente estudio se ocupa de la recepción de Cervantes y Calderón de la Barca por parte del autor romántico E.T.A. Hoffmann, e inserta dicho proceso receptivo en un contexto epocal más amplio. Por un lado, el romanticismo ...
El objetivo de la presente tesis es realizar un estudio sistemático de la recepción de los Hávamál, un poema éddico contenido en un manuscrito islandés del siglo XIII con el código MS GkS 2365 in 4°, conocido con el nombre ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
L'objecte d'estudi d'aquesta tesi sorgeix de diverses consideracions. En primer lloc, si bé les referències a l'ús del llenguatge en les obres de H. Pinter són relativament abundoses en la critica corresponent, la major ...
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 ...
[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 ...
Zusammenfassung Der Forschungsgegenstand der Dissertation ist die multidimensionale Variation bei den unakkusativischen Bewegungsverben gehen und kommen im Gebrauch. Diese Variation erfolgt nämlich auf struktureller ...
This doctoral dissertation approaches three plays written by British playwright Caryl Churchill (1938- ): <i>Cloud Nine</i> (1979), <i>Top Girls</i> (1982), and <i>Blue Heart</i> (1997). Her plays deal mainly with systems ...
This thesis attempts to "gender" men by theorizing masculinities in American culture and literature. It tries to demonstrate that (white heterosexual) men, like women, are also gendered beings; that they have, therefore, ...
