Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya: Recent submissions
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Lexical bundles in scientific English: A corpus-based study of native and non-native writing
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 ...
Language Aptitude in Young Learners: The Elementary Modern Language Aptitude Test in Spanish and Catalan
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 ...
Teachers' Reactions to Foreign Language Learner Output
OF THE DISSERTATION:<br/><br/>"Teachers' Reactions to Foreign Language Learner Output"<br/><br/>BY: Leticia Vicente-Rasoamalala<br/><br/>TEXT:<br/><br/>A series of theoretical and practical educational studies have suggested ...
The structuring of language-learning tasks
One of the roles who teachers have is that of organizer of activity and in subject matters that are rather practical by nature, like the teaching of a foreign language is, this role as elicitor of activity is even more ...
Language Learning Motivation: The Palestinian Context. Attitudes, Motivation, and Orientations
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 ...
La Mujer y el matrimonio en las principales novelas de William Makepeace Thackeray
El objetivo principal de este tesis doctoral es el poner de relieve le evolución que se de en W. M. Thackeray en cuanto al tratamiento de la mujer y del matrimonio en sus noveles, evolución que nos lleva a pensar en un ...
Estudi del llenguatge en la producció teatral de Harold Pinter
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 ...
A corpus-based study of the phraseological behaviour of abstract nouns in medical English. A Needs Analysis of a Spanish medical community
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 ...
Influence of Age on Vocabulary Acquisition in EFL, The
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 ...
El sistema pronominal en inglés y castellano: análisis contrastivo
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 ...
La invención del término "Novelle". "La fuerza de la sangre" como texto ejemplar de la "Novelle" alemana
A fnales del siglo XVIII empieza a emplearse en la literatura alemana el término Novelle" para designar una tradición genérica supuestamente procedente de la tradición románica. Pese a que con posterioridad la Novelle ha ...
Traduccions de Wagner al català, Les. "La Walkiria".
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
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 ...
Gendering Men: Theorizing Masculinities in American Culture and Literature
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, ...
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
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, ...
Age-related effects on the acquisition of a foreign language phonology in a formal setting
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 ...
Task Complexity and L2 Narrative Oral Production
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 ...
"How many identities can dance on a maple leaf?". La escritura de Marlene Nourbese Philip en el contexto de la Postmodernidad
La tesis es un estudio analítico de la obra literaria y teórica de la escritora afrocaribeña afincada en Canadá Marlene Nourbese Philip según teorías postcoloniales y posmodernas. <br/>Tras algunas consideraciones sobre ...
Mother/Motherland in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid
The quest for an autonomous and authentic self is the founding theme of the narrative of Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid. In our study, we analyse the mother-daughter relationship, which is the focus of Kincaid's plots ...
Gender, Politics, Subjectivity: Reading Caryl Churchill.
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 ...
