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The origins of women's rights movement in the United States: the Seneca Falls Convention
(2020-05-25)In the 19th century, women had very limited or almost inexistent rights. They lived in a male dominated world where they had restricted access to many fields and they were considered to be an ornament of their husband in ... -
The potential of writing for L2 learning: Collaborative writing
This TFG focuses on how collaborative writing in an L2 can be an effective opportunity for L2 acquisition. For that, it revises six pieces of research that investigate how different variables (such as proficiency, corrective ... -
The problem of multilingualism in the European Union: a historical perspective and evolution
(2022-03-08)The reality of multilingualism in the European institutions is a more complex issue than its motto: United in Diversity. The increasing penetration of English in the everyday use of European citizens and its establishment ... -
The Progress of the English Progressive
This paper addresses the diachronic development of the periphrastic construction, beon/wesan + the participial ending -ende in Old English, into the progressive construction in Modern English. Even though there are two ... -
The queen of Carthage and her trojan lover: a comparative study of the relationship between Dido and Aeneas from antiquity to modernity
(2020-12-21)The relevance of Virgil´s The Aeined has prevailed over time and specifically Dido´s story has awaken the interest of several authors that have rewritten their version in different periods. From Virgil´s passive characterization ... -
The Queer West: Homophobia in The Power of the Dog and Brokeback Mountain
(2024-05-06)[EN] The cinematographic success of the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain and the 2021 film The Power of the Dog symbolises the public’s interest in LGBTQ+ stories about the American West and the need for appreciation and ... -
The reported use of grammar learning strategies by L3 english learners at secondary school
(2023-04-17)Language Learning Strategies (LLS) and their implication in language acquisition have been researched for decades now (Rubin, 1975; Oxford, 1986; Wenden and Rubin, 1987; Larsen-Freeman, 1995; Chamot, 2001; Oxford, Lee ... -
The representation of magic in the germanic literature of the Middle Ages
(2020-11-24)Magic is something that has always been known and has always been performed. There are many different kinds of this practice such as witchcraft, astrology or tarot, that have been explored from various perspectives. But ... -
The role of task repetition in EFL contexts
(2023-04-17)Different researchers have defended the use of tasks in language teaching because they offer learners the opportunity to enhance their linguistic abilities by interacting with others. Nonetheless, task-based language ... -
The role of task repetition in L2 acquisition
(2017-11-24)The use of tasks in language teaching has been demonstrated to be beneficial as it provides learners with the opportunity to develop their interlanguage by means of conversational interaction. However, as tasks are ... -
The semantics and pragmatics of conjoined sentences
(2023-04-17)It is widely known that conjoined sentences with and can communicate a wide range of relations between its conjuncts. Therefore, linguists in semantics and pragmatics fields have long tried to examine the nature of those ... -
The sins of the parents: an analysis of german trauma and memory after WWII in Bernhard Schlink's novel "The Reader"
(2020-12-21)The Second War World had a huge impact on German society and left its trace in the cultural history of the country. For this reason, we can find many movies and literature based on the war but also on the years following ... -
The Syntax of English and Basque wh-Exclamatives
(2017-11-24)This paper analyses the syntax of English and Basque wh-exclamatives and compares them, exploring their common grounds and dissimilarities. -
"The tale of Cupid and Psyches" and "Till we Have Faces": the attainment of self-worth via femininity and masculinity.
(2020-12-21)The Apuleian myth of Cupid and Psyche has long been a source of inspiration in art and literature. This motivation might be derived either from its spiritual and philosophical wisdom or from the love of mythology; being ... -
The Times Are A-Changin?: contracultura y música de la década de los sesenta en Estados Unidos
(2022-02-08)La música es uno de los principales medios de comunicación de masas modernos, así como espejo en el que se reflejan las inquietudes sociales de una época. Este TFG se ocupa de analizar la música contracultural de los años ... -
The Two-Way Cultural Street: The influence of US popular culture in the Korean Wave and Japanese anime and viceversa
(2020-05-25)The history of colonization has been marked by the Orientalist rhetoric used by Eastern empires to justify the invasion and colonization of the West. In the 20th century, the United States recycled this rhetoric to exercise ... -
The use of dictogloss in the learning of a foreign language
(2020-11-24)The Communicative Teaching Method was a language teaching methodology very popular in the 70’s and 80’s of the previous century. Its main emphasis was on second language (L2) use and, therefore, the teaching of grammar was ... -
The use of previously known languages among EFL learners: a review
(2022-03-08)When in classroom contexts, learners tend to experience communication breakdowns which apart from making them believe that they are not making any progress in their Target Language (TL), they lead them to get stuck at ... -
The Use of Songs: An Alternative for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adolescents
(2020-05-25)Songs are widely used to teach language due to the large number of advantages they have for students, beyond the mere linguistic scope. This paper aims at presenting the main benefits the use of songs provides for English ... -
The Victorian Education through the Eyes of Charles Kingsley and Lewis Carroll in The Water Babies and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(2020-05-25)Ever since the appearance of The Water Babies (1963) and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) children’s fantasy books started to be praised for their ability to distance themselves from reality. England’s youngest ...