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Teaching the pronunciation of English through Project-Based Language Learning to Spanish learners of EFL
With the implementation of bilingualism and trilingualism in the Spanish educative
system, English has become the most taught foreign language in Spanish schools.
However, the teaching of its pronunciation is not given the ...
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Language Motivation
The demand of learning languages has been constantly increasing in the last decades.
The reasons behind might be different, such as better job opportunities, getting to know
new people or travelling, among others. The fact ...
Teaching Grammar to EFL students: A combinatory task-based and focus on form approach
This TFG proposes a combinatory approach of task-based and focus on form methodologies for the teaching of grammar to EFL learners. Acknowledging the controversy around it in the field (mainly due to views on the definition ...
The Monsters Within: Gothic Monstrosity in Dracula, Frankenstein, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its Role in Nineteenth Century English Society
Since ancient times, monsters have
populated
the human mind and, along with us, they
have evolved throughout the centuries. This evolution was finally delineated in the
nineteenth-century, when monsters ...
Traces of `Sub-creation': Applicability of Life Experiences to J.R.R. Tolkien's Literature
Whether the English author J.R.R. Tolkien is present in his works, and if so, how, has been a very thoroughly discussed issue concerning this author and his literary work. This dissertation is an attempt to try and find ...
The Importance of Storytelling for Children and Adults Alike: Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan
(2018-12-04)
Since the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Peter Pan (1904), much has been studied and said about these two stories and their authors Lewis Carroll and J. M. Barrie, respectively. They have ...
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 ...
The dehumanisation of totalitarianism: George Orwell’s "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and the Spanish Civil War and Francoism
(2020-11-24)
The phenomenon of dehumanisation has been present throughout the history of humankind, being totalitarianism the principal instigator. Processes of dehumanisation are adaptive and stand out from the times of slave-trading ...
A journey of self-discovery: the representation of minority girls in Cynthia Kadohata’s "The Thing About Luck", Alicia D. Williams’ "Genesis Begins Again" and Rebecca Balcárcel’s "The Other Half of Happy"
(2022-03-07)
The United States is a country of constant immigration which could be defined by the concepts of diversity and multiculturalism. Given the large population consisting of minority people in the country, the American society ...
Irony as a Tool to Challenge Stereotypes in Michele Serros’ How to Be a Chicana Role Model
Stereotypes are overgeneralisations that dismiss individual traits and create tension
among various groups in society. One of the most common stereotypes, ethnic
stereotyping, can be considered a form of racism, since ...