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The Role of Morphological Awareness in Children's Reading and Writing Skills
(2018-12-04)
Recently there has been a growing interest in the recognition of the role of Morphological Awareness (MA) for children’s literacy development. The present paper analyses a compilation of studies dealing with the idea of ...
A Self-discovery Voyage: Taylor's Search for Self-Identity in "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver
(2018-12-04)
Western literature has conventionally been concerned with male characters and their lonely journeys, however, Barbara Kingsolver has escaped the constraints of the genre. Hence, the aim of this paper is to analyze the main ...
Morpheme Order Studies: A Descriptive Study in English as a Second Language
(2018-12-04)
Morpheme Order Studies (MOS) conform a set of highly influential studies in the field of first and second language acquisition. These studies were based on the assumption that there exists a universal and natural order for ...
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 ...
Technology, Power and Ignorance: The sources of corruption in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
(2018-12-04)
Since the first Industrial Revolution and up to our current days, there has been an exponential growth in the power of technology over nature and over humanity. Simultaneously, the concern about the negative impact that ...
Slavery in the Harry Potter Series
(2018-12-04)
J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels are amongst the most famous literary sagas in the world, and studies about the author and her novels are fairly common. The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the way in which slavery ...