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Heroes gone Psycho: interrogational torture in post-9/11 Television Fiction
(2017-09-07)
This dissertation analyzes the recurrent presence of ¿torturer-heroes¿ in post-9/11 television series and tries to ascertain whether these shows serve the agenda of legitimizing the use of interrogational torture that was ...
Pretask modelling: Encouraging learning opportunities in collaborative tasks
(2017)
This study examined the effect of pretask modelling on the collaborative learning
opportunities that arise when 30 Basque-Spanish bilingual learners of English as a
foreign language (EFL) were engaged in two collaborative ...
A microscopic analysis of consistent word misperceptions.
(2017-09-28)
Speech misperceptions have the potential to help us understand the mechanisms involved in human speech processing. Consistent misperceptions are especially helpful in this regard, eliminating the variability stemming from ...
The use of information and communication technologies in the foreign language classroom: students' attitudes, motivation and L2 selves
(2017-06-14)
The aim of the present mixed-methods study was to compare the motivational and attitudinal disposition of 165 high school students (16-17 years old) from Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain over one school year and a half.The novelty ...
ClipFlair, Audiovisual Translation and Computer Assisted Language Learning: beyond the four-walled classroom
(2017-08)
The purpose of this thesis is to present ClipFlair, a European-funded project aimed at providing a user-friendly, easily accessible online platform to learn foreign languages through captioning and revoicing activities. ...
CLIL in a Multilingual Setting: A Longitudinal Study on Galician Students, Teachers and Families
(2017-07-11)
El objetivo principal de esta tesis es examinar los efectos que la actual política lingüística de la Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia y la implementación de AICLE tienen en un contexto educativo concreto. La investigación ...
Corrective Feedback Episodes in CLIL and EFL Classrooms: Teachers' and Learners' Beliefs and Classroom Behaviour
(2017-12-15)
La presente tesis se sitúa en un contexto de instrucción formal con la segunda lengua como lengua extranjera y, más concretamente, compara una clase de inglés como lengua extranjera (ILE) con una clase de inglés como lengua ...
Die Liebes- und Ehekonzeption im Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach, Generationengeschichte als Präfiguration. Die Verwendung von Symbolik in den Gahmuret-Büchern als Motivstruktur der Parzival - Handlung
(2017-09-07)
El objeto de esta tesis doctoral es analizar la relación existente entre la historia de Gahmuret y la línea argumental principal del Parzival. La clave del vínculo entre ambas partes de la obra y sus protagonistas aparece ...
Dangerous and indifferent ground: naturalism and regionalism in Annie Proulx's fictional realm
(2017-06-29)
This doctoral dissertation attempts to prove the validity of naturalism in the last decade of the twentieth century and the first one of the twenty-first century in America, taking as example Annie Proulx's fiction. Apart ...
Perspectivas ecofeministas en la prosa chicana de los noventa
(2017-07-11)
Las aportaciones de dos disciplinas críticas como el feminismo y la ecología posibilitan la lucha contra el sometimiento de la naturaleza y las mujeres, originando el pensamiento ecofeminista, que se plasmará en la literatura ...