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Extraposition in English and Spanish: A comparative study
(2015-12-11)
This thesis focuses on EX from DP, a construction in which a PP or clausal modifier
appears separate from the head noun it modifies, typically in sentence-final position.This construction incarnates one of the long-standing ...
Teen-age identity construction in Stephen King: A gendered view
(2016-01-20)
Basing the research on fields such as Feminism, Masculinities, Gothic Literature or Myth, this dissertation provides a gendered view of the construction of teen-age identity in the fiction of Stephen King. In this analysis ...
"New Moon": aproximación a la traducción audiovisual del lenguaje de los adolescentes
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012)
[ES] El lenguaje juvenil o de los adolescentes cambia rápidamente y los productos audiovisuales son
un buen formato que muestra estas características. Cada joven de cada lengua posee unas herramientas
diferentes para ...
The acquisition of gender agreement in L3 English by Basque/Spanish bilinguals
(2015-12-21)
Esta tesis investiga la adquisición de la concordancia de género en los posesivos de tercera persona singular (his/her) en inglés como tercera lengua (L3) por parte de bilingües euskera /castellano. El objetivo principal ...
The written production of ecuadorian efl high school students: grammatical transfer errors and teacher's and learner's perception of feedback
(2018-11-23)
El objetivo de esta tesis doctoral es investigar los errores gramaticales de transferencia en la escritura en inglés como lengua extranjera de alumnos de secundaria ecuatorianos (n=180) y su grado de prevalencia en comparación ...
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 ...
The use of models as written corrective feedback in spontaneous EFL writing
(2018)
While a number of studies have investigated the noticing function of output, the language learning potential of writing and the way in which written corrective feedback (CF) can promote language acquisition have been ...
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 oral production and negotiation of meaning of spanish EFL children in task-supported interaction: the role of age and task repetition
(2018-02-09)
La presente tesis doctoral explora el potencial de la interacción oral entre jóvenes aprendices de inglés como lengua extranjera. Hemos analizado las interacciones de alumnos de 3º y 5º de Educación Primaria (de entre 8 y ...
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 ...