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Relative clause production in Basque-Spanish bilinguals with aphasia: material testing in a control group
(Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/Universidad del país Vasco, 2014)
Research on the comprehesion of relative clauses (RCs) in participants with agrammatism has revealed that although this population encounters difficulties with momevent-derived constructions in general, subject relatives ...
The Classical Hero’s Journey in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
(2017-11-24)
Although several academic studies have extensively analyzed J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, there might not be many studies examining the traits of the classical hero’s journey in this specific ...
L1-based Communication Strategies in CLIL and NON-CLIL Learners of L3 English
(2017-11-23)
The use of first language (L1)-based Communication Strategies (CSs) in oral and written second language (L2) production has been extensively researched in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). As regards Content and Language ...
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 ...
Proficiency, task-type and gender effects on the use of communication strategies: a review
(2020-11-24)
It is safe to say that learners are bound to encounter communication problems, based on a target language (TL) deficiency, during their second language (L2) learning process. In order to cope with these situations, students ...
Classical Tradition in Elizabethan Theatre: The Influence of Latin Comedy on Shakespeare’s "Comedy of Errors".
(2019-03-26)
Comedy plays have been part of our society at least for two thousand years. Such a rich theatrical culture implies that, historically, many different works have been written by various authors worldwide. Hence, in a bigger ...
Dido and Aeneas. Virgilian influence on Henry Purcell
(2020-05-20)
The Aeneid by Virgil has been admired and continually imitated along centuries, and it is one of the most important poems written in the history of western civilization after the Bible, as it served as a source of influence ...
Virgil’s Dido and Jupiter, the models for the allegorical representations of queen Elizabeth I in Marlowe’s "Dido, Queen of Carthage"
(2020-12-21)
Dido, Queen of Carthage has been hitherto ignored by the academia and in fact, it has not been until the last century that the play has started to acquire the recognition it deserves. More specifically, this dissertation’s ...
Representation of the villain in C. S. Lewis’s "The Magician’s Nephew"
(2020-11-24)
The present paper aims to observe the relevance of the role of the villain in the first book of C. S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia, entitled The Magician’s Nephew (1955). To this end, I will first introduce Schäfer’s ...
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 ...