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The Impact of Study Abroad on Affective Factors: Motivation, Attitudes and Anxiety
(2018-12-03)
Interest in study abroad (SA) and its linguistic outcomes has significantly increased in recent years due to globalisation and its emphasis on intercultural communication (Arnett, 2002). Nevertheless, although affective ...
Long's Peak: Isabella Bird's Initiation Journey
(2018-07-16)
Contrary to what can be expected from a Victorian lady of the 19th century, which is mostly taking care of her offspring and loving spouse, the traveller and writer Isabella Bird was determined to deviate herself from ...
Her: Between Utopia and Dystopia
(2018-12-03)
Dystopian fiction is a literary and film genre that explores contemporary social and political issues and is, therefore, inspired by the anxieties and worries of the society that produces it. Set in a distant place and ...
Long’s Peak: Isabella Bird’s Initiation Journey
(2018-12-03)
Contrary to what can be expected from a Victorian lady of the 19th century, which is
mostly taking care of her offspring and loving spouse, the traveller and writer
Isabella Bird was determined to deviate herself from ...
Didactic Unit for Students of 1st year of Compulsory Secondary Education: developing oral comprehension and production skills
(2018-12-03)
This project consists in an innovative teaching program comprising eight lesson plans devised for a 1st year of Compulsory Secondary Education (CSE) classroom. Based on an audiolingual and a communicative language teaching ...
Are the times a-changin'? Origin and Evolution of a-Prefix in English
(2018-12-03)
Among the many grammatical phenomena that can be observed in different dialects of the United States, one that has garnered linguistic attention is the so-called a-prefixing, which is a morpheme that appears attached to ...
Amalgam clefts in spoken English
(2018-12-03)
When speakers mark the focus of a sentence they do so because they need to highlight that this constituent conveys the new information of an utterance. That is, they want to bring the interlocutor’s attention to that ...
Expression of authority in academic writing: a comparative study of the usage of first-person pronouns between genders
(2018-12-03)
The expression of authority by means of first-person pronouns in Academic Discourse has long been a controversial issue. Traditionally, impersonality was said to be one of the core characteristics of expert writing; However, ...
Welsh Nationalism: An Approach
(2018-12-05)
Combining both published and unpublished sources, in this work the nationalist movement in Wales is revisited. Welsh nationalism has showed a weak support in spite of having a culture and language of its own. We will try ...
Non-Binary Gender Identities and Language Use
(2018-12-04)
The sociolinguistic research that has examined the relation between language and gender has experienced a significant change in the past decades. As a matter of fact, a new approach to feminist theory that rejected the ...