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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 ...
The 2016 presidential candidates and their discourse: a reflection of a XXI century cultural and ideological conflict in the United States
(2017-11-24)
The recent result of the 2016 presidential election in the United States of America has left many of the nation’s experts at a loss for words, immediately following the announcement of the results, professionals from various ...
The Two-Way Cultural Street: The influence of US popular culture in the Korean Wave and Japanese anime and viceversa
(2020-05-25)
The history of colonization has been marked by the Orientalist rhetoric used by Eastern empires to justify the invasion and colonization of the West. In the 20th century, the United States recycled this rhetoric to exercise ...
Grammar learning strategies in Primary School Children
(2022-03-07)
The field of Language Learning Strategies (LLS) is a well-researched topic in
language acquisition. The importance of LLSs is highlighted in Chamot’s (2001)
definition, in which LLSs are defined as the “techniques or ...
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 ...
English as a contact language: Nigerian English as a case study
(2017-11-21)
Throughout the 16th century, the colonial aspirations of the British Empire took the English language to territories where it got in contact with different linguistic realities. These contact situations resulted in new ...
This topic needs researched: special passives in English
(2017-11-24)
This paper is a study of the grammatical construction needs done (formed by need/want/like + past participle) which can currently be attested in a number of English varieties. Despite this relatively widespread distribution, ...
I love me this topic: The Southern English double object construction
On many varieties of English spoken in the United States it is possible to say
something like (1) below:
(1) I sent mei a letter to the President.
(1) exemplifies the so-called Southern Double Object Construction (Southern ...