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African americans' civil rights and cinema in the twentieth century
(2022-03-07)
This paper seeks to study the history of African American civil rights through cinema, from the 1910s to the 1960s. In the twentieth century, the fight for black civil rights became a defining moment for American history, ...
The portuguese overseas expansion (1415-1825)
(2022-03-08)
The Portuguese Empire was one of the most successful European empires of history. Stretching all the way from Brazil, to Macao; it had territories in every continent in the world. Portugal’s discoveries opened the world ...
We´re all mad here: applying chaos theory to Lewis Carroll´s “Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” and Tim Burton´s “Alice in Wonderland”
[EN].Chaos theory, through its exploration of the construction of reality and its dynamics, provides a valid method for the analysis of any literary work. Research on the relationship between this theory and literary works ...
Challenging meaning types: a study on direct and indirect refutation
(2017-11-21)
Refutations, the expressions of disagreement in dialogue, are part of our everyday conversations. Arguments and discussions are present in our daily lives since every possible subject that anyone could speak about embraces ...
Characterizing and dealing with anxiety in the foreign language classroom
(2018-12-03)
Foreign Language Anxiety has been defined as the feeling of nervousness that may appear in the process of acquiring a new language. Although it may have beneficial effects on students’ performance, the presence of anxious ...
Analysis of EFL speech production data according to theoretical models : English plosives by Native Spanish speakers
(2017-11-21)
Within language acquisition, speaking in a non-native language accurately is extensively recognized to be the hardest skill confronted by learners. It seems an arduous task as it demands the correct employment of second ...
American English: speech analysis of the Southern dialect
(2017-11-21)
Language is a complex phenomenon every human ends mastering, independently of the mother tongue they have acquired in their childhood. In this globalised world, however, an increasing number of speakers are multilingual ...
Analysis of EFL speech production corpora according to the Speech Learning Model
[ES] Este TFG trata de mostrar cómo pronuncia una persona del País Vasco al hablar en Inglés (teniendo esta lengua como lengua extranjera) de acuerdo a un modelo teórico sobre el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas. También ...
Children'sendstate neglect: agentive vs. causative subjects
First language acquisition studies (e.g. Gentner,1978;
Gropen, Pinker, Hollander & Goldberg, 1991;
Wittek, 2002; van Hout,2005;2008)
have reported that children accept perfective
change-of-state predicates, which ...
The role of task repetition in L2 acquisition
(2017-11-24)
The use of tasks in language teaching has been demonstrated to be beneficial as it provides learners with the opportunity to develop their interlanguage by means of conversational interaction. However, as tasks are ...