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"You feel a little bit embarrassed, but you get over it" : EFL students' beliefs and emotions about speaking
(Departamento Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, Universidad de Granada, 2022-02-01)Drawing on positive psychology, i.e. the study of how people flourish and thrive, (MacIntyre, Gregersen and Mercer, 2016), this paper aims to analyse the elements which learners regard as most important to have positive ... -
The pain and irony of death in Julian Barnes's Memoirs Nothing to Be Frightened Of and Levels of Live
(University of Groningen Press, 2021)Julian Barnes is one of the best-known contemporary British authors, not only for his taste for formal experimentation well-documented in the novels and short stories he has published since the 1980s, but also for his ... -
Sintagma: revista de lingüística. 34 (2022)
(Edicions i Publicacions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2022)Sintagma és una revista de lingüística que pretén afavorir l’intercanvi de coneixements en aquest àmbit, independentment de la teoria en què s’emmarquin els treballs. La revista resta oberta a qualsevol contribució en els ... -
Catalan Law and Business Students in Italy: The Impact of a Stay Abroad on Fluency and Accuracy
(University of Silesia Press, 2022-01-18)The growing number of English-Medium Instruction courses offered across Europe is increasing the opportunities for student exchanges. This study follows the progress of three students from Universitat de Lleida after their ... -
Audacity and Praat as Pedagogical Tools : Analysing Fluency and Pronunciation Accuracy
(Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, 2021-12-22)The main premise of this article is that asking students of English to analyse their oral productions using measures from the Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency approach might be beneficial for their language learning process. ... -
Examining the role of learning context and individual differences in gains in L2 writing performance : the case of teenagers on an intensive study-abroad programme
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The present study examines the effects that a 3-week study-abroad (SA) experience and a set of individual differences have on the foreign language (FL) development of a group of 64 Catalan/Spanish speakers, learners of ... -
Linguistic and non-linguistic outcomes of a reading-while-listening program for young learners of English
(Springer, 2018-07-26)Reading-while-listening may be especially well suited for young language learners because of the multimodality provided in many graded readers aimed at this age group (ie., the presence of oral and written text and ... -
Dynamic Restaurants Quality Mapping Using Online User Reviews
(MDPI, 2021-08-02)Millions of users post comments to TripAdvisor daily, together with a numeric evaluation of their experience using a rating scale of between 1 and 5 stars. At the same time, inspectors dispatched by national and local ... -
The Aesthetics of the Human Beast: A Comparative Study of Zola’s L’Assommoir, Galdós’ La Desheredada and Crane’s Maggie
(Springer Nature, 2021-11-17)The concept of the human beast is assigned to the French novelist, Émile Zola, who is the first to codify principles of Naturalism, against which all future naturalist works would be compared. In his novels, especially in ... -
Literary mentorship on the art of living, aging and dying
(Elsevier, 2021-10-01)This article offers a fresh examination of Mitch Albom's bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie (1997) from a perspective of literary age studies, with a special focus on the concept of later-life mentorship. The classic mentor ... -
The Effect of Text Messaging on EFL Learners' Lexical Depth and Breadth
(National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2021)Using technology in the classroom context can be an effective way to learn a foreign or second language. Vocabulary is considered one of the important skills for identifying a learner's performance in various academic and ... -
Age, Gender and Feminism: Addressing the Gap from Literary and Cultural Perspectives
(Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2021-08-30)Although important demographic shifts have generated both an interest and profound transformations in sociocultural interpretations of ageing and old age, the experience of growing older is still perceived negatively and ... -
La lectura y escritura creativa como herramientas de análisis y transformación de la vejez
(Instituto de Investigaciones Culturales-Museo, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2021-08-24)La literatura es especialmente importante para las personas mayores, ya que, a través de representaciones literarias, éstas pueden cuestionar estereotipos y tabúes asociados al envejecimiento, así como la continuidad de ... -
Disrupting Temporalities, Multiplying the Self: An Age-Studies Approach to Two Contemporary Plays
(Universidad de Alicante, 2021)In our increasingly aged societies, old age continues to be equated with decline (Gullette 2004) and becomes the source of the most invisible yet persistent forms of discrimination, namely, ageism (Butler 1969). Even though ... -
Preliminary design of an Initial Test of Integrated Skills within TRADILEX: an ongoing project on the validity of audiovisual translation tools in teaching English
(Servei de Formació Permanent i Innovació Educativa. Universitat de València, 2021-07-15)This article shows the preliminary design process for a tailor-made Initial Test of Integrated Skills (ITIS) specially adapted to the needs of TRADILEX, a project (2020-2023) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, ... -
La pertinence du geste dans L’Assommoir de Zola
(Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española, 2020-04-30)Una parte esencial de la no verbalidad es la kinésica que abarca movimientos del cuerpo humano y la gestualidad articulada en el rostro. En un acto comunicativo, los gestos adquieren una importancia clave en la interpretación ... -
A Creative Writing Workshop on Sexuality and Ageing: A Spanish Pilot Case Study
(MDPI, 2020-07-26)Negative stereotypes about old age abound in our present-day society, which often considers older people as sexually incapable or even asexual. On the other hand, active ageing ideologies foster the practice of sex in later ... -
On the Hunt for Noble Savages: Romance Tourism and Ageing Femininities
(MDPI, 2020-06-28)Casual sexual encounters are closely wedded to leisure travel, and have received a lot of attention in both theoretical and empirical work. However, the relationship between romance tourism and female ageing remains largely ... -
Las oraciones concesivas en español y la factualidad
(Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad Austral de Chile, 2020)Cuando describimos una situación (un evento o un estado) expresamos el grado de certeza (factualidad) que le asociamos, pudiéndola presentar como cierta, incierta (probable o posible) o como no cierta. Para ello, empleamos ... -
Representation and Agency of Aging Superheroes in Popular Culture and Contemporary Society
(MDPI, 2021-03-08)The figure of the superhero has always been regarded as an iconic representative of American society. Since the birth of the first superhero, it has been shaped by the most important historical, political, and social events, ...