Grau en Estudis Anglesos

Plus-Size Female Bodies on the Small Screen: A Perpetuation of Stigmas or a Step Forward Towards Inclusivity?

Martín Sarroca, Rosa (2022-05-02)

From the Venus of Willendorf to Aphrodite of Knidos, in each period, the canonical representation of female bodies underwent a series of modifications. In the case of plus-size women, who had once been muses for countless ...

Laberinto y Minotauro: pervivencia del mito en Labyrinth y El laberinto del fauno

Escobosa Virgili, Gisel·la (2022)

Desde el principio de los tiempos, las personas han intentado darle sentido al mundo. Una forma de hacerlo es mediante la creación de mitos, de los cuales la mitología griega es la más común en las culturas occidentales. ...

Becoming Somebody: Identity and Coming of Age in Anne of Green Gables and The Graveyard Book

Becerra Santamaria, Aida (2022)

Adolescence is a critical life stage characterised by the transition from childhood to adulthood and the formation of an independent identity. Considered a period of challenges, changes and development, it has received ...

Learning English as a Second Language: A Comparison between Spanish and Adopted Chinese Teenagers

Vicente González, Maria Esmeralda (2021)

With globalization, the flow of immigration and adoptions has increased over the years. In Spain, and particularly in Catalonia, a lot of children with different nationalities learn Spanish, Catalan, and English apart from ...

Migration-Related Heritatge Languages in the English Classroom: A Plurilingual Approach

Teixidó Castro, Emma (2021)

The place for the L1s (first languages) in the foreign language classroom has been a common object of discussion, perhaps even more so with today’s growing linguistic and cultural diversity, caused mainly by migration-related ...

The Effects of Language Aptitude on L2 Development in Young Learners

Rispa Salvadó, Jael (2021)

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of language aptitude on English vocabulary learning through the reading of graded readers with young learners. A study was conducted in a primary school of Lleida with a ...

Elly Danica's Don't: A Woman's World and Storytelling on YouTube: Trauma Narratives and Victim's Identity

Navarro Costa, Laia (2021)

The aim of this thesis is to draw a comparison between a literary piece and a YouTube video to see how the identity of a victim is constructed in different types of media. With this purpose in mind, I am going to analyze ...

Motherhood in contemporary and quality televisual content: Analysis of the representations of motherhood in the TV series "The letdown"

Llurda Marí, Àngels (2021)

Feminist thinkers have pointed out the controversial and political implications of the institution of motherhood within a patriarchal society. Over the years, television and popular culture, together with anti-feminist ...

The perspective of gender in the English classroom: a case study. Using gamification to study gender

Llobera Irun, Laia (2021-05)

Gender perspective is still a sensitive issue in the society of the 21st century. Education seems to be the best way of making people realise that we are all equal, no matter what our gender, sex or beliefs are. The aim ...

Laney and Elizabeth in Contrast and in Contact: A Comparative Analysis of Pride and Papercuts and Pride and Prejudice

Gallart Roig, Marta (2021)

The present Bachelor’s dissertation compares the main storyline of two novels: Staci Hart’s Pride and Papercuts (2020) and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813). Pride and Prejudice is at the top of Jane Austen’s reading ...

Grace Marks, a Violent Madwoman or a Helpless Victim? Women, Madness and Crime in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace

Ayala Rotxés, Raquel (2021)

This study focuses on the analysis of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (1996) and its principal character, Grace Marks, a young maid of humble origins accused of murdering her master and his housekeeper. For this purpose, ...

The case of Rumañol, a rule-breaking or a rule-creating variety?

Iuliana Raileanu, Cristina (2019-06)

Over the past 20 years there has been a mass migration of Romanians to Spain. A relevant amount of them established in Catalonia (according to the Institut d’Estadística de Catalunya) settling with their families. The ...

"Name a hero who was happy": a gender studies analysis of Madeline Miller's the Song of Achilles

Jiménez Otero, Carla (2020-06)

The use of mythology seems to be a recurring occurrence on contemporary authors, who are going back to the classics and are writing new narratives challenging the social system of the period they were written in. The ...

A Method in their Madness: a Psychoanalytic approach to Shakespeare's Construction of Evil

Mas Solé, Guillem (2020-06)

Elizabethan dramatists, foremost amongst them William Shakespeare, thoroughly explored the theme of evil in their plays, as its reach was extremely extensive and completely impregnated the Elizabethan conception of the ...

The Portrayal of Religion in Children’s Literature: A Comparative Theological Approach to Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights and C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Capdevila Santiago, Jaume (2020-05)

Children’s literature has been considered to be one of the finest tools to influence children, therefore it is not strange that institutions such as the church or its devotees decide to spread their thoughts through this ...

The role of input modality when acquiring L2 English vocabulary. An analysis of the most effective input mode in the FL classroom

Gené Giron, Rosa (2020-06)

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is an important reality in the students’ language learning process. Findings in SLA research indicate that input mode plays a crucial role when learning a second language (L2). Teachers ...

The Angel in the House and the Fallen Angel: Female affiliation versus Heterosexuality in Wollstonecraft‘s The Wrongs of Woman and Sarah Waters‘ Fingersmith

Nebot Dey, Alicia (2019-06)

The figures of the angel in the house and the fallen angel have been used in women‘s literature to portray the horrors that women had to suffer in patriarchal society. Their legal helplessness implied that their safety ...