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"Name a hero who was happy": a gender studies analysis of Madeline Miller's the Song of Achilles
(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
(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 role of input modality when acquiring L2 English vocabulary. An analysis of the most effective input mode in the FL classroom
(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 ... -
Motherhood in contemporary and quality televisual content: Analysis of the representations of motherhood in the TV series "The letdown"
(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 ... -
Laney and Elizabeth in Contrast and in Contact: A Comparative Analysis of Pride and Papercuts and Pride and Prejudice
(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
(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, ... -
Elly Danica's Don't: A Woman's World and Storytelling on YouTube: Trauma Narratives and Victim's Identity
(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 ... -
Migration-Related Heritatge Languages in the English Classroom: A Plurilingual Approach
(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
(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 ... -
Learning English as a Second Language: A Comparison between Spanish and Adopted Chinese Teenagers
(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 ... -
The perspective of gender in the English classroom: a case study. Using gamification to study gender
(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 ...