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Abjection of the female body in The Cutting Room and The Bullet Trick : the contemporanization of the patriarchal system
(2014-08-05)
The aim of this thesis is to discuss two of the works written by Louise Welsh, The Cutting Room (2002) and The Bullet Trick (2006), using Gothic and feminist criticism in order to back my hypothesis that the depiction of ...
A study of the English postposition ago in the speech of adult native speakers in advanced EFL recordings
(2017)
Of the three aspects of intonation normally taught at EFL teacher/translator training colleges, namely the ‘chunking’ of speech into tone groups, the location of a main prominence or nucleus, and the behaviour of the pitch ...
The Reading-Writing Relationship in a Multiple-case Study at Universidad Nacional de Villa María: A Transverse Nature
(2020)
This thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of how reading and writing are intertwined
in reading-to-write tasks, a requirement in most L2 academic contexts. Even though writing
from sources is part of students’ ...
The Teaching of Visual Literacy in Initial English Language Teacher Education
(2020)
The pressure on teacher education to prepare student teachers to bridge the gap between
the traditional literacy and multiliteracies/multimodality has intensified in the last years.
Student teachers need to acquire richer ...
Cancer metaphors in scientific popularization articles and their translation into Spanish
(2022)
Capitalizing on the insights from Conceptual Metaphor Theory and a growing number of
studies on the role of metaphor in the health sciences, this study explores cancer
metaphors in a corpus of 6 English scientific ...
The seeds of discontent of an epoch seen through the eyes of Pat Barker’s hero : Billy Prior in her Regeneration trilogy
(2013-05-03)
This thesis analyses Billy Prior, the main fictional character in Pat
Barker’s Regeneration trilogy, a young man who does not know any
boundaries and who challenges the concepts and ideas that had been
the foundations ...
Patterns of listening comprehension strategies used by upper secondary school students
(2017)
This work investigated the listening comprehension patterns of memory, cognitive, compensation, metacognitive, and social affective strategies used by a group of upper secondary school students of English in a coeducational ...
Scaffolding the learning-to-teach process in EFL Teacher Education : an analysis of the tutoring sessions between a practicum supervisor and the student-teachers
(2015)
Guiding and supporting students has always been a key feature of a teacher’s role. Helping learners to go through their evolving zones of proximal development, and gradually, develop more complex developmental levels ...
Titles in research and review articles in veterinary medicine : a corpus-based study
(2015)
Titles of research and review articles that satisfy the features of precision,
information and easy-indexation require the mastering of certain linguistic and
pragmatic skills from the researcher-writer. The mastering ...
The afterlife of "Little Women" as a feminist text
(2020)
This thesis closely examines the classic novel Little Women (1868) by Louisa May
Alcott and three contemporary reworkings: Hasta siempre, Mujercitas (2004) by Marcela
Serrano, The Little Women Letters (2012) by Gabrielle ...