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Contemporary American queer drama : pushing the limits to remain at the borders
(2015)
Over the past 20 years, after the American LGBT liberationist movement has managed to make new voices heard and acquired certain social conquests, partly overturning decades of exclusion and segregation, gay American drama ...
Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
(2015)
This thesis intends to analyse Mary Shelley‘s creature in her novel Frankenstein, and how the creation of this creature may have adumbrated the birth of present creatures—clones, genomes,1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...
The Collaborative construction of knowledge through online forums for the development of sociocognitive writing skills
(2016)
Changes in the production, transmission and access to information generated by information and communication technologies (ICTs) require new skills and offer cognitive and social opportunities for the construction of ...
B-learning in an EFL college class : creativity, critical thinking and collaboration
(2015)
Research in educational technology is relatively new and the literature on the topic offers a variety of approaches. One of the most recent research trends aims at exploring and analyzing the phenomena that accompany the ...
The discursive construction of responsibility : strategies used by political and military witnesses in public hearings
(2013-05-03)
From the perspective of current situated discourse analysis and the associated
disciplinary strands of conversational analysis, narrative studies and critical discourse
analysis, this study examines how political and ...
The fictionalization of history and the personal stories in Obasan and Slaughterhouse-five
(2014-10-15)
The nature of history has always been studied and analyzed from different perspectives throughout the centuries. Following a postmodern position, many theorists have explored history and have questioned it critically in ...
Lexical availability in Argentinian students who attend bilingual institutions
(2014)
As a member of Área de Lingüística Aplicada of Centro de Investigaciones of Facultad de Lenguas (CIFAL) in Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, I took part in a project, carried out in Spanish, about lexical availability in ...
Ni una menos : the conceptualization of femicides on facebook
(2017)
The present study analyzes the conceptual frames of the phenomenon “femicide” underlying
Facebook interactions. This study brings together Critical Discourse Studies (2008), Cognitive
Semantics (Cienki, 2007; Dancygier ...
Self-monitoring based on agreed-on assessment criteria in EFL writing
(2015)
Fostering learner autonomy has become more important than ever before and, as a result, the relevance of language learning strategy training is widely acknowledged. Strategies-based instruction is a learner-focused approach ...
Understanding and producing multimodal messages in secondary school through webquest
(2015)
Themain focus of this presentation is to shed light on how secondary schoolstudents can be guided to recognize, decode and produce multimodal messages tofoster critical thinking and responsible citizenship. To achieve this ...