Browsing Tesis de Maestría by Language "eng"
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Interweaving letters and sounds : the impact of phonics instruction in English on the oral production and symbolic representation of sounds among university-level L2 English learners
(2016)The study described in this thesis was conducted with a number of L1 Spanish learners of L2 English who were students of English Pronunciation Practice (EPP), an undergraduate pronunciation course taught in English Teaching, ... -
Malvinas War Poetry : a Comparative Approach to Gustavo Caso Rosendi’s Soldados and Tony McNally’s Screaming in Silence from the Perspective of Trauma Studies
(2019)The present thesis offers a comparative approach to a selection of poems from two collections, Screaming in Silence by Tony McNally and Soldados by Gustavo Caso Rosendi, in the light of trauma studies. The productions ... -
Metacognitive writing strategies in academic writing : the path to enhance autonomy and to become expert writers
(2013-11-11)Learners’ effective and conscious use of metacognitive writing strategies (MWS) has proved to be beneficial in enhancing self-directed and autonomous learning, and also, in some cases, in improving their writing performance. ... -
Mohandas Gandhi´s social representations : the power to reach unity in diversity
(2022)Research on intergroup conflict and on identity within the social and behavioural sciences has provided broadly applicable explanations of phenomena such as bias, prejudice and discrimination. In the colonial system, ... -
Moving from research to materials design : a study of schemata activation in elementary level EFL textbooks
(2014-08-05)ii ABSTRACT This thesis explores the application of Schema Theory in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) internationally produced coursebooks used in schools in the city of San Luis (Argentina) during the period ... -
Parodic metafiction : an approach to self-reflexive fiction in two works by John Barth
(2015)The present study aims at elaborating on the connection between two concepts in the field of literary studies, namely metafiction and parody, alongside other related notions, such as the function of irony as a rhetorical ... -
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 ... -
Quality evaluation of the teaching and learning processes in the chair of English grammar I in the Faculty of Languages in the National University of Córdoba
(2014-08-05)Evaluation is itself often perceived as threatening the interests of those involved in the object of evaluation. Hence, evaluation tends to be neglected. However, Argentinian policies on education are currently giving ... -
Reading to learn in chemistry ESP courses = Leer para aprender en cursos de Inglés con propósitos específicos, aplicación experimental del ciclo de andamiaje en la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas de la UNC
(2017)The development of reading comprehension in a foreign language has been of concern to many applied linguists, who have proposed different approaches to enhance students’ comprehension. Scaffolding has been identified as ... -
Representaciones patriarcales presentes en los siglos XIX y XXI : la perpetuidad del sistema patriarcal
(2014)The cinema is an important part of people’s everyday lives, and it contributes to influence our perception of the world and of ourselves as subjects. A vast amount of research has been made on gender representations in the ... -
Rites of passage from a gender perspective in Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
(2015)As readers, every time we take a book in our hands, we sink into an act of reading that invites us to think about what the text suggests but remains uncovered. Sometimes, those hidden messages make us reflect upon the links ... -
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 ... -
Supervisors feedback in ELT practicum as perceived by student-teachers and (their) supervisors
(2014)The purpose of this research study was to investigate the perceptions of supervisory feedback of student-teachers and university supervisors involved in the teaching practicum, in four EFL teacher education programmes at ... -
Text production in undergraduate education : functional and cognitive complexities
(2015)This work explores the functional and cognitive complexities involved in written text production in undergraduate education. The objects of analysis are texts produced in the Grammar II course by students in the teaching, ... -
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 ... -
The collaborative construction of knowledge through online forums and blogging in an EFL undergraduate class
(2014-04-29)In the educational field, the World Wide Web can be used as a medium of communication, as an information delivery system as well as an interactive space to provide novel opportunities for students' engagement in learning ... -
The construction of memory and power relations in Elizabeth Nunez's Prospero's daughter, Andrea Levy's The long song and Joanne Hillhouse's Oh gad!
(2019)As explained by Aleida Assman, the last two decades of the 20th century saw the development and consolidation of memory research, a diverse field including “neuronal, medical, and psychological as well as literary, cultural, ... -
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 expression of motion in English and Spanish narratives: how systemic functional linguistics can enrich the findings of cognitive linguistics
(2018)One of the most noticeable aspects in which English and Spanish are typologically different is the way in which they construe meanings of motion, especially when there is a trajectory implied. While English lexicalizes ... -
The impact of mistakes at the micro level of pronunciation on the assessment of English Phonetics and Phonology II students' oral performance”
(2015)This study aims at determining the impact of mistakes at the micro level or pronunciation on the assessment of undergraduate EFL (English as a foreign language) students in the context of the subject Phonetics and Phonology ...