Browsing Tesis de Maestría by Language "eng"
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A needs analysis case regarding the use of English of Farming Engineering Students of the School of Agronomic Sciences of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina
(2018)This study presents a needs analysis (NA) carried out at the School of Farming Engineering (FCA) of the National University of Córdoba (UNC) to identify the present and future needs of the students of the FCA in terms ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Affective factors in the teaching and learning of English at Argentinean secondary schools
(2020)The present dissertation has been conceived from the recognition of the impact that affective factors (emotions and beliefs among them) have on teachers and students in their processes of teaching and learning a foreign ... -
An exploration of evaluative meanings in tourist brochures : the case of British castles
(2018)The focus of analysis in the present study will be on how writers establish evaluative prosodies that resonate across their promotional discourse and try to accomplish reader positioning by means of their semantic choices. ... -
Análisis de la adquisición de ‘Tema-Rema’ en producciones escritas por estudiantes universitarios de Gramática inglesa
(2022)The current thesis analyzes the use of the ‘theme-rheme’ construct in the written productions of twenty-nine third year students at Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. The study stems from the reading ... -
Los artículos de revisión en inglés en el ámbito de las ciencias de la salud : un esquema retórico ejemplar
(2016)Since the appearance of Swales’ (1981, 1990) CARS model of analysis, there has been a great interest in untangling the way in which information is organized in research-process papers. In the latest years, a great number ... -
La atribución de fuentes en la escritura académica de alumnos de grado : relevamiento de estrategias
(2017)Academic writing has its own conventions and patterns which make it different from other types of writing. Composing academic essays and papers poses difficulties to students who need specific instruction to acquire the ... -
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) ... -
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 ... -
Conservative and subversive forces in the social discourse in Pride and Prejudice : towards the construction of a new female consciousness
(2014-08-13)This New Historicist reading of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice aims to analyze how the novel, as a patchwork of coexisting signifying practices, gives evidence of the cognitive systems and thematic repertory that make ... -
Constructing the Scientific Dialogue in Mathematics: The Search of an Equilibrium between Words and Symbols in Game Theory Research Articles
(2021)Most scientific communication is conducted in English, which may be a difficult task and a source of obstacles for researchers whose primary language is not English (Bitchenera & Basturkmen, 2006; Borlogan, 2009; Duff, ... -
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 ... -
Dolores and Peter´s memories: in The Hiding place (2000) by Trezza Azzopardi and Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
(2014-12-03)Dolores and Peter´s Memories in The Hiding Place (2000) by Trezza Azzopardi and Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf inevitably leads to reflections on memory. When considering the term “memory” one relates it to the ... -
The Effect of Genre-based Instruction on the Teaching of Business Report Writing
(2005)The present study investigates the application of Genre Theory to the teaching of business report writing to university students. Five instructors, three raters and five groups of learners attending the fourth semester ... -
La escritura de abstracts y AIC de alumnos de ILE : análisis de escritos y evaluación de la efectividad de una pedagogía de género
(2017)Scientific writing is a very complex albeit crucial activity for researchers who need to share findings and become a part of, or maintain, a position as members of a wide international discourse community. Since most ... -
La estructura retórica del resumen (abstract) en las disciplinas arte y diseño : un estudio descriptivo
(2021)As an effective means of representing the research article, the abstract has increasingly become an essential part of this genre. For that reason, understanding the rhetorical conventions that govern abstract writing in ... -
Forms of hybrid identity and first person narratives
(2009)This research paper has two axes of analysis: the protagonists‘ construction of a hybrid identity, and the choice of a hybrid genre by the authors to reflect the identity of the protagonists who narrate their life stories. ... -
Genre pedagogy as a tool to learn the "Historial account" genre at a EFL tertiary level
(2018)The present study investigates the implementation of the SFL genre-based pedagogy to the teaching of historical accounts (HAs) in an EFL tertiary educational context in Córdoba, Argentina. Twenty-four students, the ... -
How are violence and gender talked about in public? : cultural assumptions and the discursive construction of the past
(2013)From the theoretical perspective of situated discourse analysis and drawing on the related research traditions of critical discourse analysis and conversation analysis, this study examines the discursive construction of ...