Laso Martín, Natàlia Judith (Date of defense: 2009-01-23)
It has been long acknowledged (Carter 1998, Williams 1998; Biber 2006; Hyland 2008) that writing a text not only entails the accurate selection of correct terms and grammatical constructions but also a ...
Miralpeix Pujol, Immaculada (Date of defense: 2008-02-29)
This dissertation analyses the effects of age on the acquisition of vocabulary in English as a Foreign Language (FL). It focusses on productive vocabulary because it is a crucial aspect in language ...
Serrano Serrano, Raquel (Date of defense: 2007-11-23)
The purpose of the present dissertation is to investigate the effect of time distribution of practice (or instruction hours) on the acquisition of English as a foreign language. The general objective ...
Fortuny Andreu, Jordi (Date of defense: 2007-01-12)
The syntactic component of the faculty of language is a device responsible for ordering features or clusters of features, usually called categories. As to the syntactic component is concerned, Universal ...
Brancato, Sabrina (Date of defense: 2001-06-01)
The quest for an autonomous and authentic self is the founding theme of the narrative of Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid. In our study, we analyse the mother-daughter relationship, which is the focus ...
Farguell Pérez, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2005-03-15)
La producción de sedimento en suspensión es la más importante que acarrean los ríos a los océanos y mares del mundo. El estudio en el que se basa la presente tesis se ha llevado a cabo en la cuenca del ...
López, Gemma (López Sánchez) (Date of defense: 2005-02-18)
El estudio "Literary seductions" pretende ofrecer un discurso crítico en el que enmarcar un debate sobre cuestiones como el deseo, la narrativa y la subjetividad. A través de la lectura crítica de dos ...
Pastó, Cristina (Date of defense: 2004-05-07)
Esta tesis considera la subjetividad romántica como elemento crucial y fundamental en el nacimiento de la imagen fotográfica. El redescubrimiento de la mirada por parte de artistas y poetas del ...