Mackay, Jessica (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
El Sistema Motivacional del Yo L2 (L2MSS) propuesto por Dörnyei (2005, 2009a) reconceptualiza la motivación en el aprendizaje de la segunda lengua (L2) en un contexto globalizado. Basándose en las teorías ...
Ter Avest, Irene (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
Cross-linguistic influence in L3 acquisition appears to be mediated by a complex interplay of factors, among which L2 status and perceived typological distance appear to be the most important ones, at ...
Vasylets, Olena (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)
One of the major areas of interest in task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) has been the psycholinguistically-oriented strand, which explores the way in which task design may interact with ...
Hernáiz, Rodrigo, 1951- (Date of defense: 2018-05-30)
This thesis interrogates the extent to which a range of written variation in the Old Babylonian letters from the central area of Mesopotamia relate significantly to variables denoting temporal-historical ...
Plotnikova, Anastasiia (Date of defense: 2022-05-19)
This doctoral dissertation explores the effects of prolonged exposure to audio-visual input on learning a variety of English L2 grammatical constructions. The thesis is organised around three interconnected ...
Acedo-Matellán, Víctor (Date of defense: 2010-12-01)
In this dissertation I put forth a syntactic theory of argument structure and the syntaxmorphology interface and I apply it mainly to Early and Classical Latin, although comparison with other languages ...
Ciruela Castillo, Carmen (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)
Research on the acquisition of English by immigrants is abundant when it takes place in second language (SL) contexts. However, few studies deal with immigrant learners’ acquisition of English as a ...
Theofanopoulou, Constantina (Date of defense: 2019-03-21)
In my thesis I investigate the evolution of human sociality and its possible role for providing a scaffold to the evolution of language. My approach is multidisciplinary and includes studies ranging ...
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 ...
Zeman, Dan Cristian (Date of defense: 2011-04-26)
The main aim of the thesis is to give a semantic account of implicit content – the kind of content that plays a crucial role in implicit communication. Implicit communication is a species of communication ...