Suárez Vilagran, María del Mar (Date of defense: 2010-11-26)
The present dissertation is concerned with language aptitude in young learners. The first aim of this dissertation is to validate the content of two new instruments: the adaptation to both Spanish ...
Markina, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-02-01)
The present study explores the impact that task-supported language teaching (TSLT) and task- based language teaching (TBLT) have on the acquisition of case forms and verbs of motion in Russian and on ...
Casanovas Romeu, Pompeu (Date of defense: 2022-06-20)
Law as Knowledge. Anthropological Bases for the Regulation of the Web of Data is a Dissertation on law and regulatory models on the Web of (Linked) Open Data, the Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0. ...
Marsol Jornet, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-11-20)
This dissertation examines the English language learning experience of primary school learners in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom settings. ...
Ramírez i Simon, Wendy (Date of defense: 2016-01-11)
The ultimate goal of this work is to contribute to the contemporary debate over the crisis of nowadays Western liberal democracies. We approach the debate from the perspective of political philosophy. ...
López Peña, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-10-18)
This dissertation argues that Herman Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is a universalist poem which analyzes the necessity, political potentiality, and challenges of ...
Pérez Pérez, Laura Natalia (Date of defense: 2012-10-05)
In this dissertation I study and empirically test whether belief attributions are context-sensitive, i.e., whether the truth value of a belief report of the form ‘A believes that S’ is sensitive to ...
Castaño Castaño, Emilia (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)
This doctoral dissertation investigates the corporeal basis of global and local coherence. As far as global coherence is concerned, the main argument of this thesis is that the search for global coherence ...
Barbé Pou, Elisenda (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
Durant la dictadura de Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina (1930-1961), uns 9.000 espanyols es van establir a la República Dominicana. Els primers, uns 4.000 exiliats de la Guerra Civil espanyola, hi van ...
Leivada, Evangelia (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)
The aim of this dissertation is to explore the nature and limits of variation across different (i) linguistic phenotypes and (ii) cognitive phenotypes, showing that a strong parallel exists between the ...