Levkina, Mayya (Date of defense: 2014-02-28)
The present dissertation was inspired by the increasing interest in task sequencing in L2 syllabus design, on the one hand, and the lack of empirical studies, on the other hand, where task sequencing ...
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 ...
Lorenzo Salazar, Danica Joy (Date of defense: 2011-11-24)
The present dissertation is a corpus-based investigation of the frequency, structure and functions of lexical bundles in published scientific writing in English, whose main objective is the creation of ...
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 ...
Muñoz Lahoz, Carme, 1955- (Date of defense: 1986-05-01)
El interés que me movió a realizar el siguiente trabajo nació de una experiencia temprana de profesora de lengua inglesa como lengua extranjera. Esta actividad profesional dio pie a reflexiones sobre ...
Martínez Rico, Patricia-María (Date of defense: 2006-06-30)
Esta Tesis tiene dos grandes objetivos. En primer lugar, ofrecer una descripción de la sociedad actual en relación con las TIC, y de éstas con la enseñanza, para seguidamente comprobar por medio de un ...
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 ...
Tapia Yepes, Eduard (Date of defense: 2012-03-02)
Zusammenfassung Der Forschungsgegenstand der Dissertation ist die multidimensionale Variation bei den unakkusativischen Bewegungsverben gehen und kommen im Gebrauch. Diese Variation erfolgt nämlich ...
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 ...
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 ...