García-Granero Fos, Juan José (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)
Understanding how human societies adapted to past environmental and climatic variability is fundamental to face present and future climatic events, particularly in highly vulnerable arid and semi-arid ...
Pijoan Vives, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2020-09-03)
This study sets out to understand the experiences of young people as they undergo Sail Training aboard tall ships (i.e., traditional rigged sailing ships propelled exclusively by wind). It goes beyond ...
Morell i Tipper, Marc Andreu (Date of defense: 2015-12-17)
With his seminal proposal of a rent-gap theory, Neil Smith developed a consistent materialist explanation for gentrification that efficiently contended with individual consumer preference tenets by ...
Arbués Caballés, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-05-29)
This work explores the use and abuse of authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) and Sweet Tooth (2012). Through an exploration of a variety of different theoretical fields, the study focuses on the ...
Gilabert Guerrero, Roger (Date of defense: 2005-01-21)
This study explores the impact of manipulating Task Complexity simultaneously along both pre-task planning time and the degree of displaced, past time reference on L2 narrative oral production. By drawing ...
Musleh, Rana Yaser (Date of defense: 2011-01-28)
Given that motivation is held to be a major affective variable influencing SLA, the present study examines L2 motivation among Palestinian students from the age of 12 to 18 years old. Considering the ...
González Vázquez, Mateo (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
The realization of extensive fieldwork projects during the last few decades in northeastern Spain has considerably enriched our knowledge of the rural landscape’s history and have spurred much debate ...
Tinterri, Vania (Date of defense: 2004-10-29)
1. HIPÓTESIS DEL TRABAJO<br/><br/>Esta tesis considera el cuerpo como lugar de investigación y creatividad artística, desde un punto de vista marcado por las mujeres artistas y por la presentación y/o ...
Andria, Maria (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the influence of first language (L1) patterns on the acquisition of Greek as a foreign language (L2) by Spanish/Catalan L1 learners, as well as to ...
Alamri, Saleh (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Humans display distinct unlimited capacity to produce expressions in language and use them flexibly in language processing. This characteristic of human language allows speakers to use novel, flexible, ...