Sehgal, Sapna (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
This doctoral dissertation examines the effects of a short stay abroad (SA) experience on second language (L2) oral fluency development, taking into consideration individual differences in cognition and ...
Meer, Golda Van der (Date of defense: 2021-04-13)
Cuando la naturalidad del territorio ha desaparecido, solo en el poema puede una lengua minoritaria luchar por subsistir. Esta tesis examina cómo los factores históricos pueden modificar la relación con ...
Martínez Rodríguez, Elena (Date of defense: 2020-04-20)
This dissertation provides a philological corpus of the kinship lexicon attested in the Lycian and Hieroglyphic Luwian sources with an evaluation of their semantic, morphological and epigraphic aspects. ...
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 ...
Pujadas Jorba, Geòrgia (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
This doctoral dissertation explores the benefits of an extensive exposure to L2 television for content comprehension and vocabulary learning with beginner, adolescent EFL learners, through a longitudinal ...
Ruiz Tada, Marina (Date of defense: 2019-01-15)
The main purpose of this thesis is to research the interactional behavior of transnational Japanese-English bilingual women on Facebook (FB) through photo- initiated Status Updates (SUs) in terms of the ...
Wisniewska, Natalia (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
This doctoral dissertation examines the benefits of extended exposure to multimodal input through captioned videos for second language pronunciation development. It investigates the effects of TV viewing ...
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 ...
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 ...