The effect of auditory and articulatory phonetic training on the perception and production of L2 vowels by Catalan-Spanish learners of English 

    Aliaga-Garcia, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)

    Adult second language learners often experience major difficulties in perceiving and producing non-native speech sounds. Several perception training studies (Iverson & Evans, 2007; Nishi, & Kewley-Port, 2007; Carlet & ...

    Ese aire de mágico aislamiento: Herman Melville y la construcción de Latinoamérica en el siglo XIX 

    Ramírez Paredes, Roberto Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)

    La tesis doctoral propone un recorrido por la prosa de ficción y de viaje de Herman Melville, en la que construye imaginarios regionales de identidad latinoamericana. La investigación inicia con el análisis de las ficciones ...

    Exploring lifelong learning motivational ecologies through the narratives of senior language users 

    Darnault, Bérénice (Date of defense: 2023-07-11)

    [eng] In the context of an ageing and increasingly more independent learning population, a narrative inquiry into the life stories of highly motivated senior language users remains a promising yet relatively unexplored ...

    Figuras impropias. La violencia como expresión de la disidencia en la narrativa de Marta Sanz y Sara Mesa 

    Videira, Joana (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)

    Esta tesis nace de la interrogación sobre las posibilidades críticas de la representación literaria de la violencia, más específicamente de la búsqueda de la representación de la violencia en los personajes femeninos ...

    Globalisation in David Greig’s Theatre Space, Ethics and the Spectator 

    Rodríguez Morales, Verónica (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)

    The present PhD thesis, entitled “Globalisation in David Greig’s Theatre: Space, Ethics and the Spectator”, aims to contribute to the field of contemporary British drama and theatre studies in the form of an extended ...

    Heroínas del feminismo popular: autoría de mujeres en Hollywood 

    Cruz Pereira, Irina (Date of defense: 2022-02-03)

    En 1990, Marjorie Ferguson expone su argumento sobre la «falacia del feminismo», negando que exista una correlación entre la creciente consciencia social feminista, la autoridad de las profesionales en los medios de ...

    "Ich bin Spaniolin". Veza Canetti im Fokus ihres jüdisch-sephardischen Erbes 

    Patz Sievers, Evelyn (Date of defense: 2018-04-10)

    Die drei schlichten Worte „Ich bin Spaniolin” im Titel der vorliegenden literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsarbeit beinhalten das fundamentale Bekenntnis der jüdisch-sephardischen Schriftstellerin Veza Canetti, dessen ...

    L1 / L2 subtitled TV series and EFL learning: A study on vocabulary acquisition and content comprehension at different proficiency levels 

    Gesa Vidal, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)

    Whether and how video viewing is beneficial for language learning has been a matter of debate over the last decades (Vanderplank, 2015). Multimedia learning theories (Mayer, 2009; Paivio, 1986) suggest that exposure to ...

    La cultura española en la obra de Elsa Morante 

    García Melenchón, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2016-12-02)

    La obra de Elsa Morante está sembrada de elementos relacionados con la cultura española, que se van intensificando hasta alcanzar pleno protagonismo en su última novela Aracoeli. El presente estudio aborda el problema por ...

    Language Learning from Subtitled TV Series in the Primary EFL Classroom 

    Casulleras Marquès, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2023-04-21)

    [eng] Even if audiovisual materials have been shown to offer several advantages for L2 learning (Danan, 2004), in previous literature very little attention has been paid to L2 learning from multimodal input in young ...

    Neoliberalism, class, subjectivity: a sociological perspective on post-recession british theatre = Neoliberalisme, classe, subjectivitat: una mirada sociològica al teatre britànic post-crisi 

    Mendez Panadés, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-05-02)

    [eng] This PhD dissertation, entitled “Neoliberalism, Class, Subjectivity: A Sociological Perspective on Post-Recession British Theatre / Neoliberalisme, classe, subjectivitat: una mirada sociològica al teatre britànic ...

    New Leaves: Fashionable Reading and Literary Celebrity in British Vogue (1918-1939) 

    Baró Gonzalez, Jana (Date of defense: 2022-09-01)

    [eng] This thesis explores British Vogue’s self-appointed role as a guide to modern fashions and manners, that is, as a cultural intermediary, during the interwar period (1918-1939). Through a close reading of its essays, ...

    Of heroes and victims: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the satirical post-9/11 novel 

    Resano, Dolores (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)

    This dissertation analyzes a typically overlooked novel within the corpus of post-9/11 fiction studies, Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), and puts forward some hypotheses for this under-examination. It suggests that the debates ...

    Più donne che cavalieri. Orlando furioso: il poema di Bradamante 

    Condina, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2020-01-20)

    Este trabajo aborda por primera vez de forma sistemática y monográfica el papel desempeñado por los personajes femeninos en el Orlando furioso (1532) de Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), evidenciando su carácter profundamente ...

    Recepción y análisis de las traducciones alemanas de dos obras principales de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz en el ámbito germanohablante: Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz y Primero sueño 

    Buchholz, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)

    En la presente tesis se indaga la recepción del Primero sueño y de la Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz en el ámbito germanohablante a lo largo del siglo XX por medio de las versiones alemanas de estas dos obras principales ...

    Representations of Memory in Contemporary South African Literature by Young, Black, Female Authors 

    Winstanley, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-04-21)

    [eng] This thesis explores the representation and construction of collective memory published in South Africa since 2007 by young, black, female authors. Collective memory is what is remembered about the past in order to ...

    The Role of Cognitive Ability in the Acquisition of Second Language Perceptual Phonological Competence 

    Safronova, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)

    Many second language (L2) learners find L2 pronunciation difficult and experience perception and production problems leading to accented speech. There exists a great inter-learner variation in L2 phonological acquisition ...

    South Africa: The Diseased Nation? An Analysis of HIV/AIDS Sufferers’ Critique of the Redemptive Discourse of Nation-Building and the (Dis)Closure of National Traumas in Post-Apartheid South African HIV/AIDS Life-Writing 

    Ortega Montero, Óscar (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)

    This Ph.D. dissertation explores the transformative potential of the HIV/AIDS experience in post-apartheid South Africa during the age of denialism under Thabo Mbeki’s mandate (1999-2008). To that end, the selection of ...

    Succes or failure? The effect of the language of test on students’ academic achievement in rural Senegal 

    Martín-Chazeaud, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2017-11-17)

    In most Sub-Saharan countries, children grow up in a local environment attached to a culture and an identity which are embraced by a local language. However, when they start compulsory school at the age of six, they have ...

    Task-based pronunciation teaching and learning of L2 vowels in EFL learners: task complexity effects 

    Mora Plaza, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2023-06-06)

    [eng] Second language (L2) pronunciation learning in foreign language instructional contexts is particularly challenging due to insufficient quantity and quality of L2 input. Decades of L2 speech acquisition research have ...