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    La revista «Post-Guerra», la generació de 1930 i la recepció d’autors alemanys en les editorials d’avançada 

    Jové, Xavier (Date of defense: 2010-06-28)

    A partir de la constatació, en el marc de la família de les editorials anomenades “d’avançada” (Madrid, 1928-1936), d’un considerable cabal traductogràfic d’autors originalment en llengua alemanya, el treball, a més d’oferir ...

    La vida detrás del telón de acero. Autorepresentación cultural en la novela negra de la República Democrática Alemana 

    Burkhardt, Anja (Date of defense: 2016-03-14)

    La presente investigación analiza la capacidad de la novela negra de la República Democrática Alemana como fuente de información histórica y social y desgrana cómo la representación de la vida cotidiana ofrece un testimonio ...

    La visió d'Àustria a Joseph Roth: entre l'actitud crítica i la ficció 

    Estelrich i Arce, Maria del Pilar (Date of defense: 1990-12-15)

    Esta tesis sitúa al escritor austriaco Joseph Roth (Brody 1894 - Paris 1939) en su contexto socio-literario concreto, revisando detalladamente tanto su biografía como la totalidad de su obra narrativa y periodística. El ...

    Language Aptitude in Young Learners: The Elementary Modern Language Aptitude Test in Spanish and Catalan 

    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 (MLAT-ES) and Catalan ...

    Language Learning Motivation: The Palestinian Context. Attitudes, Motivation, and Orientations 

    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 present situation in ...

    Learning from the input: syntactic, semantic and phonological cues to the noun category in English 

    Feijóo Antolín, Sara (Date of defense: 2010-12-16)

    Las líneas centrales de la teoría lingüística de los últimos años han descrito la adquisición y el desarrollo de primeras lenguas como un proceso basado en el conocimiento innato de las propiedades gramaticales de la lengua ...

    Lexical bundles in scientific English: A corpus-based study of native and non-native writing 

    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 an inventory of the ...

    Linguistic Study of the Magic in Disney Lyrics 

    Rierola Puigderajols, Ana Maria (Date of defense: 2001-11-30)

    Since 1994, and for the first time in Spain, the Disney dealer Buenavista Pictures has been providing the videotapes Welcome to Disney Classics. They contain the original versions with subtitles in English. This paper ...

    Literary seductions: subjectivity and desire in the narrative of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson 

    López, Gemma (López Sánchez) (Date of defense: 2005-02-18)

    El estudio "Literary seductions" pretende ofrecer un discurso crítico en el que enmarcar un debate sobre cuestiones como el deseo, la narrativa y la subjetividad. A través de la lectura crítica de dos novelas de las autoras ...

    Mother/Motherland in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid 

    Brancato, Sabrina (Date of defense: 2001-06-01)

    The quest for an autonomous and authentic self is the founding theme of the narrative of Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid. In our study, we analyse the mother-daughter relationship, which is the focus of Kincaid's plots ...

    “Neither here and nor there does water quench our thirst”: Duty, Obedience and Identity in Greek-Australian and Chinese Australian Prose Fiction, 1971-2005 

    Ribas Segura, Catalina (Date of defense: 2013-12-13)

    This thesis presents original research: it examines the constructs of duty and obedience in post-World War II Greek-Australian and Chinese Australian literature and compares the strategies these first- and second-generation ...

    Parameter der akademischen Testproduktion: beiträge zur kontrastiven Analyse der Textproduktion deutscher und spanischer Studenten 

    Strunk, Oliver (Date of defense: 1998-01-01)

    In der vorliegenden Untersuchung soll ausgehend von einer produktorientierten, korpuslinguistischen Methode die akademische Textproduktion von Deutschlernern zu vergleichbaren Textprodukten von Muttersprachlern dargestellt ...

    Phonological awareness and pronunciation in a second language 

    Kivistö de Souza, Hanna (Date of defense: 2015-11-27)

    El propósito de esta tesis es incrementar el conocimiento de la consciencia fonológica en L2 a través de tres objetivos: estudiar la naturaleza de la consciencia fonológica en L2 y su relación con diferencias individuales, ...

    Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers: Affirmation and Resistance 

    Bosch, Marta (Bosch Vilarrubias) (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)

    This dissertation provides an analysis of the representation of Arab American men in post-9/11 writings by Arab American women. This thesis contributes a new inquiry regarding Arab American literature in joining the subject ...

    Presencia de las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación en el aula de inglés de secundaria: Descripción del marco contextual y análisis de la motivación de los alumnos, La 

    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 estudio experimental, ...

    Reterritorialising the Caribbean: Marching alongside Earl Lovelace 

    Grau Perejoan, Maria (Date of defense: 2015-05-15)

    This study revolves around the figure of Caribbean writer Earl Lovelace. The thesis demonstrates that the emphasis on the deterritorialisation of the Caribbean region and the focus on transnationalism has meant that what ...

    Second Language Anxiety and Task Complexity 

    Brennan, Kerry Anne (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)

    Throughout history there has been tremendous debate about what comprises the best methods and approaches to foreign or second language (L2) teaching and learning, without any decisive universal conclusions. Since the 1980s, ...

    Task Complexity and L2 Narrative Oral Production 

    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 on consolidated ...

    Task complexity as mediated by proficiency, working memory, and attention: Competition for cognitive resources during L2 oral task performance 

    Pownall Graumann, James William (Date of defense: 2016-12-02)

    Drawing on known language learning processes, principles behind language course syllabus design, and previous second language acquisition research, Long introduced the concept of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in 1985. ...

    Teachers' Reactions to Foreign Language Learner Output 

    Vicente-Rasoamalala, Leticia (Date of defense: 2009-12-23)

    OF THE DISSERTATION:<br/><br/>"Teachers' Reactions to Foreign Language Learner Output"<br/><br/>BY: Leticia Vicente-Rasoamalala<br/><br/>TEXT:<br/><br/>A series of theoretical and practical educational studies have suggested ...