Castaño Castaño, Emilia (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)
This doctoral dissertation investigates the corporeal basis of global and local coherence. As far as global coherence is concerned, the main argument of this thesis is that the search for global coherence ...
Armengol Carrera, José María (Date of defense: 2006-06-29)
This thesis attempts to "gender" men by theorizing masculinities in American culture and literature. It tries to demonstrate that (white heterosexual) men, like women, are also gendered beings; that ...
Monforte, Enric (Date of defense: 2000-02-25)
This doctoral dissertation approaches three plays written by British playwright Caryl Churchill (1938- ): <i>Cloud Nine</i> (1979), <i>Top Girls</i> (1982), and <i>Blue Heart</i> (1997). Her plays deal ...
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 ...
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- ...
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 ...
Tragant Mestres, Elsa (Date of defense: 1994-10-14)
One of the roles who teachers have is that of organizer of activity and in subject matters that are rather practical by nature, like the teaching of a foreign language is, this role as elicitor of ...
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 ...
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 ...