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 ...

    Crosslinguistic influence in L2 English oral production: the effects of cognitive language learning abilities and input 

    Ortega Duran, Mireia (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)

    The study of crosslinguistic influence (CLI), a phenomenon that emerges due to the interaction of different languages in the learners’ mind, has attracted the attention of SLA researchers since the emergence of the field. ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    Task-Modality Effects: A Study of Task Complexity Effects in Speech and Writing 

    Vasylets, Olena (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)

    One of the major areas of interest in task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) has been the psycholinguistically-oriented strand, which explores the way in which task design may interact with second language (L2) ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 & ...

    Traducción y creación en la obra de Teodoro Llorente 

    Atalaya Fernández, Irene (Date of defense: 2018-02-09)

    Teodoro Llorente (1836-1911) fue un personaje prolífico donde los haya: traductor, poeta en valenciano y castellano, periodista, fundador y director de Las Provincias, político, crítico e historiador de Valencia. Su legado ...

    "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 ...

    A voz heroica nas margens. Potencial político e terapêutico dos relatos de "si-mesma" 

    Romão, Marianna Protázio (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)

    A operação estrutural pela qual as mulheres, como diferenças do padrão masculino e heroico, foram representadas negativamente na cultura reside no cerne da fundação da democracia ocidental, com consequências éticas, políticas ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    Writers On Screen: Embodying The "Life-Text" In The Literary Biopic 

    Haiduc, Sonia Amalia (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)

    This thesis examines the sub-genre of the literary biopic and its intersections with literary texts and other film genres through the lens of the melodramatic mode. It explores the dramatization of the ‘life-text’, defined ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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, ...