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Haiduc, Sonia Amalia (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Aliaga-Garcia, Cristina (Fecha de defensa: 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, ...
Ortega Montero, Óscar (Fecha de defensa: 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, ...
Resano, Dolores (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Gesa Vidal, Ferran (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Ortega Duran, Mireia (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Puyuelo Ureña, Eva (Fecha de defensa: 2022-11-21)
[eng] Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015) is nowadays considered one of the most detailed registers of the different forms that racial violence takes—from direct manifestations of physical ...
Rodríguez Morales, Verónica (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Vasylets, Olena (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Safronova, Elena (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...