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The growing flow of the foreign Tourism to Spain demands competent and well-trained professionals. One of the fundamental areas of training is foreign language, and therefore, they must dominate both: the general language and the specifi[...]texto impreso
This article looks at the specific discourse features of press ads for computer products in English and Spanish and, to this end, presents the findings of a compa- rative analysis of two parallel corpora of ads, one in each language. Two parti- [...]texto impreso
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For many students, learning a Second Language (SL) can either be a rewarding or a threatening experience. Recent studies claim that this is caused by the role that the affective domain plays in the learning process. Since the affective variables[...]texto impreso
This article presents the AFPCor, a corpus of advertisements for financial products compiled in order to facilitate the study of discourse used in this text type. AFPCor comprises thirty press ads in this sector from the UK and a further 30 from[...]texto impreso
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As stated in Periñán-Pascual and Arcas Túnez (2010, p. 2671) FunGramKB´s lexical and grammatical levels are grounded in sound linguistic theories, allowing the system to capture syntactic-semantic generalizations which are able to provide both e[...]texto impreso
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This paper presents different strategies in teaching a foreign language. They are based on an audiovisual methodology. On the one hand, the student feels lan- guagealive from the very beginning, and in a parallel form, s/he plays an active role [...]texto impreso
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Advertisements are omnipresent in our daily life. Printed advertisements of magazines pay great attention to language and image details. The concepts and values change according to the product advertised. Advertisements of beauty products fo[...]texto impreso
Burgos Cuadrillero, Beatriz ; Rohr Schrade, Kerstin I. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-10-08Medical terminology derives mostly from Latin and Greek because historically these languages were the communication vehicle in the medical discipline. For this reason,medical technical terms have maintained their univocity thanks to precise term[...]texto impreso
Fuentes-Luque, Adrián ; Fijo León, María Isabel | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-12-04Translation is a key issue in the area of tourism, since tourist products and services need to be advertised in different markets and different languages so that they can be available for linguistically and culturally diverse communities. This p[...]texto impreso
Álvarez-Gil, Francisco J. ; García Alonso, Natalia | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-12-04The present paper deals with the relationship between modality and evidentiality, focussed specifically on the use of the expression I think in combination with other modal devices, as well as the possible pragmatic effects observed in text samp[...]texto impreso
This study analyses the effect the teaching of discourse markers has on ESP learners' reading comprehension. Following a relevance-theoretic approach, we con- sider discourse markers as signals the speaker/writer uses to guide cooperatively his [...]texto impreso
de la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel ; Tejedor Martínez, Cristina ; Cerdá Redondo, Esperanza ; Díez Prados, Mercedes | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2008-06-02It is traditionally assumed that the influence of English upon Spanish is par- ticularly pervasive in the area of languages for specific purposes. In the case of the language of tourism it is more complicated than in other areas, as it covers se[...]texto impreso
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Krebs, Adrijana ; Simó Arroyo, Itziar ; Simó Arroyo, Itziar | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2013-11-01In this work we make a suggestion for the development of a Spanish language course for pharmacists or students of Pharmacy whose first language is not Spanish. With the objective of supporting teachers in this demanding task, we provide some gui[...]texto impreso
Language courses for specific purposes vary due to their context and purpose. However, it is possible to find common features between programs in two different countries, with different characteristics and languages in question. It is interestin[...]texto impreso
Díaz Galán, Ana ; Fumero Pérez, Mª del Carmen | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05The syntactic parser ARTEMIS (Automatically Representing Text Meaning via an Interlingua-based System) is a prototype intended to process natural language within the environment of the Functional Grammar Knowledge Base (FunGramKB) (Periñán-Pascu[...]texto impreso
The main aim of this paper is to show the introduction of Asian loanwords in commercial and scientific Modern English. There are several reasons why English speakers might want to adopt a foreign word. The simplest one is that the word is the na[...]texto impreso
Este estudio examinó la efectividad del Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lenguas Extranjeras (AICLE) respecto al dominio del inglés y la incorporación de su sintaxis en un grupo de estudiantes andaluces. Alumnos de instituto (n = 22) matric[...]texto impreso
Spanish heritage language learners (HLLs) are heterogeneous in nature. Thus, how can we assess these students? Most of the literature on this has been on placement exams (Polinsky & Kagan, 2017, among others), but the focus of this article is on[...]texto impreso
What we nowadays term “front matter” was conceived of in the past as a direct address to the reader. Over time, standard formulae were developed and certain rhetorical devices consolidated. Despite the evolution in the style used for the transmi[...]texto impreso
This paper, which forms part of the research for my doctoral dissertation, presents a new taxonomy of what I have named social characteristics of individuals. This is a new approach which reorganises the traditional concepts of face and social r[...]texto impreso
This study investigates attitudes toward English, the primary language of international communication, and motivation of intermediate and advanced speakers of English required to pursue Business English as part of their university studies. Moreo[...]texto impreso
González Cruz, Isabel ; Vera Cazorla, María Jesús | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2008-06-02The main purpose of this article is to report on the results of an empirical study carried out among the students of English Philology at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University in order to elicit data about their attitudes toward the British and [...]texto impreso
Academic writing is not just about conveying an ideational ‘content’, it is also about the representation of the self (Hyland, 2002, p. 1092). It allows writers ‘to gain credibility by projecting an identity invested with the individual authorit[...]texto impreso
Gómez-Moreno, Pedro Ureña ; Mestre-Mestre, Eva M. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05At the current rate of technological development, in a world where enormous amount of data are constantly created and in which the Internet is used as the primary means for information exchange, there exists a need for tools that help processing[...]texto impreso
This two-year case study explores the presence of international students (mostly Erasmus) in Inglés II for Tourism at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. This tentative qualitative study analysed their presence from four different perspectiv[...]texto impreso
Responding to a growing interest in evidence-based research within EAP, Researching Contexts, Practices and Pedagogies in English for Academic Purposes is as timely as it is wide-ranging, well-thought and suggestive. It becomes a much-welcome co[...]texto impreso
Book Review: Brown, James Dean. (2016) Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 231texto impreso
Consumers’ need to rate and review products, services or businesses online has led to a massive burgeoning of online reviews over the last decade, giving rise to a new computer-mediated communicative genre that has attracted the attention of man[...]texto impreso
Computers have had a significant presence in language teaching since the 1960s, while the obvious emerging development of “educational technology” can be established in the early 1980s. By then, this term began to obtain significant popularity, [...]texto impreso
Intercultural pragmatics aims to explore areas of pragmatics neglected in the literature until now...DOI: 10.20420/rlfe.2015.0009texto impreso
Book Review: Kong, Kenneth. (2014). Professional Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 288texto impreso
Book Review: Laura Felton Rosulek. (2015). Dueling Discourses: The Construction of Reality in Closing Arguments. Oxford:Oxford University Press, pp 248.texto impreso
Book Review: Marcus Callies and Sandra Götz (eds.). (2015). Learner corpora in language testing and assessment (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 70) Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp 220texto impreso
Countries and territories willing to market and sell their products and services abroad do their best to identify them with a defined, specific image or identity, a brand. However, choosing the appropriate one sometimes proves to be a confusing [...]texto impreso
In the last decade, intralingual translation has started to gain momentum amongst a number of translation academics. Nevertheless, some types of intralingual translation remain largely undiscovered, such as the process of abridgement in the prod[...]texto impreso
Since computer technology became widespread available at universities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, language researchers have been successfully employing software to analyse usage patterns in corpora. However, although there [...]texto impreso
The aim of this paper is to illustrate the different methods that the specialized discourse community of the 17th century used to spread the news about the many activities then taking place and the discoveries being made by its members. It will [...]texto impreso
Un corpus spécifique est un corpus créé ad hoc en fonction de l’objet de recherche. Ce corpus a été créé à partir de textes d’un sous-genre de la presse française des cinq dernières années en ayant comme mot cible l’anglicisme brunch. Le but pri[...]texto impreso
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Riaza García, Asunción ; Mediavilla López, Rosa María ; Santisteban Navarro, Juan Ignacio | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 1998Los estudios espectrales de laboratorio en el visible y el infrarrojo cercano (400- 2500 nro) sobre muestras de rocas de distintas formaciones geológicas detríticas siliciclásticas en una cuenca sedimentaria terciaria, sugieren que la proporción[...]texto impreso
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In the past decade, Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been steadily gaining ground in tertiary-level education, with an increasing number of programmes being implemented. However, and despite this growing trend, there is still a wi[...]texto impreso
In business discourse, the discussion of work relations is a very interesting branch of study, especially when it refers to contexts that are relatively distant in time and/or space. In this respect, emigrants’ letters and diaries are as invalua[...]texto impreso
This paper analyzes those communication skills expected of engineers, as well as their current deficiencies. Subsequently, resources required to develop technical and professional communication maturity used in English for Specific Purposes (ESP[...]texto impreso
Este artículo presenta el blogging como herramienta para fomentar la competencia en producción escrita en lengua inglesa. Se analiza el uso del blogging en el aprendizaje del inglés para fines específicos y, en particular, en la enseñanza del in[...]texto impreso
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ABSTRACTMuch has been written about the complex and secluded world of the metaphor, albeit the study of the power of the conceptual metaphor as a persuasion tool behind the shadows of certain socio-political and economic interests is still a pa[...]texto impreso
In this paper I propose an analysis of the Middle English vocabulary for emotional distress. I am especially interested in determining to what extent the vocabulary used in medical varieties of Middle English differentiated between somatic and p[...]texto impreso
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Durán-Escribano, Pilar ; Cuadrado-Esclapez, Georgina | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-10-08The study of scientific and technical language, where metaphor is central, is enriched by the cognitive linguistics approach. This paper is based on the research project that culminated in the Bilingual Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Met[...]texto impreso
Politeness is considered to be a basic orientation in social relationships, it constitutes a significant feature of human behaviour and is connected to a variety of aspects of communication, e.g. gestures and kinesic aspects. It characterize[...]texto impreso
This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect th[...]texto impreso
Cárdenes Rodríguez, Alexander ; Marrero Morales, Sandra | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2006-11-17Los diferentes tipos textuales que aparecen en el ámbito de la Ciencia y la Tecnología presentan diferencias relevantes en cuanto a su organización estructu- ral y a la terminología utilizada. A lo largo de este artículo nos planteamos ana- l[...]texto impreso
This paper addresses semantic memory loss from the perspective of Natural Language Processing. Dementia disorders and, in particular, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) present a loss of cognitive functions, being one of them semantic memory impairment. W[...]texto impreso
Qualitative and quantitative research approaches are often considered as incompatible, and when they are brought together in a study, the analyses often stay within the realm of the same research field. The study at hand aims at combining the tw[...]texto impreso
This paper examines the occurrence of I am thinkingin political speeches as opposed to general discourse. This combination containing a verb traditionally considered incompatible with the progressive seems to be evolving and extending its range [...]texto impreso
Entralgo, Johanna ; Salager-Meyer, Françoise ; Luzardo Briceño, Marianela | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2015-11-25This paper examines a corpus of 150 titles of research articles published between 2010 and 2013 in Anglo-American natural sciences journals (physics, chemistry and biology) in order to determine their lexical density and grammatical and morphosy[...]texto impreso
This paper deals with the importance of cultural and intercultural elements in the training of interpreters and translators at university. To overcome the pitfalls these elements pose for students, even those with a sound linguistic basis have t[...]texto impreso
Fielden Burns, Laura Victoria ; Rico García, Mercedes | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-06Hospitality students are the future negotiators of cultural interaction in our field, and how they imagine culture through their language studies is important. In particular, cultural concepts form an essential part of their motivation to learn [...]texto impreso
This study sets out to investigate the concepts of domestication and foreignization introduced by Lawrence Venuti through examining the transfer of culture-bound references in the translation of the novel “Dhakirat al jassad ذاكرة الجسد” (Memory[...]texto impreso
Acquiring academic writing skills in English may be a true challenge, especially for undergraduate students for whom English is not their first language, but still have to accomplish writing tasks in a more or less successful way as a requiremen[...]texto impreso
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Training students in terminology is indispensable to ensure that they can perform specialized translation properly. Manuals are available(MonterdeRey,2002; AguilarCuevas,2001, etc.) that offer teaching materials for instructors. However, in our [...]texto impreso
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has developed in the last five decades in response to learners’ communicative needs in specific scientific fields and professional settings. Since its emergence in the 1960s the number of publications on ESP h[...]texto impreso
Cantos, Pascual ; Vázquez, Nila ; Vázquez, Nila | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2011-11-27This research focuses on the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), the first sub-corpus of CC, presenting a diachronic approach to astronomy specific lexicon found in texts from 1710 to 1920. The goal of this research is trying to determi[...]texto impreso
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Rodríguez Rodríguez, María Nayra ; González Gil, Sara | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-06-15International trading relationships between the five continents grow everyday. Some territories, such as the Canary Islands, require external contact to develop their economy. In a region like this, to be fluent in any language is not only essen[...]texto impreso
Phonetics is basic to phonology and both are important components of Foreign Language teaching / learning. What was defined as a phonemic contrast by the Prague phonologists is key in Foreign Language didactics. How many phonemes shall we te[...]texto impreso
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Marrero Morales, Sandra ; Vera Cazorla, María Jesús | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2008-06-02Advertising has aroused the interest of linguists for many years in the sense that they have attempted to describe its language and to discover the principles of its structure. As regards its language, it appears to be concrete and this con- cre[...]texto impreso
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Contemporary legal institutions like the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) rely on standardized discursive resources to create homogeneous templates for their discourse. Standardization remains useful since it minimizes risks and o[...]texto impreso
Pérez de Pereyra, Alicia ; Aguilar de Espinosa, Beatriz ; Aguirre de Quevedo, Lidia Edith del | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2006-11-17Las dificultades observadas en la apropiación de conocimientos en lengua extranjera hacen necesaria la exploración de la recóndita relación entre la enseñan- za y el aprendizaje y los factores que la afectan, entre estos se destaca el estilo [...]texto impreso
Litzler, Mary Frances ; Martín Monje, Elena | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-10-08This special issue of Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos takes a broad view of the field of languages for specific purposes (LSP) that includes the characteristics of language in specific areas of study, adaptation during the translation [...]texto impreso
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Canga Alonso, Andrés ; Cifone Ponte, Daniela | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-12-25This research compares the cultural types elicited by twenty-nine EFL undergraduate students in response to two prompts from a lexical availability task (i.e. food and drink and countryside) and the cultural input provided by four last year High[...]texto impreso
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La presente investigación se centra en el estudio de un corpus digital de 25 sentencias escocesas con el objetivo de establecer ciertos parámetros lingüísticos que puedan unificar la gran divergencia de sentencias judiciales de Escocia a través [...]texto impreso
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Pérez Sabater, Carmen ; Barbasán Ortuño, Inmaculada ; Montero Fleta, Begoña | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-12-04Este trabajo estudia el papel de la traducción pedagógica L1 L2 en el aula de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, dedicando atención especial al dominio del orden de las palabras en la oración. Para este fin, analizamos la competencia de dos grupos [...]texto impreso
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This study examines the influence of motivational variables (integrative vs. instrumental motivation, attitudes, L2 anxiety and linguistic self-confidence) towards the learning of English in the current globalised university context. A total of [...]texto impreso
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The preeminence of English as the scientific lingua franca, together with the ever-present publish-or-perish dilemma, has brought increasing concern on Spanish scientists striving to achieve international recognition. Spanish journal editors try[...]texto impreso
En este artículo damos cuenta de la incidencia del contexto jurídico y bilingüe en la enseñanza-aprendizaje del francés jurídico (FOS). Así, fenómenos como la diglosia, bilingüismo y bijuridismo repercuten en la configuración de un sistema juríd[...]texto impreso
Menéndez-Otero, Carlos ; Serrano-González, Raquel ; Gil-Naveira, Isabel | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2018-11-19The paper presents an experience of use of ICT intended to overcome some of the problems currently plaguing ESP teaching at third level in Spain, namely student overcrowding, rising grade appealing, inadequacy and/or datedness of methodologies a[...]texto impreso
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There is a greater demand for a wider range of translation services that increasingly involve scientific, commercial, legal, or technical documents. Translation is no longer limited to literary works which have historically been the main focus o[...]texto impreso
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Matsuura, Hiroko ; Chiba, Reiko ; Fujieda, Miho | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 1996-11-18-texto impreso
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The aim of this paper is to explore the concept and evidence of audience in the text of MS Hunter 93 (T.4.10), a remedy book written in the second half of the 16th century (c.a. 1565). This manual is presented by its author as a book addressed t[...]texto impreso
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This article reports the findings of a diachronic study of acknowledgement practices in 300 randomly collected research papers published during three different periods (1998, 2004 and 2012) in the most prestigious American and European astrophys[...]texto impreso
The main aim is to show the morphological processes of compounding, blen- ding and conversion found in some computing manuals and infer the most productive combinations. We must remember that specialized English seeks economy of expression, a fe[...]texto impreso
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Xydopoulos, George J. ; Papadopoulou, Rania | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2018-05-30English nowadays is the dominant language in the domain of fashion sinceEnglish and American companies lead the fashion industry worldwide. As a result, a high number of English fashion loanwords have entered the languages of the world and becom[...]texto impreso
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Needs analysis is a relevant issue in language teaching as its final aim is to enhance the language learning process by setting realistic course objectives. This paper briefly reviews past and present approaches to the concept of “needs” and “ne[...]texto impreso
The use of corpus-informed language in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) / English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teaching has considerably grown over the past two decades, especially due to the proliferation of course book material based on corp[...]texto impreso
Titles are the first point of contact with readers and are encoded to provide concise information on the paper’s contents. Data from available surveys show that the structural construction conforms to four different layouts, namely nominal, comp[...]texto impreso
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Nashaat Sobhy, Nashwa ; Berzosa, César ; Crean, Fiona M. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2013-11-01This paper explains the use of the Schema Theory in planning and preparing a Physiology lesson in a CLIL tertiary context in a Spanish university. The adopted combination of methods used in applying the theory is transferable to any context and [...]texto impreso
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Este artículo ofrece en esencia el informe de una investigación sobre las funciones que realizan las conjunciones although, but y however en cada uno de los apartados en que se divide tradicionalmente un artículo de investigación (IMRD). Se o[...]texto impreso
The main goal of this research paper is to clarify the concept of ergativity, which has been used as a modern term in recent grammar studies, from a morphological- syntactical approach. This term, nonexistent in the traditional linguistic st[...]texto impreso
Corrius Gimbert, Montse ; De Marco, Marcella ; Eva, Espasa Borrás | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-12-25This paper aims to explore to what extent students enrolled on Translation and on Advertising courses are gender aware, i.e. whether they perceive that the decisions they take when translating or creating non-profit advertisements which present [...]texto impreso
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La Adivinanza 90, única composición en latín incluida en el Exeter Book, es un enigma de por sí. Hasta la fecha no ha sido imposible ofrecer una explicación plausible de sus extrañas pistas, de manera que no se ha encontrado todavía una solución[...]texto impreso
Casañ Pitarch, Ricardo ; Waicekawsky, Liliana | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2020-04-08This paper analyzes the genre of popularization article discussing autism published by the magazine Science Daily. The objective of this research is to define this genre and describe its structure, language and most common rules. The method appl[...]texto impreso
This paper seeks to validate the use of translation as a methodological procedure that facilitates learners' interpretation of professional writing practices. We mainly contend that translation activities can become an adequate linguistic input [...]texto impreso
The aim of this paper is to analyse how globalization has affected the activity of advertising translation, paying heed to how globalization and localization approaches integrate translation as a strategy to promote different kinds of products a[...]texto impreso
Reseña del libro González-Pastor, Diana María. La traducción de los textos de especialidad: una propuesta multidisciplinar. Colección IULMA Monographs. Institut Universitari de Llengües Modernes Aplicades, Universitat de València, 2017. ISBN: 97[...]texto impreso
The submitted paper deals with analysis of grammatical means of textual cohesion in English in a specific genre of legal register, i.e. in appellate court decisions. The theoretical framework of analysis is the theory of textual cohesion introdu[...]texto impreso
Within the historical studies of the English language, only the literary genre has been traditionally under the spotlight. However, there is a numher of texts which still remain virtually unstudied, at least, as far as their inter- nal structure[...]texto impreso
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Population movements result in multilingual and multicultural societies. Apart from the great amount of foreigners from different nationalities who visit Spain each year for short stays, during the last decades we have witnessed a great increase[...]texto impreso
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Hughes, Stephen Pearse ; Tulimirovic, Bojana | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2015-07-27Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are firmly established in language learning contexts, yet there are still many questions in relation to how widely they are employed and, indeed, how useful they are in developing all aspects of [...]texto impreso
Collection letters are meant to collect balances due and at the same time they attempt to encourage a business relationship and its revenue flow to continue. This type of correspondence is nowadays one of the few types of correspondence that is [...]texto impreso
The importance of the English language in today’s Education system is beyond doubt. Bearing in mind that the Spanish Educational Authorities and regulations advocate the Communicative Approach, this study shows the origin, evolution and results [...]texto impreso
ABSTRACT In this paper, I analyse evidential devises as stancetaking markers in history scientific texts from the Modern English period (1700-1900). For this, I will use the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), one of the subcorpora within th[...]texto impreso
En el presente artículo, se presentan los resultados del primer proyecto piloto que se llevó a cabo en el marco de la investigación doctoral del autor. Más concretamente, se expondrán las conclusiones provisionales que se han sacado a partir del[...]texto impreso
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This article presents a study into the application of two methodological approaches, teaching through content and language integrated learning in Voca- tional Training from a sequence of activities developed with several groups of students o[...]texto impreso
The present paper aims at exploring the language of photography. In particular, it pretends to discover the main lexico-semantic features of the English of photography. It is a qualitative study based on corpus of nearly a million words whose so[...]texto impreso
Current ways of informal globalized communication involve digital genres facilitating increasingly dialogical, immediate interactions. One representative example is found in blogs, where users’ interaction is enabled through the genre of the com[...]texto impreso
La influencia que la lengua inglesa ejerce sobre las demás lenguas modernas es incontestable. Numerosos son los estudios que analizandistintos tipos de anglicismos en todos los ámbitos, desde los más técnicos y jergales hasta los más ordinarios [...]texto impreso
The research group Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization from the University of Santiago de Compostela has been lately working on the compilation of a new specialised corpus of legal English: The Corpus of Historical English Law Re[...]texto impreso
Special Issue: Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and the teaching of languages for specific purposes/Aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE) y didáctica de la enseñanza de lenguas para fines específicostexto impreso
The more and more prominent role of English in the Spanish Education system has brought to the foreground the relevance of research in the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language (FL). At no other time in the history of Spanish ed[...]texto impreso
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Alonso Almeida, Francisco ; Marrero Morales, Sandra | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2011-11-27Historical linguistics has been in constant rebirth and innovation to conform to new advances in the way texts are methodologically addressed. These methods of study have given way to several interdisciplinary focuses, which include the discipli[...]texto impreso
Issue number 19 of Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos is a very special one for all of us in the LFE editorial team and the Department of Filología Moderna at ULPGC, since it celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first issue of this scie[...]texto impreso
Morales, Óscar Alberto ; Cassany Comas, Daniel ; Oliver del Olmo, Sonia ; González Peña, Carolina ; Marín-Altuve, Ernesto | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2010-11-29This paper is part of a wider research project which studies the academic writing of the dental Hispano-American community. It aims to describe and to analyze which hedging strategies are used and for what purpose in 40 dental research papers[...]texto impreso
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Masnou Suriñach, Joan ; Khan, Sarah ; Khan, Sarah | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2013-11-01The transition between secondary and tertiary education has often been described as a “gap” implying that it is lacking in some way and that secondary students need better preparation for further education (Jansen & van der Meer, 2012; Juarez-Da[...]texto impreso
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This case study presents evidence of the different ways in which metalanguage can appear in the foreign language (FL) classroom and of the benefits that interactions including reflection upon language can provide to language learning in a gr[...]texto impreso
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The aim of this study is to analyse the role of subtitling when learning a foreign language ─English─, and improving mother tongue. Besides, subjects ─a group of third year Primary Education undergraduates─ assess the role subtitles could play[...]texto impreso
This paper deals with two of the key factors in the L2 learning process, namely, learning motivation and strategies. A group of engineering students from Bilbao (Spain) having a good command of English for General Purposes (EGP) and taking a cou[...]texto impreso
In the English course included in the degree in Art Conservation and Restoration at the University of La Laguna (Spain), the inexistence of commercial teaching resources suitable for this area and, more particularly, for the learning of speciali[...]texto impreso
García-Sánchez, Soraya ; Burbules, Nicholas C. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-06-15In this article, we discuss how technology-based learning methodologies developed in primary and secondary education can offer useful approaches to higher education instruction. For example, young and adult Spanish speakers are often used to par[...]texto impreso
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Language is a distinctive feature of human beings which lets them be recog- nized as members of an ethnic group or forming part of a nation. As a result of the different communities relationships, the contact among languages take several results[...]texto impreso
In eighteenth century England the middle classes were looking for assistance guides to help them to move upwards in society. Among those help books we find letter-writing manuals, a very popular text-type in the Late Modern English period, which[...]texto impreso
Power, Aurelia ; Keane, Anthony ; Nolan, Brian ; O'Neill, Brian | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05Public textual cyberbullying has become one of the most prevalent issues associated with online safety of young people, particularly on social networks. To address this issue, we argue that the boundaries of what constitutes public textual cyber[...]texto impreso
Herrando Rodrigo, Isabel ; Yebra-Pertusa, José María | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2014-11-01Con este artículo nos proponemos dar a conocer la experiencia empírica de carácter docente-investigador que hemos llevado a cabo en el último año (2013-14).Pretendemos enfatizar el papel del inglés con fines específicos, más concretamentede cará[...]texto impreso
Legal language is conceived as a sub-variety of the common language characterized by very specific features and is shown to be the immutable reflection of the behaviors that underlie each culture and differentiate it from others. In this regard,[...]texto impreso
The purpose of this research is to compare descriptively the issues arising from comparing the direct and indirect objects in both Albanian and Spanish. Both languages belong to different Indoeuropean groups, however they keep some morphosynt[...]texto impreso
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From a linguistic point of view, all languages and language varieties serve equally well for communication purposes. However, a number of interconnected language ideologies, assert the superiority of the Standard(s) over all other varieties ([...]texto impreso
Este trabajo presenta tres actividades didácticas y una propuesta de evaluaciónpara mejorar el aprendizaje del vocabulario científico en contextos de educaciónbilingüe. Investigaciones recientes han demostrado que el uso de imágenes es unamanera[...]texto impreso
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One of our previous works had as its aim to analyse the behaviour of luego and después in the speech of Seville. The results obtained were significant, but they required an expansion of the material subject to analysis; hence our decision to stu[...]texto impreso
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Book Review: Maurizio Gotti and Carmen Sancho Guinda (eds). (2013). Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres. Bern: Peter Lang, pp 511.texto impreso
Cortés de los Ríos, María Enriqueta ; Hernández Aparicio, Tamara | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2020-12-19The aim of this study to shed some light on the way meaning is constructed in different stages in the Brexit process through some covers of The Economist magazine. The present paper lies within the scope of the research into the instantiation of[...]texto impreso
Boldyrev, Nikolay N. ; Dubrovskaya, Olga G. ; Tolmacheva, Irina N. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05The article reviews the problem of meaning construction and language use in the field of sociocultural cognitive semantics, focusing on meaning as a dynamic experience construction process represented by virtue of language within multiple networ[...]texto impreso
This article continues a series of studies connected with the Scientific Thought-styles project (1995-), and discusses the formation of genre conventions of vernacular medical case reports in a long diachronic perspective. The theoretical backgr[...]texto impreso
Salager-Meyer, Françoise ; Alcaraz-Ariza, María Ángeles | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2013-11-01This paper is a diachronic analysis of a corpus of 180 titles drawn from CRs published in the BMJ and the BMJ Case Reports between 1840 and 2009. The frequency of occurrence of 69 variables (e.g. title type and length, punctuation, grammatical a[...]texto impreso
Este trabajo presenta un análisis de las estrategias cognitivas, metacognitivas y metalingüísticas implicadas en la elaboración de los informes técnicos en las asignaturas de IPA, para alumnos de ciencias e ingenierías. Las aplicaciones didác[...]texto impreso
The paper addresses metaphor as a cognitive-semantic device which is able to reveal intuitive mechanisms of the thinking process, thus filling the gaps in the sphere of logically objective human knowledge and opening the possibility to describe [...]texto impreso
El debate en torno a la traducción literal y su idoneidad a la hora de hacer frente a una traducción es ciertamente antiguo. Cuando dicho debate se aplica a la traducción audiovisual, este se encrudece todavía más. En la actualidad, es común enc[...]texto impreso
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The paper investigates how modal hedges (Coates 1983) understood as expressions of procedural meaning, i.e. expressions which instruct the addressee/reader how to process the propositional content of an utterance/statement (Watts 2004) are used [...]texto impreso
Álvarez-Gil, Francisco J. ; Domínguez MOrales, Elena | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2018-11-19This paper looks into the use of modal verbs in a corpus of abstracts excerpted from scientific papers in the field of tourism. These texts have been written by specialists in tourism studies. Our study will show the way in which modality is use[...]texto impreso
Much has been written about the MOOC phenomenon (Massive Online Open Courses), however, this is not an ICTE (Information and Communications Technology for Educational purposes) panegyric that we offer here. Instead,the objective is to make the m[...]texto impreso
Cortés de los Ríos, María Enriqueta ; Fernández Alonso, Patricia María | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-07Un análisis multimodal de la comunicación del terrorismo a través de los medios de comunicación apenas ha sido abordado. Este estudio pretende explorar cómo modalidades verbales y pictóricas contribuyen a la creación de una particular conceptual[...]texto impreso
The rapid evolution from print-based to multimodal information has still not received sufficient attention from the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This paper advocates the need to re-conceptualize ESP through multimodal practice f[...]texto impreso
The focus of my research is Narrative Instances (NIs) of Admission Interviews (AIs) in Public Mental Health carried out in Youth Centres of Mendoza Province, Argentina, within the framework of MOdEAS project. The aim of this paper is to show[...]texto impreso
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Salager-Meyer, Françoise ; Lewin, Beverly A. ; Luzardo Briceño, Marianela | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05This paper analyses the length and titling practices in the under-researched field of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Our corpus consisted of 360 articles published between 1995 and 2016 in three CAM journals. The length and frequ[...]