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The language of advertising has for long proved a profitable resource for the teaching and learning of foreign languages at different educational levels, as well as for cultural and discourse studies, among others. Research paths and possibiliti[...]![]()
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The use of English as a global language has largely affected other languages, both in general and specialized areas, particularly at the lexical level due to themassive borrowing of English words. Anglicisms are most visible in the language of f[...]![]()
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This article examines a variety of options for expressing speaker and writer stance in a subcorpus of MarENG, a maritime English learning tool sponsored by the EU (35,041 words). Non-verbal markers related to key areas of modal expression are pr[...]![]()
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Daryai-Hansen, Petra ; Barfod, Sonja ; Hvidtfeldt, Susanne | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2013-11-01The paper presents an e-learning package designed to support vocational language teaching in the Fehmarn Belt region, developed as part of two research projects at Roskilde University, the project Den Mentale Bro (The Mental Bridge) and the [...]![]()
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This paper deals with some key issues in a controversial topic, that of the existing overlapping between ESP/EAP courses and simultaneously-run content courses. Some examples are provided and analyzed to be aware of the need of ESP/EAP practitio[...]![]()
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A lo largo de las últimas décadas, el francés de especialidad ha experimentado un desarrollo espectacular que se manifiesta en la aparición de numerosos y muy variados métodos de enseñanza. Así las cosas, nos encontramos hoy con una verdadera ga[...]![]()
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the presence of persuasion markers in the eighteenth century texts of the Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT), a sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus.2 It is also my intention to ascertain to what an extent[...]![]()
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Due to its role as a lingua franca, English has become a major source of language influence worldwide. This article addresses the impact of English on German. Contact-induced influences can be observed at all levels of the linguistic system in G[...]![]()
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The goal of this paper is to analyze the terminology of the only full translation of the book Physicalische Beschreibung der Canarischen Inseln by Buch carried out by Delgado Luis (von Buch, 1999). In order to achieve this goal, we perform the e[...]![]()
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Domain-specific loans mirror historical and cultural changes in specific areas of life and allow to identify the language which at a certain point in time is considered most prestigious by the recipient language users. Foreign loans are always e[...]![]()
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The main aim of this paper is to show the multiplicity of meanings given to the same word in specialized English lexicon from Old English to Present-Day English in order to provide the English language with linguistic economy and flexibility, th[...]![]()
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This article brings into focus the notion of metaphorical competence (MC) and posits the inclusion of its explicit training in LSP syllabi, stressing its important function in dialogic self-evaluative genres like the job/selection interview. A p[...]![]()
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El debate en torno al concepto de error está presente desde los comienzos de los Estudios de Traducción. Debido al avance tecnológico en un mundo globalizado como el de hoy se ha producido un aumento en la prestación de servicios de localización[...]![]()
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The aim of this study is to investigate the benefits of integrating Mobil Learning (mLearning) into language teaching activities to promote active student engagement and independent learning. A total of 72 beginner level students of Spanish ((Eu[...]![]()
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The aim of this paper is to undertake a study on advertisements released on youtube concerning integration of people with Down Syndrome. This study will be based on the different elements included (visual, audio and dialogues) in the advertiseme[...]![]()
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de Wille, Tabea ; Bermúdez Bausela, Montserrat | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2020-05-02Si bien es cierto que el conocimiento existente en torno a la calidad en traducción y localización es muy amplio, la cuestión de cómo se percibe esta en relación con factores de tipo extrínseco no lo es tanto. Este artículo presenta algunas post[...]![]()
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¿Qué fue de los estudios sobre comprensión lectora que llenaron publicaciones en los años 90? ¿Qué fue de las teorías y de las aplicaciones didácticas? ¿Del antes, durante y después de la lectura? Este trabajo revisa, no sin cierta nostalgia [...]![]()
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The increased interest in Spanish as a Foreign Language (FL) has meant that in China alone there are 25,000 university students taking Spanish courses (Instituto Cervantes, 2013). The demand for Spanish language and culture courses has yet to be[...]![]()
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This paper intends to contribute to the description of written academic English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) from an endonormative perspective (Seidlhofer, 2011). Reformulation markers (that is, that is to say, in other words, namely and i.e.) fulfi[...]![]()
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Rodríguez-Puente, Alejandro ; Peñate, Marcos | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2008-06-02Our analysis aims to compile the trends and approaches along with some of the most meaningful works on foreign language reading from the 60s up until the present day, focusing especially on research into reading for academic purposes (RAP). W[...]![]()
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O’Keeffe, Anne, Brian Clancy & Svenja Adolphs. 2011. Introducing pragmatics in use. Abingdon / New York: Routledge. Pp. 188.Chabner, Davi-Ellen. 2011. The language of medicine in English. St Louis, Missouri: Saunders Elsevier. Pp.1036.![]()
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Alcaraz Varó, Enrique. 2000. El inglés profesional y académico. Madrid. Alianza Editorial, S.A. Pp. 240. Gómez Capuz, Juan. 1998. El préstamo lingüístico: conceptos, problemas y métodos. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia.González Cruz, María Isa[...]![]()
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Books reviewed:Francisco Yus. Cyberpragmatics. Internet-mediated communication in contextBruce, Ian. Theory and Concepts of English for Academic PurposesWalsh, Steve. Exploring Classroom Discourse. Language in ActionSeidlhofer, Barbara. Understa[...]![]()
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Ortega Barrera, Ivalla ; Breeze, Ruth ; Vinagre, Margarita ; Deal, Mandy L. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2013-11-01María Luisa Carrió-Pastor (ed.).2009. Content and language integrated learning: cultural diversity. Bern: Peter Lang AG. Pp. 187. Fortanet-Gómez, Inmaculada. 2013. CLIL in higher education. Towards a multilingual language policy. Bristol: Multil[...]![]()
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Studies of cross-cultural rhetorical variation, and how the influence of the cul- ture and the linguistic and structural aspects of a person's L1 may affect his/her writing in an L2, are often labelled Contrastive Rhetoric research. This paper r[...]![]()
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The aim of this research is to detect needs and tendencies in English language training and qualification in Spain within the framework of the Chemical industry. This work employs a descriptive analysis method with a qualitative approach. A ques[...]![]()
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Self-mentioning: Authority, authorship or self-promotion in 17thC prefaces to manuals on obstetrics?
Early Modern English texts on obstetrics have been a subject of study in the history of medicine and a source of a supposed antagonism between women midwives, on the one hand and surgeons and male midwives, on the other. Nevertheless, it can be [...]![]()
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This paper considers the changing referent of the colour terms maroon and magenta. Maroon was a specialised technical term in the mid-eighteen-hundreds within the field of artists’ colours, and the term magenta was introduced in 1860 in the newl[...]![]()
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Pérez-Luzardo Díaz, Jessica ; García, Mónica del Carmen Santana | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2020-12-19El objetivo principal de este estudio es averiguar los problemas de comunicación que existen entre el personal sanitario y el paciente extranjero en los centros sanitarios de Gran Canaria. Tras enmarcar la interpretación sanitaria dentro de la i[...]![]()
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Le sous-titrage pour malentendants a subi une forte évolution ces dernières années grâce à la législation et aux groupes de pression qui mènent des campagnes en faveur de son développement. Néanmoins, en ce qui concerne la public[...]![]()
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Vargas Blanco, Edgar Mauricio ; Montgomery, Kenny | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-06-29El siguiente estudio describe las percepciones de los estudiantes de cursos de español como lengua extranjera sobre la creación de cursos de español con fines específicos (EFE) o español para las profesiones, específicamente para la carrera de c[...]![]()
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In the last ten years, Spanish universities have started to incorporate English as a means of instruction. As a consequence, many lecturers –who regularly use their mother tongue for their teaching activity– have adapted their syllabus contents [...]![]()
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Luján García, Carmen Isabel ; Pulcini, Virginia | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2018-05-28Current facts such as globalized markets and internationalization have led to the increasing spread of the English language as the main vehicle of cross-border communication, especially among speakers whose native language is not English. This r[...]![]()
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The ten papers that have been selected for publication in this special issue entitled “New Insights into Meaning Construction and Knowledge Representation” present the outcomes of recent relevant investigations conducted both within Spain and in[...]![]()
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Gómez Parra, M.ª Elena ; Huertas Abril, Cristina Aránzazu ; Espejo Mohedano, Roberto | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-06-29Language learning, as we know it today, has experienced a Copernican turn that - among other reasons - finds its roots in an unprecedented technological revolution, the creation of real communicative contexts, students’ motivation and need to le[...]![]()
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This paper describes the use of perhaps, maybe and possibly in a cross- disciplinary corpus of academic and popularised scientific writing. It accounts for their higher frequency in popularised discourse by investigating their functions in detai[...]![]()
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Vocabulary learning and teaching is very important in learning English; nevertheless, vocabulary was a neglected area in foreign language teaching for a number of years. In order to develop students’ communicative competence, language teachers s[...]![]()
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The aim of this study is the design of the teaching and learning process of science activities on the circulatory system. Due to the expansion of the EU and the diversity of languages in Europe, the European Commission has been promoting a multi[...]![]()
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This paper presents a critical stance in the face of the technology-enhanced language learning (TELL) hype in higher education (HE). This hype, largely driven by institutional – instrumental and financial – imperatives has come under increasing [...]![]()
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This paper presents an analysis of the learning process of the features of tense and agreement in the interlanguage system of L1 Spanish speakers learning L2 English. This study uses a statistically significant sample of the student population i[...]![]()
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Although gambling has a long tradition and evidence of its practice can be found even in antiquity, the game of poker – initially associated with US casinos – consolidated its present form and spread all over the world only in the 20thcentury. T[...]![]()
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The Problem-Solution pattern has been widely considered a key discourse- organizing resource in technical discourse (Hoey, 1983, 2001). This paper aims at exploring the role of the pattern in a corpus of construction engineering textbooks. The p[...]![]()
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Though intercultural competence (ICC), community service learning (CSL), languages for specific purposes (LSP), and heritage learners (HLs) have respectively received increasing attention by language scholars within the previous twenty years, mu[...]![]()
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Language instructors who adopt the role of materials writers in order to provide their students with more accurate tailor-made learning resources usually start by closely examining their learners’ needs and demands, as well as the distinctive fe[...]![]()
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Larrea-Espinar, Ángela ; Raigón-Rodríguez, Antonio | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-12-04The cultural content of textbooks has become an important issue since the main goal of teaching English as a foreign language has shifted from communicative competence to intercultural citizenship. This paper reviews the trends in teaching cultu[...]![]()
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This paper provides a brief overview of the dijferent phases of development undergone by the ESP/EST move- ment since its beginnings in the 1960s. The aim of the survey is twofold: on the one hand the main approaches to ESP/EST will be identifie[...]![]()
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Nowadays we live in an intercultural society and this should imply a revision of the language learning approach. Since a good level of linguistic competence does not guarantee successful communication, many scholars have turned to intercultural [...]![]()
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In this article I present research on different forms of concept representation in specialized aeronautical documents. I have isolated a sample of concepts in Spanish documents addressed to fighter aircraft mechanics in the area of fighter aircr[...]![]()
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Xhaferi, Brikena ; Xhaferi, Gezim ; Xhaferi, Gezim | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2011-11-27English for specific purposes (ESP) is considered as a new trend in English Language Teaching. It is our belief that ESP courses help students become more proficient in their field of study. The present study was done during academic year 2009/2[...]![]()
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Martí Ferriol, José Luis ; Martí Marco, Ma Rosario | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-12-25This article describes a teaching experience carried out in the lectures of language for translators in the Degree of Translation and Interpreting at the Universidad de Alicante during the courses 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. The practice of bot[...]![]()
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The present paper aims at presenting a new sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The corpus is a compilation of scientific texts published between 1700 and 1900 and has been compiled by strictly observing some principles[...]![]()
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A pesar de la creencia generalizada de que el lenguaje utilizado por ingenieros y arquitectos para crear, describir y divulgar sus obras es exclusivo de esta especia- lidad y completamente ajena a la de otras disciplinas, en este artículo se [...]![]()
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This research investigates the ways of implementing dual-language programs and the schools’ internal procedures of evaluating them. Previous studies have examined the effectiveness of bilingual programs (Genovesee et al. 2005; Howard et al. 2005[...]![]()
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The objective of this paper is, on the one hand, to present and highlight the importance of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the use of academic English within a scientific environment and, on the other, to provide insights into u[...]![]()
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The level of context dependence of engagement markers in Peninsular Spanish and US business websites
Ivorra-Pérez, Francisco Miguel ; Giménez-Moreno, Rosa | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2018-11-19This paper examines the impact of Spaniards’ and North-Americans’ level of context dependence (Hall, 1976) on the engagement markers (Hyland & Tse, 2004) used on the presentation page of 100 business websites from the toy sector (50 from Spain a[...]![]()
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The lexical approach identifies lexis as the basis of language and focuses on the principle that language consists of grammaticalised lexis. in second language acquisition, over the past few years, this approach has generated great interest as a[...]![]()
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Larrea Espinar, Ángela Mª ; RAIGÓN RODRÍGUEZ, Antonio R. ; RAIGÓN RODRÍGUEZ, Antonio R. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2012-11-25With the turn of the century we have seen a string of political and cultural changes that have had a deep impact on economy and technology. The “global culture” phenomenon is nowadays a common concept spread through the mass media, namely tel[...]![]()
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The argumentative class of texts possesses a certain structure that allows the addressee to recognise the possible controversy of the ideas posed in it, be it for the persuasion of some conflicting view or the mere reflection on what has been ut[...]![]()
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Tejedor Martínez, Cristina ; de la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel ; Cabellos Castilla, María Rosa | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2006-11-17Resulta evidente que, además de a los procedimientos propios de una lengua para la formación de palabras, el lenguaje tecno-científico recurre a menudo a neo- logismos ingleses, al ser ésta la lengua de transmisión de cultura y conocimiento e[...]![]()
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Felices-Lago, Ángel ; Alameda-Hernández, Ángela | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05In this article we collect a corpus of texts which operate with a controlled language (ASD Simplified Technical English) in order to facilitate the development of a new domain-specific ontology (the aircraft structure) based on a technical disci[...]![]()
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Cortés de los Ríos, María Enriqueta ; Corral Hernández, Ana | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-12-25In addition to magnificent beaches, history and culture, tourism websites also offer health and beauty centres for the tourists' wellbeing. This study examines the discourse for the promotion of health and beauty tourism. The purpose of this pap[...]![]()
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Morales, Óscar Alberto ; Perdomo, Bexi ; Cassany, Daniel ; Caldera, André José ; Arias, Jesús Reinaldo | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-12-04Introduction: Informed consent (IC) consists in certifying that the patient has received information about their condition, treatment alternatives, the effects and consequences derived from the clinical procedure. Its use in the dental clinic p[...]![]()
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The appropriate use of hedging in scientific discourse is a vital skill for wri- ters presenting their knowledge in an academic discourse community and much work has therefore been done on this relevant feature, especially on its use in the rhet[...]![]()
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The paper addresses the role of the cognitive model profile, one of the fundamental constructs in LCCM Theory (a.k.a. access semantics), in meaning construction and knowledge representation with respect to the concept of Europe. The study is bas[...]![]()
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El análisis lingüístico de documentos cinematográficos se presenta en este tra- bajo como un elemento de especial importancia en la didáctica de lenguas extranjeras basada en la integración de lengua y contenidos. El uso del cine con el fin e[...]![]()
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The lexicon of air transport has received the influence of terms from other modalities of locomotion, of sciences such as meteorology and ornithology and it has also incorporated loan words from different languages. Although it has been the obje[...]![]()
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Morra de La Peña, Ana María ; Soler, Lidia R. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 1999-11-26-![]()
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This paper reviews how genre-based pedagogy has been conceived by researchers in the different scholarly traditions, and offers a particular view of genre-driven pedagogy and its practical applications in the English as a Second Language student[...]![]()
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This article focuses on a specific feature found in tourist guidebooks –the recurrent use of foreign expressions or “third language”. It presents the findings of a comparative analysis of a parallel corpus made up of twenty guidebooks: ten guide[...]![]()
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Evidential markers in the form of adverbs are one of the most important and useful tools languages possess to modify the meaning of propositions adding authorial stance at word or sentence level. The expression of evidentiality, described a[...]![]()
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Caridad de Otto, Estefanía ; Río Rey, Carmen | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2006-11-17En este artículo se lleva a cabo un análisis del Marco de referencia europeo para las lenguas con el fin de determinar hasta qué punto este documento toma en consideración la enseñanza y aprendizaje de lenguas para fines específicos, de qué m[...]![]()
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The present study provides an overview of newly created compounds obtained by agglutination in German. It focuses especially on those,which are composed of two or more lexical items in the specific area of “table culture”. One of our primary obj[...]![]()
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El objetivo del presente trabajo de investigación es realizar un análisis deta- llado y exhaustivo de las relaciones léxico semánticas en el artículo de investigación, concretamente entre el título y el abstract. Para ello, se efectuará un do[...]![]()
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This paper examines the relationships between absolute power and language. Nazi concentration camps embody the space where the maximum expression of totalitarianism was put into practice. By becoming forcedly multilingual societies from the onse[...]![]()
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The present paper will analyse two different pieces by Ælfric, perhaps one of the leading prose-writers of the Old English period. These are, namely, his Cosmology –which may have been completed towards the year 993 (Burnley, 1992)–, and his Col[...]![]()
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En el ámbito de la Traducción Audiovisual (TAV), el eufemismo y el disfemismo son dos procesos lingüísticos que todavía no se han estudiado en profundidad. Este artículo pretende mostrar el uso y el comportamiento de estos fenómenos en textos au[...]![]()
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The corpus-based study presented here examines the use of make-complex predicates in nineteenth-century Astronomy. The texts analysed have been taken from the first published section of the Coruña Corpus, the Corpus of English Texts on Astro[...]![]()
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This paper looks at the ever-growing influence of new technologies on the process of teaching and learning foreign languages. An analysis is made of the main tools currently used by language teachers, both general tools, such as blogs and wi[...]![]()
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In a society in which the ubiquitous learning or u-learning (anytime, anywhere) is present in our everyday life and in which the teaching of a second language is not the teaching of a strict rules system, but of a system to obtain an efficient c[...]![]()
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The purpose of this article is to present a novel Computer Assisted Language Learning activity that can enhance both written and oral skills while providing listening practice and cultural information. With the help of a subtitling software, Bus[...]![]()
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Carrió Pastor, María Luisa ; Muñiz Calderón, Rut ; Muñiz Calderón, Rut | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2010-11-29Writing in a second language does not follow a fixed pattern in the different parts of the sentence or text. We can find variations in discourse due to the conceptual implications of language production. Even if we are considering genres which f[...]![]()
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Intercommunication among the members of academic discourse communities is usually achieved through certain defined genres that aim to achieve the community’s goals. As a result, language analysts have focused their attention on how scientists fr[...]![]()
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This paper observes the different talk types that occur in an instance of peer interaction in Science through English CLIL classroom and attempts at providing a categorization of the students talk and analyzing their function. The sample chosen [...]![]()
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Pérez Paredes, Pascual ; Aguado, P. ; Sánchez, P. ; Mena, F. ; Cerezo, L. ; Dueñas, M. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2003-11-21--![]()
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La enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras en el sistema educativo español se basa en la adquisición de competencias lingüísticas que capaciten al alumno para comu- nicarse en situaciones cotidianas. La estilística como recurso didáctico también per[...]![]()
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A publication of outmost importance for a wide spectrum of teachers, for novices and experts alike, who make use of the Case Method in language teaching. Thus, this newly published book focuses on what Zerrillo (2019) identifies as the three Ps[...]![]()
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Book Review: Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.) (2014). Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Context. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 413.