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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]