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García-Sánchez, Soraya ; Burbules, Nicholas C. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-06-15---![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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,[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 ([...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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.![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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 [...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]![]()
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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[...]