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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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