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Effectiveness and assessment of English production skills through audiovisual translation
(Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, 2022-12-15)This article is framed within a research project based in Spain aimed at studying the use of Audiovisual Translation tools to develop communicative competences for teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language. The ... -
Promoting translanguaging (or not) in the ESP classroom: An analysis of monoglossic and heteroglossic practices and discourses
(Elsevier, 2022)The idea of translanguaging as a potential resource for language and content learning runs counter to “the monolingual principle” (Cummins, 2009), according to which languages should be taught separately in order to (a) ... -
Síntesi de les reflexions del cicle sobre el model lingüístic de l’educació obligatòria a Catalunya
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Care, Dementia, and the Fourth Age in Erica Jong’s Later Work
(Oxford University Press, 2021)Background and Objectives: This article addresses the representations of dementia and caregiving in the fourth age as depicted in Erica Jong’s later-life work. It shows how the experience of parental care leads to the ... -
La gestió del repertori lingüístic a la classe de tecnologia en anglès: aprenent contingut, llengua i valors
(Societat Catalana de Pedagogia, 2022-11-02)En aquest article pretenem descriure l'ús de diferents llengües del repertori lingüístic d'una professora de tecnologia que imparteix l'assignatura seguint el model de content and language integrated learning (CLIL) a ... -
Language policy and multilingualism in semi-peripheral higher education research: Two cases from a University in Catalonia
(Elsevier, 2022-09-17)This study aims to contribute to the limited literature on language policy in research, where the increasing domination of English has raised concern about the displacement of other languages. The present ethnographic ... -
Reconstructing the Social Image of Older Women and Ageing : The Transformative Power of the Narrative Set in the Local Context
(MDPI, 2022-07-12)This case study reveals that age-related areas are the least desirable professional future options for many university students in social work degree programmes. One of the possible causes is the negative social labelling ... -
Native-speakerism and non-native second language teachers : A research agenda
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-07-21)A lot of attention has been devoted in the last 30 years to understanding nativeness and what has traditionally been called non-nativeness. While many studies have attempted to problematize the dichotomic division between ... -
Roald Dahl's eerie landlady : A macabre tale of aging
(Elsevier, 2022-07-29)This article examines Roald Dahl's adult short story ‘The Landlady’ through the lens of age studies and the horror genre. It explores how different symbolic and gothic textual elements contribute to the narrative of decline ... -
What students have to say about EMI : exploring university students’ perspectives on changing the learning/teaching language to English
(University of Belgrade, 2022-06)This study documents the perceptions and self-expressed experiences of eleven Catalan university students as they shift from learning in their first language(s), Catalan and/or Spanish, to learning in English. The paper ... -
Our Man in Mauritius
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Exploring the Interstices of Aging and Narrative Agency in M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets and Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea
(Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna, 2021)Indian Ocean literature has captured the porousness and fluidity that configure the Indian Ocean space through narrations in which history and memory, both individual and collective, blend to voice the uninhabited silence ... -
The Myth of the Empty Territory : The Tragedy of the Chagos Islanders
(Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna, 2021)In this article we outline the tragedy of the Chagos Islanders forcibly evicted from their homeland to make way for an American military base. A new colony was invented, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which would be ... -
Indian Ocean Imaginaries : The Academic Trajectory of the Ratnakara Research Group
(Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna, 2021)This article outlines the academic trajectory of the Ratnakara Research Group through a description of the research conducted in each of the financed research projects it has been awarded. Ratnakara. Indian Ocean Literatures ... -
"Writing is how I understand the world" : Ageing and Gender, Quality of Life and Creativity. An Interview with Lorna Crozier
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"You feel a little bit embarrassed, but you get over it" : EFL students' beliefs and emotions about speaking
(Departamento Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, Universidad de Granada, 2022-02-01)Drawing on positive psychology, i.e. the study of how people flourish and thrive, (MacIntyre, Gregersen and Mercer, 2016), this paper aims to analyse the elements which learners regard as most important to have positive ... -
The pain and irony of death in Julian Barnes's Memoirs Nothing to Be Frightened Of and Levels of Live
(University of Groningen Press, 2021)Julian Barnes is one of the best-known contemporary British authors, not only for his taste for formal experimentation well-documented in the novels and short stories he has published since the 1980s, but also for his ... -
Catalan Law and Business Students in Italy: The Impact of a Stay Abroad on Fluency and Accuracy
(University of Silesia Press, 2022-01-18)The growing number of English-Medium Instruction courses offered across Europe is increasing the opportunities for student exchanges. This study follows the progress of three students from Universitat de Lleida after their ... -
Audacity and Praat as Pedagogical Tools : Analysing Fluency and Pronunciation Accuracy
(Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, 2021-12-22)The main premise of this article is that asking students of English to analyse their oral productions using measures from the Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency approach might be beneficial for their language learning process. ...