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Translators' English-Spanish metaphorical competence: impact on the target system
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
In spite of the large number of interlinguistic competences and skills generally mentioned in translation studies as being essential for translators, metaphorical competence does not figure as one of the relevant ones. And ...
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Adverb orientation: semantics and pragmatics
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
Orientation is a well known property of some adverbs in English. Early approaches to the topic simply offered a systematisation of paraphrase relations between these adverbs and the corresponding adjectives. Current cognitive ...
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A state-of-the art review of background knowledge as one of the major factors that influence reading comprehension performance
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2009)
The aim of this paper is to review the research carried out to date on the use and effect of background knowledge on reading comprehension. We want to reflect on the use of background knowledge in first (L1) and second ...
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V+N miscollocations in the written production of university level students
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2008)
The study of collocation – the restricted way in which two or more words combine across texts – has recently gained much relevance. The acquisition of these combinations has proved an important obstacle for non-native ...
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Integrating cross-curricular teaching and CALL is feasible: an intervention project in Primary Education
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2009)
Foreign language teaching offers an invaluable opportunity to bring peace, health, environmental, gender, sex, moral and civic, road safety, and consumer education into the classroom. Addressing these topics in all subjects ...
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Class size reduction in the second language classroom
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2008)
In this study, class size reduction (CSR) was implemented in six sections of second semester, university level Spanish classes in which the enrollment cap was lowered from 27 to 20 students. The methodology for the study ...
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La incidencia de los textos mediáticos en la enseñanza/aprendizaje del inglés como lengua extranjera
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2003)
Apart from the book as a traditional medium for printed texts, there are other types of media, including newspapers, films, and television programs, which are also important in the transmission of texts of a different ...
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Creating a business word list for teaching business English
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2007)
Foreign language students planning to study business at English-speaking universities have little or no previous training in English for Academic Purposes in general, or in Business English in particular. Nonetheless, these ...
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Requests in films and in efl textbooks: a comparison
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2003)
Research in the field of interlanguage pragmatics has shown that foreign language learners’ grammatical and pragmatic competences do not always match, this can perhaps be due to a lack of appropriate pragmatic presentation ...
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Transculturation and affect in the L2 classroom: teaching English and ethnography in the Yucatan
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2006)
By offering a transdisciplinary analysis of the development of an EFL/ethnography program in Mexico, this study proposes transculturation, as opposed to acculturation (a process commonly cited by applied linguists), as a ...