Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos: Enviaments recents
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Error by Elizabeth Campbell
There is something about the poetry of Elizabeth Campbell that syncopates like an idling Harley Davidson. In the poem "destiny", written mainly in lines of fourteen to sixteen syllables, the urge to settle into a steady ...
'Marlon James's 'Dangerous' A Brief History of Seven Killings'
Jamaican writer Marlon James's third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, for which he won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2015, is a crime novel which looks beyond the surface to explore and unearth suppressed ...
Time distribution and intentional vocabulary learning through repeated reading: a partial replication and extension
The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of different schedules of repeated reading practice on intentional vocabulary learning, and constitutes a partial replication and extension of the authors' previous study on ...
Note intorno a una traduzione di Bontempelli in catalano
The Author analyses the Catalan translation of 'La donna dei miei sogni a altre avventure moderne', a volume of tales written by Massimo Bontempelli. This essay also includes a study about the Bontemepelli's reception in ...
Magallanes y el dibujo del mundo
The history of the West and the world cannot be explained without the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, responsible for the boldest of all sea voyages. However, this expedition to the Molucas, which ended up being ...
Travelling with Veronica
I met Veronica in 1988 on my first trip to Australia. I had admired her as an academic since my undergraduate days but had no idea what was in store for me once I met her. Over the decades we met in places across the world ...
El rus com a lingua franca als estats postsoviètics
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the former republics of the USSr undertook a nation-building process that in most cases is still underway today. The changes involved in this process, which take in both education and ...
Young EFL learners' processing of multimodal input: Examining learners' eye movements
The use of materials combining verbal and nonverbal input in the EFL/ESL classroom is supported by theories of information processing and is a feature of most instructional practices designed for children. Previous research ...
Starting age and other influential factors: Insights from learner interviews
The present study uses oral interviews with foreign language learners in search of influential factors in their language learning histories. The sample for the study was drawn from a larger sample of intermediate/advanced ...
Examining L2 development in two short-term programs: abroad and 'at home'
Although research on the effect of spending time abroad on language learning has become popular in the last few years, there are only a few studies that concentrate on short-term stays for teenagers or that include intensive ...
Manzoni vs Svevo. [Ressenya de Giovanni Albertocchi, Entre dos segles (XIX-XX): la doble vida de les paraules]
A Bartleby y compañía, Giovanni Albertocchi és citat com a autor d'un llibre deliciós on «se estudian con suma gracia las argucias que en su epistolario inventaba Manzoni para decir que no». Amb aquesta pinzellada, Vila-Matas ...
On Pronominalization constraints in Catalan: the role of information structure
Although it is true that some pronominalization phenomena are restricted by grammatical or semantic factors, others are better accounted for on informational grounds. Pronominalization is triggered not only by material ...
The Chinese Intercultural Competence Scale and the External Factors of Spanish as a Foreign Language
The current study aimed to assess the intercultural competence (IC) of Chinese students of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) using Chen's (2019) Chinese Intercultural Competence Scale (CICS), as well as to investigate ...
The Effect of Written Text on Comprehension of Spoken English as a Foreign Language: A Replication Study
The use of written text has been acclaimed to enhance L2 listening comprehension, yet some argue that using written text does not effectively prepare learners to listen in real situations. Thus, the study was conducted to ...
De la foule aux masses: Philippe Soupault, grand-reporter dans l'Allemagne des années 30
[fre] Philippe Soupault, tras su expulsión del surrealismo, se dedicó al periodismo para ganarse la vida. De 1932 a 1936 viajó regularmente a Alemania para informar sobre los acontecimientos en el país vecino, como reportero ...
Carme Riera: el subjecte de la seducció
Abans de la nova Inquisició, això és, abans que la ignomínia política i la ignorància cultural llancessin un innoble i per això encara més perillós atac contra la llengua pròpia, a Mallorca, el 2010, es va celebrar l'any ...
30 anys del Grup d'Estudi de Llengües Amenaçades
[cat] Petit resum i balanç de la trajectòria del Grup d'Estudi de Llengües Amenaçades des de la fundació, trenta anys enrere.
Primo Levi als Països Catalans
Diu Santi Vila en Elogi de la memòria (Premi Octubre Joan Fuster 2004) que, «prou versàtil per a començar les dues darreres guerres mundials en el bàndol agressor finalment vençut i acabar-les al costat dels vencedors, ...
