Browsing by Title Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
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1712. El sentido de lo indio en el Chiloé colonial
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A bagaceira y el imposible cierre de la nación
(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, 2020)En este artículo ofrezco una lectura del problema de la nación en la novela regionalista A bagaceira (1928), de José Américo de Almeida. Su protagonista, Lucio, un joven reformador de la hacienda nordestina, intenta generar ... -
A case study of Feedback practices in oral assessment of English as a second language
(Universidad de Chile, 2021)This study explores the feedback practices in oral evaluations of three English teachers in an EFL Chilean university programme. In particular, it seeks to determine which are the practices of feedback that are provided ... -
A case study of parents' attitudes towards heritage language maintenance of English in the Kanto area of Japan
(Universidad de Chile, 2018)Previous studies on the attitudes towards heritage language maintenance reveal about the importance that families give to heritage language in order to retain their home language legacy (Oriyama, 2010). All of this while ... -
A case study of written feedback types and perceptions in a spanish L1 university context
(Universidad de Chile, 2013)This study explores feedback practices in an EFL university programme in Chile. In particular, it seeks to determine what kinds of feedback students receive and their quality. Furthermore, the study also aims at examining ... -
A characterization of motivational theories present in MINEDUC's textbook: strategies for motivating and managing the chilean classroom
(Universidad de Chile, 2018)The study reported in this thesis had the objective of analysing the theoretical basis of the textbook Strategies for motivating and managing the Chilean classroom by examining the main motivational theories and approaches ... -
A close look at l2 learning: from individual differences to multiple intelligences and brain based studies
(Universidad de Chile, 2005)Since the second half of the twentieth century a significant paradigm shift has taken place in second language education, namely, the shift from positivism to post-positivism, and from behaviourism to cognitivism. In ... -
A comparative and cross-cultural study of irony, sarcasm, and stereotypes in north american, english, and chilean stand-up comedies
(Universidad de Chile, 2011)Humour is an aspect of social interaction we are often exposed to. We experience it in everyday situation. In fact, many people even make a living out of being funny.That is they are professional humour makers. Some good ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VERBAL IRONY AND SARCASM IN AMERICAN TELEVISION COMEDIES AND DRAMAS
(Universidad de Chile, 2009)Traditionally, irony has long been viewed as a rhetorical device and broadly defined as “the use of words to express the opposite of their literal meaning.” It has been amply studied in different disciplines such as ... -
"A continuación en nuestro programa": I love Lucy y la representación de la cultura americana de la Era Atómica (1951-1959)
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A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE, CLAUSE COMBINATION STRATEGIES AND SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY IN ORAL INFORMAL NARRATIVES PRODUCED BY NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND ADVANCED EFL LEARNERS
(Universidad de Chile, 2008)The present study aims at identifying and describing a set of syntactic choices made at discourse-text level by native speakers of English and advanced EFL learners in spontaneous production of oral, informal narratives, ... -
A contrastive study of the female portrait in some of Nathaniel Hawthorn’s and Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories
(Universidad de Chile, 2008)The object of this research project is to carry out a literary analysis of the contrast and similarities between the treatment of female portraits presented in some of Edgar Allan Poe’s and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short ... -
A corpus based analysis of the verb pleroo in Ancient Greek. The diachronic relevance of the container image schema in its evolution
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2017)This is a corpus-based study of the development of the verb pleroo in Ancient Greek, originally meaning fill, from the 6th c. BCE in Classical Greek, up to the end of the 3rd c. BCE in Hellenistic Koine. It implements a ... -
A critical assessment of behaviourism in the light of recent theories of language acquisition
(Universidad de Chile, 1974) -
A cross-cultural and interlanguage study of head-acts in the realization of requests and refusals by native speakers of Spanish and English and by university EFL learners
(Universidad de Chile, 2010)Objetives: to describe the way in which native speakers of English and native speakers of Spanish realize the speech acts of request and refusal in their respective mother tongues; to determine the extent to which the ... -
A debate over the link between Salvador Allende, Max Westenhofer, and Rudolf Virchow: contributions to the history of social medicine in Chile and internationally
(Fundaco Oswaldo Cruz, Brasil, 2020)In the history of Latin American social medicine, numerous works have presented a harmonious link between Rudolf Virchow, Max Westenhofer, and Salvador Allende, which establishes the origin of ideas of Latin American social ... -
"¡A donde quiera que vaya pongo mi sello, porque aquí hay una mujer que no claudica!": recuperando la historia de las mujeres militantes que vivieron prisión política durante la dictadura cívico militar chilena
(Universidad de Chile, 2017)La presente investigación es un acercamiento a las formas de resistir que llevaron a cabo las mujeres en prisión política durante la dictadura cívico militar chilena. Esta investigación busca ser un aporte al conocimiento ... -
“A ella sean dadas las glorias del Ejército”: El culto a la Virgen del Carmen en la construcción del Estado-Nación en Chile: de la devoción mariana a la legitimación del poder, (1750-1850)
(Universidad de Chile, 2008)Dentro del contexto de las celebraciones del Bicentenario del nacimiento de la Nación, se ha dado una tendencia revisionista del proceso independista. Bajo esta primicia, de “repensar el pasado”, es en donde surge esta ...
