Browsing by Author "XX644086"
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(Universidad de Chile, 2013)This work aimed to investigate about the way Chilean students acquire English Prepositions ‘in’, ‘on’, and ‘at’. Through the identification of the most common strategies used by students when choosing one these three ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2015)The main purpose of the present study is to discover ESL teachers’ beliefs and what they describe as their own teaching practices. Besides, the purpose is to find out if their beliefs when giving a lesson are strong enough ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2014)The present research focuses on the implicit compliments among the native speakers of American English. The pioneering research by Manes and Wolfson (1981) revealed that verbal compliments in ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2015)In mainstream linguistics, context is either entirely ignored or dominantly viewed as an objective property of the external world. For instance, in sociolinguistics or pragmatics, scholars frequently attempt to learn ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2013)Studying children’s language acquisition in natural settings is not cost and time effective. Therefore, language acquisition may be studied in an artificial setting reducing the costs related to this type of research. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2014)The present two-fold theoretical research attempts to firstly identify the emotions that emerge in the oral narratives of twelve pre-service English teachers about their learning experience and, secondly, to examine their ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2015)Modern children TV shows are heavily geared to engage children in learning new contents. Similar to any educational context, the transfer of knowledge in children TV shows is informed by three prominent psychological ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2014)There have been several studies that explore how the language employed in TV shows promote children’s learning. (Brandsford et al., 2005; Grossman & DeGaetano, 2009; Jukes, 2008; Buerkel-Rothfuss et al, 1982; Hunt 2001 ...
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A lexicogrammatical analysis of the evaluative meanings conveyed in opinions about hotels on the web (Universidad de Chile, 2013)The objectives of this research include the characterization of the lexicogrammar of hotel reviews and its relation with the Appraisal Theory (Martin and White 2005). The focus is put on the ‘affect’ and ‘orientation’ ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2014)The diversity of discourse strategies in mass media have been the target of several research studies in the field of discourse analysis within the last four decades (McLuhan, 1964; Leech, 1966; Cook, 1992; Cotter, 2001). ...
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(Routledge, 2019)Since behaviorism fell out of favor as one of the prominent learning theories, language education has done away with using repetition of linguistic forms as one of the important strategies used in second-language classrooms. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2014)The study of Metaphors in the English language has revealed a vacuum regarding newspaper editorials. The present research study reviews the origins and concept of Metaphor as described by different philosophers and linguists, ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2015)During the last few decades, research has investigated the role of body language in human communication. However, when it comes to the teacherstudent interaction, little attention has been paid to the real function that ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2014)TV shows for children are generally linked purely with entertainment, although there are certain shows that look to teach something to their audience. This teaching is carried out through many different strategies. Little ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2012)This paper reports on an experiment in which virtual agents in a computer simulated program were set up to assimilate the evolution of lexical agreement based on Complex Adaptive Systems theory (Lee & Schumann 2003, Waldrop, ...
