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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

En esta investigación intentamos, como objetivo básico, estudiar las actitudes lingüísticas asumidas por el grupo de informantes de la comunidad de Santiago de Chile frente a la lengua y al diccionario; hay que señalar que ...

Si bien, variada es la gama de trabajos que a lo largo de los últimos cien años han estudiado y caracterizado el sistema fonológico del mapudungun, escasas son las investigaciones que se han dedicado con verdadera minuciosidad ...

Writing is a complex linguistic ability that needs years of practice in order to be mastered. As a matter of fact, it is an ability that can never be fully acquired. Its acquisition involves a series of cognitive processes ...