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 ...

The importance of feedback for L2 learners has been a matter of interest for many researchers in language assessment. However, little is known about feedback practices for oral skills assessments. This report accounts for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...