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 ...

The following investigation explores and analyses the assessment construct of extensive reading tests and the place of reading comprehension within that construct in a particular educational setting of English as a Foreign ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

El siguiente informe propone dos escrituras: un ensayo teórico en voz propia, y una escritura práctica llamada Uriel, el pudor. En la escritura teórica se aborda el problema de la confección de saber en un contexto académico ...