In this paper we analyse the motivation of students when they are taught a foreign language using different methodologies. We took into account that motivation may be defined as the various purposes that are part of the ...

Metadiscourse is usually studied in terms of a cross-cultural exploration of interpersonality, mainly in academic English, but we believe that this approach could be applied to other genres. The main purpose of this study ...

[EN] The Communicative Approach, mainstream method in the teaching of foreign languages in the past forty years, is recommended by the Council of Europe by means of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ...

Our interest lies in error from the point of view of language in context,therefore we will focus on errors produced at the discourse level. The main objective of this paper is to detect discourse competence errors and ...

[EN] The work at hand is part of a wider study the aim of which was to determine what kind of factors influence failures in pragmatic items of an online adaptive placement test taken by a group of 34 Spanish students in ...

[ES] Entendida como la disciplina que aborda el estudio de los usos comunicativos del lenguaje, la pragmática ha sido uno de los centros de la investigación en lingüística de las últimas décadas (Escandell Vidal, 2013). ...

[EN] The purpose of this research is to determine and analyse the engagement markers used in the comments on the news published in the online papers El País (Spain) and Emol (Chile). The comments were selected from two ...

Este estudio se asienta sobre una base práctica, la lingüística aplicada, y desde ella concibe el concepto de lengua como reflejo de la sociedad y cultura de sus productores. El punto de partida que se plantea es el análisis ...

[ES] El tema de este estudio son los factores que afectan el nivel de escritura académica en inglés en el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje de la escritura académica. El objeto del estudio son estudiantes de licenciatura ...

Esta investigación busca identificar las peculiaridades del habla loretana a nivel semántico, por lo tanto, este trabajo ha considerado la hipótesis de si habrá variación lingüística entre el español ...