Simons, Mathea; Vanhees, Claudio; Smits, Tom; Van De Putte, Karen(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-07-19)
[EN] Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) is an important challenge for language learning. In Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), subjects are taught in a language that is not the learners’ mother tongue; a context ...
Quintero Ramírez, Sara(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-07-19)
[EN] Metaphor is one of the most frequently used resources in the specialized language of sports (cf. Segrave, 2000; Herráez Pindado, 2004; Segura Soto, 2009; Medina Montero, 2015). The focus of this study is on how victory ...
Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-07-19)
[EN] This article aims at proposing a lexical representation for a set of English verbs of action. The analysis is carried out on the grounds of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) and includes aspects like Aktionsart type, ...
Mavrou, Irini; Bustos-López, Fernando(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-07-19)
[EN] The current study intended to examine the influence of working memory capacity and emotional intelligence on emotional expression in Spanish as a second language (SSL). Forty-one learners of SSL (A2 and B1 levels) ...
Lu, Hui-Chuan; Cheng, An Chung; Hung, Shen Yun(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-07-19)
[EN] This paper focuses on a corpus-based study on the acquisition of L3 Spanish past tense in oral production through a learners’ corpus. The main findings were: (1) Chinese-speaking learners in Taiwan demonstrated more ...