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EFL Majors’ Knowledge of Career Paths and the Job Market for English Graduates in Costa Rica
El conocimiento de los estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera acerca de la trayectoria profesional y el mercado laboral para profesionales en inglés en Costa Rica
(2022-03-24)
The present study sought to ascertain the knowledge of English as a Foreign Language
(EFL) majors of their career path possibilities and the job market for English graduates
in Costa Rica. A total of 47 senior English ...
Tacit Significance, Explicit Irrelevance: The Use of Language and Silence in The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter
(Revista de Lenguas Modernas, número 16, 2012-06)
Readers who approach the Theater of the Absurd face complex interpretive problems. The style of Harold Pinter, the laureate British playwright, adds an additional difficulty due to his particular use of language. His ...
Series VII: Endangered Gender
(2020-04-09)
This series of poems attempts to address a myriad of psychological issues suffered by LGBTQI+ people today. These poems pinpoint those misconceptions and traumas about gender identity and sexuality that later reflect in ...
The Link Between Argumentative Discourse and Spoken Fluency
(2019-11-25)
The objective of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of the systematic instruction of argumentative discourse in assisting English as a second language (ESL) students of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in developing ...
Comprehensive corrective feedback in foreign language writing: The response of individual error categories
(2021-06-09)
While the literature on the effect of comprehensive corrective feedback (CF) on
overall accuracy is abundant, the body of work employing such a scope to explore error
treatability is not, especially when it comes to ...
From Power-over to Power-to: Power Relations of Women in Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
(Impossibilia, n.4, p. 34-51, Oct., 2012, 2012-10-31)
Because of binary oppositions shaping Western thought, power has been traditionally understood as male domination or as an unevenly distributed social resource between genders. However, an analysis of the power relationships ...
Patterns of errors in texts written by Costa Rican university English learners: A corpus-aided study
Patrones de errores en textos escritos por aprendices universitarios de inglés en Costa Rica: Un estudio asistido por corpus
(2022-11-11)
The present corpus-aided study sought to identify the grammatical and non-grammatical second language
(L2) error patterns of Costa Rican university English learners at all academic levels of a public university. Specifically, ...
Literary Representations from the Border: The American Dream, Immigration, Power and Hyphenated Identities
(2020-12-08)
The recent phenomenon of massive immigration of Hispanic people to the United States, despite the strict discourse of power andpolitics proclaimed by the actual president of this country, of stopping their entrance, has ...
Errores gramaticales más frecuentes en la producción escrita de los estudiantes de inglés de la Escuela de Letras Modernas y la percepción que profesores y aprendices tienen de ellos
(2010-10-28)
Identificar los tipos de errores gramaticales más frecuentes en la producción escrita de un grupo de estudiantes de inglés de la Escuela de Lenguas Modernas y determinar la gravedad que profesores y alumnos les atribuyen ...
Using the Task-Based Approach and Authentic Videos to Improve Listening and Speaking in a Group of Intermediate EFL Learners at the UCR Conversation English Program
(2010-09-11)
Para el docente de inglés como lengua extranjera es frecuente enfrentar el dilema de la correcta integración de la comprensión auditiva y de la expresión oral en el proceso de aprendizaje en sus aulas ya que tradicionalmente ...