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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 ...
Deconstruction and Figurative Language: An analysis of the way language works
(Revista Comunicación, Vol. 17, No. 1, Julio 2008, 2008-07)
Far from discussing whether deconstruction is
obscure, dogmatic or a problematic approach, the
aim of this article is to demonstrate that the use
of figurative language constitutes a clear example
of the deconstructive ...
Monstrous Representations of Women in William Shakespeare's Early Modern Tragedy Titus Andronicus
(2021)
Esta tesis se propuso como objetivo general determinar por qué los personajes femeninos y las nociones y perspectivas sobre el cuerpo y el comportamiento femenino son representados como elementos monstruosos en la obra de ...
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 ...
Non-poetic influences in T. S. Eliot’s four quartets: buddhism, hinduism, and Saint John of the Cross
(2010-10-28)
En este estudio se aspira a demostrar cómo la teoría de la ansiedad que genera la influencia poética, propuesta por Harold Bloom, puede hacer a un lado importantes fuentes de influencia debido a una restricción de criterio. ...
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 ...
Medical English: An English Course for Medical Students
(2020)
Este trabajo de graduación explora un estudio llevado a cabo en el contexto de una práctica de enseñanza, la cual era necesario para la conclusión de el programa de Maestría en Enseñanza del Inglés como Lengua Extranjera ...