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A Needs Analysis for an English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) Accounting Course
(2023)The teaching of English for occupational purposes relies on the insights that a detailed needs analysis on the student-client population provides. This paper reports the findings of a Needs Analysis (NA) conducted on the ... -
Enseñanza del inglés con propósitos ocupacionales en sitio: experiencia de extensión universitaria en un hotel
(2021)Este artículo describe una experiencia de vínculo entre un proyecto de extensión docente universitaria, en este caso ED-3314 La Casa de Idiomas del Recinto de Golfito, con una empresa turística hotelera para brindar cursos ... -
Teaching ESP to Beginner Students: An Analysis of Teaching Practices Suggested in the Literature and Their Perceived Effect on Learning
(2022)Globalization has made job markets extremely competitive, and the revolution in information technology has made real-time communication between people in different parts of the world easy and accessible. In this context, ... -
Patterns of errors in texts written by Costa Rican university English learners: A corpus-aided study
(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, ... -
An Analysis of Variation Sources in Written Corrective Feedback Studies: What is the Next Step?
(2020-04-27)While there is a significant amount of compelling evidence to support written corrective feedback (error correction), it is also acknowledged that research findings may not be applicable or conclusive enough given the great ... -
An Updated Typology of Written Corrective Feedback: Resolving Terminology Issues
(2021-03-19)The extensive amount of literature on written corrective feedback has dispelled many doubts that question its effectiveness. However, despite this valid contribution, there is still controversy about pedagogical recommendations ... -
EFL Majors’ Knowledge of Career Paths and the Job Market for English Graduates in 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 ... -
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 ... -
English for Electrical Engineering Students: Teaching Practices to Improve the Speaking Skills of Intermediate Students in an Online Task-Based ESP Course
(2022-11-23)La presente investigación tiene como objetivo explorar las prácticas de enseñanza que pueden ayudar a mejorar las habilidades de expresión oral de un grupo estudiantes de Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universidad de Costa ... -
Por una bella avenida de palmeras. La arquitectura y el paisaje del tratamiento de la locura en Costa Rica (1883-1915)
(2022)La separación espacial ha sido una de las respuestas más recurrentes para lidiar con la locura. Si históricamente consistió en el encierro indiscriminado de todo lo considerado indeseable, el paradigma asilar que comienza ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of a course taught to microbiology students: Usefulness of vocabulary, speaking activities, and materials
(2022)This research paper analyzes the extent to which teaching vocabulary and speaking skills to a group of students of Microbiology from the University of Costa Rica can be effective at improving language skills. Therefore, ... -
Spanglish: A Social and Linguistic Phenomenon of Identity Construction from Literary and Cultural Perspectives
(2021)Resumen Esta tesis se propuso como objetivo general analizar la presencia del fenómeno socio-lingüístico conocido como Spanglish y su impacto y efectos socio-culturales en el proceso de construcción de identidad de los ... -
An evaluation of the fulfillment of authenticity and supportiveness, as ESP and TBLT materials development principles, in a business administration and accounting course
(2022-01-13)Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo explorar el grado en que los materiales de clase diseñados para un curso de Inglés para Propósitos Específicos (ESP) y de Enseñanza del Lenguaje Basada en Tareas (TBLT) cumplen los ... -
Evaluating an esp course effectiveness through students' perceptions and improvement level: a case study with MIDEPLAN professionals
(2022-01-06)Medir la eficacia de un curso de inglés con fines específicos (ESP por sus siglas en inglés) puede lograrse a través de diferentes medios, por ejemplo, utilizando evaluaciones de desempeño, tomando en cuenta evaluaciones ... -
Anancy stories beyond the moralistic approach of the western philosophy of being
(2014-07-15)This article analyzes Anancy’s cogni-tive and sociohistorical identity beyond the moral-istic approach of the western philosophy of being. Instead, Anancy stories are studied as a decolo-nized expression of an afrodescendant ... -
Gender, discourses of respectability and the issue of Afro-Costa Rican citizenship in the journalistic work of Dolores Joseph Montout (1900-1950)
(2015)This paper focuses on the relatioships among ethnicity, gender and the issue of citizenship developed during the first half of the twentieth century among the Afro-Costa Rican community, by analyzing samples of journalistic ... -
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 psychotic subject in fagan’s the panopticon: hallucinations, language and the invasion of jouissance
(2021)En esta tesis se realiza una lectura psicoanalítica del discurso de Anais Hendrix, protagonista y narradora de la novela de Jenni Fagan, El Panóptico (2012), a la luz de las enseñanzas de Jacques Lacan. Es un análisis ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of an ESP course for business administration students
(2021)The purpose of this investigation was to explore the effectiveness of an English for Specific Purpose (ESP) course for Business Administration students. Students of the Master’s program in Teaching English as a Foreign ... -
Race, Gender, and the Supernatural: Intersecting Oppressions in Toni Morrison Paradise
(2021)Toni Morrison es un ícono y una referencia obligatoria en la literatura Estadounidense. La vasta producción literaria de la autora incluye novelas, crítica literaria, trabajo editorial, y libros para niños y niñas. Además, ...
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