Dos unidades didácticas: “No es país para jóvenes” y “¿Hora de hacer las maletas?”. Un acercamiento a la realidad social de los jóvenes españoles.
María García Florenciano (University of Leeds e Instituto Cervantes de Leeds) and Juan Muñoz López (University of Leeds y Leeds Metropolitan University) UNIDAD DIDÁCTICA 1 “NO ES PAÍS PARA JÓVENES” Resumen Material concebido para estudiantes universitarios que...
The impact of STORYWALK® on foreign language development and cultural competence: preliminary investigation
Solange A. Lopes-Murphy (Indiana State University) INTRODUCTION Cross-cultural interactions define life in many societies around the globe, including the United States (Rivera, Greggory, and Ward, 2010). The great mobility that exists in the world today gives us...
Translation as a tool in foreign language learning – the learner’s perspective
Maria José Veiga (Researcher at the University of Aveiro, Transmedia Portugal) INTRODUCTION In the second half of the 20th century, foreign language teaching methods within the Portuguese Education system have proved to be translation resistant. By the end of the...Translating interactional humour into Spanish: idiom, scope, polysemy, homonymy and near-homonymy in the decoding and recoding of humour
Guadalupe García González, University of Nottingham INTRODUCTION The translation of humour depends on procedures different from those involved in translation in general, because a full comprehension and appreciation of humoristic patterns is required before the...