Alfredo Herrero de Haro (University of Wollongong, Australia) Many teachers, and I have been one of them, treat listening skills as something that is innate and that can be neither learnt nor taught. That is, as something that students either can or cannot do, and as...
Irene Macias (University of Bath) Anyone who follows what goes on in Spain can’t have failed to read about , or indeed seen footage of, Madrid’s Mayor Ana Botella’s (or Annie Bottle, as she has been quickly nicknamed), now infamous speech to the Olympic Committee...
Basil Turner (High Wycombe) No child brought up in an English-speaking household would use the three English words above as set out in the title of this article. Equally, no child brought up in a Spanish-speaking household would refer to ‘Dos rojo manzanas’. The...
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...
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...
