LANGUAGE TEACHING

Author: TORRE GARCÍA MERCEDES DE LA.
Year: 2003.
University: PABLO DE OLAVIDE [www.upo.es].
Place of defense: HUMANIDADES.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE DE SEVILLA, CONVALIDADO.

Summary: The policy difusiónn of Spanish has influenced the growing demand for instumentos that encourage a rapprochement lingà ¼ istico this idioma.Para meet this demand, publishers are beginning to publish continuous collections of teaching materials from the years 50.Entre the multidud products offered in trade, the Spanish manuals for foreigners are the ones who have better reception between teachers and students, as these provide a comprehensive learning the language and the cultura.Debido the latter, we decided to choose the textbooks for the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language as an object of our research. Recent publications had wanted to show the variety of Spanish-speaking America has been growing rapidly in the texts more actuales.Esta diversity shown in all its facets lingà ¼ isticas and sociocultural. However, a review of the literature on what dialect in the manuals shows that while this plot has been studied from the budgets of teaching, there is still awaiting a scan from desciplinas lingà ¼ istas.En ultimate aim of this dissertation is the etudio empirical evidence of the varieties dealectales in Spanish manuals for foreigners and its adaptation to the reality lingüstica this lengua.Se describes both the theoretical explanation suchas examples contextualized marked dialectalmente in the methods. It discusses the phenomena of Spain and Spanish America in textbooks from the tenets of the dealectología and socilingà ¼ istica.Finalmente through this approach to the samples get resustados about treatment modalities in methods for teaching our language.

Author: DEZA BLANCO PABLO.
Year: 2003.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FILOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: Our experience as a teacher gives us examples daily deficiencies that present our students in their competence discursive escrita.Asimismo note of the difficulty which accounts for teachers ELE teaches its students to develop adequate written compositions communicative purpose intended to achieve. In this regard, we believe that the Rhetoric Contrastiva (RC) version Kaplan (1988) - it is a valid tool for this purpose. The review of studies discipline reveals 3 main problems: a-La undetermined classifications that are hiding under typologies textual and traditional genres; b-No there are some common tools at the time to analyze the texts, studies try to explore the same aspects, c-El knowledge lingà ¼ istico of HNNs of L2 and its L1.Con order to avoid the first problem, we look at the definitions of gender that have been made in the literature to define the gender of our study: news suceso.En As for the second problem, cohesive devices to analyze the news event, and given that the models proposed in the literature cohesive seem incomplete because it did not include the latest discoveries in the field, we have developed our own model análisis.Finalmente, elcción of objects subject of our study, Taiwanese university students last year Spanish foreign language and Spanish journalists, a competition discursive writing perfectly developed. In our body we have analyzed 300 news events written by journalists (30 news dailies printed with the ten biggest elestado Spanish) and 30 news event written by Taiwanese students ELE, with some parameters that define our paragraph Research methodology . The findings obtained after analysis and discussion of the data from our analysis that there are many differences between the two groups can grouped into three broad categories: i mechanisms that differ substantially; ii-mecanismos that only appear in one of the groups; iii-maecanismos not show major differences between the indices of the two groups but rather differences importentes in his actualizadción or in the contexts in which they are utilizados.Por other hand, it is noted that some devices are interconnected introducing two kinds of relationships: iv-mecanismos that are presented as complementary and v-mecanismos whose appearance in the text implies or may involve the emergence of another / s mecanismos.Finalmente, the last granconclusión we draw is that some devices are related to certain Event types: vi-dispositivos cohesive or updates on these devices that are associated with certain types of event.

Author: MORANTE VALLEJO ROSER.
Year: 2003.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FILOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: U. BARCELONA.

Summary: The field research of this work is the application of computational resources for language teaching Computer Aided (ELAO), in particular wing teaching vocabulary (EVAO). The overall objective has been to develop a platform for learning vocabulary ( VOCABLE), which integrates various resources deingeniería lingüstica.La platform is based on a model of development lexicon, providing various types of information lexical and incorporates a plan didactic. The contributions of this research are as follows: 1. Analysis of state and the question of the design vocabulary in teaching second lenguas.Establecimiento and characterization of stages. 2. Justification of the concept of unity as a lexical unit learning from studies on the development process lexicon in L2 based on the theory of transfer and models of networks. 3. Defining the types of lexical information necessary to develop training materials to support a process of qualitative development lexicon. The information is based on the lexical unit. 4. Definition of a verbal analysis methodology in terms of lexical units and implementing a dominio.La methodology is defined for the purpose of analyzing basic use verbs involved in a large number of lexical units, particularly units colocacionales. 5. Analysis and evaluation of various resources engineering lingüstica for their integration into the learning platform in terms of its ability to contain the lexical information and the potential for manipulating this information demanera automatic generation activities dedácticas. 6. Proposed educational activities for learning vocabulary and evalucación of the same in terms of the ability to generate automatic way. 7. Designing a platform for learning vocabulary based on current trends in language teaching assisted by ordenador.El design incorporates the concept of novelty as lexical unit, unity around which organizes the lexical information.

Author: FORNS BERNHARDT CAROLINA.
Year: 2003.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: PEDAGOGIA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: Labor research that has studied the statements of a group of speakers on Latino identity onstruida straddling the two cultures, that of origin and destination, and on the role of knowledge of the Spanish language in such construction identity. Through interviews semi structures our study defines what representations that a group of students and teachers have Hispanics on those individual and collective aspects own Latinos in the United States.

Author: SARAVIA TERRICABRAS M. ELISABET.
Year: 2003.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Author: MURILLO ROJAS MARIELOS.
Year: 2003.
University: EXTREMADURA [www.unex.es].
Place of preparation: ICE.

Summary: The fundamental problem of this research project is on the one hand to determine the vocabulary that corresponds to the core lexicon school codes oral and written, and secondly identify vocabulary cacografíco and patterns ortegráficos followed porlos school. The corpues consists of the production of oral 210 schoolchildren, whose age ranges between the 7 and 14 years and by 1765 essay written by 70 groups of children in third and sixth grades of elementary education and two of 35 public and private schools located in the twenty educational regions of Costa Rica. The corpus represents a total of 602,055 words graphics, content lexicon; of them 55431. We got word ordes and 44.57% of storytellers written. The lexicon basic school consists of 5,381 slogans each with its own brand grammar, usage frequency index and dispersion

Author: CARRETERO RÒDEL ÁNGELA.
Year: 2003.
University: POMPEU FABRA [www.upf.edu].
Place of defense: DEPARTAMENTO DE TRADUCCIÓN Y FILOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOLOGIA INGLESA Y ALEMANA.

Summary: Our study is inserted inside the Didactics Languages and has as its main objective to find a rallying point for the language teacher in the development and improvement of teaching within the classroom. The profesor-investigador begins with this purpose in the so-called research. The second line of this study is to investigate the role of the teacher in terms of the speech generated in the classroom, to what extent encourages the construction of knowledge of learning within the context of teaching and learning of adults in major German LE the field of EEOOII. For an empirical study in teaching, to investigate a proposed instruction in a specific context, we review in the first place, all those disciplines related to the teaching of languages: theories lingüsticas and learning in addition to the studies in second language acquisition . Finish the theoretical framework with an update of all those who from a sociocultural perspective analyzed's speech teacher. In a second part of the rhetoric analyzed by the professor of German at LE interaction with the adult beginners learning during episodes of negotiating meanings. As a research method used the qualitative parameter, and more specifically, the methodology of ethnographic research, collecting and analyzing data using the strategy of triangulation. The section Results and Discussion realizes discursive procedures identified in the investigation that promote the learning process of learning. Once validated assumptions we close our study with the main conclusions we draw from this research study.

Author: RISUEÑO MARTINEZ JESUS JUAN.
Year: 2003.
University: JAÉN [www.ujaen.es].
Place of defense: E.U. MAGISTERIO SAGRADA FAMILIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS EDUCACION.

Summary: This study has as its primary objective, among others, to verify to what extent an explicit in teaching English interrogativas structures, within the parameters of the linguistic competence, which is the acquisition of such structures and helps solve potential difficulties university students engaged in the Teacher Certification in specialty Foreign Language (English). To carry out this investigation, has proceeded on four scenarios: The formal instruction is able to exert a positive impact on the level of grammatical correctness with which subjects produced interrogativas English, both spoken and written. - There is a significant difference in terms of the level of grammatical correctness, between productions written and oral, reaching the highest percentages of subjects correctly in the written, because they have more time to plan. - A formal instruction can make appropriate subjects avoid transitional structures and accelerate its passage through the sequence acquisition of the British interrogativas, reaching the structures of language word scrutinized. - The beneficial effects of the instruction endure and remain with the passage of time. Subjects were divided into experimental group (n, 16) and control group (n, 20). The intervention program that received the experimental group consisted of a combination of explicit instruction in the use of structures interrogativas, illustrative examples, práctic aoral written and directed towards the production of the above structures and corrective feedback. The control group did not recibión any instructions. It was carried out three test to measure corracción Grammar subjects and developments in the sequence of development of structures interrogativas English: prior to the intervention (pretest), immediately after the training program (posttest) and after four months (delayed posttest). An analysis of oral and written productions of subjects indicates that the intervention had a positive impact both on grammatical correctness, and from the point of view of the sequence of acquisition, with a significant improvement in the experimental group with respect to the initial diagnosis and compared with the control group. Improvement, which is most relevant when it holds four months of the intervention, supporting the idea that the positive effects arising from the training program are not temporary, but they are durable.

Author: AVILA LÓPEZ FRANCISCO JAVIER.
Year: 2004.
University: SEVILLA [www.us.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA.

Summary: The skill of reading is one skill central to the learning of a second language and assumes special significance in the context of language learning where exposure data lingüsticos tends to be fairly limited. Therefore, the reading becomes the main and most affordable source of additional contact with the target language. The current concept of reading as an interactive process where textual information active sector in the knowledge of the student changing its overall structure emphasizes the importance of motivation as a factor that keeps awake and conduct necessary for learning to occur. Recent research in the field of neurobiology and neuropsychology show that the mental image represents a constituent element of learning and ultimately of human thought. It is analyzed in this research the relationship between mental image to a variety of factors both cognitive and affective learning because of their link to information processing, memory, creativity, emotion and motivation. Given this importance of visualization in learning, the empirical study raises the following research questions: 1) Do you Provides instruction on mental image formation in reading in L2 acquisition of the skill of reading? 2) Â Does training in the treatment of mental images through reading activities in the target language impact on the interest of pupils in reading in L2? It opted for a quasi design, suitable for studies in educational research, and selected several centers of the Commonwealth Andalusian representing rural and urban areas as well comotambiénrepresentativosde dosbachilIeratos, BUPy the BachilIeratoL.OGSEEn cadacentro were randomized group status experimental and control a current understanding and the study 4 schools and 6 groups of trainees in a natural way while respecting their original configuration. Analysis of the results obtained permits accept the assumptions that were made in relation to the research questions. On the one hand, students who received the experimental treatment improved their reading ability with regard to students in the control groups, ie treatment in image formation through formal education and activities that encourage the use of image mental reading was effective as a technique for improving the reading ability of the subjects to treatment. With regard to the second research question, triangulation in the study of the assumptions made (results of the tests for assessing activities, tracking chips and mini interviews) can affirm working with mental images increased interest of the students in activities reading in the target language. The survey results presented provide an empirical basis on which to develop a reading program that contemplates the formation of mental images as a strategy relevant to the reader in the target language. This will to improve the skill of reading and with it the process of acquisition of L2. In light of the results of the empirical study of this work is presented as an appendix an interactive CD that shows some possibilities to incorporate this type of activity to the classroom of English as a foreign language and thereby contribute to the field of designing multimedia materials for the classroom .

Author: PIQUER PÍRIZ ANA M..
Year: 2004.
University: EXTREMADURA [www.unex.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.

Summary: This doctoral thesis aims at the analysis of the understanding of some of the semantic extensions lexemas, hand, mouth and head by students of English as a foreign language in the stages of Infant and Primary. Proceeding from the premise that metaphor and metonimia play a key role in the phenomenon of semantic extension and the acquisition and understanding of ways polisémicas in the mother tongue, he examines whether these mental tools also contribute to the process of understanding in learning the English as a foreign language. The work consists of two parts. In the first of these various theoretical considerations are reflected on the phenomenon of semantic extension, expansion of English at an early age, the presence of figurative language in the classroom of English and studies on the acquisition of the mother tongue. The second part presents the results of three pilot studies with 148 students from two public schools of Caceres.

Author: AREVALO BENITO MARIA JOSE.
Year: 2004.
University: PAÍS VASCO [www.ehu.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOLOGIA Y GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOLOGIA, GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.

Summary: The competition factor lingüstica is decisive in the reading of the text argumentative in FLE. Competition lingüstica also relates to the outline text. So readers with increased competition presented more evenly scheme argumentative prototype. Consistency / textual cohesion is an important variable in reading comprehension. In signs of argument note that the majority of the significant findings related to the model text read. This research has finally implications for the teaching FLE. The three key factors in reading are:-Competition lingüstica-identification scheme textual - coherent structure of the text

Author: KOZLOVA INNA.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: TRADUCCIÓ I INTERPRETACIÓ.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA DE POSTGRADO.

Summary: According to the model PACTE (2005), instrumental competence is defined as the sum of knowledge and mastery of external sources. We explained the overall functioning of the consultation from the perspective of conexionista traits, conceptual (Rumelhart 1986). By placing the query in the context of problem solving in the verbatim reproduction, offer models recovery lexical and relate domestic support, or use of memory with external support, or use of external resources. These models are tested by looking at the problem solving by students of languages for specific purposes. Different verbalizaciones the processes of problem solving in groups and discovers why external support is needed to solve certain problems lexicons.

Author: PLAZA ARREGUI PATRICIA.
Year: 2004.
University: CÓRDOBA [www.uco.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS.

Summary: The study aims to reveal the state of the communicative competence of students in written English as a foreign language at a crucial moment in its interlengua, at the time prior to their access to the University. To achieve this goal, work has used the following procedures. The critical review of the existing literature collection in a theoretical framework that explores the relationship between the evolution of model teaching lingà ¼ istico along with changes in scientific theories of language and the historical context: - The study of the available reports, produced by units of educational research and innovation of public agencies at the national and supranational: Eurydice, the Council of Europe, the Council of State School, INCE and CIDE. - An examination of the relevant legislation-the analysis of curriculum material, specifically libreos text and projects doentes, disposnibles in the publishing market and used in the teaching of foreign languages, English in Secondary Education, as indicative of the goals and methodologies applied in the classroom. - Finally, the field work that has been carried out for the collection of data has been an error analysis of the evidence of access to universidadc in the area of English as a foreign language. In particular, we analyzed reviews of the call June 2002 for the province of Cordoba, but to be identical tests in the rest dela autonomous community and very similar in the rest of the national territory, the results are extrapolated perfectly. The date also is relevant because this is the first generation entirely LOGSE. Through the scrupulous implementation of an elaborate analysis methodology, the work represents a breakthrough in understanding lo0s levels of competition lingüstica of these students. The work is deducted relevant conclusions about the shortcomings which have certain ideas of the so-called communicative approaches and its practical application in academic environments regulated.

Author: RUIZ MADRID MARIA NOELIA.
Year: 2004.
University: JAUME I DE CASTELLON [www.uji.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y SOCIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y SOCIALES.

Summary: This dissertation integrates two different research areas: self-teaching language (AAL) and language learning computer-aided (ALAO), in this case in the field of learning English as a foreign language. The growing investigation carried out in this line during the last decades (Beatty, 2003; Chapelle, 2003; Alessi, 2001 Marquess, 1995, 2001; Rushby, 1997, Shin & Wastell, 1998; Blin, 1999; Holliday, 1999; Hoven, 1997, 1999; Murray, 1998; Sanz, 2003) as well as theoretical reflections arising therefrom constitute the basis of the theoretical framework of this study is motivated by three things: 1. The need to establish guidelines for research in the field of autonomy in the area of language learning computer-aided. 2. The need to carry out qualitative studies in the field of ALAO to construct a theoretical framework that strength in the research area. 3. The need to explore the possibility of designing a program of language learning that can incite behaviors that are related to development of the autonomy of learning. The main contribution of this study is to design TADLA since taking into account the limitations of the same (design interface and limited content), TADLA is a tool specifically designed for training to acquire autonomous powers in the field of learning learning of English as a foreign language. The conclusions that have been reached in this study are twofold. On the one hand, the findings of pedagogical nature that are directly related to the development of autonomy in the field of language teaching-learning computer-aided. Moreover, the conclusions of the technical design of the application that are related to the effectiveness of the interface and tools integrated into the system. Taking into account the limitations of this study, the results suggest the need for further representation of apprentices and the notion of mediation, which is revealed as a key element in the media environment and therefore can be used to carry out of that change agents in the apprentice to lead to be aware of their own learning process. The materials gathered during this investigation (newspapers, interviews recorded on video), they become sources of valuable information that will help us in future studies power poses more detailed and specific (study of metalanguage, dialogue between teacher and student, gestures, attitudes , etc.). that could inform revealing in this regard.

Author: IBAÑEZ BLASCO MARIA VICTORIA.
Year: 2004.
University: JAUME I DE CASTELLON [www.uji.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y SOCIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CIENCIAS HUMANAS Y SOCIALES.

Author: CHECA GARCIA IRENE.
Year: 2004.
University: ALMERÍA [www.ual.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES.

Summary: The thesis examines the syntactic development of adolescents from Almeria rates maturity syntactic K. W. Hunt. % & / It begins by showing the existence of acquisition and development syntactic post-6 years and the utility and relevance of studies on this, the nuances that add to the processes of learning syntactic (acquisition rules, a notion of complexity) and by the distinctive role and little known that the school has on individuals at this stage, in addition to acquiring new records, such as writing. % & / Looking illuminate either the hierarchy and periodization of various structures and their uses at this stage, or diagnose the degree of development of the subjects used two basic methods: designing specific tests to verify the acquisition of syntactic structures concrete and monitoring production and spontaneous understanding more or less controlled. Dentro't'Je latter line has been used frequently quantitative indices, particularly those of K. W. Hunt. &% / Are reviewed these indices as well as relations between themselves and their empirical findings, in addition to the various applications which have had. It also demonstrates the independence of indices theory generativo-transformacional that inspired Hunt, so that the criticism to the Theory Complexity Derivacional not to affect him. % & / Used primary indices (length of the terminal unit, length of the subordinate clause and index), but not the side, the lack of innovation in Hunt for them, the ausencía of homogeneity in several studies to define it, and the need to refinarlos in light of the results with those obtained elsewhere. They are also used for extension measures: number of words in text and number of units for text terminals; measures of the error (based on measures proposed for the study of foreign languages in development syntactic), LUTI (length of the terminal unit incorrect) and LUTLE (length of the unit terminallíbre error), PUTI (ratio of terminals incorrect ~ s) and PUTLE (ratio of terminals free of error), PLUTI (proportion of words in the wrong terminal units) and PLUTLE (proportion of words in units terminals free of error), and action on nominal terms, LNOM (length of the term nominal) and PNOM (proportion of nominal terms by terminal units). It looks almost the entire speech. % & / Were used two methods of elícitación: writing and rewriting free, the last of which dealt with validated for the Spanish. This method has several advantages: control of the adduct and variations due to uncontrolled variables (item, inventiveness of subjects, predisposition to experiment, and so on.), Reducing the size of the sample, and especially from the time of sampling, a guarantee educto least for the different strata of the population, posibilídad explore what information is maintained as the main prayer and explore specific plots of tactical development without depending on the design of specific adduct. &% / As to the independent variables, they were ongoing, age, social class, type of center and center area. % & / The courses were 6 ° Primary, 2 ° ESO 4 ° SCS AND 2 ° Baccalaureate. The social classes: low, medium and high in terms of profession and educational level of parents. The type of center públíco or private (they always reached at compulsory education). The areas of the centers: center, neighborhood, marginal and appendages (as slight modification of the proposed Marcos Garcia for social stratification of Spanish Almería). % & / EI sampling was random and proportionate to each of the layers. The population size allows for a reliable 6% according to the standards in sociology and is 237 subjects, guaranteeing the minimum it would ordinarily according to the ratio Labov. The co 8 rpus inc 1ff8 luyó a total of 115,676 words, spread over 106 expressions nominal terminals and 13,355 units, which comprised 20,083 clauses. The criteria for segmentation are explícitaron meticulously to ensure that the experiment will be replicated as possible and that when comparing its results with those of other experiments is deslindable the influence of a different segment, if any. Finally, we proceeded to statistical data analysis, focused on the statistical significance of the mean differences between groups defined by each variable in the social and distinct contribution to the variance of each of the variables that affect significantly ( through regression analysis in stages). It also has studied the correlation between the indexes themselves. Prior to all this, the cases were confirmed to implement the test to metric, being replaced when there were such cases by their equivalent non - parametric. One of the two primary objectives of this research was to settle the utílidad and desirability of three methodological proposals: the use of the experiment rewrite, the relevance of the extension measures, and development of indices based on syntactical errors and indices taking the nominal expression as a unit, not desechándola therefore the analysis. &% / As regards the measures extension, the light of the results obtained, it should specify the limit to their size in terms of number of units contained terminals, or done by the number of words, the change in demand for it depending on the course. Firstly, because the number of words correlates with the age and maturity slightly with the syntactic, so select subjects, especially at a younger age, according to the number of words of its membership sesga estuary research results probably upwards. Furthermore, the number of units terminals correlates with the maturity syntactic greatly although negativamente- so if editors are elígen according to a number of the same constant, the possibility of sesgarlas is lower. Therefore, measuring the extent, as its two indices -palabras by units and text terminals for text, it proves useful and relevant methodological throws conclusions. % & / Inclusion of measures of error, represented by the LUTI, PUTI and PLUTI has proven instrumental in completing the development vision of the various syntactic social classes, especially in writing free, because while writing free the course has a weight decísivo rather than social class syntax for development, this happens only if we take into account the correct terminal units, since the lower classes are produced significantly more units mind terminals with errors. In rewriting significance of these differences are even more marked, which returns to justify their inclusion. Other variables influencing social too, but as shown in regression analysis, they do so to a lesser extent, and probably main effect of social class. One important conclusion that shed the results is that the LUTI runs fairly parallel to the primary indices, while the PUTI and PLUTllo do more in relation to the rates of extension (albeit negatively). That is, PUTI and PLUTI complement better rates of primary and might be giving a hint as to why women and schoolchildren in private schools show less maturity syntactic: putting more effort into producing a size acceptable and commit fewer errors, which could result, especially the latter, producing units terminals shorter. The PUTI has the advantage of being an index reading more transparent and complementary to the other indexes. The PLUTI is influenced by the LUTI and by the extension in word, but an index is more sensitive to the social variables, and the preference for one or the other will depend on our intentions in the investigation. % & / The results for the nominal expressions are not as halagà ¼ eños, mainly due to its low frequency. It seems advisable to go to larger samples to study their development and correlations. In the case of the rewrite, and unless we achieve design an adduct that facilitates the production of such expressions, expressions are sufficiently low nominal prefer to discard his study. The only conclusion that can be thrown with respect to the nominal expressions is their correlation with the length of the clause, which is not comprehensible by their expressions nominal more mature, extensive and accurate are produced by systems similar to those clauses that stretch, as for example nominalisation. However, the fact that also correlacionen with measures proportion of errors shows that in many cases expressions nominal not yet dominate, or even come unsuccessful attempts to connect a piece of speech to a terminal unit. % & / The possibility of using the experiment to rewrite the Spanish is supported by the results of this investigation, since the indexes used in both types of elicitación show the same trends in terms of each of the social variables. If anything, the experiment is more sensitive to rewrite some of them, in particular social class. Yes it is true, however, that the values of the indices are lower in the latter type of elicitación, rewriting, which used to the contrast with standard has to be ensured that these standards come from editorial elicitadas through the same method . The lower level of rates in primary rewrite appears to be due to the increased difficulty of this experiment, which may also explain its increased sensitivity to the social variables studied. Therefore, the use of rewriting possible, and also recommended, in order to save time and standardize the conditions of experimentation, controlling more factors influence possible, in addition to ensuring a educto least in cases where it is particularly difficult to write free . % & / Addition to the methodological component in the implementation of indexes of maturity syntactic, this thesis has sought to serve to introduce standard syntactic development of schoolchildren Almeria, depending on certain variables sociolingüsticas who suspected susceptible to influence him . % & / EI course has been the independent variable more clearly influential, by the constancy of his presence and intensity of the same. 2  ° baccalaureate course is more differentiated from the rest, which may be due to be shown during the non-compulsory for all students and include among their students in the case of private schools only to those who could pay for a private education , and this not being funded at this stage school. Sex only influences extension and PUTI and PLUTI, which could indicate a greater concern and control of the students for their productions, which would result in a slightly lower amount in the first indices except the subordination. % & / Social class has been another variable which has had a great influence on the syntactic maturity. Moreover, this weight has been evenly distributed in a way that almost all indices for the lower classes has obtained the lowest values, and the highest is usually the upper classes are not significantly different usually results in class half or a group or another. All this with the proviso that could be expected from the error rates, since they normally the lower classes rated more something that high. % & / The area of the center impact on the dependent variables in a manner very similar almost always to social class, which, given its association in the distribution of the subjects in their subespecificaciones, 8 and given s 79f or contribution agreement the variance in the regression analysis in stages, it is reasonable to assume that this is the same variable influential. The interpretation more directly and with greater sense is that social class is behind the possible influence of the middle parts, although it is true that sometimes the middle parts weighs further by the homogenizing factor favoring be located in the same the center area and their students, so that differences are liman on general trends of this school district or even the center. % & / EI type of center has only been significant in determining the extent of the texts rewrite in UTs, so beyond help balance the subjects selected so as to ensure the representation of different social classes, not had influence. % & / Therefore, in future studies it seems advisable to include variables and social class course, as well as a zone of central and, to a lesser degree, its type, the latter two face at ensuring representativeness of the post-estratificación in social class. Sex only had a statistically significant weight on the variability in length of texts in the case of the population Almeria.

Author: SOLANO RODRÍGUEZ M. ÁNGELES.
Year: 2004.
University: MURCIA [www.um.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE LETRAS.

Summary: This thesis of the need to solve the lack of expressiveness of our speeches in L2, we attach to the little or no use we make of units fraseológicas (UFS) of the language. The work consists of three complementary parts. In the first, it provides the basis methodology, making a brief tour of what has been and is the Fraseología, the area has a place where interdisciplinary study of the UFS, which tipificamos and classified into four major groups: Sontagmas Fraseológicos, Statements Fraseológicos, Schematics Sintácticos and Paremias. Warned inadequate dictionaries at the fact phrase, in the second part discusses a corpus: Pentalogía Belleville D. Pennac to determine the frequency and scope of use of certain types of UFS selected previously. It draws the same about 2,200 citations, which contain more than 1,200 UFS different (more than a hundred of them are not recognized in dictionaries), which are explained properly and is ordered as a glossary. In the third part of this thesis, in supporting the latest research on teaching of UFS, it poses a teaching outline for the E / A systematic them.

Author: BLANCO MARTÍN GREGORIO.
Year: 2004.
University: NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA [www.uned.es].
Place of defense: FILOLOGÍA.

Summary: The thesis has two large blocks differentiated. The first, comprising the six initial chapters, is devoted to the preliminary analysis of the state of language teaching and the status of the networks in the field of education. The second major block from Chapter 7 describes the quantitative analysis drawn from a statistical study of the application of networks to a sample of students from the SCS. Chapter l analyzes the current status of secondary schools, describing the characteristics of teachers and pupils, the state of inffaestrnctura and the environment. In Chapter 2 discusses the steps taken by the education authorities to integrate networks in the centers, both from the Ministry of Education and Science as from the ministries of Education. Chapter 3 reviews the theories applied to teaching language teaching along the history and current trends most relevant. Chapter 4 examines the evolution of the Computer Assisted Learning (ELAO) with the goal of adequately understand the current situation of discipline in order to assess its impact on the integration of the networks to the teaching of English. Chapter 5 describes the most common tools and resources of the Internet for teaching languages. The network is studied under two approaches: first will be seen a taxonomy based on the interactions used in the classroom, and secondly will analyze existing models of use of the Web in response to educational criteria. This chapter concludes with a description of the tools and resources of communication most common applied to education. Chapter 6 looks at the characteristics applicable to the effective integration of the networks in the classroom language, based on the initial problems that this poses. It analyzes the development of new paradigms of education, with special attention to the benefits and risks of new media, through reflection on the factors that affect the motivation and attention to diversity. After describing some graduates models for the effective integration of the networks by teachers, supplementing chapter with some notes on the analysis and evaluation of materials found on the network. Start the second block of this work with chapter 7; described therein with detailed elements of a study conducted to validate the application of the Internet in the secondary and high school. In chapter 8 is, first, an analysis of the activities. To that end, we see the internal sequence of activities, the chapter continues with a detailed description of the nine activities along the experiment, and finally describes in detail the communication tools used in the study and elaborates on development tools for the exercise in line with the program Rot Potatoes. The descriptive statistical analysis is developed in chapter 9; It provides details of the results of direct observation through the notebook classrooms, the tabulation of data from the completed questionnaire to students who participated in the study and, ultimately, the objective data supplied by official evaluations of the students, in contrast to the results of the components of the control groups. The tenth and final chapter contains the findings of the work, based both on the theoretical elements of the first six chapters, as in observing the results of the analysis of experimental work. Finally, there are guidelines for future research, and set forth some questions that are beyond the scope of this thesis but which must be addressed in the future.

Author: CARIDAD DE OTTO ESTEFANIA.
Year: 2004.
University: LA LAGUNA [www.ull.es].
Place of defense: ESCUELA UNIVERSITARIA DE CIENCIAS EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOLOGIA.

Summary: The overall objective of this thesis was to design and implement a learning environment with the help of semi information technology and communication for teaching an elective subject in the Bachelor of Business Science, called German Business Second Language, focusing on the teaching of German corporate baseline. The research focused on five key issues: * Investigating about the viability of the proposed system and its effectiveness in terms d get the students to achieve the goals of learning. * To determine the adequacy of the learning environment to meet the new system proposed in the reform of the European Higher Education Area in relation to the organization of teaching-learning processes. * Investigating about these possibilities to develop a learning environment tailored to the individual needs of students. * Exploring the level of acceptance of the proposed methodology and the assessment of learning environment and the process of teaching and learning among students, as well as the overall level of satisfaction with the course and content.

Author: Koller Kaiser Marta.
Year: 2004.
University: VALENCIA [www.uv.es].
Place of defense: Facultad de Filologia.
Place of preparation: Facultad de Filologia.

Summary: The objective of this dissertation is to determine whether the particular use of e-mail produces an improvement in the skills lingà ¼ istica and communicative. It performs both quantitative and qualitative analysis based on the exchange of e-mail between students at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Giessen. In addition aims to find out if learning German is the most appropriate exchange of e-mail between students Spaniards and Germans (Tandem group) who communicate in Spanish and in German or between Spanish and foreign students (who are studying German as a foreign language at the University in Giessen) communicating exclusively in German. The conclusions reached are: 1) in both groups noted an improvement in the competition lingà ¼ istica and communicative, not looking at significant quantitative results; 2) to a qualitatively new level students in the group Tandem have improved more understanding and expression written respect to another group of students; 3) is not recommended for exchange of e-mail as part of the curriculum in a course of German for beginners and 4) whether it is recommended that the exchange of e-mail for certain courses such as courses writing and take courses aimed intercultural learning.