Prosodic features of language such as prominence, melody, and rhythm, are frequently embodied by hand movements in face-to-face communication. However, little is known on the role of embodied techniques encoding the melodic and rhythmic features of speech on the phonological learning of a foreign language. The main goal of this thesis is to unveil the benefits of using a prosody-based, multisensory approach (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic) to support not only the learning of such prosodic features but also the overall pronunciation of a foreign language. Three training studies with a pre- and posttest design have been included in the thesis, which assess the role of multisensory training through the perception and production o...
La traducción pedagógica tiende a infravalorarse en el contexto de la enseñanza de lenguas extranje...
Els estudis sobre desenvolupament del llenguatge típicament s'han centrat en l'anàlisi de la parla. ...
This thesis is a result of our research efforts in building a multi-modal knowledgebase for the spe...
[spa] Introducción: Los niños y niñas con trastorno específico del lenguaje (TEL) tienen dificultad...
In the last decades, a growing number of studies have investigated the relationship between two uni...
[spa] Nuestra tesis doctoral pretende investigar la manera en que se desarrolla la competencia plur...
Los objetivos de esta tesis son definir estrategias de estudio vinculadas a la comprensión lectora q...
In the field of teaching English literature to Spanish adolescents, a multimodal approach offers div...
Aquest treball explora el grau d’inclusió de l’alumnat amb sordesa a l’aula de música d’Educació Inf...
A central issue in language acquisition is the segmentation of speech into linguistic units and str...
It stands as an unequivocal understanding that, in order to learn to read and write, the phonologica...
Ideally, the used materials to the process of teaching-learning foreign languages is determined by a...
[EN] In this thesis, the problem of multilingual spoken language understanding is addressed using gr...
Traditionally, language teaching has been grounded on a monolingual bias and the strict separation o...
Doctoral Dissertation in Language Sciences Specialization in English LinguisticsSeveral studies hav...
La traducción pedagógica tiende a infravalorarse en el contexto de la enseñanza de lenguas extranje...
Els estudis sobre desenvolupament del llenguatge típicament s'han centrat en l'anàlisi de la parla. ...
This thesis is a result of our research efforts in building a multi-modal knowledgebase for the spe...
[spa] Introducción: Los niños y niñas con trastorno específico del lenguaje (TEL) tienen dificultad...
In the last decades, a growing number of studies have investigated the relationship between two uni...
[spa] Nuestra tesis doctoral pretende investigar la manera en que se desarrolla la competencia plur...
Los objetivos de esta tesis son definir estrategias de estudio vinculadas a la comprensión lectora q...
In the field of teaching English literature to Spanish adolescents, a multimodal approach offers div...
Aquest treball explora el grau d’inclusió de l’alumnat amb sordesa a l’aula de música d’Educació Inf...
A central issue in language acquisition is the segmentation of speech into linguistic units and str...
It stands as an unequivocal understanding that, in order to learn to read and write, the phonologica...
Ideally, the used materials to the process of teaching-learning foreign languages is determined by a...
[EN] In this thesis, the problem of multilingual spoken language understanding is addressed using gr...
Traditionally, language teaching has been grounded on a monolingual bias and the strict separation o...
Doctoral Dissertation in Language Sciences Specialization in English LinguisticsSeveral studies hav...
La traducción pedagógica tiende a infravalorarse en el contexto de la enseñanza de lenguas extranje...
Els estudis sobre desenvolupament del llenguatge típicament s'han centrat en l'anàlisi de la parla. ...
This thesis is a result of our research efforts in building a multi-modal knowledgebase for the spe...