Anca Frumuselu

Anca Frumuselu
Universitat de Lleida | UDL · Faculty of Letters

PhD

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Introduction
Anca Frumuselu currently works as a lecturer at the Department of English and Linguistics, Universitat de Lleida, Spain. She does research in Second Language Acquisition, Virtual Exchange, Mobile learning, Audiovisual translation in EFL, Language Education, and Didactics.
Additional affiliations
February 2011 - February 2021
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Position
  • PhD Student
February 2010 - February 2016
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)

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Publications (15)
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This study examines international and intercultural issues in the English for Palestine textbook series, specifically evaluating intercultural comparisons, mutual representations, and relations in terms of their effectiveness in enhancing students’ cross-cultural communication skills. The examination of the textbooks employed a qualitative methodol...
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Audiovisual products have gained ground in the last few decades, becoming a crucial part of our life nowadays. This research paper was carried out as part of the piloting phase of the TRADILEX project, which stands for Audiovisual Translation as a Didactic Resource in Foreign Language Education. The study aims to foster awareness on media accessibi...
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Given the massive use of social media during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, EFL teachers could take advantage of this and bring intercultural encounters in the EFL classroom through virtual exchanges. The chapter aims to present a pedagogical proposal for virtual exchange practices in EFL courses at university level. First, it will start with an ove...
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Using technology in the classroom context can be an effective way to learn a foreign or second language. Vocabulary is considered one of the important skills for identifying a learner's performance in various academic and non-academic contexts. The present paper investigated the effect of text messaging on learners' lexical knowledge and vocabulary...
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This paper investigates the efficiency of using text messaging in the EFL reading classroom at the Islamic Azad University-South Tehran Branch, Iran. After the administration of an Oxford Placement Test (OPT), 74 participants who scored one standard deviation above and below the mean were selected. Participants were randomly assigned into two group...
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This paper investigates the efficiency of text messaging as an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructional tool to enhance learner autonomy and perception at the Islamic Azad University-South Tehran Branch, Iran. The study considers seventy-four learners to participate in the study after the administration of an Oxford Placement Test to measu...
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Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) is a fast-developing field that is constantly growing and evolving in education. There is a lack of publications focusing on implementation studies of MALL as a means to enhance second language/foreign language (L2) reading comprehension. Building on Burston's (2013). Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: a Sel...
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Mobile assisted language learning (MALL) has developed and gained importance over the years in foreign language learning settings. However, mobile phones are still perceived as distracting devices in most of the schools. Within the field of second and foreign language learning, one of the most difficult things for school teachers is to give feedbac...
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Teaching and learning informal language in the form of single-word lexis and multi-word expressions (idioms, collocations, phrasal verbs and slang) has always been a challenge in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. Foreign language teaching theoreticians perceive that the acquisition of vocabulary – individual words and phrases – is...
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The pedagogical use of subtitled and captioned material in the foreign language classroom is upheld by various theories which reveal the cognitive processing activated when students are exposed to multimedia and subtitled audiovisual materials. The three theories that will be considered here are Cognitive Load Theory (CLT), Cognitive Theory of Mult...
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The current study focuses on the creation and validation of a questionnaire for StratApp, a game-based mobile app aiming at improving reading comprehension of university students when reading academic texts in English. In order to consider the users at every stage of the app design process, a pilot questionnaire was created to gather data about stu...

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