Purificación Sánchez Hernández

• University of Murcia

Data-driven learning (DDL) is a learner-focused approach which promotes language learners’ discovery of linguistic patterns of use and meaning by examining extensive samples of attested uses of language. Despite the emergence of mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) and its affordances, i.e. individualization and personalization, the potential o...

Communication in a second language is a type of achievement which requires a very functional use of the language, resulting in the students’ ability to express needs, desires, feelings and attitudes. Both oral and written communication should be immediate and onging from the point when students start studying a language and should provide them with...

Research has shown that immigrants tend to be negatively constructed in the discourse of the media. In the context of the EU, British newspapers reportedly offer largely negative or partial constructions of these individuals. These representations contribute to jeopardizing the integration of this group of people, as their social construction refle...

This survey seeks to explore the spread and take­up of language, and/or text, processing technologies for language learning across Europe.

The aim of this paper is to analyse how Bilingual Education has been implemented in Spain, more specifically in the Region of Murcia. This paper investigates whether textbooks designed for bilingual programs focus more on the form or the content of the different subjects that make up the curriculum of bilingual programs. The main instruments to car...

On the basis of previous lexical bundle studies, this paper examines the forms, structures and functions of 4-word bundles in a corpus of textbooks and a corpus of research articles in Biology. The study includes the main biological disciplines and focuses on three major features: the overall distribution of bundles, their typical structures, and t...

The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with high relevance to English for Academic Purposes, and...

The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with high relevance to English for Academic Purposes, and...

Literature has a long history in the teaching of language: it was essential in the classical paradigm and still plays a fundamental role in the language classroom in many countries. The advantages of using literary texts for teaching language have been widely discussed (Maley and Duff 1989; Carter et al. 1989; Widdowson 1992; Kramsch 1993; Lazar 19...

Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights are two novels where love has a central and important role. However, they portray two different types of love. In Pride and Prejudice there is love and love turns to marriage. The characters in this novel are able to fall in love and defend their love within the boundaries of what is considered socially acc...

This paper examines the design and implementation stages of a course of English given at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Murcia, Spain. The course was programmed regardless of the particular individuals and no previous requirements were needed. Two initial tests were passed to the students at the beginning of the semester: the first...

Las gramáticas y los diccionarios proporcionan, generalmente, información relevante y precisa a los estudiantes de una segunda lengua. Sin embargo, el significado de los términos es con frecuencia dinámico y la información no está siempre basada en patrones reales de uso. Nuevas ocurrencias en nuevos contextos pueden introducir potenciales semántic...

En: Lenguaje y textos La Coruña 2002, n. 20; p. 117-126 Se pone de manifiesto las dificultades surgidas al intentar programar la asignatura de 'Segunda Lengua y su Literatura: Inglés', y se presentan dos planteamientos distintos para su programación. El primero corresponde a una metodología integrada (la lengua se enseña a través de los textos lite...

Drawing conclusions, comparing and contrasting, defining, explaining reasons and purposes, speculating and verifying, inferring and implying and other patterns of writing organisation, are the very matter of communication, whether in the form of everyday conversation or more highly specialised uses of language. These functions of language could be...

Core English language is probably the most important subject in English Studies. Consequently, the design and implementation of the syllabus has to be carefuUy prepared. However, we have very tight timetabling, many students, and a very heterogeneous level as far as their command of the language is concerned. This paper aims to determine language á...