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‘Harry Potter is funny’. The tricky task of translating humour and character voices into Spanish
(Association for Language Learming, 2012-05-04)In 2003 the highlight of the International Federation of Translators conference was their UNESCO Literary Translators Committee Round Table devoted to the translators of J.K. Rowling’s work as contributors to her popularity. ... -
Reflection in Language Teaching/Learning: Is the European Portfolio the Answer?
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Military participation and moral authority: women's political participation in Nicaragua, 1975-1995
(Women's Studies Centre, University College Galway, 1995)The growth of a dynamic and assertive constituency of women in Nicaragua is inseparable from the most recent phase of 'Sandinismo' in Nicaraguan history. An examination of the complex and ever-changing relationship between ... -
From Athens to Managua: Myth and sacrifice in Michele Najlis' Cantos de Ifigenia
(Liverpool University Press, 2012)Michele Najlis is a Nicaraguan poet whose work emerged alongside the Sandinista insurrection. The Sandinistas were removed from office in 1990, creating, in political and cultural terms, one of those 'boundary situations' ... -
PAISAGE - Portal Audiovisual Intercultural sobre el Aprendizaje de Gaélico y Español
(NUI Galway, 2011-09-21)Esta presentación ilustra un proyecto cooperativo entre Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge y el departamento de español en la Universidad de Galway. Investiga el potencial de tecnologías audiovisuales para mejorar la ... -
La experiencia no reclamada. Exilio, memoria y trauma en Ifigenia cruel de Alfonso Reyes
(Colegio de Mexico, 2015)Escrito diez anos después de la muerte de su padre y los eventos de 'La Decena Trágica', la Ifigenia cruel de Reyes explora el papel de la memoria en la formacion de la identidad de una manera que rompe con las convenciones ... -
Bumping into classroom walls: How to win the timed race of language learning in the university classroom
(Peter Lang, 2014)Departing from student-led evaluations of Spanish classrooms in a university in Canada a few years ago, this chapter focuses on the conditions that space and time impose on our contemporary university classrooms. In ... -
La reflexión en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en la universidad: ¿Responde el Portfolio Europeo de Lenguas a nuestras necesidades?
(2008-04-10)In the past three decades, the whole university system has been undergoing a global shift to a new way of creating and using knowledge (Ramsden: 3). This shift brings together disciplines and encourages a practical ... -
De Valladolid (España) a Galway (Irlanda). Otra trayectoria enseñando español.
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Harry Potter is funny. The tricky task of translating humour and character voices in the Harry Potter books
(NUI Galway, 2009)Harry Potter (HP) has been translated into 45 languages, including Ancient Greek and Latin. It has also been adapted for an American-English audience, with minor but significant changes. Most HP translators have been daunted ... -
"Violence and the Sacred": sacrifice, scapegoating and social conflict in Alfonso Reyes Ifigenia cruel
(Oxford University Press, 2016-10-24)This article presents a reading of Alfonso Reyes Ifigenia cruel informed by René Girard s theories of mimetic violence and the scapegoating effect . It seeks to foster interest in the complex relationship between the ...