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Shortsighted translations: Censorship in the three Manolito Gafotas books translated into American English
(Peter Lang, 2019-09-26)In this article, we explore the issue of the child narrator’s identity through the descriptive analysis of the translations from Spanish into American English of Manolito Gafotas. Particularly, this article illustrates how ... -
Death and how to deal with it in the Harry Potter series
(Routledge, 2019-08-29)It is obvious that death is one of the main issues in the Harry Potter world and the way it is underlined throughout the series opens up the ground for discussion of one of the most taboo topics in Western culture amongst ... -
Reflection in Language Teaching/Learning: Is the European Portfolio the Answer?
(Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, 2008)[No abstract available] -
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 LangAuthor’s accepted manuscript (AAM), not the definitive, published version of record of the chapter. “All rights reserved.”, 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 ...