Browsing by Author "Alderete Diez, Pilar"
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Bumping into classroom walls: How to win the timed race of language learning in the university classroom
Alderete Diez, Pilar (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 ... -
Contributions of cognitive grammar to learning Spanish prepositions: An empirical study with university students of Spanish as a foreign language / Aportaciones de la gramática cognitiva al aprendizaje de preposiciones: una investigación empírica con estudiantes universitarios de E/LE
Rodríguez-Fernández, Raquel (NUI Galway, 2022-06-10)The perception of prepositions as relational functional units with a secondary role in the creation of meaning has often resulted in a superficial treatment of these elements in the classroom. Their introduction as ... -
Death and how to deal with it in the Harry Potter series
Alderete Diez, Pilar (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 ... -
Haciendo frente al acoso homofóbico a través de la poesía desde la clase de lengua extranjera: una propuesta didáctica
Férez Mora, Pedro Antonio; Alderete Diez, Pilar (Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), 2017-12-21)Otherness, of which the homosexual other is a component, is rarely included in syllabi. This paper will explore the negative implications of its omission, and the benefits of its inclusion in academic curricula, with special ... -
Harry Potter is funny. The tricky task of translating humour and character voices in the Harry Potter books
Alderete Diez, Pilar (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 ... -
‘Harry Potter is funny’. The tricky task of translating humour and character voices into Spanish
Alderete Diez, Pilar (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. ... -
La reflexión en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en la universidad: ¿Responde el Portfolio Europeo de Lenguas a nuestras necesidades?
Alderete Diez, Pilar (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 ... -
PAISAGE - Portal Audiovisual Intercultural sobre el Aprendizaje de Gaélico y Español
Alderete Diez, Pilar (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 ... -
Proyecto de innovación: la habilidad oral y auralen el Inglés universitario: viejos retos, nuevas soluciones
González-Cascos, Elena; Dapía Ferreiro, Celsa; Garcés García, Pilar; Alderete Diez, Pilar (Foro Internacional sobre Evaluación de la Calidad de la Investigación y de la Educación Superior (FECIES), 2014-07-08)La lengua inglesa se ha convertido en un patrón estándar de comunicación dentro del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, facilitando la movilidad, el aprendizaje y la convergencia entre los países de la Unión a través ... -
Reflection in Language Teaching/Learning: Is the European Portfolio the Answer?
Alderete Diez, Pilar (Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, 2008)[No abstract available] -
Shortsighted translations: Censorship in the three Manolito Gafotas books translated into American English
Alderete Diez, Pilar; Harrington Fernández, Owen (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 ... -
Tackling homophobic bullying through poetry from the foreign language class: A didactic proposal
Férez Mora, Pedro Antonio; Alderete Diez, Pilar (Revistas Científicas Complutenses, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2016-10-07)Otherness, of which the homosexual other is a component, is rarely included in syllabi. This paper will explore the negative implications of its omission, and the benefits of its inclusion in academic curricula, with ... -
De Valladolid (España) a Galway (Irlanda). Otra trayectoria enseñando español.
Alderete Diez, Pilar (Revista Electrónica del Lenguaje, 2017-01-23)[No abstract available]