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Characteristics of Weak and Strong Readers in a Foreign Language
2016
This study investigated the cognitive (first language [L1] and foreign language [FL]), linguistic (L1 and FL), and motivational characteristics of weak FL readers in contrast to strong readers in 3 groups of L1 Finnish-speaking learners of English, aged 10, 14, and 17 years. This cross-sectional study covered a wide range of potential correlates, and therefore predictors, of FL reading based on previous research on reading in first, second (L2), and foreign languages. The weakest and strongest FL readers (1 standard deviation below or above the mean reading score) in each age group were selected for the comparisons reported in this article. The FL (English) skills other than reading were fo…
Del concepto de lengua materna al de competencia plurilingüe. Representaciones de la identidad y la enseñanza multilingües a partir de biografías lin…
2019
espanolEl presente trabajo se centra en la descripcion de algunas representaciones que manifiestan estudiantes valencianos de magisterio, en biografias linguisticas, en relacion al plurilinguismo, la transmision de lenguas y la construccion de la identidad a traves de aquellas. El objeto de estudio es acercarnos a la percepcion que tienen estos estudiantes, que se estan formando para afrontar los retos de una ensenanza plurilingue, sobre la relacion entre identidad y educacion, el proceso de adquisicion de lenguas y sobre diversos aspectos de la realidad sociolinguistica valenciana, con un sistema educativo bilingue (valenciano-castellano) oficial desde 1983. En concreto, se abordan dos con…
A Form for Writing 20th Century Loss: Aesthetics of Absence in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room
2021
Considerada la seva primera novel·la modernista, Jacob’s Room (1922) de Virginia Woolf seria recordada per les seves tecniques experimentals per a contar la historia de Jacob, qui va morir a la Primera Guerra Mundial. La construccio del que es en el fons del seu personatge mes misterios ofereix una resposta diferent a les realitats canviants de la guerra i serveix com manera literaria de dol que busca no tant consolar com preservar i transmetre l’absencia provocada per les perdues de la Gran Guerra. Aqui es presenta una analisis de l’estetica de l’absencia a l’obra de Woolf, i s’afirma que anticipa preocupacions posteriors al tractar experiencies de violencia de masses en la literatura. De …
Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing
2020
Over the past three decades, the concept of ‘enchantment’ has increasingly been used in literary and cultural studies to investigate how a sense of wonder enables us to transcend the everyday, forg...
Sukzessive und simultane Aufspaltung der Erzähl-instanz im Erzählwerk Margaret Atwoods
1994
Der vorliegende Artikel konzentriert sich auf wesentliche Aspekte der Erzahltechnik Margaret Atwoods, und zwar auf wiederholt von ihr besonders in ihrer fruhen und mittleren Schaffensphase eingesetzte Strukturformen der erzahlerischen Vermittlung, die ten-denziell von starker thematischer Aussagekraft sind. Es werden zum einen zwei auffallige Strukturformen, unter Besprechung der einschlagigen Atwood-Texte, vorgestellt: die sukzessive und die simultane Aufspaltung der Erzahlinstanz (meist in Ich- und Sie-Erzahlform) bei gleichbleibendem centre of consciousness, d.h. bei invarianter Fokalisierungsinstanz. Der Artikel erlautert uberdies, inwieweit Atwood diese Strukturierungsformen zur Dramat…
The Finland of Poetry Revisited Four Snapshots
2015
A poem is a condensation of signs and a method characteristic of every human being for investigating a shared reality. Accordingly, a human being also lives and exists poetically in this common world. This being so, the primacy of the mother tongue refers to the lived language, which mediates the possibility for us of carving out our own unique imprint on existence. Similarly, the native land signifies a milieu where a human being takes on a reality amidst other objects, surrounded by them and as one of them. Poetry creates harmony between past and present. peerReviewed
El lèxic cortès i cavalleresc en <em>Curial e Güelfa</em>: mots patrimonials i interferències culturals
2015
Curial and Guelfa, by an unknown author, is a chivalric romance written in a realistic style. Planned within the medieval tradition, although infl uenced by Italian Humanism, it was composed in fluent Catalan, but subject to several linguistic and cultural interferences. It was probably conceived and written in Italy in the decade of 1440. The author not only knows deeply the courteous volgare language, but also the literary one (especially Boccaccio), with which he enriches a Catalan language probably learnt in Valencia. He also innovates in the courtly and chivalric vocabulary of his mother tongue with the introduction of expressions, proverbs and words –both colloquial and learned– not o…
Digital image analysis of liver collagen predicts clinical outcome of recurrent hepatitis C virus 1 year after liver transplantation.
2011
Clinical outcomes of recurrent hepatitis C virus after liver transplantation are difficult to predict. We evaluated collagen proportionate area (CPA), a quantitative histological index, at 1 year with respect to the first episode of clinical decompensation. Patients with biopsies at 1 year after liver transplantation were evaluated by Ishak stage/grade, and biopsy samples stained with Sirius red for digital image analysis were evaluated for CPA. Cox regression was used to evaluate variables associated with first appearance of clinical decompensation. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were also used. A total of 135 patients with median follow-up of 76 months were evaluated. At 1…
Clinical aspects of bleeding complications in cirrhotic patients
2000
Liver disease is a frequent cause of haemostatic abnormalities, which may lead to overt or occult bleeding. Clinical manifestations of hepatic coagulopathy include upper and lower gastrointestinal haemorrhage, easy bruising and bleeding from gums, nose or the female genital tract. The most significant bleeding problem among patients with chronic liver disease is blood loss due to portal hypertension. About 30% of subjects with oesophageal or gastric varices resulting from cirrhosis have an episode of gastrointestinal bleeding in their lifetime. Risk factors for the first episode of variceal bleeding include the severity of liver dysfunction, large varices, and the presence of endoscopic red…
The abdominal wall hernia in cirrhotic patients: A historical challenge
2018
Abstract Background The incidence rate of abdominal wall hernia is 20–40% in cirrhotic patients. A surgical approach was originally performed only if complication signs and symptoms occurred. Several recent studies have demonstrated the usefulness of elective surgery. During recent decades, the indications for surgical timing have changed. Methods Cirrhotic patients with abdominal hernia who underwent surgical operation for abdominal wall hernia repair at the Policlinico “Paolo Giaccone” at Palermo University Hospital between January 2010 and September 2016 were identified in a prospective database, and the data collected were retrospectively reviewed; patients’ medical and surgical records…