Treballs de l'alumnat: Recent submissions
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The role of board games in EFL teaching to young learners
(2020-05-15)This study is an attempt to demonstrate that board games are a useful tool for working with important aspects such as pronunciation in classrooms where English is the vehicular language. It focuses in ... -
The impact and function of C-terminal degrons and protein misfolding in the degradation of truncated proteins
(2020-09-15)Premature Termination Codons (PTCs) are mainly generated after nonsense and frameshift alterations. The Nonsense Mediated Decay (NMD) system detects and degrades mRNAs containing PTCs. However, the ... -
Bioinformatic tools for Big Data in Omic studies with application to genomic inversion calling and multiomic data integration
(2020-09)Motivation: The diversity and huge omics data take biology and biomedicine research and application into a big data era. Most of the current statistical analyses required to analyze omic data are not ... -
Determination of immunogenic epitopes
(2020-09-15)The identification of immunogenic epitopes (such as fragments of proteins, in particular peptides, that can trigger an immune response) is a fundamental need for immune-based therapies. A computational ... -
Genetic analysis of the anticoagulant proteins Antithrombin, Protein C and Protein S
(2020-09-15)Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one case of dead globally according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) ahead of cancer and respiratory diseases. Most of CVDs are caused by a combination ... -
Telomere length and Alzheimer's disease endophenotypes: a Mendelian Randomization study
(2020-09-15)Background: Telomere length (TL) is a putative biomarker of biological aging and aging-related outcomes. Observational studies are limited to conclude whether TL is causally associated with Alzheimer’s ... -
Development of a machine learning algorithm classification tool to improve strain detection in whole genome metagenomics dataset
(2020-05-15)Metagenomics is a pioneering branch of bioinformatics that utilizes genomics techniques, like the sequencing of the DNA, in order to obtain important information about microorganisms. During the recent ... -
Improving pronunciation on primary education through CLIL methodology: teacher's perception
(2020-05)This research is a reflection about CLIL methodology. It is focused on the use of this methodology to improve pronunciation skills, and, more specifically, how it is perceived by teachers. The objectives ... -
Teaching English to very young learners through Montessori and Decroly methods
(2020-05)In the last few years, the introduction of English as a second language into Infant Education in Catalan schools has experienced an important growth. A principal reason is because of the belief that ... -
Storytelling as a tool to learn English in infant education: children's age and teacher's role as influencing factors
(2020-05)Storytelling is presented as a cross-curricular, useful, and effective method in the teaching and learning process throughout the second cycle of Early Childhood Education. However, this methodology is ... -
The effectiveness of TPR storytelling methodology in EFL for very young learners
(2020)The main aims of this study are to describe and analyze TPRS methodology, to identify the aspects implicated in comprehensible input for very young learners and to know the researcher’s point of view ... -
The process of learning to read in English in second grade in an international school in Finland
(2020-05)English has become a global language of communication and reading is one of the skills learners need to master in order to be competent users. Moreover, nowadays written language is a feature of the ... -
Analysis of topics in storybooks for English learning
(2018-05-14)This research is a case study that has as its main objective to discover and analyse the topics that appear in storybooks for English learning. The study has been carried out through the analysis of the ... -
Teacher talk in the EFL classroom for VYL: a study case in School Mare de Déu La Gleva
(2020-05-12)The fact that an increasing number of schools in Catalonia started to include the teaching of English at Pre-school level have placed teacher talk and its role in a relevant position. The purpose of ... -
How do we teach English focusing on character development in storytelling through art?
(2020-05)The present work aims to make visible art as a tool for awakening and conducting any kind of learning. In this case, to promote the understanding of a second language (English) in the early childhood ... -
El repte de la interculturalitat en una aula de P5 d'una escola de màxima complexitat
(2020-05)La diversitat cultural és una realitat a Catalunya, i les escoles han de transmetre als infants els valors i el respecte cap a totes les cultures. Han d’educar a les futures generacions per conviure ... -
L'educació emocional a les aules hospitalàries
(2020-05)Principalment, l’objectiu i propòsit d’aquest treball és analitzar com els docents treballen les emocions en quatre aules hospitalàries de Catalunya. Cal destacar que les aules hospitalàries són entorns ... -
The use of L1 in teaching in EFL preschool classes: a case study
(2020-05)There exists a big debate over the use of the students’ first language (L1) to teach English. The purpose of this project is to analyse the functions of L1 use in teaching in English as a Foreign ... -
The development of communication skills in EFL through drama techniques in preschool
(2020-05)This study has its main objective to discover if drama techniques promote the development of communication skills in English as foreign language in preschool. The research has been developed following ...