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Las XII Jornadas de Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras en el Nivel Superior se llevarán a cabo en:

Paraná, Entre Ríos – 13, 14 y 15 de Julio de 2009

Organizan: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación (UNER) y Facultad de Humanidades, Artes y Ciencias Sociales (UADER)

Fecha: 13, 14 y 15 de julio de 2009

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El Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico dependiente de la U.T.N. anuncia la apertura de la inscripción para el profesorado de inglés e inglés técnico del ciclo 2009.

El régimen de cursado es de mañana o tarde y las condiciones de ingreso son:

• Estudios secundarios completos
• Aprobación del examen de ingreso: oral y escrito (nivel FCE) el 16 y 17 de marzo de 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1606) has generally been regarded as a very
complex tragedy in which a wicked and strong-willed wife, together
with forces of evil, incite a brave and noble Scottish lord to commit the
most horrendous act that medieval ideology could conceive of: the
crime of regicide. In the twenty-first century, film director Oliver
Hirchbiegel revived the final days of the Hitler’s Third Reich in his film
Downfall (2005). Although not central to the basic storyline, a female
character makes the film come to one of its highest peaks of tension:
Magda Goebbels, wife to Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, decides to
kill all her five children and to later commit suicide with her husband, in
the conviction that no future world order other than the Third Reich is
really worth living in. Read the rest of this entry »

A step-by-step tutorial on how to write an essay.

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This paper examines the relationship of age factor to second language acquisition. Age as an affective factor brings different performance stages in second language learning. The researchers in relation to the Critical Period Hypothesis and other variables have derived two major aspects of language learning–the younger the better and the older the better. However, there is no linear pattern of learning among the same age group of learners, and they learn differently and individually depending on variables like learning opportunities, the motivation to learn, individual differences and learning styles. Read the rest of this entry »

Four centuries ago, William Shakespeare gave the world The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (c.1603). In it, a tormented prince swayed between revenge and doubt after the assassination of his noble father, the king of the Nordic country. Prince Hamlet’s personality has been universally acknowledged to be perhaps the most complex in the history of human letters. More than two hundred years later, Edgar Allan Poe, a poet of New England, and also tormented by his personal circumstances, envisioned a noble, almost kingly character, Roderick Usher, in his story called The Fall of the House of Usher (1839). The tale presents the reader with a man whose life is devastated by mental insanity and by the knowledge that his death will mean the end of his dynastic line. It is the aim of this paper to examine Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Poe’s Roderick Usher, with a view to exploring their possible perception of their changing environments through possible areas of comparison and contrast. It should be noted that the areas that are addressed both in the tragedy and in the story are not limited to the characters in question, but may touch upon other elements surrounding these characters, the exploration of which has been found to be relevant to the scope of this paper. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear colleagues,

It feels really special to have the chance of writing to you one more time in the wake of a new year, 2009.

As many of you may have noticed, 2008 was a year in which University Magazine had, as it usually happens in life, its own ups and downs. That meant I, the editor, found myself swaying uncertainly from side to side between trying to find a clear mission to head for and define which language to use in the blog. Read the rest of this entry »