The principal purpose of this study is to suggest a valid, reliable and practical assessment tool, which can evaluate learners’ vocabulary knowledge in Spanish as a Second Language. Two Vocabulary Levels Tests were designed ...

Desde mediados de los años 2000, los medios de comunicación estatales chinos han emprendido un proceso de internacionalización con el objetivo de incrementar la capacidad de Pequín de influir sobre la opinión pública global. ...

In a number of literary pieces in the western world tradition, death has typically been represented as an obscure episode related to mourning and sadness, brought about by ceasing of life or the departure of a dear one. ...

The history of Spain during the XX century started with a divided political polarization between conservatives and progressives. It particularly intensified drastically during the first decades of the XX century. We see ...

The microbiome has been shown to influence the secretion of the hormone oxytocin. Milk production depends on the ability of the pituitary to secrete prolactin and oxytocin. Lactobacillus reuteri, a Gram-positive gut symbiont, ...

Purpose: Increased age and levels of myopia are potential risk factors for the development of glaucoma. However, their impact on optic nerve head (ONH) structure in normal eyes has not been fully described. We examined ...

Impervious surfaces are land covers that do not allow water penetration. Water runoff from impervious surfaces can cause major flooding in extreme climates; therefore, mapping such surface covers in urban areas is of great ...

Widespread land subsidence resulting from the overexploitation of groundwater from the Gulf Coast Aquifer system has occurred and been observed in Greater Houston, TX for nearly a century. Extraction of groundwater can ...

Many factors are believed to predict math performance. One of such factors is language, and yet the relations between certain relevant language variables and specific math outcomes have not been fully studied. This project ...

Previous research has demonstrated that Spanish as a heritage language encourages predictable spelling errors as language-minority (LM) learners apply Spanish phoneme-grapheme correspondence rules to scaffold their emerging ...