2023_24
Educational guide 
Faculty of Arts
A A 
english 
Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign/Second Language (2015)
 Subjects
  MASTER'S THESIS
IDENTIFYING DATA 2023_24
Subject (*) MASTER'S THESIS Code 12865303
Study programme
Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign/Second Language (2015)
Cycle 2nd
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period Exam timetables and dates
11 Final master project First 2Q
Modality and teaching language See working groups
Prerequisites
Department English and German Studies
Coordinator
GUTIÉRREZ-COLON PLANA, MARIA DEL MAR
E-mail joaquin.romero@urv.cat
isabel.oltra@urv.cat
mar.gutierrezcolon@urv.cat
carmen.rueda@urv.cat
andrearoxana.bellot@urv.cat
katarzyna.baran@urv.cat
olga.hryckiewicz@urv.cat
fernando.romeu@urv.cat
anaisabel.espada@urv.cat
lidia.gallego@urv.cat
tuanh.ha@urv.cat
Lecturers
ROMERO GALLEGO, JOAQUIN
OLTRA MASSUET, MARIA ISABEL
GUTIÉRREZ-COLON PLANA, MARIA DEL MAR
RUEDA RAMOS, MARIA DEL CARMEN
BELLOT , ANDREA ROXANA
BARAN , KATARZYNA AGNIESZKA
HRYCKIEWICZ DE APELLÁNIZ, OLGA
ROMEU ESQUERRE, FERNANDO
ESPADA SANCHEZ, ANA ISABEL
GALLEGO BALSÀ, LÍDIA
HÀ , TÚ ANH
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General description and relevant information

The Final Master’s Project will be the final product of the student’stime at the URV, so they should be planning it from the beginning of theirmaster’s program. The Final Master’s Project should be an original, unpublishedpiece of research on any aspect of teaching English as a foreign/secondlanguage. It may involve experimental or theoretical work, must be a piece ofscholarly research that reflects your ability to: - Plan a research activity. -Present and develop a detailed methodology. - Apply the scientific method,which relies on critical thinking. - Formulate and assess hypotheses, and drawvalid conclusions by providing reasonable and well-supported argumentation. -Frame the topic of the project within the broader literature on the field, showingknowledge of background and main works of the research area. - Criticallyanalyze the literature. - Synthesize and communicate information as formalresearch that contributes knowledge to the field. - Use the English language towrite and reflect about aspects of the teaching-learning process of the Englishlanguage. The Final Master’s Project will be submitted in written form andelectronically. It will also be presented in an oral defense in front of an evaluating committee.

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