El portafolios en el marco de asignaturas de lenguas extranjeras en la universidad: la percepción de los estudiantes

Se ha escrito y reflexionado mucho en los últimos diez años sobre el uso de portafolios en las clases de lengua. Sin embargo, no se ha estudiado aún suficientemente cómo perciben los estudiantes el uso de estos portafolios. En este artículo se presentan una parte de los resultados del proyecto Diseño y estudio de la incidencia de instrumentos para el desarrollo de la competencia estratégica en el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras en contexto universitario (DEICOMECU).Concretamente se focaliza sobre la percepción de los estudiantes por lo que se refiere al uso del portafolios. Se describe el contexto y el tipo de portafolios que se utilizó y además se añaden reflexiones de la autora a raíz de una relectura posterior de las interpretaciones de los datos.

A Gendered Voice in Translation: Translating Like a Feminist

This paper addresses some of the challenges inherent in finding and showing a gendered voice in translation. The starting point is my own experience as a feminist translator of both feminist and non-feminist texts. Textual practices like translating necessarily interact with current theoretical debates. In turn, theoretical writing on feminism enriches and informs one’s translating activity. This interplay between theoretical models and textual practices was particularly made evident to me as I rendered Essentially speaking, by Diana Fuss, into Catalan. In this article I intend to transcend anecdotes of translating individual texts and consider how translating equals rewriting oneself; it involves rethinking writing practices. I will specifically address the rethinking of (1) one’s identity when translating ‘like’ a feminist, (2) performativity in gender and in translation, and (3) agency and (In)visibility.

Self-reported sitting time and physical activity: interactive associations with mental well-being and productivity in office employees

Abstract Background: Little is known about how sitting time, alone or in combination with markers of physical activity (PA), influences mental well-being and work productivity. Given the need to develop workplace PA interventions that target employees’ health related efficiency outcomes; this study examined the associations between self-reported sitting time, PA, mental well-being and work productivity in office employees. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study. Spanish university office employees (n = 557) completed a survey measuring socio-demographics, total and domain specific (work and travel) self-reported sitting time, PA (International Physical Activity Questionnaire short version), mental well-being (Warwick-Edinburg Mental Well-Being Scale) and work productivity (Work Limitations Questionnaire). Multivariate linear regression analyses determined associations between the main variables adjusted for gender, age, body mass index and occupation. PA levels (low, moderate and high) were introduced into the model to examine interactive associations. Results: Higher volumes of PA were related to higher mental well-being, work productivity and spending less time sitting at work, throughout the working day and travelling during the week, including the weekends (p < 0.05). Greater levels of sitting during weekends was associated with lower mental well-being (p < 0.05). Similarly, more sitting while travelling at weekends was linked to lower work productivity (p < 0.05). In highly active employees, higher sitting times on work days and occupational sitting were associated with decreased mental well-being (p < 0.05). Higher sitting times while travelling on weekend days was also linked to lower work productivity in the highly active (p < 0.05). No significant associations were observed in low active employees. Conclusions: Employees’ PA levels exerts different influences on the associations between sitting time, mental well-being and work productivity. The specific associations and the broad sweep of evidence in the current study suggest that workplace PA strategies to improve the mental well-being and productivity of all employees should focus on reducing sitting time alongside efforts to increase PA.

Efectividad técnica y frecuencia de golpeo en el tenis femenino de élite. Estudio de caso.

La efectividad técnica de golpeo (ET) se ha identificado como un buen parámetro pronosticador del rendimiento en el tenis y la frecuencia de golpeo de pelotas (FGP), aunque es un parámetro de carga técnica y condicional poco utilizado, es un indicador capaz de detectar diferencias en el juego. El objetivo del estudio fue caracterizar la ET en función de la FGP en una jugadora profesional de máximo nivel competitivo, utilizando un protocolo maximal, continuo de intensidad progresiva y registrando paralelamente parámetros de carga y fisiológicos. Se ejecutaron un total de 212 golpes obteniendo una ET del 81.6 % de aciertos, los valores oscilaron a lo largo de la prueba entre un rango del 81.6 a 93.3 % de aciertos y únicamente disminuyeron hasta el 70.7 % en el último periodo alcanzado (UP) y a partir del punto de disminución de ET (PDET). Se alcanzó una FGP máxima (FGPmax) de 21 golpes·min-1, una duración de la prueba (DP) de 14:07 (min:s) correspondiente a un UP de 7. Se concluye que la jugadora presenta una elevada ET y una importante capacidad de mantener unos elevados indicies de ET, a pesar del incremento de la FGP y de la fatiga metabólica asociada.

Asma y actividad física. Revisión

El asma es una enfermedad inflamatoria crónica de elevada prevalencia a nivel mundial, siendo el colectivo más afectado el formado por niños y adolescentes. Su sintomatología se caracteriza por la aparición de tos, disnea, sibilancias, sensación de opresión en el pecho y broncoconstricción. Tradicionalmente se había pensado que el deporte y el ejercicio físico estaban contraindicados en pacientes asmáticos. Por otro lado, el paciente asmático suele presentar niveles de condición física y práctica deportiva menores que los sujetos sanos. Actualmente se ha propuesto la actividad física regular como un camino válido para mejorar la percepción y el autoconocimiento personal sobre esta enfermedad. Se aconseja la prescripción de actividad física como forma de mejorar su sintomatología y evolución. La práctica de una actividad física regular en pacientes asmáticos debería ser considerada dentro de los actuales y futuros programas de salud como un objetivo fundamental.

Hi ha veritats necessàries a posteriori?

En aquest treball es discuteix l’afirmació de Kripke de que certes identitats teòriques són exemples de veritats necessàries a posteriori

Ressenya: Sidereus Nuncius. O Mensageiro das Estrelas de Galileu Galilei. Tradução, estúdio e notas por Henrique Leitão

Acaba d"aparèixer març de 2010 de la mà d"Henrique Leitão, la primera traducció realitzada a Portugal del Sidereus Nuncius. O Mensageiro das Estrelas , de Galileo Galilei, editat per la Fundació Calouste Gulbenkian, en la seva col·lecció de clàssics. El volum és molt més que una traducció: en tapa dura amb sobre-coberta però lleuger i manejable, conté una nota d"obertura de Sven Dupré; un prefaci, estudi introductori, breu cronologia, traducció i notes, tot a càrrec d"Henrique Leitão; i, a més, el facsímil de l"edició original, publicada a Venècia, per Tommaso Baglioni, el 1610 ...

Patterns of impact resulting from a 'sit less, move more' web-based program in sedentary office employees

Purpose Encouraging office workers to ‘sit less and move more’ encompasses two public health priorities. However, there is little evidence on the effectiveness of workplace interventions for reducing sitting, even less about the longer term effects of such interventions and still less on dual-focused interventions. This study assessed the short and mid-term impacts of a workplace web-based intervention (Walk@WorkSpain, W@WS; 2010-11) on self-reported sitting time, step counts and physical risk factors (waist circumference, BMI, blood pressure) for chronic disease. Methods Employees at six Spanish university campuses (n=264; 42±10 years; 171 female) were randomly assigned by worksite and campus to an Intervention (used W@WS; n=129; 87 female) or a Comparison group (maintained normal behavior; n=135; 84 female). This phased, 19-week program aimed to decrease occupational sitting time through increased incidental movement and short walks. A linear mixed model assessed changes in outcome measures between the baseline, ramping (8 weeks), maintenance (11 weeks) and followup (two months) phases for Intervention versus Comparison groups.A significant 2 (group) × 2 (program phases) interaction was found for self-reported occupational sitting (F[3]=7.97, p=0.046), daily step counts (F[3]=15.68, p=0.0013) and waist circumference (F[3]=11.67, p=0.0086). The Intervention group decreased minutes of daily occupational sitting while also increasing step counts from baseline (446±126; 8,862±2,475) through ramping (+425±120; 9,345±2,435), maintenance (+422±123; 9,638±3,131) and follow-up (+414±129; 9,786±3,205). In the Comparison group, compared to baseline (404±106), sitting time remained unchanged through ramping and maintenance, but decreased at follow-up (-388±120), while step counts diminished across all phases. The Intervention group significantly reduced waist circumference by 2.1cms from baseline to follow-up while the Comparison group reduced waist circumference by 1.3cms over the same period. Conclusions W@WSis a feasible and effective evidence-based intervention that can be successfully deployed with sedentary employees to elicit sustained changes on “sitting less and moving more”.

Repensar la representabilidad

Este artículo explora las aportaciones de la traductología teatral al debate sobre la representabilidad de la última década. Se recogen las delimitaciones al concepto a partir de enfoques textuales, que se circunscriben en prácticas teatrales e ideológicas concretas. Se examina el poder relativo del traductor frente al dramaturgo y la dirección escénica y la negociabilidad de la traducción. Se retoma el debate sobre las traducciones literales y sus adaptaciones por dramaturgos reconocidos, vistas como un tipo de traducción colaborativa y, por último se examina la (ir)representabilidad de traducciones en contextos culturales en conflicto. Palabras clave: Traducción teatral, representabilidad, oralidad, negociabilidad, traducción colaborativa.

Guia temàtica Biblioteca ETSAB: Àrees residencials de baixa densitat

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Guia temàtica Biblioteca ETSAB: Dret a l'habitatge

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Guia temàtica Biblioteca ETSAB: Ignasi de Solà-Morales: itineraris intel·lectuals

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A Case-based reasoning approach to validate grammatical gender and number agreement in Spanish language

Across Latin America 420 indigenous languages are spoken. Spanish is considered a second language in indigenous communities and is progressively introduced in education. However, most of the tools to support teaching processes of a second language have been developed for the most common languages such as English, French, German, Italian, etc. As a result, only a small amount of learning objects and authoring tools have been developed for indigenous people considering the specific needs of their population. This paper introduces Multilingual–Tiny as a web authoring tool to support the virtual experience of indigenous students and teachers when they are creating learning objects in indigenous languages or in Spanish language, in particular, when they have to deal with the grammatical structures of Spanish. Multilingual–Tiny has a module based on the Case-based Reasoning technique to provide recommendations in real time when teachers and students write texts in Spanish. An experiment was performed in order to compare some local similarity functions to retrieve cases from the case library taking into account the grammatical structures. As a result we found the similarity function with the best performance

Guia temàtica Biblioteca ETSAB: Homenatge a Manuel de Solà-Morales (1939-2012)

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