SPANISH
How I can help you with your (serious) Spanish studies:
The following list has been compiled from over 15 years’ personal experience as Tutor in London:
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Common Entrance (UK private schools) and School entrance exams, at 11, 13 or 16. Proven success (all students were accepted by the private school of their choice)
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GCSE and IGCSE (UK public exams). IB Middle Years Programme. American School Program (Middle School).
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A level, International A level, Pre-U, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP), American AP Spanish Language and Culture exam. Spanish for the French Baccalauréat.
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Preparation for American SAT/ACT
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Preparation for Spanish DELE exam
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University Level: Essay and Dissertation correction and research:
Volver: role of mother and daughters relationships
Peribañez y el Comendador de Ocana and the Golden Age Honour Code
Mexican revolutionary art and national identity
La ética franquista en el film Muerte de un Ciclista
The Spanish Civil War and its literary representation
El túnel and the role of the unreliable narrator
El laberinto del Fauno y el cinema hispano-americano
La Celestina, La Cárcel de amor, El libro de Buen Amor
Almodovar: la Movida and its after-effects
Summer revision for pre-University students (Tia Julia, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Edad de Oro, Calderón, Tirso), El Cid, La Celestina, Lazarillo, Lope, Tormento (Benito Pérez Galdós)
Spanish Linguistics
Morphology and Clitic pronouns
Third language acquisition and bilingualism
The passive in Romance languages
Complementisers and adjuncts in English
Child language acquisition and the critical period hypothesis
Code-switching and discourse analysis
The structure of infinitival IP
Minimalist Syntax (as per Radford and Haegeman)
Own thesis can be found via UCL library:
Title:
Functional categories and SPEC-head agreement
Author: Emilce Sandra. Rees
Creation Date: 1994
Format: 208 leaves.
Language: English
Notes: ■ Thesis: (MPhil) University College London, 1994
Phonetics
Optimality Theory
Phonological theory (all study levels)
IPA : place and manner of articulation
IPA: phonetic script and pronunciation
Suprasegmentals
VOT and measurements
Translation
All levels, as part of the syllabus (eg A level exam) or as part of your University course.
9 May 2021