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Authors: Ligia Machado Pardo

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the knowledge and transformation of reality in García Márquez’s journalism. In his work he associates the historical fact with the imagination. He achieves an integration with the permanent search for truth, composition and literary creation, to which its high degree of sensitivity is added. The most remarkable specificity of his analysis of some of the problems of Latin American society lies in his interest in transforming the reality of the victims, especially those who experienced cruel forms of human behavior. Keywords: journalism; García Márquez; transformation of reality

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Authors: David Oliver Denis Choin

This research contributes to the fair assessment of the literature work for children and young adults written by the Ecuadorian author Edna Iturralde. For this reason, a set of guiding notes for theoretical and/or methodological approach is proposed to open a path for her research on the development of a historical fiction to insert Ecuador in the classical children‘s and young adults literature world; to rescue and stablish a national oral tradition; and to potentiate her didactics for Social Studies, Language and Literature. It is an study of three literature pieces: …y su corazón escapó para convertirse en pájaro (2001), Entre cóndor y león (2004) and Miteé y el cantar de las ballenas (2005) that consolidate the national identity by reveling to the reader the Ecuadorian human condition, through the fictionalization of its most meaningful essence.

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Authors: Nosley Pérez Castellano; Elisaliz Oramas Torres

In this paper, the authors briefly state that interpretation, as an intercultural communication bridge, demands that interpreters not only master exquisite language techniques, but also rich and generous knowledge of different cultural backgrounds and the important functions of intercultural awareness during intercultural communication. It discusses the basic conceptions of intercultural awareness and the relationship between interpreters and intercultural awareness for the success of the simultaneous interpreting service. Several ways of training intercultural competences and mediating abilities are also analyzed so that the interpreter could strengthen the sensitivity to cultural differences, misunderstanding can be effectively reduced, and intercultural communication can be successfully achieved.

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Authors: Eugenio Jesús López Gómez, Lisvette Cruz Camacho, Mercedes Garcés Pérez, María del Carmen Navarrete Reyes

Most of professionals consider that figurative language is exclusive of artistic literature and, consequently, they think it is totally opposed to the language of science. However, the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of figurative language in writing styles and popular speaking. As a result of the methodological process, the use of figurative language in all cases was confirmed. This allows arriving to the conclusion that this constitutes a linguistic necessity: no language possesses the infinite number of signs to express the ideas and shades of thought; therefore, tropology is not exclusive of writers, because it is also used in the other styles and in popular speaking.

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Authors: Danay Hernández Campillo

This research proposes a system of activities to contribute to develop orthographic abilities through the historic etymological direction, in the students of 9th grade. From the results obtained in the diagnostic test at the beginning and in interviews made to professors, in reference to the development of orthographic abilities; a system of activities based in the historic etymological direction was designed. The system of activities, through of the historic-etymological direction, proposes to work the orthographic component in the three cognitive levels in a game like way, according to the particularities of the pupils, developing the orthographic preventive conscience by association and the etymological knowledge, and to increase the knowledge of the mother tongue and the lexicon of the students.

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Authors: Misleiby Ravelo Peña, Ivón de la Caridad Bonilla Vichot, Mirtza Martell Socarras

The loss of cultural identity is today one of the most urgentclaims against the negative impacts of the information andcommunications society, whose influence is more marked in vulnerablesectors such as children. The bachelor of Sociocultural Studies at theUniversidad de Sancti Spíritus (UNISS) has developed varied experiences,as part of the extension activities lead by the university in the province ofSancti Spiritus, based on the rescue of cultural traditions associated withchildhood for the strengthening of cultural identity. The present researchexposes the results that derived from these experiences in multiplescommunities