Essays about: "Linguistic Attitudes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 57 essays containing the words Linguistic Attitudes.

  1. 1. A Literature Review of Trends, Attitudes and Multilingual Learning in Research on Cross-Linguistic Influence

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Lärarutbildningsnämnden

    Author : Malin Bergman; Alma Engström; [2023-11-14]
    Keywords : cross-linguistic influence; transfer; multilingualism; third language acquisition; language learning;

    Abstract : This literature review identifies what trends and attitudes can be found and how the multilingual learning process is depicted in research on cross-linguistic influence (CLI) between 2009 and 2023. The aim of this is partly to investigate the changes that have followed the EU’s commitment to reinforce multilingualism and to compare current research with historical findings. READ MORE

  3. 2. "I immediately think about philosophy" : A study of learners' attitudes toward English poetry in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Anna Larsson; [2023]
    Keywords : second language learning; English foreign language; literature; poetry; attitudes; motivation; learner perspective; Swedish upper secondary school; Sweden;

    Abstract : Poetry has great potential benefits for second language (L2) classrooms as a source for increasing language awareness and linguistic structures different from the rules learners may be taught in class. This potential of poetry and methods for teaching poetry is relatively well researched, while the learner perspective has received comparatively little attention. READ MORE

  4. 3. “Farmers need illegal immigrants ‘to pick the crops’” : Examining News Values on immigration Discourse in CNN and Fox News

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Admiral Salameh; [2023]
    Keywords : CNN; critical discourse; DNVA; Fox News; immigrants; news values; political ideologies; racial prejudice; stereotypes;

    Abstract : Media outlets play a pivotal role in the shaping of society's perception on different matters. The research of this thesis consists of 20 articles in total from two of the larger media outlets in the US, CNN and Fox News. Each dataset contains 10 articles consisting of 5269 words, for the former, and 4516 words, for the latter. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sentiment Analysis for Swedish : The Impact of Emojis on Sentiment Analysis of Swedish Informal Texts

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Lovisa Berggren; [2023]
    Keywords : sentiment analysis; NLP; natural language processing; emojis; swedish;

    Abstract : This study investigates the use of emojis in sentiment analysis for the Swedish language, with the objective to assess if emojis improve the performance of the model. Sentiment analysis is an NLP classification task aimed at extracting people's opinions, sentiments, and attitudes from language. READ MORE

  6. 5. Multilingual Upbringing : Sociolinguistic factors affecting English language acquisition

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Henry Kolari; [2023]
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    Abstract : English has become more of an inevitability than a possibility within our globalised world. Many of today’s youth experience a multilingual upbringing as they are exposed to English in addition to other languages through their potentially multinational and multilingual family and other factors. READ MORE