Essays about: "Prepositions ESSAY"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Prepositions ESSAY.

  1. 1. Mother Tongue Influence when Learning a Second Language : A Contrastive Analysis of Swedish Gymnasium Students

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Ebba Müller; Stephanie Dahlquist; [2023]
    Keywords : Linguistics; contrastive analysis; mother tongue; influence; interference; errors;

    Abstract : The intended purpose of this essay was to examine student essays to find out if there are any first language interferences in Swedish students’ written English. First language interference has been researched before, which will be presented in the essay, amongst other terms such as translanguaging, acquisition and language transfer, all explained in the theoretical concepts section. READ MORE

  3. 2. Why you cannot go from and från the same place: a contrastive look at the prepositions from and från

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Elias Hermansson; [2016]
    Keywords : cognitive linguistics; från; from; prepositions; Contrastive analysis; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to describe the way the prepositions from and från work, both semantically and syntactically. However, the focus is on the translation from from into Swedish. READ MORE

  4. 3. "I want to stay in Sweden whole my life..." A study and alalysis of errors in the written production of Swedish pupils in the 9th grade

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Katarina Krokström; [2012-08-20]
    Keywords : second language acquisition; error analysis; grammar; transfer; written production;

    Abstract : This essay investigates errors in written production by Swedish pupils in the ninth grade. A total of 36 essays were randomly selected from the National Assessment Programme in English in 2010. When analysing the corpus, all errors from six different categories were marked and counted. READ MORE

  5. 4. “We need to ta det lugnt” : English-Swedish code-switching: A case study of TV personality Simon Davies’ idiolect

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Kajsa Urge; [2010]
    Keywords : bilingualism; conversation; English-Swedish code-switching; idiolect; Simon Davies; TV-show;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to examine why Swedish-English code-switching occurs, focusing on one person. The idiolect examined is Simon Davies, hosting the TV-show Design: Simon & Tomas where Simon Davies and his colleague Tomas Cederlund travel around Sweden helping Swedes with interior design. READ MORE

  6. 5. Native Swedish Speakers’ Problems with English Prepositions

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Humanistiska institutionen

    Author : Hanna Jansson; [2007]
    Keywords : Second Language Learning; Error Analysis; Prepositions;

    Abstract : This essay investigates native Swedish speakers’ problems in the area of prepositions. A total of 19 compositions, including 678 prepositions, written by native Swedish senior high school students were analysed. All the prepositions in the material were judged as either basic, systematic or idiomatic. READ MORE