Essays about: "american and british English"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 81 essays containing the words american and british English.

  1. 16. Teaching and Assessing Student's Accents : The Challenge of Working with the Multitude of Accents in the English-Speaking World

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Emma Klevskog; [2019]
    Keywords : World English; Teaching; Oral assessment; Swedish learners; Teachers; Accents; Upper secondary school;

    Abstract : Today, English is a world language and more English accents have appeared. Today it is more difficult to teach English in Sweden due to the fact that we do not know when, where or how we are going to use English in the future. READ MORE

  3. 17. Ambiguity in Peace Agreements : Cognitive and Computational Models for Processing Syntactic Ambiguity in Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreements in English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Parastoo Asghari; [2018]
    Keywords : complex noun phrases; syntactic ambiguity; language processing; cognition; corpus linguistics; computational model;

    Abstract : Systems that attempt to process texts and acquire information from texts in English need to be particularly alert to noun phrases since they carry so much information. Systems, whether comprehensional or computational, may face particular difficulties when dealing with complex noun phrases. READ MORE

  4. 18. English pronunciation in Swedish Upper Secondary School Students : A qualitative study of Swedish students’ pronunciation tendencies

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Julia Flisberg; [2018]
    Keywords : pronunciation; swedish students; English; degree project; production; SLA; language learning;

    Abstract : Geographically, Sweden is significantly closer to England as opposed to America, two English speaking countries with two rather different varieties of the language. With regard to Britain’s history of colonization it could be assumed that British English (RP-variety) would be most frequently used globally. READ MORE

  5. 19. Cultural Representations in English Textbooks

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Utbildningsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Louise Hakander; [2018]
    Keywords : Teaching; source culture; target culture; international culture; big “C” culture; small “c” culture; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The aim of the present essay is to investigate English language textbooks suitable for English 5, 6 and 7 and the extent to which the content of them addresses cultural features of different contexts where English is used. The essay also aims to investigate what types of cultural representations are featured in the textbooks and if they differ in relation to what grade they are designed for. READ MORE

  6. 20. The Use of Americanisms in British English, with a Specific Focus on Gotten: A Corpus Study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jennifer Melckersson; [2018]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay aims to, with the support of an extensive corpus study, investigate the use of gotten in British English. Gotten is an alternative past participle of get which occurs mainly in American English, but is British in origin. READ MORE