Essays about: "EFL education"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 174 essays containing the words EFL education.

  1. 16. The Class of Us: A Study Across Several Schools in Sweden Comparing the EFL Comprehension of Playing the Video Game The Last of Us Versus Viewing the Television Adaptation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Robert Bång; Simon Torffvit; Anton Grandi; [2023]
    Keywords : Comparative; Comparative Study; Quantitative; English; EFL; English as a Foreign Language; SLA; Second Language Acquisition; Comprehension; Test; Video Games; Video Game; CALL; Computer assisted language learning; The Last of Us; TLoU; The Last of Us: Remastered; Naughty Dog; PlayStation; HBO; Home Box Office; Game; Games; Computer Games; Skolverket; Upper Secondary School; Gymnasiet; Gymnasieskolan; Sweden; Control Group; Immersion; Multimodality; Interactivity; Interactive; Television; Television series; Media; Audiovisual media; Audiovisual; Large-scale; Gender; Program; Video Game Literacy; Game Literacy; Narrative; Educational; Serious Games; Mature; Problem of Content; Attitudinal; Survey; Likert-scale; Likert; Interventionist; Narratology; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Contemporary English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms in upper secondary schools in Sweden make frequent use of receptive media such as movies and television to facilitate language learning. The more interactive medium of video games is seldom used for the same purpose, despite previous research indicating that the added layer of interactivity can bring benefits such as improvements to vocabulary, written production and reading comprehension. READ MORE

  3. 17. Harry Potter and racial hierarchies in the English language classroom : A thematic study on racial inequality in Harry Potter

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

    Author : Munira Ahmed; [2023]
    Keywords : Fantasy; Democratic values; Critical Race Theory; Racial inequality; Anti-oppression education.;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on the pedagogical benefits of using fantasy literature in the classroom as it relates to the Swedish school’s democratic values of anti-racism and working for a just society. It examines the representations of racial prejudice, discrimination, and othering among wizards and muggles which are explicitly or implicitly present throughout the Harry Potter series as well as what the representations of inequality can offer in terms of inculcating democratic values and critical thinking in a Swedish upper secondary classroom. READ MORE

  4. 18. Frankenstein and the Timelessness of Queer Identities: Teaching Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through Queer Theory in the Upper-Secondary EFL classroom

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Elsa Brandt; [2023]
    Keywords : Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; queer theory; queer pedagogy; EFL; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the pivotal gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley through a close queer reading, focusing on excerpts featuring the artificially created creature and their maker, Victor Frankenstein. The queer perspective is applied to the gender identity and expression of the creature, which is a reading that lends itself to the teaching of the novel to Swedish upper-secondary students because of the timelessness of the themes and its close ties to the 2022 recommendations of the Swedish National Agency for Education regarding sexuality, consent, and relationships. READ MORE

  5. 19. A thematic analysis of Swedish upper secondary EFL teachers’ cognitions about and reflections on written feedback

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Johan Jönsson Ahlbin; [2023]
    Keywords : Teacher cognition; written feedback; English as a foreign language; English language teaching; Swedish upper secondary school;

    Abstract : To gain a deeper understanding of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers’ knowledge, thoughts, and beliefs about written feedback (WF), this thesis explored four Swedish upper secondary school EFL teachers’ cognitions about WF, the sources of their cognitions about WF, and ways in which their cognitions about WF are reflected in their actual feedback practices. To carry out this exploratory investigation, the study made use of semi-structured interviews, sample student texts with teacher WF, and stimulated recall interviews. READ MORE

  6. 20. Challenges, needs, and connection points in EFL teachers’ and students’ perspectives of formative assessment

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Melissa Linde Svantesson; Sebastian Ticak; [2023]
    Keywords : Formative assessment; formative feedback; ESL; EFL; Teacher challenges; student needs; secondary school; research overview; formativ bedömning; bedömning för lärande; formativ feedback; högstadiet;

    Abstract : Formative assessment is an educational approach that challenges the traditional summative ways of teaching. Although formative assessment has been found to stimulate learning development, it also involves difficulties for teachers to implement. READ MORE