Essays about: "English slang"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 essays containing the words English slang.

  1. 11. Gender, Language and Second Language Education - a Study of Swedish EFL Textbooks

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Jonas Gertzell; [2014-02-13]
    Keywords : gender stereotypes; gender-related language; discourse analysis; EFL textbooks; speech act; engelska; hedges; uncertainty verbs; tag questions; slang words; judgmental adjectives; directives;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to examine whether gender stereotypical language can be found in textbooks used in the course English 5 in the Swedish upper-secondary school. Several researchers have previously found that women and men tend to use certain aspects of the English language to a different extent and previous research has also shown that material used in EFL (English as a foreign language) textbooks portrays stereotypical notions of gender. READ MORE

  3. 12. Transforming registers:context and pupil writing at English 7

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Aida Omerovic; [2014]
    Keywords : register; formality; formative assessment; BICS; CALP;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay was to investigate whether pupils with higher grades based on formative assessment were more successful at adapting informal texts into formal texts.Six pupils in English 7 were asked to write an informal blog entry about their favorite hobby/pastime and a formal entry also about their favorite hobby/pastime intended for an English encyclopedia. READ MORE

  4. 13. Suburban Swedish maturing : Examining variation and perceptions among adult speakers of Swedish contemporary urban vernacular

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Nathan Young; [2014]
    Keywords : Rinkeby Swedish; slang; Suburban Swedish; contemporary urban vernacular; normalized pairwise variability index; nPVI; prosodic rhythm; linguistic artifacts; sociophonetic variation; meta-pragmatic stereotypes; prestige forms; rinkebysvenska; förortsslang; förortssvenska;

    Abstract : Up to now, adolescent speakers have been the primary focus when researching contemporary variation in the language of Sweden’s urban areas. This study contributes to the growing body of research on the topic by examining and reporting on adult speakers of what is here referred to as förortssvenska (English: Suburban Swedish). READ MORE

  5. 14. ‘LOL’, ‘OMG’ and Other Acronyms and Abbreviations : A study in the creation of initialisms

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Ida Lundell; [2012]
    Keywords : Morphology; acronyms; abbreviations; initialisms; slang; corpus linguistics; the Internet; netspeak;

    Abstract : Marchand (1969) claims that abbreviations and acronyms, which are also known as ‘initialisms’, are used to create “names of new scientific discoveries, trade-names, names of organizations, new foundations or offices, but occasionally, and chiefly in American English, personal and geographical names are also coined in this way” (Marchand, 1969: 452). However, initialisms that originate from netspeak, such as ‘LOL’, are different from the initialisms Marchand (1969) describes. READ MORE

  6. 15. Does Coaching Make a Difference : A Comparitative Study on How Students Perceive Their English Learning

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

    Author : Jörgen Anders; [2011]
    Keywords : coaching; comparative study; mentoring; students perceptions of English learning;

    Abstract : In the 1830s, students at Oxford University began using the word coach as a slang expression for a tutor who carried a student through an exam (Coach, 2011). Nowadays, the word is seen as a metaphor for a person supporting another person to achieve an imagined goal (Johansson & Wahlund, 2009). READ MORE