Essays about: "Mother tongue interference in english"

Found 5 essays containing the words Mother tongue interference in english.

  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. Tense and Aspect in the English Language : A study about newly arrived students with Arabic as their mother tongue

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Alexandra Sabra; [2020]
    Keywords : Arabic; English; structure; tense; grammar; interference; transfer;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine how newly arrived Arabic speaking students use tense and aspect in the English language and to find out whether their native language affects their learning. The study is based on both qualitative and quantitative methods where the focus is on different texts written by students. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Mind or the Mother Tongue? : A study of grammatical errors among L1 Swedish learners in Year 9

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Mikaela Englund; [2015]
    Keywords : L2 acusition; contrastive analysis hypothesis; errors; mistakes;

    Abstract : This study aims to analyse errors written by Year 9 and examine whether the errors derive from the pupils´ mother tongue (Swedish) or not. 20 essays collected from a school in southern Sweden were examined for this study. READ MORE

  5. 4. 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

  6. 5. Swedish problems with English prepositions

    University essay from Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Liane Blom; [2007]
    Keywords : prepositions; Swedish-English; language transfer; corpora; collocation;

    Abstract : English prepositions cause problems for learners of English. The way prepositions are taught has impact on how students learn. Using corpora in teaching makes it possible for teachers and pupils to explore language together and is a good alternative to filling in missing prepositions on worksheets. READ MORE