Essays about: "Reading difficulties"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 62 essays containing the words Reading difficulties.
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1. "Not your darlings – but their mother's!" : Interpretative Difficulties with "Love" in Euripides' Medea
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorikAbstract : The aim of this Master’s thesis is to achieve philosophical clarity on an interpretative problem I have been struggle with in Euripides’ Medea: That Medea murders her own children, while claimingto love them. Situated within the philosophical and literary tradition of ordinary language philosophy and ordinary language criticism, the thesis draws on ideas, theoretical discussions, and concepts from Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toril Moi, Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, and Niklas Forsberg – but also Søren Kierkegaard. READ MORE
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2. Role of assistive technology in enhancing perticipation of children with disabilities in basic education in Nigeria. Exploring the Perspective of Special Education Teachers
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogikAbstract : Aim: The core objective of this study is to investigate how assistive technology can be used to facilitate access to basic education among children with disabilities in Nigeria. Drawing on teachers’ perspective, the study investigated how assistive technology facilitates children wtih disabilities inclusion and engagement with classroom learning and how assistive technology is used to solve learning problems and its challenges Theory: Social model for disability was used to explain the conceptual meaning of disabilities in this study. READ MORE
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3. Losing personality : Exploring with a focus on formal speech how the register of Nakata Satoru in Murakami Haruki’s Umibe no Kafuka is affected when translated into English and Swedish
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : When reading a translated book or a dubbed movie, one might come to wonder if the translation conveys the characters’ personality traits identically to that of the original, and while ‘identical’ may not be achievable, ‘equivalent’ rather may be within the scope of a translator’s capability. Translation between languages as vastly different as Swedish and Japanese, or English and Japanese are bound to face greater difficulties than for example Swedish and English. READ MORE
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4. The effectiveness of using English language film in vocabulary teaching for primary school students especially for those with dyslexia : Effektiviteten av att använda engelskspråkig film i ordförrådsundervisning för lågstadieelever med dyslexi (Svenska)
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM)Abstract : This study investigates the advantages and disadvantages of using English film as an educational tool to increase ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom vocabulary acquisition. In particular what are the effects on English Language Learners (ELL) with dyslexia or reading difficulties, when using films as a tool within English Education. READ MORE
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5. Context-aware Swedish Lexical Simplification : Using pre-trained language models to propose contextually fitting synonyms
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskapAbstract : This thesis presents the development and evaluation of context-aware Lexical Simplification (LS) systems for the Swedish language. In total three versions of LS models, LäsBERT, LäsBERT-baseline, and LäsGPT, were created and evaluated on a newly constructed Swedish LS evaluation dataset. READ MORE
