Essays about: "School essays"

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1. 16. Gender differences in syntactic complexity amongst Swedish L2 learners of English

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Adam John; [2019]
   Keywords : syntactic complexity; gender; L2 learners; ULEC; linear regression;

   Abstract : Internationally, female L2 learners of English are believed to outperform males in all areas including writing. However, in the context of Sweden, the gender gap has been reducing in recent decades. READ MORE

3. 17. A Choice in Reading : A Study of Student Motivation for Studying English Literature in Upper Secondary Schools in Sweden

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

   Author : Martina Edsman; [2019]
   Keywords : Motivation; EFL; English literature; Upper secondary school; Self-efficacy theory. Intrinsic motivation;

   Abstract : This essay aims to examine the attitudes and motivation toward literary studies in English in upper secondary school students as well as to determine which tools practicing teachers can apply to increase their students’ language learning motivation within literature teaching in the Swedish curriculum. The questions that this study set out to answer was: How do students rate their ability to succeed in different tasks relating to English literary education? How can teachers in Sweden design their lessons in English literature to motivate their students? Which are some of the best ways to teach literature to students from a motivational standpoint? The primary theories used in this study are; self-efficacy theory and theories regarding intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. READ MORE

4. 18. Predicting essay grades for the Swedish national writing test based on the new grading scale A-F

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionen

   Author : Jimmy Löfving; [2019]
   Keywords : Swedish national writing test; classification; multinomial logistic regression; discriminant analysis;

   Abstract : Based on the curriculum of 2011 a new grading scale ranging from A-F was introduced in the Swedish upper secondary school system. Previous research on similar data have focused on the earlier grading scale, and its crucial that the new circumstances are addressed to understand the impact on grading. READ MORE

5. 19. Swedish L2 Learners’ acquisition of grammatical morphemes : A cross-sectional study on how well Swedish Learners of English as a second language at upper secondary school use morphemes in their writing.

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Hugues Samuelfolk; [2018]
   Keywords : Morpheme acquisition order; natural order hypothesis; L2 acquisition and learning; corpus; Swedish learners; Morfem förvärvsorder; naturlig ordning hypotes; andra språkinlärning; korpus; svenska elever.;

   Abstract : The main aim of this paper has been to examine if Swedish students at upper secondary school were able to use the morphemes The progressive –ing, The irregular past and The irregular third person. In addition, it has also addressed if the students examined in this essay were able to use some morphemes better than others. READ MORE

6. 20. Automatic Essay Scoring of Swedish Essays using Neural Networks

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionen

   Author : Mathias Lilja; [2018]
   Keywords : automatic essay scoring;

   Abstract : We propose a neural network-based system for automatically grading essays written in Swedish. Previous system either relies on laboriously crafted features extracted by human experts or are limited to essays written in English. READ MORE