Essays about: "Second language teaching and learning"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 173 essays containing the words Second language teaching and learning.
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1. Literature in EFL : A qualitative study of how EFL upper secondary school teachers in Sweden reflect on the uses of literature in EFL
University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för hälsa, lärande och teknikAbstract : Research shows that there are several benefits that can be extracted from the usage of literature in EFL. The question is which benefits teachers tend to make use of in their classrooms. READ MORE
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2. Approximating Reasoning with Transformer Language Models
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknikAbstract : We conduct experiments with BART, a generative language-model architecture, to investigate its capabilities for approximating reasoning by learning from data. For this we use the SimpleLogic dataset, a dataset of satisfiability problems in propositional logic originally created by Zhang et al. (2022). READ MORE
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3. An Errors Analysis of Grammatical Errors in The Written Productions of Swedish Students in a Vocational High School
University essay from Göteborgs universitet / / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskapAbstract : As an approach to spotting and analyzing students' errors, error analysis provides information that gives us a better understanding of students' knowledge of second language grammar, so we can offer them more effective teaching. This study is an error analysis that investigates the most common grammatical errors focusing on verbs, prepositions, articles, and pronouns in English writings produced by first-year high-school students at a vocational school in southern Sweden. READ MORE
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4. "I immediately think about philosophy" : A study of learners' attitudes toward English poetry in the EFL classroom
University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : Poetry has great potential benefits for second language (L2) classrooms as a source for increasing language awareness and linguistic structures different from the rules learners may be taught in class. This potential of poetry and methods for teaching poetry is relatively well researched, while the learner perspective has received comparatively little attention. READ MORE
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5. Strategies for Teaching and Maintaining Chinese as Heritage Language for Chinese Children in Sweden : An investigation for identifying strategies that Chinese parents use helping their children learn and maintain their heritage language
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : Chinese as a heritage language is one of the fastest lost languages in the world. In fact, in most Chinese families that have left China, the heritage language is lost by the second generation. READ MORE
