Essays about: "TEACHING SPEAKING"

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  1. 1. 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 lärande

    Author : Bertil Wanner; [2023]
    Keywords : Heritage language maintenance; mother tongue education; children learning Chinese; language proficiency; language maintenance; 承袭语言传承 母语教育 儿童汉语学习 语言能力 语言传承;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 2. Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Swedish 9th and 11th Grade Students’ English Written Production

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Maiko Tsukanaka; [2023]
    Keywords : Second Language Acquisition SLA ; Swedish Learner English Corpus SLEC ; Swedish-speaking learners of English; Error analysis; Subject-verb agreement; Transfer; Overgeneralization;

    Abstract : This study aims to investigate possible factors contributing to subject-verb agreement errors in Swedish junior and senior high school students' English written production. The sample data is collected from the Swedish Learner English Corpus (SLEC), which comprises student texts produced in a classroom setting. READ MORE

  4. 3. Representations of Culture in ESL Textbooks for Young Learners

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Stefan Grunnlid; [2023]
    Keywords : Cultural representations; learner textbooks; ESL textbooks;

    Abstract : In both LGR 11 and LGR 22 (Skolverket, 2019; Skolverket, 2022) Skolverket prescribes that those students within the English subject should be given opportunities to learn about the culture in different English-speaking areas. The researcher therefore investigated the extent to which the culture of different English-speaking countries is represented in ESL textbooks. READ MORE

  5. 4. Breaking Language Barriers: Swedish Upper Secondary Teachers' Attitudes Towards and Use of Swedish in the EFL Classroom

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Caroline Tiihonen; [2023]
    Keywords : EFL teaching; Translanguaging; Codeswitching; L1 in L2 classroom; Teacher attitudes; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to investigate Swedish upper secondary English teachers’ attitudes towards and use of Swedish in the EFL classroom. In addition to examining teachers’ attitudes, the study investigated when teachers feel it is beneficial to use Swedish and why in these specific situations. READ MORE

  6. 5. “But as a deeper dive, I want to focus on this” : Discourse reflexivity in TED talks

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Eidvilė Poškė; [2023]
    Keywords : metadiscourse; reflexivity; TED talks; discourse functions; monologic discourse;

    Abstract : Metadiscourse, or discourse about discourse, manifests itself in both spoken and written genres. However, the focus of existing studies of spoken metadiscourse remains mainly on academic speaking (Hyland, 2017), whereas research on metadiscourse in spoken non-academic genres is much less common. READ MORE