Essays about: "Thinking for speaking"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 essays containing the words Thinking for speaking.
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11. Code-switching and establishing the power of a dominant language. Issues in the lives of multilingual children in Sweden
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärandeAbstract : In order to help children develop their mother tongue during preschool years, teachers need to have an understanding of how children perceive the function of their mother tongue in institutional settings. This study aims to explore what communicative function children assign the mother tongue. READ MORE
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12. Hunger is Not a Game. Using “The Hunger Games” to Encourage. Critical Thinking in the ESL Classroom
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay focuses on the English 6 course for upper secondary school. I have created a book project that includes methods and pedagogical theories both represented in the Swedish school system such as the socio-cultural theory, the cognitive theory and behaviourism as well as less known theory such as critical literacy. READ MORE
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13. Speaking about Newspeak - Teaching Democracy, Critical Thinking and Language through Nineteen Eighty-Four
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay presents how to use George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as a literary intergrated project of teach democracy, critical thinking, English language skills and critical language study in the English 6 EFL classroom in upper secondary school in Sweden. This literary study is done through the lens of critical pedagogy with an emphasis on the way language influences power and helps dominant groups, in both the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as contemporary society, remain in control. READ MORE
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14. Constituent order in non-verbal representations: Describing events with pictures by speakers of Swedish and Kurdish
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : In this thesis the question concerning possible influence of language on thinking was addressed by investigating constituent orders in non-verbal representations of motion events. Forty-nine participants, 25 native speakers of Swedish with the default order SVO (or Agent-Act-Patient), and Kurdish with SOV (Agent-Patient-Act) were recruited in Sweden and 24 in Iraqi Kurdistan to take part in an experiment. READ MORE
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15. A light in the dark - The impact of increased knowledge of poor rural women on their lives
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : This research explored the relationship between new knowledge and increased awareness towards action and considered how the women participating in the ACCESS program in Netrakona in Bangladesh were acting upon their newly gained knowledge in terms of social and institutional change. Qualitative methods were used to capture the discursive change in the micro settings among the participants. READ MORE
