Essays about: "activities for speaking"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 essays containing the words activities for speaking.

  1. 1. Willingness to Communicate and the Ideal L2 Self Inside and Outside the EFL Classroom. A Literature Review

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Lärarutbildningsnämnden

    Author : Ida Granlund; Alice Lyttkens; [2023-11-14]
    Keywords : Willingness to Communicate; L2MSS; Ideal L2 self; Extramural English; integrativeness; EFL; L2 Learning Experience; Target Language;

    Abstract : This literature review investigates why EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students are reluctant to speak the target language in the classroom. As this is a complex question with complex answers, this review focuses on how the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS), specifically the ideal L2 self, affects willingness to communicate (WTC). READ MORE

  3. 2. Speaking-based activities in L2 textbooks in lower secondary school

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Clara Wilson Sundström; [2023]
    Keywords : speaking proficiency; knowledge requirements; activities; textbooks;

    Abstract : This research paper analyzes how different L2 textbooks in lower secondary school relateto speaking proficiency, in reference to the curriculum. It also investigates how thetextbooks approach speaking proficiency activities differently. READ MORE

  4. 3. Attachment-Oriented Motherhood and the German New Right on Instagram

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Isabel Köhler; [2022]
    Keywords : Attachment Parenting; Intensive Motherhood; Respectability; White Femininity; The German New Right; Critical Discourse Analysis; Social Media Studies;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I investigate the German-speaking attachment-oriented parenting community on Instagram. Focusing on a debate about new-right activities in the community, I analyze how motherhood (self-)conceptions were discursively entangled with questions of resistance to and tolerance of the new right. READ MORE

  5. 4. The relationship between extramural English exposure and receptive vocabulary knowledge of young Swedish L2 learners of English

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Karin Hubbe Emilsson; [2021]
    Keywords : instructed learning; informal learning; extramural english; vocabulary knowledge; intentional learning; explicit learning; PVST; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Abstract This study examines if extramural English (EE) has a positive effect on L2 vocabulary acquisition of young Swedish L2 learners (N = 24) of English (age 8-10). It examines the correlation between the amount of time spent on EE and scores on the Picture Vocabulary Size Test (PVST), which measures receptive vocabulary knowledge. READ MORE

  6. 5. Can all students please speak up? : A mixed methods study into the situational and motivational aspects of (un)willingness to communicate in English in Swedish upper secondary schools

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Amanda Karlsson; [2021]
    Keywords : willingness to communicate; motivation; upper secondary school; English as a foreign language; Sweden; mixed-methods study;

    Abstract : This study seeks to examine (1) in what situations Swedish upper secondary school students from two EFL classes are unwilling to speak English in English class, and (2) what the motivational factors are for the same students to speak English. Students in their first and second year of studying English in Swedish upper secondary school participated in this study. READ MORE