Essays about: "adjective words"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words adjective words.

  1. 1. A quantitative study of Swedish high school L2 learners' receptive knowledge of English lexical collocations

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Louise Frifelt; [2024]
    Keywords : Collocations; Multi-word units; Formulaic language; Second language acquisition; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This paper investigates receptive knowledge of English lexical collocations among Swedish high school students. The study tests the claim that L2 (second language) learners of English have a low level of collocational competence and tend to recognise high-frequent collocations more than low-frequent since the former have been encountered more. READ MORE

  3. 2. How do we value others’ personality traits? : A Quantitative Study on Rating of Personality Traits Related to Introversion and Extraversion and How It Associates with Our Own Personality

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för hälsa, lärande och teknik

    Author : Kevin Lillström Stenroos; [2022]
    Keywords : Introversion; Introvert; Extraversion; Extravert; The Big Five; IPIP; Association Between Preference and Personality;

    Abstract : This study was based on The Big Five theoretical framework with focus on the extraversion factor, and its purpose was to assess how we value introverted and extraverted personality traits. A hypothesis was that ratings of extraversion-related adjectives would be higher than ratings of introversion-related adjectives. READ MORE

  4. 3. Green Infrastructure a line of trees or a philosophy? A study of a contested concept at the County Administrative Board of Skåne

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Wösel Thoresen; [2018]
    Keywords : Green infrastructure; landscape; political ecology; biodiversity; environmental governance; ecological modernization; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Landscape fragmentation and decreasing habitat areas poses a threat to biodiversity worldwide. Green infrastructure has developed as a conservation approach promoting habitat connectivity on a landscape scale. However, green infrastructure is much more than a network of natural structures and elements enabling species movement. READ MORE

  5. 4. Gender in Textbooks Used for English as a Second Language in Sweden : the Role of Adjectives Describing Men and Women

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Jenny Ceesay; [2014]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This essay investigates gender in two textbooks used for teaching English as a second language in schools in Sweden. Previous research has shown that teachers of English as a second language in Sweden rely a great deal on textbooks in their teaching (Skolverket 2006). READ MORE

  6. 5. A diachronic study of the semantics of the adjectives mean and gay

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Ingela Wennemark; [2011]
    Keywords : semantics; corpus; change; adjective;

    Abstract : This essay explores the semantic change of the adjectives mean and gay from the 1920s to the2000s. This was done by going through concordance lines which was collected from the Time Corpus. The aim of the paper is to investigate if there has been any change of meaning of the two words, and if that is the case how have they changed. READ MORE