Essays about: "british dialect"

Found 5 essays containing the words british dialect.

1. 1. Pronunciation Teaching in the Swedish EFL Classroom

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

   Author : Sigrid Andersson; [2020]
   Keywords : English as a Foreign Language; EFL; Pronunciation; Syllabus; Native Speaker Ideal; NS; Native Speaker; Teaching in Sweden;

   Abstract : This essay aims to explore how Swedish teachers of English view the shift from a Native Speaker ideal to English as a Global Language in connection to pronunciation teaching. The essay also aims to explore how the teachers teach this in practice. READ MORE

3. 2. The Use of Americanisms in British English, with a Specific Focus on Gotten: A Corpus Study

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Jennifer Melckersson; [2018]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This essay aims to, with the support of an extensive corpus study, investigate the use of gotten in British English. Gotten is an alternative past participle of get which occurs mainly in American English, but is British in origin. READ MORE

4. 3. American or British English Pronunciation? A study on Swedish Upper Secondary school students’ choices of and attitudes towards different varieties of English

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Carin Ledin; [2013-03-19]
   Keywords : American English; British English; pronunciation; upper secondary school; attitudes; influences;

   Abstract : This study investigates attitudes towards British and American English among students in an upper secondary school in Sweden. The study also aims at finding out to what extent factors such as TV, film and other media influence them regarding their English pronunciation. READ MORE

5. 4. A Struggle for Independence: A Young Woman’s Coming of Age as National Allegory in Laṭīfa al-Zayyāt’s al-Bāb al-maftūḥ

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Arabiska

   Author : Sandra Buijsse; [2010]
   Keywords : national allegory; modern Arabic literature; Egypt; feminism; Laṭīfah; Zayyat; The Open Door; arabisk litteratur; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Without question, Laṭīfa al-Zayyāt (1923-96), ranks among the most important Egyptian and Arab writers, critics, and activists of the 20th century. Published in 1960, her breakthrough novel al-Bāb al-maftūḥ [The Open Door] chronicles the emotional, psychological, and political growth of Layla, daughter of a conservative, Egyptian middle-class family. READ MORE

6. 5. I Say 'tomeydo', You Say 'tomahto': American and British English pronunciation in EFL Learning

   University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Helena Norlin; [2006]
   Keywords : Pronunciation; British English; Received Pronunciation; American English; General American; Mid-Atlantic English; EFL learning; differences; opinions; attitudes; prejudices.;

   Abstract : Within the last few hundred years, English has gone from being a rather small peripheral language to what it is today – a world language, spoken by millions of people worldwide. The best-known dialects to Swedish learners of English are British English (RP, Received Pronunciation) and American English (GA, General American). READ MORE