Essays about: "communicative competence"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 70 essays containing the words communicative competence.

1. 16. Video Game Narratives in Swedish EFL Teaching : A Study of How the Use of Video Game Narratives Could Potentially Aid or Hinder Swedish EFL Teaching

   University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

   Author : Anton Ljungvall; [2020]
   Keywords : video game narration; L2 acquisition; Swedish EFL teaching and learning;

   Abstract : This study aims to explore the potential benefits and disadvantages of utilizing video game narratives in Swedish EFL teaching. The subject is approached through a qualitative literature review of previous research on the use of video games in the process of L2 acquisition. READ MORE

3. 17. Summative assessment of oral language proficiency : Four Swedish EFL teachers’ views on communicative competence, grading criteria and strategy use

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)

   Author : Malin Schultz; [2020]
   Keywords : oral fluency; oral interaction; knowledge requirements; grading; threshold levels; interviews; grounded theory; Swedish upper secondary school; syllabus for English;

   Abstract : Assessment is one of the major struggles for EFL teachers, not least oral proficiency assessment. Considering the great influence of communicative competence on today’s EFL classroom, oral language proficiency is a common source of assessment. However, it is also difficult to assess, and grading criteria are not always easy to interpret. READ MORE

4. 18. Exploring upper-secondary EFL students’ willingness to communicate in a Swedish context : An empirical study on Swedish students’ reported attitudes on oral communication in the English classroom

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

   Author : Elias Bengtsson; [2020]
   Keywords : EFL- ESL- English as a second language; Willingness to Communicate WTC ; Student attitudes; Extramural English EE ; Oral Interaction; L2 Communication;

   Abstract : Oral communication is a central aspect of language learning in EFL-classrooms all over the world. Therefore, problems arise when students are passive, or unwilling to communicate and participate. The aim of this study is to investigate what factors impact Swedish upper secondary students’ willingness to communicate using self-reported data. READ MORE

5. 19. Conception versus Reality : A Case Study of SFI-teachers’ Codeswitching into English

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Lemon Torsten; [2020]
   Keywords : Codeswitching; Code-Switching; Code Switching; Communicative Language Teaching; Foreign Language Teaching; Teaching Approaches; Teaching Beliefs; Teaching Strategies; Teaching Philosophies; Swedish for Immigrants.;

   Abstract : The fact that people tend to alternate between languages for various communicative purposes seems to increasingly interest researchers all over the world. Thus, the linguistic phenomenon of codeswitching has been given more academic attention in recent years than ever before. READ MORE

6. 20. An Investigation of the Cultural Content in English Instructional Materials Used in Sweden’s Secondary Education

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

   Author : William Wickersham; [2020]
   Keywords : Cultural Content Analysis; power relations; socialization; international communicative competence; surface culture; deep culture; nationalism;

   Abstract : This thesis is a two-pronged analysis of the cultural content in two instructional materials series presently meant for use in the English language instruction in Swedish secondary education, and it integrates an examination of surface and deep cultural content with an ideology analysis focused on the representation of nations and the international world. The driving impetus of this thesis is an interest in the representation of culture meeting the students in their instruction. READ MORE