Essays about: "dlp"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the word dlp.
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6. Grammar in English as a Foreign Language Workbooks : A Mixed Methods Analysis of Grammar Tasks in Year 8 Workbooks published in Sweden
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)Abstract : This study investigates how grammar is presented in some commonly used EFL workbooks aimed at teachers teaching year 8 students in Swedish comprehensive school. Six workbooks are examined: the Awesome 8 Activity Book, the Good Stuff Gold C Workbook Year 8, the Wings 8 Workbook, the Happy Year 8 Workbook, and the Sparks 8 Workbook. READ MORE
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7. Being polite : An experimental study of request strategies in Swedish EFL classes
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)Abstract : In a world which continuously becomes more globalised, the need to adapt one's language depending on context becomes increasingly important. This is acknowledged in the Swedish syllabus for the upper-secondary school, which emphasises communicative competence and the need to adapt to situation and hearer. READ MORE
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8. "...life had been lived" : Gender performance and woman objectification in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)Abstract : This essay investigates women’s situation at home and in society, in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, from a gender performance perspective. The essay also explores the pedagogical implications of using the novel in the EFL classroom. READ MORE
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9. Travel time estimation for emergency services
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Kommunikations- och transportsystem; Linköpings universitet/Tekniska fakultetenAbstract : Emergency services has a vital function in society, and except saving lifes a functioning emergency service system provides the inhabitants of any give society with a sence of feeling secure. Because of the delicate nature of the services provided there is always an interest in improvement with regards to the performance of the system. READ MORE
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10. "More than just food" : Exploring and problematising the notion of blind consumption and blind refusal to consume in Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions" in the EFL classroom
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)Abstract : Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel Nervous Conditions problematises the notion of consumption by making connections between ideologies and values and physical food substances, and places them within greater systems of gender and cultural oppression in a postcolonial context. By examining the ways in which unquestioning or blind, or complete refusal of, consumption affects different aspects of health in the novel, students in the EFL classroom are given a chance to develop and apply critical thinking skills to achieve an awareness for the importance of balance when maintaining healthy relationships not only to ideologies and values, but to food and mental well-being as well. READ MORE
