Essays about: "fictional texts"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 27 essays containing the words fictional texts.

1. 21. A comparison between World Wide English and In Real Life : A content analysis of two English textbooks for upper secondary school in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

   Author : Agnes Nassar; [2015]
   Keywords : Teaching materials; didactics; English teaching materials;

   Abstract : This study is about the structure and content of two specific English textbooks used in upper secondary school. The aim of the study is to get a deeper understanding of the structure of textbooks in English teaching, and what topics are used and what skills are emphasised when teaching English as a second language with the guidance of those textbooks. READ MORE

3. 22. What's the problem with reading? : Thesis in language

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

   Author : Alun Hughes Hughes; [2015]
   Keywords : Reading; english; swedish; teaching; fiction; upper secondary education;

   Abstract : This project began with the basic preconception that there is a growing resistance towards reading among students and this has been partially proved correct. The research questions were: In upper secondary education, what is it that encourages or hinders the students’ incentives for reading? What effect does this have on the subsequent teaching of fictional texts? The aim of this investigation was to examine attitudes on reading among students in upper secondary education and how these attitudes affect the teaching of fictional texts. READ MORE

4. 23. Intertextuality as a politeness strategy : A qualitative study of the use and function of intertextuality in the television series Suits

   University essay from Engelska institutionen

   Author : Felicia Brandström; [2014]
   Keywords : intertextuality; politeness; politeness strategy; face; face-threatening act; function; characterisation; social relations;

   Abstract : This paper investigates the use and function of intertextuality in the television series Suits, and examines the interplay between intertextuality and politeness. Intertextuality allows a text to incorporate other texts and to draw upon connotations that belong to those texts. READ MORE

5. 24. Machine Translation Of Fictional And Non-fictional Texts : An examination of Google Translate's accuracy on translation of fictional versus non-fictional texts.

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jonni Salimi; [2014]
   Keywords : Machine translation MT ; Fully Automatic High Quality Machine Translation; FAHQMT ; Statistical Machine Translation SMT ; phrase-based system; transfter-based; BLEU;

   Abstract : This study focuses on and tries to identify areas where machine translation can be useful by examining translated fictional and non-fictional texts, and the extent to which these different text types are better or worse suited for machine translation.  It additionally evaluates the performance of the free online translation tool Google Translate (GT). READ MORE

6. 25. Translation of the Swedish connector "och" in English and of the English connector "and" in Swedish in fictional and non-fictional texts

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Kahina Yahmi; [2013-11-15]
   Keywords : Translation; coordinator; and; och; contrastive studies; corpus; English; Swedish; translation studies;

   Abstract : This essay analyzes differences in the translation of the English coordinator "and" and the Swedish coordinator "och". The primary material consists of eight texts and their translations, four texts in Swedish and four in English. Each language has two fictional and two non-fictional texts. READ MORE