Essays about: "first language transfer"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 54 essays containing the words first language transfer.

1. 1. COLLOCATION COMPETENCY AMONG IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Kazhal Shatery; [2023-10-03]
   Keywords : English; positive lexical transfer; negative lexical transfer; lexical collocations; English language proficiency; collocation competency;

   Abstract : In the current study, a quantitative approach was taken to explore the impact of the first language on the transfer of lexical collocations, highlighting both positive and negative transfer effects. It explored the correlation between English language proficiency and collocation competency, along with the influence of gender on collocation competency. READ MORE

3. 2. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
   Keywords : English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

   Abstract : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. READ MORE

4. 3. Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Swedish 9th and 11th Grade Students’ English Written Production

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Maiko Tsukanaka; [2023]
   Keywords : Second Language Acquisition SLA ; Swedish Learner English Corpus SLEC ; Swedish-speaking learners of English; Error analysis; Subject-verb agreement; Transfer; Overgeneralization;

   Abstract : This study aims to investigate possible factors contributing to subject-verb agreement errors in Swedish junior and senior high school students' English written production. The sample data is collected from the Swedish Learner English Corpus (SLEC), which comprises student texts produced in a classroom setting. READ MORE

5. 4. Mother Tongue Influence when Learning a Second Language : A Contrastive Analysis of Swedish Gymnasium Students

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Ebba Müller; Stephanie Dahlquist; [2023]
   Keywords : Linguistics; contrastive analysis; mother tongue; influence; interference; errors;

   Abstract : The intended purpose of this essay was to examine student essays to find out if there are any first language interferences in Swedish students’ written English. First language interference has been researched before, which will be presented in the essay, amongst other terms such as translanguaging, acquisition and language transfer, all explained in the theoretical concepts section. READ MORE

6. 5. BERTie Bott’s Every Flavor Labels : A Tasty Guide to Developing a Semantic Role Labeling Model for Galician

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Micaella Bruton; [2023]
   Keywords : natural language processing; NLP; Galician; low-resource language; low resource language; semantic role labeling; SRL; mBERT; XLM-R; transfer-learning; transfer learning; Spanish; verbal indexing; procesamento de linguaxe natural; NLP; Galego; lingua de recursos limitados; etiquetado de papeis semánticos; SRL; mBERT; XLM-R; aprendizaxe por transferencia; Español; indexación verbal; språkteknologiska verktyg; NLP; naturlig språkbehandling; galiciska; språk med begränsade resurser; semantisk rollmärkning; SRL; mBERT; XLM-R; överföringsinlärning; spanska; verbal indexering; verbalindexering; procesamiento del lenguaje natural; NLP; Gallego; idioma de bajos recursos; etiquetado de roles semánticos; SRL; mBERT; XLM-R; aprendizaje por transferencia; Español; indexación verbal;

   Abstract : For the vast majority of languages, Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools are either absent entirely, or leave much to be desired in their final performance. Despite having nearly 4 million speakers, one such low-resource language is Galician. READ MORE