Essays about: "first language"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 947 essays containing the words first language.

  1. 26. The concept of civilians in terrorist thought : A multiple case study on the discourse of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Rebecca Johansson; [2023]
    Keywords : Terrorist Discourse; Civilians; Critical Discourse Analysis; Al-Qaeda; Islamic State;

    Abstract : Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, studies on Islamic terrorism and terrorist ideology dramatically increased. Although the term has been difficult to define, "terrorism" is commonly used to describe unlawful violence against civilians for political aims. READ MORE

  3. 27. Proficient speakers : A literature review on what it means to be orally proficient as a speaker of English

    University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Kim Fahlström; [2023]
    Keywords : Fluency; speech; oral proficiency; assessment;

    Abstract : An increasing amount of people use the English language, even those with other first languages. Therefore, there is an interest in investigating various aspects of the English language. The present study aims to investigate what it means to be orally proficient as a speaker of English. READ MORE

  4. 28. 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. 29. Exploration of using Twitter data to predict Swedish political opinion polls with neural networks

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Alexander Gren; Klara Lundgren; [2023]
    Keywords : Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to explore the possibility of using deep learning techniques to mine opinions on Twitter, with the objective to predict the political opinion distribution in Sweden. Different methods of gathering and annotating training data are evaluated to achieve accurate and reliable predictions. READ MORE

  6. 30. Identification and Classification of TTS Intelligibility Errors Using ASR : A Method for Automatic Evaluation of Speech Intelligibility

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Erik Henriksson; [2023]
    Keywords : Automatic Speech Recognition; Natural Language Processing; Speech Technology; Speech Quality Assessment; Text-To-Speech; Taligenkänning; Språkteknologi; Talkvalitetsbedömning; Talsyntes;

    Abstract : In recent years, applications using synthesized speech have become more numerous and publicly available. As the area grows, so does the need for delivering high-quality, intelligible speech, and subsequently the need for effective methods of assessing the intelligibility of synthesized speech. READ MORE