Essays about: "foreign languages teaching"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 essays containing the words foreign languages teaching.
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1. Sentence Stress in Songs: The Potential of Using Authentic Songs for Teaching English Sentence Stress to EFL Learners in Swedish Lower-Secondary School
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska; Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : Using music as a tool for teaching a foreign language has been shown to positively affect the language learning process (Balčytytė-Kurtinienė, 2018; Cañete García et al., 2022; Heidari- Shahreza & Moinzadeh, 2012), and this essay suggests that authentic English songs can be used in the teaching of EFL in lower-secondary school in Sweden to efficiently meet many aspects of the syllabus. READ MORE
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2. Translanguaging; transcending conventional language teaching,effects, attitudes, and perceptions.
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM)Abstract : This study investigates how translanguaging could affect the acquisition of a second language for young language learners and how teachers and other authoritative agents' attitudes/perspectives affect implementation of translanguaging in school. Cummins(2018) describes translanguaging as a concept of focusing on the dynamic correlations between different languages for a bilingual individual. READ MORE
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3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Irony
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : In this paper, I explore how Douglas Adams’ comedic 1979 science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy could be used to improve English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ understanding of irony. Specifically, the study is based on criteria for the English 5 course in Swedish upper secondary school and is performed using a combined theoretical framework of Dan Sperber and Deidre Wilson’s principle of relevance and Paul Grice’s maxims of conversation. READ MORE
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4. Teaching Interpretation Through the Epistolary Novel: Using Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Teach Literary Interpretation in the Swedish Upper Secondary EFL Classroom
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : This essay examines how Swedish English as foreign language (EFL) students in the English 7 course can be taught textual interpretation skills through working with fiction in the classroom, using Bram Stoker’s 1897 epistolary novel Dracula as an example novel. A qualitative text analysis of Stoker’s novel was conducted, using Grice’s maxims of conversation and the concept of focalization, to determine the extent to which Dracula is suitable teaching material for the development of students’ interpretation skills. READ MORE
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5. EFL Textbooks - Cultural Gateways?: The Depictions of Outer and Expanding Circle Cultures in Two Swedish EFL Textbooks Aimed at Upper Secondary School and the Correlation of the Depictions With the Steering Documents
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : This study examined how outer and expanding circle cultures were depicted in two English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks aimed at English 5 in Swedish upper secondary school. Moreover, it was investigated to what extent these depictions aligned with the steering documents by helping students fulfil the aims related to intercultural competence (ICC). READ MORE
