Essays about: "gender and language"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 439 essays containing the words gender and language.
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6. Intercultural (mis)communication in Swedish Workplaces from the Perspective of Brazilian Employees
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This study explores politeness and linguistic strategies in intercultural workplace communication in Sweden from the perspective of Brazilian white-collar employees. Employing Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness framework and Hofstede's (2001; 2011) dimensions of Power Distance and Masculinity/Femininity. READ MORE
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7. Parable of the Sower in the EFL Classroom : Ecofeminism, Empathy, and Environmental Narratives
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : In this essay, Parable of the Sower (1993) by Octavia E. Butler will be analyzed. The analysis investigates how the novel can enable discussions about empathy in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. READ MORE
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8. The Role of Language of Instruction: The Case of Morocco
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : This paper explores the differential and intergenerational effects of Morocco's 1983 language policy that changed the language of instruction for most subjects in grades 6 to 12 from French to Classical Arabic. Although the policy has faced ongoing criticism over four decades, the plausible heterogeneous effects of the policy on marginalized groups and its intergenerational impact have yet to be investigated in the literature. READ MORE
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9. Social class representations and construction of entrepreneurial identities in Swedish ELT textbooks
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Modern societies across the globe have been deeply transformed by the rise of capitalism and neoliberalism in the last century. This has had a significant impact on education which has been reconfigured to meet the needs of the market rather than the needs of the learner. READ MORE
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10. Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Swedish 9th and 11th Grade Students’ English Written Production
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : 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