Essays about: "girls vs. boys"

Found 3 essays containing the words girls vs. boys.

  1. 1. Conjunctive Relations in Argumentative Essays : Second language learners of English and the frequency of connective words

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Jojo Blixt; [2022]
    Keywords : conjunctive relations; coherency in texts; argumentative essays; upper secondary school year 10; vocational vs. academic; girls vs. boys;

    Abstract : This essay aims to examine texts written by students in upper secondary school year 10 to see which conjunctions and linking words students at that level use, the normalized frequency as well as how they are used. For the investigation, a corpus, the Swedish Learner English Corpus (SLEC), was searched using AntConc, a corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis. READ MORE

  3. 2. Risk-taking behavior in monolingual vs. bilingual children: an experiment

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Diana Frederiksen; [2015]
    Keywords : Risk preference; risk taking; behavioral economics; bilingualism; children; gender; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The effect of language on economic behavior is an area of research recently brought to public attention. Previous studies have touched upon the effect of language on risk attitudes, though this behavior in children has been studied to a lesser extent. READ MORE

  4. 3. Trends in Early Marriage in Shashemene, Ethiopia

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Selcan Mutgan; [2014]
    Keywords : Early marriage; Shashemene; Ethiopia; Life history calendar; Discrete-time event history analysis; Complementary log-log; Gender; Education; Birth area vs. area of residence; Religion;

    Abstract : Despite the Family Code of 2000 that raised the legal age at marriage to 18 for both sexes; early family formation is still a common practice which affect many children in Ethiopia. Previous research has shown that girls in rural areas are more disadvantaged and suffer the consequences of early marriage the most. READ MORE