Essays about: "importance of speaking english in an english school"

Found 5 essays containing the words importance of speaking english in an english school.

  1. 1. Speech is silver and silence is golden? : An investigating study regarding a group of Swedish eighth-grade students´ perceived foreign language speaking anxiety.

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

    Author : Johanna Löfvenius; [2020]
    Keywords : foreign language speaking anxiety; perceived anxiety; anxiety level;

    Abstract : This investigating and comparative study aimed to demonstrate the perceived foreign language speaking anxiety among a specific group of eight-grade compulsory school students, attending an International English school in the south of Sweden. The study also aimed to explore the potential relationship between the students´ perceived foreign language speaking anxiety and the students´ gender. READ MORE

  2. 2. Effective Teaching Methods and Strategies in the EFL Classroom to Facilitate Students’ Vocabulary Development

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Johan Espmarker; Emanuel Tedenby; [2020]
    Keywords : Word frequency; EFL; vocabulary acquisition; middle school; vocabulary teaching; vocabulary progression;

    Abstract : This research examines how low-level vocabulary students, in particular, might better progress tohigher levels of vocabulary in the EFL context. In addition, a variety of strategies and teachingmethods are analysed. Vocabulary is the foundation of language learning and is an essential partof reading, writing and speaking. READ MORE

  3. 3. Student’s Self-perceived English Accent and Its Impact on Their Communicative Competence and Speaking Confidence : An Empirical Study Among Students Taking English 6 in Upper-Secondary School

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Johanna Norman; [2017]
    Keywords : Perceived accent; Communicative competence; English; Upper-secondary school; Students; Impact; Sweden;

    Abstract : The English language plays an important role as a lingua franca in Sweden as well as in many countries across the European Union (EU). The ability to communicate well in English is highly valued and as a response to this, communicative competence has had an increasingly major part in the English language education and curriculums all over Europe, including the Swedish curriculum for English language education. READ MORE

  4. 4. Speaking about Newspeak - Teaching Democracy, Critical Thinking and Language through Nineteen Eighty-Four

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Tomas Wahlqvist; [2014-02-19]
    Keywords : engelska; George Orwell; Nineteen Eighty-Four; critical language study; education;

    Abstract : This essay presents how to use George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as a literary intergrated project of teach democracy, critical thinking, English language skills and critical language study in the English 6 EFL classroom in upper secondary school in Sweden. This literary study is done through the lens of critical pedagogy with an emphasis on the way language influences power and helps dominant groups, in both the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as contemporary society, remain in control. READ MORE

  5. 5. Teaching Standards or Standard Teaching? : An analysis of the Swedish national curriculum for English at upper-secondary school level

    University essay from Lärarutbildningen

    Author : Ciarán O'Neill; [2006]
    Keywords : lingua franca; Standard English; global English; inner circle countries; outer circle countries; expanding circle countries;

    Abstract : English is the most expansionist language in the world today. Currently, native speakers are outnumbered by non-native speakers by a ratio of 3:1, a ratio that is set to grow to 10:1 within the next ten years. One of the consequences of a language growing so rapidly is that its new users tend to ignore already accepted standards. READ MORE