Essays about: "interlingual transfer"

Found 4 essays containing the words interlingual transfer.

  1. 1. Which pronouns are the most difficult? : An Error Analysis of Swedish Students’ Usage of Pronouns: A corpus-based study

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Mathilda Asker Kling; [2022]
    Keywords : grammar; second language acquisition; pronouns; Error Analysis; corpus linguistics;

    Abstract : This corpus-based study aims to better understand the difficulties for Swedish students regarding English pronouns and based on the result give recommendations for the teaching of English pronouns within a Swedish context. The study investigates Swedish students' usage of pronouns in English writing and the result is compared with Köhlmyr’s (2001) result. READ MORE

  3. 2. Inter- and intralingual errors in Chinese students' compositions : A case study

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : David Björkegren; [2018]
    Keywords : Second language acquisition; interlingual errors; intralingual errors; Chinese learners of English; Error Analysis; Andraspråksinlärning; förstaspråksinterferens; målspråksinterferens; kinesiska studenters engelska; felanalys;

    Abstract : In this quantitative study, time controlled written English compositions by 39 Chinese university majors of English were analyzed by means of Error Analysis (EA) in order to find out what grammatical errors were made. It investigates errors made by more than one fifth of the participants, in order to see whether they can be ascribed to either interlingual or intralingual influence. READ MORE

  4. 3. Slips or errors? : A study of the grammatical mistakes in Swedish pupils' written production of English

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Elina Jonsson; [2015]
    Keywords : Second language acquisition SLA ; grammar; mistakes; slips; errors; interlingual transfer; intralingual transfer; negative transfer; L1; L2; Contrastive Analysis; Error Analysis;

    Abstract : Grammar is an important aspect of language learning and is thus of concern in language teaching as well. This study sets out to investigate the kinds of grammatical mistakes Swedish secondary school pupils make in their written production of English and the possible causes behind these different mistakes. READ MORE

  5. 4. Swedish-English Verb Frame Divergences in a Bilingual Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar for Machine Translation

    University essay from Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Sara Stymne; [2006]
    Keywords : verb frame divergences; machine translation; grammar engineering; Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar; translation divergences; Minimal Recursion Semantics; Grammar Matrix; typed feature structures;

    Abstract : In this thesis I have investigated verb frame divergences in a bilingual Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar for machine translation. The purpose was threefold: (1) to describe and classify verb frame divergences (VFDs) between Swedish and English, (2) to practically implement a bilingual grammar that covered many of the identified VFDs and (3) to find out what cases of VFDs could be solved and implemented using a common semantic representation, or interlingua, for Swedish and English. READ MORE