Essays about: "language portraits"

Found 5 essays containing the words language portraits.

  1. 1. Extramural English, Motivation and Identity : A study of Swedish young English language learners’ participation in English class

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för hälsa, lärande och teknik

    Author : Sebastian Lagnebäck; [2022]
    Keywords : engagement; ideal L2 self; L2 learning experience; L2 motivational self system; linguistic portrait; phenomenographic;

    Abstract : This phenomenographic study examines how imagining a future self as an English speaker and extramural English habits interact and affect the desire to learn English and engagement in the English classroom. The study was carried out in northern Sweden, and used a purposive sample of 23 pupils in the fifth and sixth grade of Swedish compulsory school. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Perceived Utility of English : Conceptions of the English Language in Students in Sweden’s Language Introduction Program

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Anton Cumléus; [2021]
    Keywords : English in Sweden; Language education; Language ideologies; Ideological sites; Linguistic portraits; Translanguaging.; Språkintroduktionsprogrammet;

    Abstract : The Language Introduction Program (Swe. Språkintroduktionsprogrammet) is a preparatory education intended for immigrant students to acquire a minimum grade of grade-school level knowledge of several different subjects. READ MORE

  4. 3. Examining the language ideologies of highly proficient English speakers in Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Adis Fazlji; [2020]
    Keywords : Language ideologies; language portraits; English in Sweden; Linguistic repertoires.;

    Abstract : Taking into consideration Bourdieu’s theories on language and symbolic power, the current study aims to examine how English speakers in Sweden use language in different settings, at work and outside of work, to determine if language ideologies can be perceived or identified. The method chosen for investigating this was language portraits and semi-structured interviews. READ MORE

  5. 4. Media Wars: The Caliphate Strikes Back. Islamic State’s Propaganda Magazine Dabiq as a Possible Paradigm Shift in Visual War Reporting and Propaganda

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

    Author : Lukas Jürgen Herbers; [2016]
    Keywords : Islamic State; Dabiq; Propaganda; War; Journalism; Photography; Censorship; Bare Life; Habitus; Photojournalism; Daesh; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the history and usage of war photography and propaganda according to theories of their utilisation for the establishment of national narratives in times of war. While Western media and nations alike try to establish narratives of just war without loss of innocent people and own soldiers, the newly emerged terrorist group Islamic State indicates a paradigm change in the approach of graphic content as part of propaganda. READ MORE

  6. 5. Another Story, Another Image

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Rasmus Siimes; [2015]
    Keywords : Arkitekturillustration; image; modernism; allmännytta; förort; miljonprogrammet;

    Abstract : Examensarbetet undersöker relationen mellan bild och upplevd bild (image) gällande ett antal byggnader som relaterar till allmännyttan, förorten, senmodernismen och miljonprogrammet. Genom att avporträttera en serie byggnader med hjälp av bildspråk som vanligtvis inte används för att avbilda dessa typer av byggnader och platser undersöker examensarbetet möjligheten att erbjuda alternativa bilder av några av den moderna svenska bostadshistoriens viktigaste element. READ MORE