Essays about: "linguistic diversity"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 44 essays containing the words linguistic diversity.
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11. Intercultural Values through Guided Play? - Exploring six preschool teachers’ stories regarding their approaches to intercultural values
University essay fromAbstract : Intercultural education in Sweden is needed more than ever, because preschools are increasingly characterized by groups of children with diverse backgrounds. Guided play is an ideal educational tool for preschool teachers to promote intercultural values, since it combines the joy of play with cultural learning, so I wanted to investigate whether this tool is being utilized or not. READ MORE
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12. The Role of Public Libraries in the Promotion of Sami Rights in Sweden : A Normative Perspective
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : According to 2§ of the Swedish Library Act, libraries shall work towards the development of a democratic society by spreading knowledge and providing people with the possibility to form their own opinions (SFS, 2013:801). It’s a natural consequence that Sweden’s national minorities are not provided with the same amount of services as the majority community, however the extent of how much space the minorities ought to be given in public libraries is a relatively unexplored research topic. READ MORE
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13. Linguistic Differences in Real Conversations: Human to Human vs Human to Chatbot
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This study investigates how students communicate in writing when they know that their conversational partner is a human being in comparison to how they communicate when they know their partner is a chatbot. The participants are upper secondary students of English. READ MORE
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14. The socioethical concerns associated with Indigenous Oceanic cultural heritage materials
University essay fromAbstract : The rise of postcolonial theories in the 1970s did not yield much influence in the then practice of humanities computing, but following the mass-scale digitisations of cultural heritage materials over the past thirty years questions of Indigenous agency and the colonial roots of the digital cultural record have become more urgent than ever. This thesis operates within the area of postcolonial digital humanities and seeks to explore three questions. READ MORE
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15. Lexico-Semantic Areality in the Greater Hindu Kush : An Areal-Typological Study on Numerals and Kinship Terms
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikAbstract : The Greater Hindu Kush designates a mountainous area extending from Afghanistan over Pakistan, Tajikistan and India to the westernmost parts of China. It is home to over 50 lan- guages from six different phyla; Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Nuristani, Turkic, Tibeto-Burman and the language isolate Burushaski. READ MORE