Essays about: "monolingual approach"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words monolingual approach.

  1. 1. "We live in Sweden; We use Swedish to understand" : A study on L1 functions and students' attitudes toward L1 use in a Swedish L2 English learning environment

    University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Johanna Pettersson; [2024]
    Keywords : Sweden; L1 use; L1 functions; English; L2 learning environment; student attitudes; codeswitching; translanguaging; monolingual learning environment; multilingual learning environment; bilingualism;

    Abstract : This study aims to explore Swedish upper secondary students’ attitudes toward first language (L1) use in a second language (L2) English learning environment. In addition, it aims to explore the functions of L1 use. Through a qualitative approach with both observations and interviews, a pattern of L1 use was noticed. READ MORE

  3. 2. Teacher views on translanguaging practices and teaching methods for vocabulary teaching – A qualitative study of four Swedish upper secondary school teachers of English

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

    Author : Alba Forés; [2023]
    Keywords : Translanguaging; teacher views; vocabulary teaching; explicit; implicit; multilingualism.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay explores four English teachers’ views on their methods of teaching vocabulary, as well as the incorporation of translanguaging in their teaching of English vocabulary. The study investigates what the teachers’ preferred methods of teaching vocabulary are and whether they rely more on implicit or explicit vocabulary teaching. READ MORE

  4. 3. Low-Resource Domain Adaptation for Jihadi Discourse : Tackling Low-Resource Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation Using Real and Synthetic Data

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Thea Tollersrud; [2023]
    Keywords : machine translation; domain adaptation;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I explore the problem of low-resource domain adaptation for jihadi discourse. Due to the limited availability of annotated parallel data, developing accurate and effective models in this domain poses a challenging task. READ MORE

  5. 4. NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION FROM NORTH SÁMI TO SWEDISH

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Merle Pfau; [2022-03-08]
    Keywords : Neural Machine Translation; low-resource language; North Sámi - Swedish;

    Abstract : Neural machine translation is a method used in automatic translation that makes use of artificial neural networks. A single model takes an input sequence and predicts the most likely output sequence of words after being trained on parallel data. READ MORE

  6. 5. Trade-offs between Quality and Efficiency in Multilingual Dense Retrieval

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Emma Schüldt; [2022]
    Keywords : Dense retrieval; Binary Retrieval; Semantic search; ColBERT; Multilingual; MSMarco; Tät informationssökning; Binär informationssökning; Semantisk sökning; ColBERT; Flerspråkig; MS Marco;

    Abstract : As the amount of content online grows, information retrieval becomes increasingly crucial. Traditional information retrieval does not take the text order into account and is also dependent on exact text matching between the query and the document. READ MORE