Essays about: "mother tongue"

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  1. 6. An End-to-End Native Language Identification Model without the Need for Manual Annotation

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Viktorija Buzaitė; [2022]
    Keywords : native language identification; NLI; BERT; syntax; errors;

    Abstract : Native language identification (NLI) is a classification task which identifies the mother tongue of a language learner based on spoken or written material. The task gained popularity when it was featured in the 2017 BEA-12-workshop and since then many applications have been successfully found for NLI - ranging from language learning to authorship identification and forensic science. READ MORE

  3. 7. Chinese character teaching methods in Chinese mother tongue lessons in Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Li Dan; [2022]
    Keywords : Sweden; mother tongue teaching; Chinese character teaching;

    Abstract : Mother tongue teaching (modersmålsundervisning) has started from the 1960s in Sweden and is open to the students with Chinese as mother tongue. Swedish Chinese mother tongue teaching is different from the overseas Chinese education considering of it is offered by the Swedish municipalities, for example, Stockholm municipality, Huddinge municipality and etc. READ MORE

  4. 8. Identity-building process among Second-Generation Migrants from former Yugoslavia living in Sweden.

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Paulina Zofia Scibisz; [2022]
    Keywords : Identity Building; Second Generation; Social Identity Theory; Transnationalism; Former Yugoslavia;

    Abstract : This study discusses the process of identity-building among second-generation migrants from former Yugoslavia, living in the Southern Region of Sweden, Skåne. The findings of this study have shown that respondents' identity construction is fluid and depends on many factors that influence it, which vary from one individual to another. READ MORE

  5. 9. Family Language Policies in English-speaking Families in Sweden: Insights into Bilingualism and Language Maintenance

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

    Author : Emelie Larsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Family language policy; FLP; Bilingualism; Strategies in language learning; Bilingualism in Sweden; Children’s bilingualism; Strategies to maintain English at home;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to present the views of some English-speaking parents and their children based in Sweden on the relationship between language learning and family language policies. To this end, interviews were conducted with six families living in Sweden who had spoken English at home with their children. READ MORE

  6. 10. Towards Intercultural Educational Leadership : Constructions of Leadership in a Heterogenous Language Centre

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

    Author : Scarlett Mannish; [2022]
    Keywords : Educational leadership; mother tongue instruction; intercultural leadership; transformative leadership;

    Abstract : This paper investigates educational leadership of an intercultural employee group in a large language centre providing first-language tuition in Sweden. The project is based on engaged scholarship (Van de Ven, 2007), which describes research in which the researcher works closely with multiple actors on different levels in an organisation in order to establish an overall picture. READ MORE