Essays about: "scope of english"

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1. 1. Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Swedish 9th and 11th Grade Students’ English Written Production

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Maiko Tsukanaka; [2023]
   Keywords : Second Language Acquisition SLA ; Swedish Learner English Corpus SLEC ; Swedish-speaking learners of English; Error analysis; Subject-verb agreement; Transfer; Overgeneralization;

   Abstract : This study aims to investigate possible factors contributing to subject-verb agreement errors in Swedish junior and senior high school students' English written production. The sample data is collected from the Swedish Learner English Corpus (SLEC), which comprises student texts produced in a classroom setting. READ MORE

3. 2. Is it enough to be understood? A study of teacher attitudes towards accent in the EFL classroom

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

   Author : Martin Silva; [2023]
   Keywords : accents; teacher attitudes; pronunciation; English as a lingua franca; World Englishes; nativelikeness; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study investigates teacher attitudes towards accent in the EFL classroom. The central theoretical base for this study is English as a lingua franca (ELF), which proposes that intelligibility is the key to communication in English between people from different backgrounds. READ MORE

4. 3. Losing personality : Exploring with a focus on formal speech how the register of Nakata Satoru in Murakami Haruki’s Umibe no Kafuka is affected when translated into English and Swedish

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Author : Anna-Klara Josefsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Japanese; Murakami Haruki; Kafka on the Shore; formality; translation; Nakata Satoru; Equivalence;

   Abstract : When reading a translated book or a dubbed movie, one might come to wonder if the translation conveys the characters’ personality traits identically to that of the original, and while ‘identical’ may not be achievable, ‘equivalent’ rather may be within the scope of a translator’s capability. Translation between languages as vastly different as Swedish and Japanese, or English and Japanese are bound to face greater difficulties than for example Swedish and English. READ MORE

5. 4. Swedish Upper Secondary English Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices Regarding CLIL

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

   Author : Tina Erlvik; Alexander Rau; [2023]
   Keywords : Content and Language Integrated Learning; CLIL; Teacher beliefs; Teacher practices; Foreign language instructions;

   Abstract : English has been on the rise on the global stage for the last half century, and is now the most studied second language, being used regularly in international academia, social and mainstream media and international relations. In Sweden, the increase in the use of English is particularly noticeable in the country’s higher education system, with recent studies reporting a significant increase in English as the language of instruction. READ MORE

6. 5. Can Wizards be Polyglots: Towards a Multilingual Knowledge-grounded Dialogue System

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Evelyn Kai Yan Liu; [2022]
   Keywords : Knowledge-grounded dialogue; Dialogue systems; Generative question answering; Multilingual question answering; Multilingual dialogue systems; Transfer learning; Multi-task learning; Sequential training; Conversational AI; Natural Language Processing NLP ; Deep learning; Machine learning;

   Abstract : The research of open-domain, knowledge-grounded dialogue systems has been advancing rapidly due to the paradigm shift introduced by large language models (LLMs). While the strides have improved the performance of the dialogue systems, the scope is mostly monolingual and English-centric. READ MORE