Essays about: "svenska som andra språk"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 40 essays containing the words svenska som andra språk.
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21. Aiding dyslexic students in the EFL classroom. : Tools and methods for helping upper secondary school students with dyslexia reach a passing grade.
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : Teachers with or without special training encounter dyslexic students daily. As such, these teachers need to have tools for these encounters. One hundred seventy-two teachers took part anonymously in an online survey. READ MORE
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22. Transfer learning in Swedish - Twitter sentiment classification
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Language models can be applied to a diverse set of tasks with great results, but training a language model can unfortunately be a costly task, both in time and money. By transferring knowledge from one domain to another, the costly training only has to be performed once, thus opening the door for more applications. READ MORE
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23. No, it is more often those with a high performance level, and good English knowledge, who experience anxiety : A qualitative study of teachers’ experiences of speaking anxiety in Swedish upper secondary school
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : The aim of the present study was to explore teachers’ experiences of student anxiety in the subject of English in Swedish upper secondary schools. Five teachers were interviewed to find out about their experiences of what causes anxiety in their students and what strategies they have found work best in order to decrease speaking anxiety. READ MORE
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24. The promotion of Swedish L2 students’ oral proficiency
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : The purpose of this study has been to examine how Swedish teachers of English encourage the development of students’ oral proficiency in the English language. By interviewing six Swedish teachers of English at upper secondary school, the study addresses which methods are mostly used by the teachers in order to encourage the improvement of students’ oral proficiency. READ MORE
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25. Preposition and article usage in learner English : An investigation of negative transfer
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : The ways in which someone’s first language (L1) influences his or her second language (L2) to create errors, that is negative transfer, is a topic that has received much attention in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Previous research has suggested that negative transfer is responsible for many errors. READ MORE
