Essays about: "swedish speaker"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 66 essays containing the words swedish speaker.

  1. 6. Extramural English, Motivation and Identity : A study of Swedish young English language learners’ participation in English class

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för hälsa, lärande och teknik

    Author : Sebastian Lagnebäck; [2022]
    Keywords : engagement; ideal L2 self; L2 learning experience; L2 motivational self system; linguistic portrait; phenomenographic;

    Abstract : This phenomenographic study examines how imagining a future self as an English speaker and extramural English habits interact and affect the desire to learn English and engagement in the English classroom. The study was carried out in northern Sweden, and used a purposive sample of 23 pupils in the fifth and sixth grade of Swedish compulsory school. READ MORE

  3. 7. Adapting the backchanneling behaviour of a social robot to increase user engagement : A study using social robots with contingent backchanneling behaviour

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

    Author : Daniel Alexander Kazzi; VIncent Winberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Artificial intelligence; Human-robot interaction; Service robots;

    Abstract : There are many aspects of human communication that affects the nature of an interaction; examples include voice intonation and facial expressions. A particular type of verbal and non-verbal cues, so called backchannels, have an underlying role in shaping conversations. READ MORE

  4. 8. Object categorisation in French-Swedish early simultaneous bilinguals. : ARE GENDER EFFECTS MODULATED BY GRAMMAR OR CULTURE?

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Marie Fournier; [2022]
    Keywords : Linguistic relativity; Grammatical gender; French; Swedish; Cultural gender effect;

    Abstract : If most scholars tend to agree that the native language of a speaker does influence the way they will understand the reality around them, the question becomes ambiguous when it comes to bilingual speakers’ cognition. How is their reality affected by the combination of their languages? This study aimed at exploring this question under the angle of grammatical gender. READ MORE

  5. 9. Relation between vowel hypo-/hyperarticulation and vocal affect in Swedish infant directed speech

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Bente Sand Aronsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Infant-directed speech; vocal affect; vowel hypo- hyperarticulation; language acquisition; Barnriktat tal; röstkänsla; vokalhypo- hyperartikulation; språkinlärning;

    Abstract : Vowel hyperarticulation and hyper affect are two characteristics of infant-directed speech (IDS), reported in several studies. Vowel hyperarticulation has been suggested to be a way in which adults subconsciously facilitate infants’ language acquisition, but it has also been argued to be the acoustic by-product of an affective speaking style. READ MORE

  6. 10. Object categorisation in French-Swedish early bilinguals : Are gender effects modulated by grammar or culture?

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Marie Fournier; [2022]
    Keywords : Linguistic relativity; Grammatical gender; French; Swedish; Cultural gender effect;

    Abstract : If most scholars tend to agree that the native language of a speaker does influence the way they will understand the reality around them, the question becomes ambiguous when it comes to bilingual speakers’ cognition. How is their reality affected by the combination of their languages? This study aimed at exploring this question under the angle of grammatical gender. READ MORE