Essays about: "thesis english language teaching"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 52 essays containing the words thesis english language teaching.
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16. The language introduction program in Sweden : How is translanguaging used in English education?
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This degree project focuses on the English classroom in the Swedish language introduction program, more specifically on the use of translanguaging as a teaching tool for newly arrived students. This thesis is an attempt to better understand the classroom dynamics in the program during English lessons by answering the following questions: What are the challenges of teaching English in the language introduction program in Sweden? What do teachers think about translanguaging as a teaching tool in the language introduction classes? Is using it taking advantage of pre-existing knowledge? The research was conducted with three teachers from one school in central Stockholm, all coming from different socio-cultural backgrounds and having varying degrees of experience as teachers. READ MORE
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17. Benefitting from L1 while learning English in Swedish schools? : A mixed methods study based on the responses of Swedish EFL teachers
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Superdiversity has reached the EFL classroom and consequently language acquisition’s starting point has changed from one to various native languages. EFL teachers in Sweden meet a broad spectrum of students, varying from nearly bilingual when it comes to English, to students, who have to learn both English and Swedish from scratch. READ MORE
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18. Flipping the English Classroom : Implementing the Flipped Classroom Method in an English as a Foreign Language Class
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för språk och litteraturAbstract : This study was carried out in a secondary school in Sweden and was written by one student becoming a teacher of English. The aim of this thesis is to find out how well the flipped classroom method would work in an English class in Sweden and what one needs to bear in mind when implementing the method. READ MORE
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19. A Comparative Study of Shell Nouns in English Academic Writing by Chinese and Swedish Authors
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : This thesis aims to examine factors that influence the use of shell nouns in the writing production by Chinese and Swedish authors. Based on previous studies of shell nouns, this research establishes a theoretical model and a hypothesis is put forward: Though writing in the same genre, Chinese and Swedish authors have different ways of adopting shell nouns partially due to first language transfer. READ MORE
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20. Comic Books - Images, Words and Language Acquisition : Using comic books as an alternative material for teaching the English language.
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleAbstract : The purpose of the research described in this essay is, by analysing the content of comic books, to (1) evaluate comic books as material for teaching, (2) if possible, to create an exercise that could be used in the classroom in which comic books are used for teaching ESL and (3) to suggest innovative material and related tasks that could be used to introduce students to issues related to meaning, with the focus on “literal or speaker meaning”, “multimodality” and “deixis”, and drawing upon principles and concepts described within the disciplines of semiotics, semantics and pragmatics. Accordingly, the thesis questions of this essay are described as follows: If possible, how could comic books be used in the classroom as an alternative material for teaching the ESL? If possible, how could comic books be used to introduce students to issues related to meaning through linguistic approaches, with the aid of semantics, semiotics and pragmatics? Comic books, in theory and in practice, could be used in the classroom as an alternative material for teaching the English language and introduce students to issues related to meaning through linguistic approaches, with the aid including semantics, semiotics and pragmatics. READ MORE
